Gus Hansen Book??

djexacto · Tweet this Post! #1 03-21-2008, 05:08 AM

I pray to the poker gods this hasn't been posted before, but this looks like a wicked book, and i'm going to be on it like Hellmuth on a sponsorship. Using a voice recorder to recount 300 something hands and Gus' unique perspective should make for one good read.

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imperial10 · Tweet this Post! #2 03-21-2008, 06:15 AM

Gus is one of my favorite players. Crazy guy I would love to play with as much b***s as him but never can get myself to just go crazy, I guess. If this book teaches you how to go all in on every hand. I'll buy it.

I think this book probably also teaches you how to pull a pin from a grenade and then hit the grenade like a baseball.

djexacto · Tweet this Post! #3 03-21-2008, 03:44 PM

Well put. I just want to hear the rationale behind some of the garbage he gets away with playing, and his reads on people.

noelsarchs · Tweet this Post! #4 03-21-2008, 03:52 PM

Gus talking into his recorder at the 2007 WSOPE, the tournament that Annette (_15) Obrestrad won.

Captn_All_In · Tweet this Post! #5 03-22-2008, 08:55 PM

As soon as i heard about the voice recorder I thought back to ESPN's coverage! Wow that sounds like it will be a good read!!

EDIT...I just read the link description!! I cannot wait!! Thanks for sharing!

NoFear · Tweet this Post! #6 03-23-2008, 12:53 AM

I like Gus....he played very different, but successful at it.

I look forward to his book.

jojobinks · Tweet this Post! #7 05-08-2008, 10:35 AM

so...anyone read it yet?

i'm nearly done. my thoughts, in a nutshell:
the writing is fairly bad. gus, like any poker player, is no writer. but in this case i think maybe he got hellmuth's editor. mucho use of exclamation points, and some non-standard awkward english.

that said, it's a very interesting, practice-based explication of the tournament as it unfolds. i think n00bs will get tons out of it (although i'm certain they'll tend to misapply much that they learn), and experienced players will too. i learned gus played some extraordinarily soft opponents in melbourne, for instance.

but seriously, i think it's a relatively straightforward description of a laggy player at work, but i also guess his flop aggression as the preflop caller (especially from the blinds/oop) is new and interesting to me.

i've just finished the chapter leading up to the final table, and i really look forward to seeing his account of the shorthnaded play. more than a quarter of the book is devoted to 3 handed down to the win.

tangentially, i also look forward to seeing gobboboy's response at 2+2.

ontheuptick · Tweet this Post! #8 05-08-2008, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by jojobinks

tangentially, i also look forward to seeing gobboboy's response at 2+2.

Please inform the uniformed, who's this?

(also, great work slipping in "tangentially" into a normal discussion. Bravo)

NoFear · Tweet this Post! #9 05-08-2008, 11:59 AM

I am reading it right now, half way. Interesting, you really need to take one hand and analyze it to understand his mind of thinking. For $17 dollar it is not bad investment IMO.