Gus Hansen will be the face of new FTP

FullTiltPoker.com today announced that one of the most famous international poker players, Gus Hansen will return as brand ambassador for the site, which plans to re-open for real-money poker on November 6, 2012.

In August, PokerStars obtained the assets of Full Tilt Poker and committed to reimburse Full Tilt Poker customers outside the U.S. whose accounts have been inaccessible since the previous management closed the site in June 2011.

Full Tilt Poker will offer real-money poker games and tournaments globally, with the exception of the U.S., France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Estonia and Belgium. Full Tilt Poker’s customers in the rest of the world can soon look forward to accessing their accounts and playing on the re-launched site, confident that they are supported by PokerStars’ history of integrity combined with Full Tilt Poker’s track record of delivering the highest quality online poker experience.

Hansen, a poker icon and four-time WPT champion, already boasts career tournament earnings of nearly $11.2 million and is widely considered to be one of the best all-around players in the world - whether it be large tournaments, live cash games or online. As a former Full Tilt Pro, Hansen, 38, is excited to be returning to one of the world’s leading poker brands.

He said: "I’m very excited to represent the industry’s most authentic poker brand. Full Tilt Poker has the best games, most innovative software and the strongest poker community; to me this feels like coming home.”

Does anyone think that Lederer's endorsment of Gus during the Lederer files had anything to do with this?

how is ftp "the industry's most authentic poker brand"

is he good?

Gus Hansen is awesome I bet Daniel recommended him

Gus is a great face for the brand, but he is a poker player, so hopefully nothing bad happens in the long run.

On October 03 2012 16:51 KoeBawlt wrote: Does anyone think that Lederer's endorsment of Gus during the Lederer files had anything to do with this?

Pretty sure Stars will be keen to distance themselves as far as they can from anything to do with (die) Howard.

Havent really paid attention to the Lederer interview, but wasnt it that he "paid back" his money, but he subtracted the amount that was stuck in his account from that balance (lol) until Gus said it was unacceptable.

That was actually Howard trying to paint himself as a good guy... :/

Gus = highstakes whale = big names playing him on FTP = "if they play, money must be real secured" = players at all stakes.

Smart choice imo.

will pokerstars still let him play at PS ?