Owing it to World Poker events, Gus Hansen is one of the known faces in the Poker world. His contradictory calm and aggressive style matched with his Poker calculated approach contributed to his recent win at the Aussie Millions and tournament winnings of $4m. Last year, he joined the FullTilt Big Game, on the High Stakes Poker TV show, he proved everyone that a calm river can be indeed a dangerous one.

In a not so long ago interview, Hansen said that he is really happy being part of the FullTilt team.

After his small career with Pokerchamps, it became apparent that continuing working in a site is better. We did not have the money or the number of persons to run a big time organization, so we decided to sell the site at the perfect timing. I was workning by myself for a while and Full Tilt approached me with a great offer. They said they have got some great players who are close to me. I came from Scandinavia, so I built quite a handful of good connections as I compose articles for newspapers. I hope Full Tilt will be venturing in the European market soon because it will be beneficial for both parties.

He also said even though there are fluctuations in the Poker world, you have to make sure that you can control it.

When asked if being a reckless player has without a doubt helped Hansen gained popularity in the Poker industry, Hansen said that it has definitely helped his different images in the table, because he has a good grasp of how people he had met before perceived him, they had an idea of how Gunsen get on with the game, even if it’s not really the right idea.

Apart from Poker Hansen is also doing modeling work, and advertisements for FullTilt.

People magazine even voted him to be the one of the sexiest men alive. But when asked if he loves this side of the business, or if he accepts that it is just part of the job requirement demanded of the celebrity Poker player, he said that people should not make a big deal out of it.

According to a statement
by Paddypower Poker,
John Young of Slough,
London, was declared
the world’s first
strip Poker champion in
a world record breaking
tournament in London.

Young, a 32-year-old freelance
writer, secured victory after
an eight hour competition and beat 194 Paddypower Poker other hopefuls, from twelve countries, at the World Strip Poker Championships in London’s Café Royal.

Young walked away with £10,000, a specially commissioned Golden Fig Leaf trophy and entry to the Paddypower Poker Irish Open where up to €2 million will be up for grabs. In addition the sponsor Paddypower promised to donate a further £10,000 to the charity of the winners choice, Cancer Research, after Young sportingly revealed all to the crowd.

The tournament reportedly started at 1pm as 195 hopefuls from over 12 countries struggled to keep their clothes on and carve themselves a place in history as part of a new official Guinness world record for the biggest Strip Poker Tournament ever.

“It’s brilliant; I can’t believe I’m in the Guinness Book of Records, I’m probably the hairiest Poker player as well in the Guinness Book of Records,” Young said, towel in tow.

Young, who emerged as the winner after eight hours at the Poker table, had a hard time bluffing.

“It was quite hard to bluff in the buff but luckily I kept my pocket aces hidden away,” Young said. “This was easily the most fun I’ve had at a Poker table,” he added.

Laura Barnett, who is one of the last standing women was from Stirling, Scotland, went out in a blaze of towel waving glory after a valiant effort at the table.

Originally, the said event was supposed to be an April Fools Day Story but after Paddypower Poker received several requests from Poker players all over the world, asking if they can take part, Paddypower Poker decided to run the tournament for real.

Reports said that aside from strict rules governing the Poker play, there were clear guidelines on the stripping element — organizers supplied each player with five items of clothing, which they used to buy chips – as they lost their chips they cashed in their clothes for more. Some even opted to strip from the bottom up and sat playing naked except for a cap covering who knows.

Paddy Power was thankful that the event was a success and is looking forward to another year of stripping.

“Sometimes I just love coming into work, the event was an amazing success considering it grew originally from an April Fools story,” Paddy Power said. “I’ve never seen so many people so eager to lose the shirt off their backs. Hopefully next year we’ll break our own record,” he added.

The paddy power poker Irish Winter Festival (IWF) is taking place October Bank Holiday weekend (October 25th-27th 2008) in the Citywest Hotel and Golf Resort in Dublin.

The IWF is sure to prove another must-attend event on the European poker calendar. Online qualifiers are already running on paddypowerpoker.com, and players from all over the world will be itching to get involved!

There is guaranteed 3 Million EURO Prize in the tournament.

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