His looks and his poker skills have given him a good name between the poker pro players. Patrik was born in December 13th of 1980 in Helsinki, Finland. Hansen was a former model and tennis player. He currently resides in Monte Carlo.
His first poker experiences were in the European Poker Tour and World Poker tour, where he finished near the final table. In 2005 he made it through the European Poker tour Main Event final table, finishing 3rd in Barcelona. That same year by December he finished in 2nd place at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Vegas where he won $1,046, 470.
In July 2006 he placed 9th in the World Series of Poker H.O.R.S.E event, making the biggest cash of that year. He was part of the NBC’s Poker After Dark. The first time he participated he finished as runner up losing to Jennifer Harman. His second appearance he defeat Brad Booth and saw the victory.
He couldn’t get into the 2009 WSOP Main Event, because he turned away when attempting to register along with hundreds of other due to a capacity field. His total live tournament winnings in 2010 exceed $2,800.000.
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Another great thing to mention about Antonius is that he is a heads-up specialist. He usually plays regular high stakes and he is successful having won millions of dollars. When he started on FullTilt Poker he used many nicknames like, Luigi66369, CryMeRiver9 and Finddagrind, but he became a member of the Full Tilt Team under his real name.
Antonius is the first player to go up against Tom Dwan in his “Million Dollar Challenge” on Full Tilt Poker. Dwan challenged players to high-stakes no-limit hold’em or pot-limit Omaha at Full Tilt, playing four tables at a time with a total of 50,000 hands.
Let’s not forget that in 2009, Patrik won the biggest pot in online poker history taking $1,356,946 away from Isildur1.
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