Gus Hansen | Team Full Tilt Player

Just like any other sports, then poker game has its own professional line up of players who made their name. The most famous of poker game is the Full Tilt which is often the game played by professional poker players. Hence, there is a dynasty of players which they called Team Full Tilt players which have already made their names by bringing home considerable amounts of money they have made through Full Tilt.

Gus Hansen, a 34 year old native of Copenhagen, Denmark has made its name as the “Great Dane” in the line up of professional Team Full Tilt players. He has showed exceptional skills in the poker game and is famous by his aggressive and erratic play even when he got only two cards left.

To date, Gus Hansen has won four World Poker Tour titles and this accomplishment has earned him the World Poker Tour Walk of Fame. He also won in the 200 Aussie Millions and in the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament.

Before becoming a member of the world-class Team Full Tilt players, Gus Hansen was a world-class professional backgammon player as well as tennis player. He has great love for indoor and outdoor sports. He described himself as having a great passion for numbers and math and this urged him to go into the poker games because of it mathematical component. The starting point of his poker career is when he attended a summer camp during his teenage years and started to acquire his skills in playing cards. In 1996, he got his first taste of professional poker tournament through the help of Huckleberry Seed and Phil Laak. However, because of lack of ample experience and skills, he got eliminated during the first day of the competition. With this failure, he soon developed his own style and this made him earn his first winnings. He played in 2002 in Las Vegas' Five Diamond World Poker Classic on its No-Limit Hold'em event and won $500,000. He made substantial winnings in the succeeding years. After the 2002 stint, he competed in the 2003 World Poker Tour in Los Angeles and brought home again over half million dollars in prizes. He got a whooping $1,000,000 in the 2005 Poker Superstars Invitational and another $1,500,000 in the 2007 Aussie Millions. To date, his total earnings from poker have amounted to $7,200,000.

With these impressive winnings, Gus Hansen is a featured player in Full Tilt poker. The good thing about Full Tilt is that amateur and beginners can have the chance to play with Gus Hansen. It is like playing with the pro. Imagine playing golf against Tiger Woods or playing basketball with Kobe Bryant. With these competitors, you are surely bound to give your best shot and have the privilege or chance to win over these great poker players. So, if you want to be among the best like these great players, where else should you play? You can learn a lot and advance to higher skill level in poker.

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