Gus Hansen
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Gustav Hansen is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, one WSOP bracel
Hansen at the 2016 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
Backgammon
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Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1
Gus Hansen
…one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Before turning to playing poker professionally in 1997, Hansen was already a world class backgammon player and a youth tennis champion. Hansen started playing poker at the Ocean View Card Room in Santa Cruz, California, while he was an exchange student…
One of the gameboards found by Sir Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery at Ur (British Museum)
Roman Ludus duodecim scriptorum board from the 2nd century, Aphrodisias
Poet Herr Goeli playing in the 14c, Codex Manesse, Heidelberg University Library
A Georgian noblewoman Darnica Gurieli with backgammon in the foreground, circa 1635