Gus Hansen is a professional poker player. He is known to everyone because he is the only player to have won four WPT titles. He is the winner of the 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event. Gustav Hansen or Gus Hansen was born on the 13th of February in the year 1974. His birthplace is Copenhagen, Denmark. This young man is a professional poker player. Currently, the poker pro lives in Monaco, which is a small sovereign state in Western Europe. Gus Hansen was a famous backgammon player before he started playing poker.
He was a world class backgammon player before 1997. He entered the world of poker in 1993 and became a true professional in this casino game after 4 years of starting out. Another quality of Hansen is really very interesting. Before starting this profession he was also a junior tennis champion in those days. In his teens he was well known as a sports enthusiast. In his teens he has participated in many sporting challenges.
Both indoor and outdoor games were his preferences to face challenges. He was very serious about those sports and established himself as a successful youth athlete. After 1997 Gus Hansen committed himself to casino gaming and here he too established a successful career. This is the best feature of his characteristics that whatever he does, he doses it very seriously until success. In the betting world he is known because he not only concentrates on poker and other professional games, but he also accepts private bets that look at various outdoor sports.
In 1993, Gus Hansen was a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz. While studying there as an exchange student, he first entered the world of poker games. He was always interested in math and numbers. The first time he was interested in backgammon he practiced it intensely until he became a master of calculus. Hansen first participated in the 1996 World Series of Poker.
But Gus Hansen knew he wasn’t going to win at the game because he had no experience playing No Limit Hold’em before then. He lost the game but gained the power to learn the game correctly from that game. That was the beginning of Hansen’s apprenticeship in poker games. He continued his experiments with poker games. When he decided to practice the game with his full attention, he invented new strategies and styles to win the game of poker.
After that, Gus Hansen never looked back at his past performances in backgammon. In 2005 he won the Grand Final at the Poker Superstars Invitational. In 2006 he won the biggest jackpot in the second season of High Stakes Poker. In 2007 he won $1,192,919 for placing first in the Aussie Millions Main Event that had been held in Melbourne, Australia. Gus Hansen has established himself very quickly in the world of poker games.