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>i>He’s won over $9 million in live tournaments, a World Series bracelet and three WPT titles, but there’s something else driving Gus Hansen to poker glory. Gambling’s Duncan Wilkie attempts to get inside the head of the game’s mad genius

“I honestly don’t give a f**k – and you can quote me on that.”

These were the words and, indeed, the unwritten of credo of Danish poker legend Gus Hansen when I spoke to him in the run-up to EPT Copenhagen last month. Hansen was fielding a question about whether ousting Peter Eastgate atop his country’s all-time money rankings was a motivating factor, but his callous dismissal of the notion arguably reveals more about the Dane than he’d first intended.

To put it simply,...