One of the world’s best poker players, Gus Hansen, will challenge for the Betfair Asian Poker Tour’s inaugural event in Singapore.

Hansen will represent Full Tilt Poker’s stable of famous professional players at the $5000 buy-in event which takes place November 12-17.

Betfair anticipates a prize pool in excess of $1m for the event, where Hansen will come up against Betfair Poker pros Ben ‘milkybarkid’ Grundy, Thomas ‘buzzer’ Bhil and Swedish sensation Bengt Sonnert.

He can also expect to take on some of Asia’s finest players, including Europe’s number one player in 2005, Singapore-born Willie Tann.