
Gus Hansen is a professional poker player from Monaco, also known as “The Great Dane”. Born in February 13, 1974 outside Copenhagen, Denmark, he has already won three World Poker Tour open titles. He also won in the year 2007, the Aussie Millions main event where he was the tournaments first season winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. He became a professional poker player in 1997, but was a former world class backgammon player and a tennis player as well.