So a few posts ago I said I was going to buy Gus Hansen's new book 'Every Hand Revealed' where he basically chronicles every hand he played when he won the Aussie Millions back in 2007. Then a few days ago I wrote a post called Gus Shmus about how he lost the WPT Championship going into heads-up with over a 5-to-1 lead in chips.
So I got the book on Friday and it's a very easy read. I will probably have a full review when I am done in a couple of days. But my first observation is this: I don't see anything special. I mean, sure, he plays very loose. And he makes some really strange calls. But his main strategy is to see a lot of cheap flops early on and then when he has a big stack, abuse the table.
I've seen this done before several times. Antes kick in and the big stack just starts to hammer the table with raises. My problem is not, how to do that but rather how to play against that. You don't always get in position to bully the table with your stack. How do you stand up to the bully?
The answer is obvious, you have to re-steal.
Anyway, here's a great clip of Gus calling an all-in with ten high. Antonio is completely shocked and just doesn't "get it". My guess is that gus had a read about a small pair and felt he was racing with his suited one-gapper ten-high. It worked:
Monday, May 12, 2008
Gus Hansen Revealed
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terrible call.
why take a coin flip with the only guy at the final table that can put a hurt on you?
that's just bad tournament poker right there.
The amazing thing is to actually consider yourself a coin flip. You are 10 high and 8 low. There are fewer pocket pairs lower an 8 then higher then an 8. So how do you put a guy on 7s or lower? 8s and you aren't a coin flip. 9s would suck. 10s and he's dominated and JJ or better and he's a much bigger dog. I'm not sure I could ever narrow the range down to 7s of lower.
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