Gus Hansen was born on February 13, 1974 in Denmark, he is one of the best known poker players in the world!

Before becoming a professional poker player, Gus Hansen was in 1997 playing professional backgammon and youth tennis champion. In 2000 he moved to New York where the potential for Poker began to bear fruit! Gus Hansen is the only player in the world to win three tournaments of the World Poker Tour open, and also won the "WPT Bad Boys of Poker", despite all the marks left by Gus Hansen, he had never a good performance in the World Series of Poker as having a better ranking 61 th in the main event of the tournament in 2007. He has also won the "The London All Star Challenge" and "Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament"!

In 2006 Gus Hansen has signed an exclusive contract with Full Tilt Poker, and he was one of the most popular faces od the site before it was shut down.

He also wrote a book with the title of "Every Hand Revealed"!