I’m the author of the books Reading Poker Tells and Verbal Poker Tells and this is a review of Gus Hansen’s book Every Hand Revealed. This book is a hand-by-hand breakdown of his win of the Aussie Millions World Poker Tour tournament, where he waded through 747 players and won $1.2 million. The book doesn’t include every single hand, of course (not his boring pre-flop folds) but it’s. Offering unlimited access to one of the most successful, popular poker players out there, Every Hand Revealed will help you understand some of poker's most coveted secrets-and simply shows you the. What If You Were Able To Get Right Inside The Mind Of World-Famous Poker Pro Gus Hansen- And Learn His Winning Secrets? One of professi.
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- Title:
- Every Hand Revealed
- Author:
- Gus Hansen
- Publisher:
- Lyle Stuart Books
- Date:
- 2008
- ISBN:
- 0-8184-0727-1
- Pages:
- 370
- Price:
- $15.95
Reviewed by Nick Christenson, [email protected]
April 21, 2008
Many poker professionals have been catapulted to fame by their performanceon televised poker. Perhaps none have experienced as meteoric a riseas Gus Hansen. Known for his hyper-aggressive tactics, Hansen hascome to typify the 'loose aggressive' (LAG) style of play, a style thatmany players find intriguing, yet difficult to master. In EveryHand Revealed, Hansen walks us hand-by-hand through a tournamentin which he emerged victorious.
Those who are looking for a comprehensive textbook on 'playing the GusHansen way' will not find what they seek in this book. Hansen does reveal thoughts on general poker strategy, but only as it applies toindividual situations he encounters while winning the 2007 Aussie Millions poker tournament. If the reader is one of those people whodoes not like to wade through hand histories, pass on this book.Hand histories with commentary are pretty much all you get here.
The tournament chronicled here was a four day event, so naturally enough, Hansen uses time to mark his chapter boundaries. We get one chapter for each of the first three days. The final day is divided up into four chapters as the field thins. The concluding chapter provides a statisticalanalysis of Hansen's play and sums up some of the lessons imparted at various points in the book.
The first thing we notice is that Hansen does not play as many hands ashis reputation would lead us to believe. This is especially true on day 1. In fact, during day 1, I would estimate his 'tightness' was above average for the tournament field. Towards the end of day 1and during much of day 2, the antes start to become more significant,and Hansen steps up his aggression. Still, we don't see any signsof the Gus Hansen who calls all-in with ten-eight off-suit, or pushesall-in with king-nine. In fact, I would describe his play in this book as closer to 'tight-aggressive' than 'loose-aggressive'. So, as strange as it might seem, those who are looking for an understanding of LAG no-limit play won't find it here.
This isn't to say that the book doesn't have any good advice onpoker. It does, but it's not as substantive as I might have hoped.Still, Hansen presents occasional bits of real insight here, and it's clearthat whatever one might think of how the author plays, he is definitely athinking poker player. Hansen is also quite forthright about the mistakes he makes. When he thinks that in retrospect he screwed up in a given spot, he comes right out and says it. I feel we have torespect his candor.
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I would say that the book is aimed for an intermediate audience. Hansen doesn't cover the basics or provide much in the way of strategic foundation, so a true beginner wouldn't have much contextto evaluate the author's play. Every Hand Revealeddoes provide some insight, but probably not so much that a trulyadvanced no-limit tournament player will find it worth the energyto wade through the entire of the book. I believe this book willbe most valuable for those who don't have a lot of experience inlong live-game tournaments. Every Hand Revealed maybe a useful surrogate to actually going through this experience.
Because of its structure, the 370 pages fly by at a brisk pace, socompleting the book isn't as time consuming as one might first expect. It's also interesting to see how a successful tournament professional approaches periods of the tournament where he's largely card dead,being aggressively re-raised, or facing opposition who seems to have his number. Of course, since Hansen just happened to win thisparticular tournament, he obviously didn't get himself into allthat much trouble. Still, I appreciate the fact that we can allrelate to most of the decisions the author faces.
Overall I found the book to be interesting, but neither engrossingnor terribly ground-breaking. I was hoping to get some insight intothe 'Gus Hansen persona' we have seen on television, but EveryHand Revealed profiles a different player than I had expected.The book still contains insights and good advice, but not as much as I had hoped. I think the book is worth reading, but I'm guessingthat for most readers there are other volumes out there that wouldbe more beneficial.
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In Every Hand Revealed, Gus Hansen walks us through allthe poker hands he played during the 2007 Aussie Millions no-limittournament. Whether his reputation as a wild player is exaggerated,or he has tightened up his style, the Gus Hansen I read about in this book is quite different than the one I was expecting. Becausethe book is mostly filled with hand results it provides no overarchingstrategy. It does contain some insights, but not as much as an experienced player might want, and the book doesn't contain enoughbackground for rank beginners. Consequently, the book is likely ofmost benefit to players of intermediate skill. I found it to beinteresting, but I can't say that it's a must-read.
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Note: I received a free review copy of this book from the publisher.I have no other interest, financial or otherwise, in the success ofthis book.