Gustav Hansen is a professional Danish poker player and is known to be one of the most aggressive poker players around.
Born in 1974 near Copenhagen, Denmark, Hansen (like Howard Lederer and many other poker players) grew up learning to play games. He became a world class backgammon player and a youth tennis champion. He traveled to the U.S. to experience the world and make money playing backgammon but moved back to Denmark to serve his country as a civil servant. After he was finished, he moved back to the U.S., arriving in New York in order to play high-limit backgammon and gin games. Later on though, his interest switched to poker and he settled in California where he started playing poker at the Ocean View Card Room.
Hansen plays in many of the larger buy-in events. He has a very distinct style and has earned a reputation as a player who is he is not afraid to play any hand and play it very aggressively. Despite his success, Hansen has had periodic financial problems, because of losses during cash games. He is a regular in the The Big Game at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas. He has admitted to losing a million or times.
His unique personality and popularity led to him making the 2004 People Magazine '50 Sexiest People' list.
Hansen has done a lot better on WPT events than on WSOP. Hansen is the only player to win three WPT open tournaments.
He won his first WPT tournament in 2002 during season one at the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic. He won over $556,460 and instantly became a poker star. Later on in season one, he won his second WPT title with a win at the L.A. Poker classic for $507,190. He won his third WPT title with a win at the Caribbean Poker Adventure during season two for $455,780.
In 2008 he came in second to David Chiu at the Season 6 WPT Championship, earning $1,714,800. He also won the first WPT Bad Boys of Poker invitational event.
In 2004, he finished in 150th place in the main event.
In 2007, he finished in 61st place out of 6,358 players for $154,194.
In 2007, he finished 10th in the World Series of Poker Europe Ł10,000 Main Event for Ł41,630.
In 2008, he finished 160th in the main event for $41,816.
In 2009, he finished 9th in the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. vent for $123,895.
He won the season one $400,000 Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, winning the $1 million first prize.
He was the first winner on NBC's Poker After Dark, winning $120,000, as he outlasted a field of six pro's including Huck Seed and Phil Hellmuth.
In January 2007, he won the $10,500 main event at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia, beating a field of 747 players to win the AUD $1,500,000 first prize.
Hansen has been involved in several online poker-related business ventures.
In 2003, he was a founding partner and of the online poker site pokerchamps.com, which was sold to Betfair in 2005 for over $15 million.
In 2005, Hansen appeared in "Texas Hold'Em Poker Advanced Strategies With Gus Hansen," one of the "Going All In" instructional series of DVDs.
In 2007, Hansen launched a poker forum and content website which held his blog and articles. He sold his interest in 2008.
In 2008, Hansen's book "Every Hand Revealed" was published. It was a hand-by-hand account of his win at the 2007 Aussie Millions.
In 2009, Hansen launched GusHansenTV, a free poker channel broadcast over the internet.
He is a Full Tilt Pro on with Full Tilt Poker.
As of 2010, he has 6 WSOP cashes (but no bracelets), 9 WPT cashes, 7 WPT final tables, 3 WPT titles, and total live tournament winnings exceeding $7,500,000.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I need some poker advise!
[email]squeaky_sandles@hotmail.com[/email] I play poker nightly, and managed to win alot of home games, and promotional games, I won, a trip for 2 to Las Vegas, beating 16 players. Wasn't easy, but I did win. I play with my poker buddies, 30 guys, and always place in top 5. My question: How can I beat a player, who checks my monster hands, and folds when I bet? Even when I check them, he has killer instincts and doesn't bet. I rarely beat him, but he is a tough player, one home game, he placed 2nd, out of 40 guys, and took home a massive pot. Anyways. Any advice how I can beat this guy, last night me and him played heads up, for a couple hundred bucks for kicks, we both went up and down in chips, I am a pro at low stacks, I went from 2 chips left, to chip leader. But then took a wrong turn, and he ended up winning. I need help :( Anyone, feel free to email me some advice :) |
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I find it amazing how you mention this one instance where he had a losing session. Now why didn't you mention all the times he won, at least $300K in an hour moron.
Your post is the real "joke"