Gus Hansen

WPT Career Highlights Value Rank; Career Earnings: $4,086,827: 8: Cashes: 11: 215: Final Tables: 7: 15: Titles: 3: 5. WPT Career Highlights Value Rank; Career Earnings: $4,086,827: 8: Cashes: 11: 215: Final Tables: 7: 15: Titles: 3: 5. Gus Hansen is a famous poker player, who started as a tennis champion but turned his interest towards a new sport called poker. Maybe you know about Gus Hansen very well But do you know how old and tall is he, and what is his net worth in 2021?

1. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed ), memorial page for Gus Hansen (22 Mar 1850–19 Nov 1912), Find a Grave Memorial no. 71958260, citing Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Maintained by TLS (contributor 372).
2. Gustav Hansen, better known as Gus Hansen, is a danish professional poker player. He was born February the 13th in 1974 in Copenhagen. Gus Hansen is known for his extremely aggressive style of play, playing almost every hand he is dealt. Gus has won the World Poker Tour (WPT) four times since his debut in the beginning of 2002.

In the early days of a sport or a gaming community, there is quite often one player that manages to act as a guiding light for everyone else. Whether it is through hard work, effort or just outright skill and talent, an individual or team can often quickly stand out from the crowd.

This is a great thing for the player but it is often a great thing for the ruling body as well. After all, people love heroes and in the gaming community, looking up to winners is something that people enjoy doing. It is good to have inspirations and when you look back at the early days of the WPT, there is one name that is written all over the history books.

Gus Hansen, the Great Dane

Gus Hansen Age

Hansen was born on the outskirts of Copenhagen in Denmark back on February 13th, 1974. Although currently living in Monte Carlo, Monaco, Hansen is known all over the world and was an early symbol of success in the WPT. It could have been so different for Hansen and the WPT with tennis and backgammon being viable career routes for him. Hansen was considered to be a world class backgammon player and was also a champion tennis player in his younger days. These sports loss was definitely poker’s gain.

Hansen quickly became famous in the 1st season of the WPT with two wins, earning him over $1m for the season. Given that this was the debut season of the tour and the prize winnings were of a lower level, this is a prize that was worth being proud of.

Gus Hansen 2019

Hansen won in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic and the L.A. Poker Classic. Season 2 of the WPT saw Hansen finish third in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic but triumph in the Caribbean Poker Adventure. This saw his second season winnings come in at over $730,000, giving him a healthy return for the first two seasons on the tour.

Over $4m in WPT winnings is a great return

Hansen has been unable to win any other WPT event as of March 2011 but a number of money finishes has seen him rack up over $4m in WPT winnings.

However, it was the three triumphs in two seasons that marked Hansen out as a major player in WPT history and this is why he was inaugurated into the WPT Walk of Fame. There were only three men inaugurated at this time, with Hansen being notably younger than Doyle Brunson or James Garner. The fact that no poker player has managed to win more than 3 WPT titles, with only Hansen and Carlos Mortensen being able to claim this indicates the size of the task that Hansen completed.

This is why Hansen is still regarded as one of the most important poker players of WPT history.

Hansen was bringing sexy back to poker

In a twist to the usual perceptions of poker players, Hansen, back in 2004 at the peak of his game and general public awareness, was voted amongst the 50th sexiest men alive. This may not be an achievement that can make you money but it is certainly something to be proud of. If ever other poker players start to talk about their winnings, Hansen can point to not only his poker winnings but his final placing on that poll.

Although poker is the reason that so many people know Hansen, he refers to himself as a professional gambler as opposed to being a professional poker player. It is said that Hansen can quite often be found taking and placing bets on a various number of sporting events and challenges with his fellow players. This can help to break the monotony of the touring life and no doubt keeps Hansen’s mind ticking over with regards to calculating odds and playing other people.

Some of the greatest poker players of all time have had cards named after them: the 10-2 is the Doyle Brunson, the A -10 is the Johnny Moss and a pair of eights and a pair of Aces will forever be known as the Dead Man’s Hand in honor of Wild Bill Hickok. While the legends of the game are occasionally enshrined in that peculiar hand that they have each forever branded, Gus Hansen has dozens of hands named after him. Gus Hansen is a viable adjective in the poker community.

He was born on February 12, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he found success in his early years as a youth tennis champion. Gus always excelled in table games as well as sports and by the time he became a professional poker player in 1997, he was already a world renowned backgammon star.

Hansen is famous as an action junkie even by a “regular” professional gambler’s standard: he has taken bets ranging from thousands of dollars – on personal athletic challenges – to millions on professional sports events. He is without question the loosest and most aggressive high-variance player in the eye of the mainstream poker community, known to go down more than a million in a single high-stakes session thanks to his propensity to play any two cards: when a player is found to be playing aggressively with hands that most players would throw away (hands like 6-4, 7-5, 9-5, etc) they are said to be playing “Gus” hands.

Gus Hansen Wife

His major achievements at the poker table include a victory in the inaugural Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament (a $400,000 buy in,) becoming a member of the initial 3 players inducted into the World Poker Tour Hall of Fame (Doyle Brunson and actor James Garner were the others,) winning the Aussie Millions Tournament for $1.5 million USD and having 4 WPT championships to his name – Gus Hansen is the all-time leader in WPT championships, final tables and money earned.

Gus is also one of the major faces of the Poker Industry in today’s marketplace. He was one of People Magazine’s 50 Sexiest Men Alive in 2004 and is currently serving as the spokesmodel for Danish men’s fashion line Frank Q. He is one of the most visible members of the Full Tilt team and often figures prominently in their television commercials. Gus was also a founder of the poker site pokerchamps.com, purchased for approximately $15 million USD by poker conglomerate Betfair in 2005.

Gus travels often following numerous professional circuits worldwide but calls Monaco home. He is notoriously unmarried.