Claus Nielsen, 38 years old, was born in Denmark, but currently resides in Las Vegas. Nielsen has graduated Seton Hall University School of Law from which he has a law degree, after which he has worked as an entertainment consultant in Los Angeles from the mid 80`s until moving in LA in 2002. He has been into poker playing since the mid 1980's, but it was not until 2002 that he started playing poker for a living. In 2006 Claus Nielsen was not only playing poker, but also got hired by Martinspoker as a consultant. He is described as a calm and calculating person with keen observational skills.
Altogether Claus Nielsen doesn’t have any first place finishes, but he has 1 final table, 6 money finishes, an All Time EPT Ranking – 159, an Active Players EPT Ranking – 119, an All Time IAR Ranking – 1092 and an Active Players IAR Ranking – 1496 and total earnings that come up to $741,446. And his WSOP winnings come up to $15,855 with 3 cashes, WPT winnings that come up to $659,120 with 1 final table and 1 money finish and EPT winnings that come up to $ 66,471 with 2 cashes.
The tournaments in which Claus Nielsen has participated in include the 35th and 36th Annual World Series of Poker, where he respectively took 30th and 58th place, the Five-Star World Poker Classic - WPT Championship Season 4, where he finished 4th in 2006, the Scandinavian Open / EPT Event Season 3, where he finished 24th in 2007 and in the Polish Open / EPT Event Season 4, where he finished 10th in 2008. He hasn’t made his big entrance in the poker world yet, but he is definitely going there – his results speak for themselves.