Gus Hansen

Gus Hansen
Gus Hansen (2006)
Personal information
Date of birth	February 13, 1974
place of birth	Copenhagen
Nickname	The Great Dane
Nickname	broksiPokerStars
place of residence	Monte Carlo
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 1,714,800
Total prize money	$ 10,278,251
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	10
Best main event	61st ( 2007 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	4th
Cashes	12
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	3
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	3
Last updated: February 29, 2020

Gustav "Gus" Hansen (born February 13, 1974 near Copenhagen as Gustav Jacobsen ) is a professional Danish poker player .

Hansen has earned more than ten million US dollars with poker in live tournaments , making him the second most successful Danish poker player after Peter Eastgate . He won three open Main Event of the World Poker Tour , 2007, the Main Event of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship and in September 2010, a bracelet of the World Series of Poker . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , Hansen was named as one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

Before becoming a professional poker player in 1997, Hansen successfully played backgammon and tennis . In 2000 he moved to New York City to earn money as a professional backgammon player. There he realized, however, that he is more interested in poker. Hansen lives in Monte-Carlo .

He states that he learned English as a teenager by listening to a Pink Floyd album. The People Magazine named him in 2004 to the Sexiest Poker Player .

Poker career

Career

Hansen started playing poker in 1993 when he was an exchange student at the University of Santa Cruz in California . He is known for his aggressive style of play and his high betting frequency.

Hansen is one of six players who have won at least three open main events of the World Poker Tour (WPT), he won them in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He also won the first WPT Bad Boys of Poker in April 2003 . In 2004 he was inducted into the WPT Walk of Fame . Hansen was successful for the first time in May 2004 at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas and reached the prize money at the main event . He won the first edition of one million in February 2005 US dollars doped Poker Superstars and beat off some of the most famous poker players in the world through. In mid-September 2005 he sat at the final table at the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona and finished fifth, worth almost 80,000 euros . In September 2006, Hansen won the London All Star Challenge for more than £ 50,000 in prize money . In 2006 Hansen was also a member and captain of the winning Danish team at the PartyPoker.com Football & Poker Legends Cup . His teammates were Theo Jørgensen and Kim Christofte . At the WPT Main Event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in April 2008, Hansen missed his fourth WPT title, but took second place and received the highest cash prize of his poker career to date of more than $ 1.7 million. In the heads-up he was defeated by David Chiu . At the 2007 WSOP Main Event , Hansen finished 61st for more than $ 150,000. In the same year he also just missed the final table in tenth place at the main event of the first World Series of Poker Europe in London . He won his first bracelet at the WSOP Europe 2010 in London . He prevailed at a heads-up event in the decisive third heads-up match with 4 ♦ 4 ♥ against Jim Collopy's K ♠ 4 ♠ . First place earned Hansen a prize of just under £ 290,000. In late January 2007 he won the main event of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne for a buy-in of Australian dollars 10,000 . With him at the final table sat two Germans and the Irish Andy Black . Hansen received 1.5 million Australian dollars for the win. During the tournament he documented his game with a voice recorder. He was then able to publish his book Every hand revealed , which describes a large part of the processes of individual hands in detail. After the EPT Main Event in Vienna in March 2014 , Hansen did not achieve any further money placements for five years. His comeback at the WSOP main event followed in July 2019 .

On GSN's High Stakes Poker cash game show , he won the third-largest pot in the show's history for $ 575,700 when he was 5 ♣ 5 ♦ on a board of 9 ♣ 6 ♦ 5 ♥ 5 ♠ 8 ♠ prevailed against Daniel Negreanus 6 ♠ 6 ♥ . On 2 January 2007 Hansen appeared in the American show Poker After Dark radio station NBC on.

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2002	00.556.460	1
2003	00.843.916	2
2004	00.470.780	1
2005	01,469,395	1
2006	00.245.275	5
2007	01,750,099	2
2008	01,961,633	-
2009	00.223,895	2
2010	01,581,073	3
2011	00.283,966	-
2012	00.823.579	-
2013	00.030,605	1
2014	00.017,376	-
2015-2018	00,000.000	-
2019	00.020,200	-
2020	00,000.000	-
total	10.278.251	18th

Web links

• Gus Hansen in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Gus Hansen in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Gus Hansen in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How Gus Hansen and Jan Sörensen (Sort Of) Swapped Names to Stay in US ( Memento of August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerlistings.com of August 17, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2016 (English).
2. ↑ Denmark All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 29, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gus Hansen in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 29, 2020 (English).
4. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 21, 2019.