It couldn’t have been very many days ago that I was writing a totally different news article about Gus Hansen, after he’d had an appalling stretch at the Full Tilt online poker tables and dropped one and a half million dollars in just seven days, widening his lead in the Biggest Loser race of 2010. Things may be turning around for the famous pro, however, as he has just booked a $600,000 week, and continues to cut down the distance between his current standing and that sweet sweet feeling of being up money.

Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen is one of the poker pros that barely needs an introduction due to being so famous, and it’s fame that’s well-deserved. The danish pro has three World Poker Titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event title and one World Series of Poker bracelet under his belt, and that’s just the tip of the ice berg. He’s more than capable of holding his own at the cash game tables, and has appeared on GSN’s High Stakes Poker as well as numerous other poker-themed television shows.

Online his track record is less than impressive, however. As mentioned, it wasn’t very long ago that he was making headlines for dropping $1.5 Million in a single week, and even this wasn’t too unbelievable. Hansen is down around ten million dollars life time at the virtual tables, making him online poker’s biggest loser. In 2010 alone he’s down around three million, and until this recent upswing was the biggest loser on Full Tilt Poker for the year.

Thing are perhaps turning around for him and starting to look up, however, as he managed to book back-to-back $600,000 weeks, pulling him that much further out of the muck. This week his profits came entirely from a single session of Pot-Limit Omaha, where he played stakes as high as $500/$1000 with Luukie21. This win pushed him to second place in the 2010 Biggest Loser race, with the somewhat dubious honor now being held by Brian Townsend, who appears to be down a very brutal $4 Million for the year.

Time will tell if this is the start of an exciting new trend for the online life of Hansen or simply a run-of-the-mill upset in an ever-downwards trending track record. One thing’s for certain, whatever the outcome of his online play, Hansen is still a highly respected member of the poker community, who despite his online losses is still 21st in the poker all-time money list, a very impressive feat indeed.