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Gustav Hansen (born February 13, 1974 outside
Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional
Danish poker player who lives in
Monaco.[1] In his
poker career Hansen has won a record three World Poker
Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions
main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars
Invitational Tournament. Before turning to playing poker
professionally in 1997, Hansen was a world class backgammon player and a
youth tennis champion. He was
known for being a sports enthusiast throughout his teens, competing
in several indoor and outdoor sports as a successful junior
athlete. In 2000, he moved to New York City, and tried to make a living
playing professional backgammon, but found the field too small for
his taste.
He calls himself a professional gambler and has been known
to take private bets on various personal athletic challenges (such
as a boxing match against WSOPE bracelet winner Theo Jorgensen[2], other
than poker and professional sports. Hansen has been involved
previously or currently in several online busines ventures
including PokerChamps.com (now Betfair Poker), ThePlayr.com and GusHansenTV.
He is also involved withFull Tilt Poker.
Poker
career
Tournaments
Hansen started playing poker at the Ocean View Card Room in Santa
Cruz, California.[3] while
he was an exchange student at UC Santa Cruz. As
of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $7,500,000.[4] Hansen
finished in the money in 150th place in the 2004 Main Event. In the
2006
Tournament of Champions, Hansen made a World Series of Poker
final table, but lost on the very first hand with Ace King against
a pair of 9s. In 2007 Hansen cashed in the
money in the $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em championship, coming
in 61st place out of a field of 6,358 players, winning $154,194. In
2008 he came in 160th place
out of a field of 6,844 players to win a prize of $41,816.
Hansen is the only player to win three World Poker
Tour (WPT) open tournaments. He also won the first WPT Bad Boys
of Poker invitational event. In 2004, he was inducted into the World
Poker Tour Walk of Fame, along with Doyle Brunson and James Garner. On April 27, 2008 Hansen
came in second to David Chiu at the Season 6 WPT
Championship, earning $1,714,800. In September 2006 Hansen won the
inaugural EPM event, The London All Star Challenge,
eventually beating Marc Goodwin heads-up to take home the title and
cheque for £53,600 ($US102,000). Hansen won the inaugural $400,000
Poker Superstars
Invitational Tournament, winning the $1,000,000 first prize in
a one-table event featuring some of the most well-known players
today. He did not appear in the second series whilst losing to Antonio
Esfandiari in the semifinals in the third.
Hansen finished in the money of the 2004 World Series of Poker
main event, and also made the final table of a European
Poker Tour (EPT) event in Barcelona. In 2006, Hansen was a member of
the winning Danish team in the PartyPoker.com
Football & Poker Legends Cup tournament, alongside Theo
Jørgensen and Kim Christofte. He is currently featured
in the Professional Poker Tour
and the second season of High Stakes Poker, where he won
the fifth biggest pot in the show's history ($575,700) when his
5♦ 5♣ defeated Daniel
Negreanu's 6♠ 6♥ on a board of 9♣ 6♦ 5♥ 5♠ 8♠. He was in Singapore in November
12–17, 2006 to participate in the Betfair Asian Poker Tour. Hansen was the
first winner on NBC's Poker After
Dark earning him $120,000, as he outlasted a field of six
pro's including Phil
Hellmuth and Huck
Seed. In January 2007, Hansen won the $10,500 main event at the
Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia, beating a field of 747 players to
take home the AUD $1,500,000 first prize. His book
Every Hand Revealed (ISBN 978-0818407277) is a detailed
account of many of the hands he played en route to the title.
Other
ventures
Hansen was a founding partner and house pro of the online poker site
pokerchamps.com, launched in 2003. In 2005 the company and game
software technology were sold to the British company Betfair, for
over 100 million Danish kroner (approximately £8.8 million / 13
million euro / $15,000,000 USD). Despite the
sale, Hansen was involved in a PokerChamps Danish championship in
October 2005. In 2005, Hansen appeared in Texas Hold'Em Poker
Advanced Strategies With Gus Hansen, which is part of the
Going All In instructional series of DVDs.
In 2007, Hansen launched a poker forum and strategy website,
ThePlayr.com. Prior to selling his interest in that site in 2008,
it housed his blog, articles and a "Gus Tracker" to track his
worldwide poker play along with other poker news, videos and
content. In 2008, Hansen joined the commentary team on World Series of Backgammon,
a high stakes televised backgammon tour broadcasting on Eurosport
across Europe. In May 2008 Lyle Stuart Kensington published
Hansen's book Every Hand Revealed, a hand-by-hand account
of his triumph in the 2007 Aussie Millions. In February 2009,
Hansen launched GusHansenTV branded as a free poker channel
broadcast over the internet.
Losses
Despite his ongoing success, Hansen has struggled with money
problems, reportedly because of losses during live cash games.[5]
Hansen is a regular in the The Big Game normally held in "Bobby’s
Room" at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas.
He has said that his losses aren't a secret and has admitted to
losing a million or so at a couple of games.
Notes
External
links
| Winners of the European Poker Awards
Outstanding Tournament Performance of the Year |
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Hansen, Gus |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
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| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
Professional poker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
February 13, 1974 |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF
DEATH |
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