Gus Hansen Poker Pro Profile!

Gus Hansen is one of the best and more popular players on the Online Poker, with thousands of followers and a great name in the industry he enjoys playing poker and teaching.

He was born in 1974 outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. Hansen was always fascinated by numbers and math (this is why he is so good at playing poker). He was a starting backgammon and gin rummy player, and he used to hang out with Huckleberry Seed and Phil Laak. While he was playing backgammon and gin rummy, he was introducing to many poker games, including his favorite game – Stud -.

He played his first WSOP in 1996 when he had no experience on playing No-Limit Hold’em. He was out during the first day, but he didn’t give up and he decided he was going to keep on playing and experimenting with styles.

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In 2002 he went to another WSOP, but this time he had another playing style, he developed a loose, aggressive play that helped him win some money. He had other winnings like, the WPT’s inaugural event, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

In 2006 he made his first television appearance in the second season of High Stakes Poker after taking down the biggest pot in that show ever ($575,700). In that opportunity he defeated Daniel Negreanu and won the tournament. That same year he took the first place at the Full TiltPoker.com London All Star Challenge.

Next year he won the Aussie Millions Main Event and got over $1.2 million.

Hansen is not only a great poker player but he enjoys being part of many aspects of the poker industry. In 2008 Lyle Stuart published Hansen’s book – Every Hand revealed. He also launched GusHansenTV which is branded as a free poker channel in the internet.

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PATRIK ANTONIUS Poker Pro Profile!

His looks and his poker skills have given him a good name between the poker pro players. Patrik was born in December 13^th 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 3^rd in Barcelona. That same year by December he finished in 2^nd place at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Vegas where he won $1,046, 470.

In July 2006 he placed 9^th 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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