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Gus Hansen, for the first time since 2011, is at a World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table, where he’s attempting to end a lengthy bracelet drought.
The popular poker boom era high roller reached the final six players in Event #38: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship. At last check, he was among the shortest stacks. But if he were to go on and spin it up, he’d win his second bracelet and first since 2010.
Can Gus Hansen Win His First Bracelet in 15 Years?
Hansen has never won a WSOP event in Las Vegas. The only other WSOP title he earned took place at WSOP Europe, that one in a the £10,350 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em High Roller, beating Jim Collopy, who finished fourth in a separate event on Friday, in the finals.
Hansen, a prominent personality on the major televised poker shows in the 2000s, could become a two-time WSOP bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour (WPT) champion. Only two players in history — Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno — have accomplished that feat.
“The Great Dane” is facing a brutal final table that includes some other pros who are attempting to reach a milestone. Benny Glaser, who won three bracelets last summer, is attempting to become just the seventh player ever to win nine bracelets. Jeremy Ausmus is shooting for his seventh bracelet, and all six players at the final table have won at least one bracelet.
First place is set to pay $285,200, and that would bring Hansen over $10.8 million lifetime in live tournament cashes, per The Hendon Mob database. Hansen, however, hasn’t recorded many cashes in live tournaments since 2012. He’s mostly stepped away from the poker limelight and out of the tournament scene for more than a dozen years. But, perhaps this deep run will have the first-ever WPT champion itching to play more tournaments.
Hansen became famous in the poker industry for his numerous appearances on shows such as High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark. He won one of the most iconic HSP hands ever against Daniel Negreanu when he turned quads and beat Negreanu’s full house for a pot north of $450,000. Coincidentally, earlier in the 2026 WSOP, Hansen coolered Negreanu in a $10,000 Seven Card Stud hand, just for old time’s sake.
PokerNews is live reporting the $10k Limit Hold’em final table, so you can follow along in Hansen’s journey to ending a 16-year bracelet drought.
