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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.
This time, we are playing as gus' opponent, who happens to be another player you guys may have heard of, patrik antonius.blinds are 12k-24k with a 4k ante playing a 6-handed table, we are the hand with about 1.75 million and gus with 1.95 million.it is folded to us in the small blind and we decide to mix things up and limp with A-8 of hearts.gus raises it another 72k, and we make the.

But 'Every Hand Revealed' lives up to its name: Gus Hansen's secret is revealed. As many poker authors have cautioned their readers, the hands actually.shown. on television are entirely atypical. The producers edited out all the mundane hands where nothing much happened and no one attempted any wild bluffs.

Every Hand Revealed
by Gus Hansen

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 pretty much every significant hand he played. And there are quite a lot of them, which makes sense if you are familiar with Gus’s style.

If you’re wondering how he was able to keep track of every hand he played, Gus says he left the table frequently and spoke notes into a handheld recorder. I myself can’t imagine doing such a thing, because I feel like it would impact my understanding of the game flow too much, not to mention that you might miss a few hands here and there. I’d be curious how extensive his note taking was, and how far away from the table he felt comfortable walking before talking into the recorder.

The book is a good one, and I recommend it. I recommend it not for learning any great secrets or strategy, although Gus’s play seemed pretty solid for the most part to me, but for a decent depiction of the ebb and flow of a long high-stakes tournament from the eventual winner. If Gus is to be believed about how he kept track of these hands, he’s probably the only man alive recording such long stints of play with such detail. The fact that he won this tournament while taking these notes allows us a unique perspective. Whether you think Gus is a genius or a lucky maniac, or something in-between, it’s still neat to be able to see all his hands and his thought processes. Whether or not you agree with his thought processes, it’s still damn interesting.

Honesty
Gus seems pretty honest about his decision-making process, which is another reason it’s an interesting journey. He’ll go into a long complex mathematical analysis that shows why he decided a certain action, but then admit that there’s no way to take all of those factors into account while at the table, and that his action was more dependent on his feeling that it was probably the right move. Experienced poker players must frequently rely on their unconscious analysis of the math of a situation, and Gus seems refreshingly okay with admitting that this is often the case with him.

He also is not afraid to point out when he played a hand horribly. In a few hands, he runs through extensive logic that points to a play that is vastly superior, and then says that he made the opposite play. Say what you will about Gus (and people do), but you’ve got to admire the fact that he doesn’t pretend to know everything. I like him.

Strategy
As far as his strategy, I found myself agreeing with his actions to a surprising degree. I would read his description of the situation, and then think of what I would do, and then read his actions, and I was kind of pleasantly surprised to find much overlap in reasoning. Not that I think Gus is a poker genius (I’ve heard many criticisms of his game), but I’m sure he’s much better than me, so it gave me a warm feeling inside to know that we might be thinking at least a little bit alike.

The most important thing I probably took from the book was his aggressive use of the all-in. He describes quite a few times where he thought an all-in was a superior play in situations where I think most good players would have made a standard raise. These were usually in spots against average or low stacks. While a lot of people are rightfully aggressive with short stacks, Gus gave some really good logical breakdowns of situations in which making a seemingly huge overbet of the pot can be correct, if there is a high likelihood that the player will not call and if the money in the pot is already significant.

I’m pretty aggressive, but I probably don’t take enough advantage of making overbets when I’m in a chip-lead situation. It’s something I’ll think more about, and it’s the best take-away I got from the book.

There were a couple funny things in the book. Gus was talking about continuation bets as if they had just been invented. He made it sound like he was employing a new strategy that was just catching on, whereas I thought this was a standard strategy in any form of poker since the dawn of time, even if it hadn’t always had a name. I mean, I was making continuation bets when I was playing nickel-dime-quarter when I was 15 years old. Considering that this book was written in 2007 (I had to double-check the date), I found all of that strange.

Also, Gus made it sound like he was the only one who understood the idea that when there are antes in addition to the blinds, you should play looser and more aggressive. I’d be very surprised if his opponents didn’t know this, but reading Gus’s account you get the impression that everyone else were playing like total nits, which maybe they were.

Two things will stand out to you about Gus’s account of this tournament:

1) His opponents were very passive.

2) His opponents did not seem to have very many hands.

Gus all but admits that these were the two factors that he could thank for his win. It was really surprising reading about how aggressive Gus was playing, and seeing how infrequently people would play back at him. There were so many times players just seemed to hand the pot to Gus, and so many times Gus raised pre-flop or bet on the flop and everyone folded.

Gus Hansen Every Hand Revealed

There just weren’t many times there were people willing to take a stand against Gus, and I don’t know if that’s because of bad cards or bad play. In fact, there isn’t much you learn about anything besides Gus’s descriptions of specific hands. This points to what is perhaps a downside of the book:

1) Gus doesn’t talk much about the actions and hands surrounding the hands that he plays.

2) Gus talks about getting reads on player’s demeanors, but doesn’t describe what he notices to arrive at those reads.

When I play a tournament, many of my choices are based on what I’ve seen happen recently. I notice someone’s play change gears because of something that happened; someone gets looser and steamier after losing a big pot, or else tightens down considerably after losing a big pot, depending on their personality. I watch for interactions between specific players. I notice how other players’ perceptions of me shift based on circumstances I can’t control and on my own attempts to influence their perception. To me, a poker game is an ever-changing ebb and flow of perceptions and personalities.

You won’t find any of these types of game flow descriptions in Gus’s book. His hand descriptions are very cut-and-dried, and there isn’t much differentiation between his opponents or descriptions of their playing style, let alone their shifts in playing style.

I don’t know why this is; I find it hard to believe that Gus doesn’t have such thought processes. It’s possible the book would have been unmanageably complex if he tried to fit all of his observations in the book in addition to all the hands. (It’s already a pretty long book.) It’s also possible that his keeping extensive notes on his hands prevented him from keeping detailed track of the players he was playing with.

It’s the same with Gus’s reads of opponents. He frequently mentions how someone looked weak, or someone looked like they wanted action, but he doesn’t elaborate on what communicated that to him. That was kind of frustrating to me.

Again, I don’t know why he wouldn’t include that information, because I believe that he has reasons for his reads; I give him enough credit to assume he’s not acting purely on a feeling. It’s possible he doesn’t want to give away how he reads people. Then again, maybe it just wasn’t the focus of the book and would have made it too sprawling.

Anyway, these aren’t big complaints of mine. Just nit-picking on an otherwise interesting and informative book. As a record of a man’s journey from the start of a tournament all the way to winner, it succeeds greatly. And I think you’ll end up liking Gus, if you didn’t already.

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, npc@lvrevealed.com

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.

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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.

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.

Capsule:

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.