Gus Hansen moves back to Denmark, gives up poker

Gus Hansen appeared on TV program called "Good Morning Denmark" earlier this week to talk about his life away from poker. This ex-high stakes regular decided to give up poker and move back to his home country “for good”.

In his prime time, Gus was one of the most popular players in the world - with millions of dollars on the line, insane bets and quite the lifestyle, he was the man to watch. Seems that those days are long gone.

According to a report from pokerlobby.gr, Gus Hansen was on the show to take part in a Red Cross campaign where Danish celebrities donated the clothes off their backs to charity. Gus reportedly donated old Full Tilt Poker shirt, which was to add only more to his decision to take a serious break from the game.

In few interviews he also mentioned that he would like to play squash professionally, as he enjoyed the game so much.

According to HighstakesDB, Gus was last time playing the nosebleeds on Full Tilt in late 2014. Hansen stepped away from the platform being down $20.74 million lifetime after playing 1.5 million hands. In addition to that, on PokerStars Hansen dropped $1.38 million over almost 64,000 hands.
Hansen explained that his downswing was the result of extremely poor table selection and a “tilt” being according to him “about the worst in the world.”
However, he was a big winner in tournaments and live games: Hansen won roughly $10 million from just tournaments, which include 3 WPT wins.

LMAO

The question is how he got 22 mil to spew away at nosebleeds

like another famous dane we can only say goodnight sweet prince

On April 25 2016 21:47 Santafairy wrote: like another famous dane we can only say goodnight sweet prince

Well played.

I just read that play a week ago.

On April 25 2016 21:26 ClouD87 wrote: The question is how he got 22 mil to spew away at nosebleeds

He was getting paid monthly with Full Tilt player funds. As was ivey, ferguson and every other full tilt pro. Ivey was getting $900k/month and ferguson was getting $2.2 million/month (i saw these figures in a documentary a few years back). Not sure how much hansen used to get, but we were the ones who funded his lifestyle and bankroll.

I wonder what job his next job would be. Squash money not really exciting

im sure he will continue to play highstakes backgammon, you can youtube him, hes a world class master

I always enjoyed watching Gus playing live poker. GL to him with the squash thing.

Nice to see he is honest and can confess he was a tilt monkey. I dont think anybody ever actually thought he was tilting, they just thought he was stupid/insane.

On April 26 2016 15:03 NewbSaibot wrote: Nice to see he is honest and can confess he was a tilt monkey. I dont think anybody ever actually thought he was tilting, they just thought he was stupid/insane.

he can't look himself in the mirror and admit that he isn't a good/winning cash game player. He is using the 'tilt monkey' thing as an excuse, and is actually being completely dishonest in this sense.

Good player is relative. He lost to the same 3 o8 machines (who were on a team living in mexico) over and over for most of the losses. With a little dang PLO spew on the side

On April 26 2016 19:34 traxamillion wrote: Good player is relative. He lost to the same 3 o8 machines (who were on a team living in mexico) over and over for most of the losses. With a little dang PLO spew on the side

he was not a good/winning cash game player AT THE GAMES HE CHOSE TO PLAY (and not at the games he never played and against the opponents he never played with). #relativity