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Poker Game, oil on canvas, 1894 Dogs Playing Poker, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, refers collectively to an 1894 painting, a 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars, and a 1910 painting. Popularly known as “The Great Dane” Gus Hansen is another professional poker player worth knowing and learning from. Born on the 13 th of February, 1974 outside of Copenhagen, Denmark, Gus has made his mark in the sand of time as far as the poker community is concerned. Gus Hansen Net Worth: Gus Hansen is a name that poker fans know and love for a variety of reasons. Not only is he the holder of a vast selection of poker titles and awards, but Gus Hansen is also one of the most handsome men to have ever graced the tables. He even took his place in the list of people magazine’s 50 sexiest men.
After a hiatus from the high-stakes poker world, World Series of Poker bracelet winner Gus Hansen seems to be slowly but surely returning to more of the publicized nosebleed action that made him one of the legends of the game in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Hansen said Saturday on his Instagram that he recently made a trip to the King’s Casino in the Czech city Rozvadov. Hansen was playing high-stakes Chinese poker with Leon Tsoukernik, owner of the gambling den, among other competitors. Poker players stateside will recall the ongoing litigation pitting Tsoukernik against Australian poker pro Matt Kirk, which centers on claims from Tsoukernik that he was taken advantage of by Kirk and a casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Kirk claims that Tsoukernik owes $2 million from their booze-fueled poker session last year.
According to Hansen, he spent about 14 days gambling at Tsoukernik’s casino, and he ended up finishing the gambling trip up about €100,000. Despite the profits, Hansen said he was on the losing end of the trip’s largest hand—a pot worth about US$615,000.
Hansen didn’t reveal any details on what the hands were. He also didn’t explicitly state that the hand happened in Chinese poker, but his Instagram account suggests it did. It’s not clear what other games or variants Hansen played on his recent casino trip.
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“Back in Denmark after two weeks of gambling in Rozvadov,” Hansen said in the very brief video posted over the weekend. “Lost the biggest hand, [€500,000] to casino owner Leon, but fortunately I ended up winning [€100,000] on the trip. Back in Vienna in three days for some more gambling. It’s going to be a great year.”
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Hansen hasn’t cashed in a tournament since 2014. Late last year at a tournament in Las Vegas, Hansen told the WPT there’s “a chance” he plays more tournaments in 2018, now that he’s “getting into a rhythm” at the tables. “I have to re-discover and re-invent things,” Hansen said.