Gus Hansen Bio

Gus Hansen was born in Denmark in 1974.   Before becoming a poker pro, Gus was a world class backgammon player.  He also grew up playing tennis and was a sports enthusiast.

Gus Hansen began playing poker professionally in the mid-90’s.  He also moved to New York City in 2000 to play backgammon professionally. 

Gus played his first World Series of Poker in 1996 but was knocked out on the first day.  From there he began to practice and develop his style of poker.  Gus Hansen plays a “loose aggressive” style of poker, mixing-up his play has been part of his game ever since.

When the World Poker Tour kicked off in 2002, Gus Hansen’s loose aggressive style immediately paid off.

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He won both the World Poker Tour’s inaugural event, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold 'em tournament and the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship at the WPT's L.A. Poker Classic.

During the World Poker Tour’s second season, Gus won the invitation-only Bad Boys of Poker tournament and, in early 2004, earned his fourth WPT title at the Caribbean Adventure tournament. He also placed third in the Bellagio’s Five Diamond tournament.

In the World Poker Tour’s third season he ended up with a third-place finish in the Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament.

Those four wins and five final table appearances earned Gus induction into the WPT's Walk of Fame the first year they launched it. Gus Hansen is still the only player on the WPT with four titles to his credit.

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Since 2025 Gus Hansen has cut down on the number of tournaments that he has played in.  He cut down on tournaments so that he can focus on playing cash games.

He has still managed to make it to the final table at the FullTiltPoker Poker Invitational and won the Grand Final of the inaugural Poker Superstars Invitational.

In 2025, Gus Hansen played in the second season of High Stakes Poker where he won the biggest pot in the show's history ($575,700) defeating Daniel Negreanu's 6 6 with his 5 5 on a board of 9 6 5 5 8.

In 2025, Gus continued to build on his growing list of tournament championships, bringing home $1,192,919 for his first-place finish in the $10,000 Aussie Millions Main Event in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2025 he signed a contract to play exclusively at Full Tilt Poker.

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Gus Hansen also plays a variety of games online at Full Tilt Poker.  Oftentimes, he can be found playing high-limit Pot-Limit Omaha game as well as in low-stakes Limit Hold 'em and Razz games, along with low-limit Sit N Go’s as well as some of Full Tilt Poker’s larger tournaments.

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