Legends of Poker: Gus Hansen

Gus Hansen "The Great Dane" is my second favourite player.

I saw him play for the first time on a resume of a couple hours of the first WPT event ever. He was the chipleader and the way he was playing really shocked me.

 I was a begginer in poker and I knew just the basic stuff about the importance of position, the porcentages,the recommended starting hands..

And then Gus appears and starts playing 63, 25, K7... out of position, and then he continued those hands with sick bluffs on the flop, turn and even river until his opponents folded.

And then I thought wow if he plays like that always they are going to trap him sooner or later.... wrong!

When his opponents finally had a hand and called his bets then he showed a monster to win the pot.

And when he was almost beated preflop he was able to catch a magic card and win.


That's why Gus the #2 Legends of Poker spot is for him. He taught me that you have to mix the game sometimes so that your opponents can't read you easily. In that tournament he played crazy, nobody put him on a hand, he scared his opponents and he was lucky!

Also I know that he moved to the US to be a backgammon player, a game that I love to play also.



Here you can watch Gus Hansen in action on that tournament. Sorry for the missing end but you can imagine how it ended :)