Texas Holdem Strategy

Doc T River · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen

This book is now out. Not sure the exact date it hit the shelves but I saw it last night. I had gone to two different bookstores this weekend and it was not on the shelves then.

And if the bookstore I saw it at last night only had one copy, it has none now. Laughing

I have been looking forward to this book so I think I am going to put the poker book I was reading aside for a while and dive into this one.

nsidestrate · ITH MVP Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 20848

It will be interesting to see what he has to say about Gobbo. This one is on my watch list as well. Amazon doesn't have it in stock yet.

Taardvark · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 613 Location: Fremont, CA

Taardvark · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 613 Location: Fremont, CA

nukeduke · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

I'm about halfway through this and enjoying it. The "intuitive" side of his thought process is very interesting and something that is void or at least semi-ignored in many strategy books. I'd say this is a must read before going to the WSOP. I'll finish it up in teh next few days and write a litltle more.

nsidestrate · ITH MVP Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 20848

I really enjoyed this book. Some of it is just wise-ass commentary, but there is some interesting poker thinking. Gus lays out a very mathematical approach to MTT play. If I had to summarize some of the key points I took away from his approach, I'd say they would be:

1) raise pre-flop a ton when it checks to you, especially once the antes kick in. The risk reward is pretty much in your favor.

2) defend your blinds quite aggressively in this situation. The addition of the antes often makes calling raises pretty +EV in the moment and having a reputation for defending your blinds nets rewards when you don't have a hand, but people don't want to tangle with you.

3) OOP, lead into raisers when you catch a piece of the flop. This goes with his general philosophy of putting the other person to the difficult decision. He also gives an OOP lead more credit than many players when he has raised.

4) In general, he seems to call pre-flop (re-raises or raises) anytime he gets more than 2:1 and often down to 1.5:1. He had a little chart describing his decision tree at various odds and it was pretty interesting.

5) He seems to be extremely cognizant of stack sizes and pot/stack ratios which is one of the more difficult challenges for me in live poker settings. This year, I'm going to work much harder at keeping close track of the other stacks at my table.

6) He isn't especially loose in the early stages, but he is pretty willing to gamble it up to build a big stack.

He was brutally honest with himself when he thought he made a bad play and was almost equally critical of bad plays by others. It made for an entertaining read.

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Taardvark · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 613 Location: Fremont, CA

It's on it's way from Amazon and I can't wait. He plays a completely different game from anything I do and I find his plays fascinating. I've heard a lot of good things about it and look forward to reading through it before the WSOP. I have a couple of meaningless events to play in my poker group over the next several weeks so I might pick and choose a couple things and see how they work for me.

doubleup · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

I ordered a copy too...Gus is my hero

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