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Back on August 16 of last year, I wrote an article that asked the question of Gus Hansen was a cash game fish. The reason for this is because at time of writing he was down a staggering $7,753,624 from online cash games. By the end of August 2010 he haemorrhaged even more money and found himself in a $9.23m hole!

Suffering from astronomical losses like this would break most players in more ways than one but not “The Great Dane” who always said that he could win at the highest stakes available and has now gone some way into proving it. Since October of last year, Hansen has logged more than 100,000 hands online and is in profit to the tune of almost $5,000,000, an amazing turn around to say the least.

What is even more impressive is that he has made close to $3,000,000 playing pot limit Omaha, both capped and uncapped, with blinds ranging from $200/$400, of which Daniel “jungleman12” Cates has donated $891,000 and David Benyamine $477,000. Pot limit Omaha is widely regarded as Hansen's weakest game, having cost him a mind-boggling $8.9m in the past few years, though he is one of the largest-ever winners of Omaha hi/low split in fact only Phil Ivey has won more in this game online.

Hansen said that he was going to go back to the drawing bard and re-invent himself as nobody ever gave him credit for having a hand ever. He told Paul Cheung of Poker Player Magazine, “‘I’ve come to realise, which I realised before, hat people give me credit for absolutely nothing, no matter what has happened. If I’ve folded the last five hours straight and then I raise, people put me on 8-T suited. So if that’s the mentality of 90% of my opponents, then obviously I should tighten up a lot and that means more folding”

His new tighter approach to the game, which is still much looser than most of use mere mortals would attempt to play, has paid dividends, with Hansen not only profiting by $5,000,000 online but also in his live tournament game. He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in September in the £10,000 High Roller Heads Up event at the WSOPE and then went on to win Poker Million IX for a bankroll boosting $1,000,000, taking his lifetime tournament winnings to $9,102,527.

If the rumours are true then Mr Hansen is also running very well away from the felt as it is believed he is dating Danish tennis sensation, Caroline Wozniacki. Hansen was spotted railing her at the Aussie Open and, according to her website,the 21-year old bombshell currently resides in Monaco, Monte Carlo which is where our friend Gustav also lives. Make of that what you will!