Gus Hansen

Name: Gus Hansen
Date of birth: 13 February 1974
Place of birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Place of residence: Monaco
Lists: 3 WPT titles, $ 7,125,000 in tournament winnings
Nickname: The Great Dane

Gus Hansen is one of the superstars of the poker world. He was present in all the show's with the poker world and is adored by the cameras and the public. In fact his style incredibly loose and aggressive combined with his charisma make him one of the most endearing players on the circuit. He defines himself as a gambleur willing to bet on anything. This is undoubtedly one of the most unpredictable players.

Gus Hansen was a good tennis player and an athlete in many sports before turning specifically backgammon he played professionally, including in New York before giving up due to a number of Players too low.

He became interested in poker in 1993 before making his main activity in 1997.

But Gus Hansen is not only a poker player is also a businessman who was behind the online poker room pokerchamps.com launched in 2003 with other partners. In 2005, the company was sold for $ 15 million.

Gus Hansen has also launched a community of poker players, ThePlayr.com, where he keeps his blog, articles and a tracker to follow him when he plays online.

Despite all his success in the tournament, Gus Hansen has a problem with money management. He himself lost in paris sportifs constantly and be unable to stop. He also had big problems with the biggest cash game tables of Full Tilt accumulating losses until the rumor circulated that he was broke, which has never stopped to see the larger tables and all emissions of poker.

Gus Hansen won $ 7,125,726 in tournament making it the biggest winner of the Scandinavian countries and Europe after the 2nd Carlos Mortensen. It occupies the 15th place of the biggest winners in tournaments in the official results.

Gus Hansen is part of the team fulltilt poker.

His achievements in detail

World Series Of Poker (WSOP)

The World Series Of Poker are for now the series of successful tournaments least Gus Hansen. It has 2 ends that both places paid and never reached any final table, the results thus far from that level in other tests. This should however change rapidly since the Great Dane was looked a little more to WSOP. He managed to finish 61st in the 2007 WSOP Main Event.

World Poker Tour (WPT)

Gus Hansen has become a legend of poker with the World Poker Tour. He was the first day to win a race circuit. It is still the only player to win 3 of the WPT events. And it could enter into the definitive history of the World Poker Tour by winning the grand final in 2008 after having a huge chip lead but eventually his opponent David Chiu who leave with the title, Gus Hansen just before the 2nd March for $ 1,700,000. At the WPT palmares Gus Hansen is the 5th player with $ 4,051,782. It is part of the WPT Hall of Fame.

Saison I	Five Diamonds Poker classic	$556,460
Saison I	L.A Poker Classic	$507,190
Saison II	Carribean Poker Adventure	$455,780

Other performances

Other performances by Gus Hansen are particularly numerous. He likes to win the first tournament of an event as it did for the WPT.

Thus in 2006 he won the first EPM at the London All Star Challenge and leaves with $ 100,000.

He won the first edition of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament for $ 1,000,000.

In January 2007, to 747 players, Gus Hansen wins the best tournament of his career with the Aussie Millions and leaves with $ 1,500,000.

Finally, Gus Hansen participated in the first season of High Stakes Poker with a pot into the legend of poker, full vs. square, saw and reviewed on the Internet.

He also participated in Poker After Dark.