Who doesn't remember that huge pot on High Stakes Poker with Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu getting in tons of money with a full house versus quads? Who didn't get into poker after seeing Hansen go all in every single hand in Poker Superstars III?
In the early days of the poker boom, Gus Hansen was without a doubt one of the biggest names in poker. "The Great Dane" won millions in World Poker Tour tournaments before he was hailed as one of the stars in the just-started European Poker Tour.