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Gus Hansen Strategy
Gus Hansen, one of the best pokerplayers, cames with this good and simple strategy to decide which hands you have/haven't to play and in wich position.
It's a basic strategy for advanced players who wants to learn loose agressive. It's not recommended for the beginning poker player (since there must be a certain feeling of the pokergame)!!
Gus gives every card a certain value and decides on the total value of the hand he has (two card thus the sum of the two values), what you have to do in wich position.
He gives the next values on the cards below:
Ace - 14 points
King - 13 points
Queen - 12 points
Jack - 11 points
Ten - 10 points
Nine - 9 poiints
Early Position
Gus says in early position you only play hands with a minimal value of 25 points.
ex. Ace-King (14+13=27) or King-Queen (13+12=25) and NOT King-Jack (13+11=24). Also, you have to play the higher pairs from Ace-Ace to 9-9.
Middle Position
Gus says in middle position you may play hands with a minimal value of 21 points.
ex. Jack-Ten (11+10=21) or Ace-Nine (14+9=23). In the case the cards are suited/connectors you may add 1 or 2 points.
Late Position
Principal in late position is every hand playable if there is no raise in the pot you played. Suited/connectors can be pretty profitable in late position in the case you played them correctly off.
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Originally Posted by mondexxx
Gus Hansen, one of the best pokerplayers, cames with this good and simple strategy to decide which hands you have/haven't to play and in wich position.
It's a basic strategy for advanced players who wants to learn loose agressive. It's not recommended for the beginning poker player (since there must be a certain feeling of the pokergame)!!
Gus gives every card a certain value and decides on the total value of the hand he has (two card thus the sum of the two values), what you have to do in wich position.
He gives the next values on the cards below:
Ace - 14 points
King - 13 points
Queen - 12 points
Jack - 11 points
Ten - 10 points
Nine - 9 poiints
Early Position
Gus says in early position you only play hands with a minimal value of 25 points.
ex. Ace-King (14+13=27) or King-Queen (13+12=25) and NOT King-Jack (13+11=24). Also, you have to play the higher pairs from Ace-Ace to 9-9.
Middle Position
Gus says in middle position you may play hands with a minimal value of 21 points.
ex. Jack-Ten (11+10=21) or Ace-Nine (14+9=23). In the case the cards are suited/connectors you may add 1 or 2 points.
Late Position
Principal in late position is every hand playable if there is no raise in the pot you played. Suited/connectors can be pretty profitable in late position in the case you played them correctly off.
So far the Gus Hansen strategy
What you guys think of this strategy?
imo.. alot of pish.. i use 1 technique... my brain..
jordanbillie hasn't registered for Wass Gold yet - have you?
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Personally I don't like it. You don't want to become predictable at the table, and following a point strategy is doing just that. Lets say you are playing a 1/2 game and there are very little preflop raises. You may want to limp with mid suited connectors from EP once in a while because you know you probably can see the flop for 2.
I never really like set it stone strategies, we all know poker is a game of circumstances.
arjonius hasn't registered for Wass Gold yet - have you?
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While I agree this is rather simplistic, there's no shortage of players out there who would probably benefit from adopting a more straightforward style simply because it would be hard to find a worse strategy than the way they play.
SWScuracao hasn't registered for Wass Gold yet - have you?
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its not a bad stategy.. but forexample, i like playing 9/10 8/10 in early position, poker is a game of feeling your cards, and playing your own game. Its never good to play a straight forward stategy- you can get cracked easy that way.
greywind50 hasn't registered for Wass Gold yet - have you?
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Using someone else's strategy is diffcult. You get the starting hands but not when or how to bet them. Poker's strength is that every hand is situational. How your starting hand matches to the flop and if/what your opps are betting, what's the stack sizes, what are the blinds etc etc... Only Gus Hansen would know how to play his strategy.
Last edited by greywind50 : 06-14-2010 at 03:41 PM.
decker hasn't registered for Wass Gold yet - have you?
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I think it's a good system for newbies. I give Gus credit for coming up with it, it's easy and simple and still leaves a lot of discretion to the player...for example, playing suited connectors in late position. It really emphasizes the importance of position.
Blaze4Daze hasn't registered for Wass Gold yet - have you?
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its a decent technique, but much to cliche for me. I think there is alot more intricate thinking that you need to put into deciding which hands to play then that.
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