I want to play the Hansen style
 

I would like to find some book or some information to play like Gus Hansen. I've met some players in life tournaments who use this approach and I really envy them.
Where can I find some information?

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You could check out his dvd.

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Are you willing to have enormous swings in your bankroll and secondly you must have the gift of exceptional reads.
Currently there are millions of ace-rag players who have adopted this style but lack a foundation and all the necessary tools to excel.

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Hansen style + bad hand reading = quick Busto!

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I would like to find some book or some information to play like Gus Hansen.

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The following is from his CardPlayer bio:

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Hansen is considered a probability expert and understands equity calculations, a talent that comes in handy when playing high-stakes poker. His unusual expertise in this area enables him to redefine "correct" play, weighing the probabilities of the hands of his opponents, who act in certain ways according to common equations.

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Hansen is a former backgammon expert. Equity is a very important concept in backgammon, and Hansen uses it to play a lot of hands that most people would go broke with. He is also a much more mathematical and analytical player than his TV image suggests.

You aren't going to play "the Hansen style" by reading a book or browsing some forum. You need a solid foundation in math and probability, and you need to really know the game of poker (including the ability to play the players). Players who try to imitate his style without the hard work, study, and experience may win in the short term, but they will eventually go broke.

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Gus won the Aussie Millions 2 days ago

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http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Po.../dp/1886070253

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I think this is the correct response although I seriously doubt it's the one for which you are looking. Doyle's classic text on NLHE also lays out some of the principles behind agressive play:

http://www.doylespokerroom.com/poker...ldem_poker.cfm

Re: I want to play the Hansen style
 

Master backgammon. Seriously. If you can beat that game against good players, poker will seem like fishing in a stocked bathtub.

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I would like to find some book or some information to play like Gus Hansen. I've met some players in life tournaments who use this approach and I really envy them.
Where can I find some information?

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Its pretty easy. Just raise most of your hands and call every reraise. Then you get lucky. If your opponent is still ahead on the flop, then you just draw out.

Gussed
 

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I want to play the Hansen style!

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Lose weight.

Wear contacts.

Take 30 seconds for even the most obvious fold.

You are on your way.

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If by "Hansen-style" you mean "shortball poker", you may want to read Erick Lindgren's book. It's all about shortball poker. Hyper-aggressive but not too much chip commitment pre-flop.

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Daniel N. briefly discusses Hanson's style in his Hold 'em Wisdom for All Players.

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Phil Gordon's Little Green Book has a two page thing on Hansen's playing style.

Honestly, aren't you supposed to learn to play good solid winning ABC poker and then start experiementing with different styles of play to see if you can pick up a better edge here or there? You know, learn to walk before you run..

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Hansen's style is similar to playing the cube in Backgammon. He is an expert in determining equities. Btw, he also played Yatzee for big money [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

You can't just learn that in a crash course. His play has a highly scientific foundation that needs a few years of study and he doesn't leak anything on it.

Your best shot would be to hope for Paul Magriel to write something on Poker. That's probably as close to Hansen's style as you can get.

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I want to play Jamie Gold style... can anyone recommend some good books and/or videos?

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I want to play Jamie Gold style... can anyone recommend some good books and/or videos?

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download the ESPN WSOP ME coverage and just watch every hand he plays and copy him exactly. if they dont show him playing a certain hand, dont play it, that means he folds it preflop. good luck

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I want to play Jamie Gold style... can anyone recommend some good books and/or videos?

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download the ESPN WSOP ME coverage and just watch every hand he plays and copy him exactly. if they dont show him playing a certain hand, dont play it, that means he folds it preflop. good luck

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Wow thanks!! I'm anxiously awaiting for the special director's cut extended edition DVD release of WSOP 2006, so I can see all the hands Jamie played and folded!

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I want to play Jamie Gold style... can anyone recommend some good books and/or videos?

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download the ESPN WSOP ME coverage and just watch every hand he plays and copy him exactly. if they dont show him playing a certain hand, dont play it, that means he folds it preflop. good luck

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Wow thanks!! I'm anxiously awaiting for the special director's cut extended edition DVD release of WSOP 2006, so I can see all the hands Jamie played and folded!

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hmm, i'd probably go with the regular version because gold is so brilliant that he knew all the pros would be watching the extended version to study it and see him bluffing a lot and think he's a maniac. what they dont know is that how he plays in the extended version is just for show to setup all the fish who watch that version. his REAL style is captured in the regular ESPN converage. hope you can return your extended version!!

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I want to play Jamie Gold style... can anyone recommend some good books and/or videos?

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download the ESPN WSOP ME coverage and just watch every hand he plays and copy him exactly. if they dont show him playing a certain hand, dont play it, that means he folds it preflop. good luck

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Wow thanks!! I'm anxiously awaiting for the special director's cut extended edition DVD release of WSOP 2006, so I can see all the hands Jamie played and folded!

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Start by telling your opponents exactly what you hold, and ask them to call/fold as you actually want them to.

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He plays lots of hands, while Brunson draws his line to K2s (that may be the same to him as 75s for example) but Gus plays stuff even like Jxs, and gets good value from his better hands like the AA. Gus is good because he doesn't play his cards but your cards, finds out where you are e.g. with a flop lead bet and if the turn comes right he bets you out, as an example. He's that good that he doesn't need all that good cards on average; one doesn't need anything but to win the pot, no hand is needed for that, though he too generally wants something, like any sort of semi, but not necessarily. It's also hard to get him out as he just figures he has a good enough chance to win and calls you down, though all the way he looks how the cards come and if he can steal the pot. Just like with Brunson, not often one has hands that can take the heat, espcially when one doesn't figure to be strong. There are many other brunsonian mixture styles than just the Brunson's and Gus's, most all of them being the winning style in the hands even those who do not play very well but has such a style, either by accident or by planning.