Gus Hansen
“The Great Dane”
Danish legend and one of the most entertaining players ever. Three WPT titles in a single season and billions of hands played at the highest online stakes on Full Tilt.
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Career Earnings
Undisclosed
Playing Approach
Old-School Reads
Plays On
HISTORY
Career & origins of Gus Hansen
Gus Hansen, "The Great Dane," is one of the most entertaining and uniquely talented players in poker history. In a single season in the early 2000s, he won three WPT titles — a feat that had never been achieved before and has rarely been matched since — through an ultra-aggressive style that left opponents completely unable to put him on a hand.
His game was defined by radical aggression: raising, re-raising, and going to war with hand ranges that defied conventional wisdom. Where most players of his era played tightly and predictably, Hansen played every hand as a potential bluff and every bluff as a potential masterpiece. The results at the biggest live events were extraordinary.
His online career on Full Tilt Poker at the highest stakes was famously volatile — losing tens of millions of dollars over his career at the biggest games. But at his live tournament peak, Hansen was one of the most feared and exciting players in the world, and his three WPT titles in a single season remain one of the most remarkable achievements in tournament poker.