1. Gustav Hansen was born on 13 February 1974 and is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003.
28 Facts About Gus Hansen
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Gus Hansen started playing poker at the Ocean View Card Room in Santa Cruz, California, while he was an exchange student at UC Santa Cruz.
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Gus Hansen recorded his first major tournament cash with a victory in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in May 2002.
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In February 2003, Gus Hansen won the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship at the WPT LA Poker Classic for $532,490.
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Gus Hansen was the first player to win three World Poker Tour open tournaments.
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Gus Hansen finished in the money in 150th place in the 2004 WSOP Main Event.
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In 2007, Gus Hansen cashed in the $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em championship, coming in 61st place out of 6,358 players, winning $154,194.
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On 27 April 2008, Gus Hansen came in second to David Chiu at the Season 6 WPT Championship, earning $1,714,800.
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Gus 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 best-known players.
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Gus Hansen did not appear in the second series, and lost to Antonio Esfandiari in the semifinals of the third.
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Gus Hansen made the final table of a European Poker Tour event in Barcelona in September 2005.
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In 2006, Gus Hansen was a member of the winning Danish team in the PartyPoker.
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Gus Hansen was the first winner on NBC's Poker After Dark, earning $120,000, as he outlasted a field of six pros, including Phil Hellmuth and Huck Seed.
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In January 2007, Gus Hansen won the $10,500 main event at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia, beating a field of 747 players to take home the A$1,500,000 first prize.
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Gus Hansen defeated Tony Bloom heads-up to win the Poker Million IX tournament, taking $1,000,000 for first prize.
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Gus Hansen is a regular in the Big Game normally held in "Bobby's Room" at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas.
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Gus Hansen has said that his losses are not a secret and has admitted to losing a million dollars or so at a couple of games.
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Gus Hansen has lost $20.7 million on Full Tilt Poker as of March 2015.
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Gus Hansen plays according to a strict pot odds-deductive approach which was highly successful in the poker-boom years, but which has, in recent times, become highly volatile.
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Gus Hansen calls himself a professional gambler and has been known to take private bets on various personal athletic challenges other than poker and professional sports, such as a boxing match against WSOPE bracelet winner Theo Jorgensen.
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Gus Hansen was a member of the original Team FullTilt, and was re-signed as the first brand ambassador under the new management team of Full Tilt Poker.
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Gus Hansen has been involved previously or currently in several online business ventures.
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Gus Hansen was a founding partner and house professional of the online poker site PokerChamps.
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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.
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In 2007, Gus Hansen launched a poker forum and strategy website, ThePlayr.
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In 2008, Gus Hansen joined the commentary team on World Series of Backgammon, a high-stakes televised backgammon tour broadcasting on Eurosport across Europe.
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In February 2009, Hansen launched GusHansenTV branded as a free poker channel broadcast over the internet.
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In March 2018, Gus Hansen returned on Poker After Dark to play pot-limit Omaha in a game featuring Matt Kirk.