Gustav born on February 13, 1974 in Denmark have nicknamed as The Great Dane in poker game arena because of his skills he showed the world. It is only because of his determination and hard work, he was able to won three World Poker Tour open titles in his career. With this he became the first player to win 3 World Poker Tour (WPT) open tournaments in the decade.
He started his career in the Ocean View Card Room in California, when he was an exchange student at UC Santa Cruz. Gustav completed in the money in 150th place in the 2004 Main Event. In the year 2004, he was welcomed into the World Poker Tour Walk of Fame and earned money. He was also there with the Danish team in the PartyPoker.com Football & Poker Legends Cup tournament in 2006. In September 2006 Gustav won the opening EPM event, London All Star Challenge, ultimately beating Marc Goodwin.
In 2007, he won Aussie Millions main event and also become the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. He also cashed in the money in the $10,000 no limit Texas hold’em championship, coming in 61st place out of a field of 6,358 players in the same year.
Coming to the world of WSOP 2013, regardless of his positive month up to now, Gustav is still the runaway loser on Full Tilt Poker at all-times, having watched an amount of $8,654,476 getting shipped to the competing poker players. Auspiciously for “The Great Dane,” the first day in the week, the Monday was an important upswing. It is on this day, he won an amount of $811,618 on his home site of Full Tilt Poker. Monday’s run in his career began with a $374,000 thrashing of Alex “Alexonmoon” Luneau. He is going to continue his form for rest of matches.