Jan Vang Sørensen

Jan Vang Sørensen is a Danish former footballer who became a professional poker player, based in Odense. He was born Jan Vang Hansen around 1960 and legally changed his surname from Hansen, his father's name, to Sørensen, his mother's maiden name, between 2002 and 2005. As a footballer he played for Odense BK among other clubs. His poker career began to show at the World Series of Poker in 1995, when he cashed with a sixteenth place finish in a Seven-Card Stud event, and in 1998 he won a limit seven-card stud tournament in Dortmund for DM125,000. At the 2002 World Series of Poker he took his first bracelet in the 2,500 dollar pot limit omaha event, beating Brent Carter heads-up for 185,000 dollars. His second bracelet came in 2005 in the 5,000 dollar seven-card stud event, worth 293,275 dollars. He finished 182nd in the 2004 main event and 602nd in the 2007 main event, reached the final table of the fourth season Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship on the World Poker Tour, finishing fifth, won the Master Classics of Poker in November 2008 for 623,100 euros, and represented Denmark in the Poker Nations Cup. His live tournament winnings were reported to exceed 2,300,000 dollars as of 2023.