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Gus Hansen a Full Tilt Poker Pro
Posted on October 14, 2009 by Tasouski
Full Tilt Poker has more than 200 professional players or friends who endorse their site but amongst all these players a few stars draw a lot more attention to their name than the rest combined. Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen are the two biggest names connected with Full Tilt Poker and there is more or less not a single day where Gus Hansen is not mentioned in the Medias in regards to the action he creates on the high stake tables at Full Tilt Poker.Competitive sports for years
A great part of Gus Hansen’s life has been about competitive sports before he ended up as a world class backgammon and poker player. During his younger days (born in 1974, February 13) he was a pretty solid soccer and tennis player but when he discovered the world of backgammon in the early1990s he spent more and more time on this new passion. The passion for poker begun a few years later when he moved to California to study in 1993 and since then Gus Hansen have achieved remarkable results playing poker. More than $7.400.000 in poker tournament winnings is his results so far including 4 World Poker Tour wins and a victory at the Aussie Millions in 2007.
Gus Hansen’s first WPT victory came back in 2002 WPT season 1 at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic where he ended up winning $556.460 after beating fellow Full Tilt Poker pro John Juanda heads up. Even this was still before the poker boom really took of the field of players was fierce and other strong names had to be defeated by Gus Hansen before the title was his. The final table had many notable names on it including Freddy Deeb, Chris Bigler, John Hennigan and the prince of poker Scotty Nguyen but Gus Hansen managed to overcome all these poker stars and received all the fame, glory and cash. A new poker star was born.
Gus followed up on the victory already in 2003 where he took his second WPT title and $532.490 by winning L.A Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino this time beating another Full Tilt Poker pro Andy Bloch and the famous David “The Dragon” Pham. A few months later Gus Hansen won the prestigious World Poker Tour Bad Boys of poker title outlasting Devilfish, Phil “Unabomber” Laak and the magician Antonio Esfandiari.
2003 was not over for Gus Hansen in terms of good WPT results as he managed to end third in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in December securing himself another quarter of a million in prize winning and almost made a back to back win in this specific tournament.
Another WPT victory
The beginning of 2004 saw Gus Hansen balst off with yet another WPT victory this time taking down the popular PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and $455.780. With three WPT titles secured in just a few years Gus Hansen was the player everybody talked about and his untraditional way of playing and the bad cards he often could show up made him the most interesting player at this point in time. He had a lot of TV exposure to his name which was well deserved and as he continued to show results more and more poker players begun to play the style Gus Hansen did as it seemed to work. Poker had suddenly become a more interesting game where the pressure by raising and reraising out conquered the solid hand selection type of style.
The three biggest cashes Gus Hansen have made in his career all followed after his amazing WPT success. In 2005 he won a cool $1.000.000 in a PokerStars invitational tournament beating Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, T.J Cloutier, Chip Reese and Barry Greenstein to grab the title. The next big tournament win came in 2007 where Gus Hansen won Aussie Millions and a little more than $1.1 million and finally he once again returned to the final table at Five Diamond World Poker Classic ending as the runner up to David Chiu but still won an astonishing $1.700.000 for his second place finish.
Known from the big cash games
Even Gus Hansen still play a lot of tournaments he is more and more known from the very big cash games at Full Tilt Poker. Playing the highest Pot Limit Omaha and Mix Limit games, railbirds from all over can follow the Danish super stars bankroll swings at the poker tables. 2009 has yet to become a good year for Gus Hansen as he currently is down more than $3.000.000 but with Guy Laliberté back from out of space chances are that the owner of Cirque de Soleil might safe Gus Hansen’s online poker year.
Players who are interested in understanding more about how Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen play should invest in the book he wrote when winning Aussie Millions. The book is called “Every Hand Revealed” and is a splendid masterpiece showing how a top professional player think during hands he plays in a big live tournament.
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