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24. 15 Top Poker Tournament Strategies We Learn From Gus Hansen about Middle Stages of Play

After reviewing Gus Hansen's new book "Every Hand Revealed," I have identified 12 top poker tournament strategies from Gus Hansen's book. It's important to note that Gus plays in big stack events with long time periods before blinds increase. Your events may be give you fewer chips and less time in each round.

Overall, you can use these poker tournament strategies to help your own game or to simply beat Gus Hansen when you play against him. These are for the middle stages of play in a no limit tournament.

A. Pre-Flop

1. He likes to limp in early position with small pairs to see the flop cheap.

2. He respects early position pre-flop raises and will call a raise with a hand like A-Q. Example: if he is in an early position, a player raises pre-flop before him, he calls with the A-Q since there are so many players after him to act.

3. He likes to re-raise a late position pre-flop raiser on the button or in the small blind with even an average hand if he thinks that raiser is weak. For example, a hand likes 7-6 offsuit or pocket 7's.

4. He will call with no gap and one gap suited connectors on the button after a late position raiser. For example, a hand like 8-6 suited.

5. He will re-raise pre-flop an early position raiser in a late position with a hand like pocket 9's. He doesn't like the idea of having to catch trips to win.

6. He will move all-in pre-flop with A-K against the smaller stacks.

7. He will also just call a re-raise pre-flop with A-K if he senses his opponent is strong. For example, he raises pre-flop and an opponent re-raises him the minimum. He calls pre-flop but when he misses on the flop he will check and fold.

8. He will re-raise all-in pre-flop with medium pocket pairs when this play will move his opponent all-in.

9. He will open up his game and raise pre-flop with even one gap, suited connectors like 7-5 suited to try to steal the blinds and antes.

10. If he senses weakness from a button pre-flop raise, he will re-raise in the big blind with medium strength hands like Q-10 offsuit.

B. Flop

11. On the flop, he prefers to lead out with a bet from the small blind or big blind if he hits his hand rather than check to the pre-flop raiser. An example is when he calls a raise from the big blind, he is against one opponent on the flop, and he hits 2nd or 3rd pair on the flop. He will bet into his opponent.

C. Overall

12. When it gets close to the bubble, he likes to be more aggressive against players who are just trying to hold on and cash at the event.

13. When antes kick into the game, he will be more aggressive when the ratio of ante to the big blind is 4-1 or less.

14. When antes kick in, he will adjust the size of his pre-flop raises to give less favorable odds to his opponents.

15. Thinking through the odds is crucial for decisions. He is willing to take a chance if he believes he is not more than 60%/40% underdog. Example: He will risk less than 10% of his chip stack by calling an all-in bet of his opponent when holding an A-7.

23. 12 Top Poker Tournament Strategies We Learn From Gus Hansen about Early Stages of Play

Gus Hansen's new book "Every Hand Revealed" is one of my favorites books since he analyzes the hands from his winning the 2007 Aussie Millions Event.

After reviewing the book, I have identified 12 top poker tournament strategies from Gus Hansen's book. It's important to note that Gus plays in big stack events with long time periods before blinds increase. Your events may be give you fewer chips and less time in each round.

Overall, you can use these poker tournament strategies to help your own game or to simply beat Gus Hansen when you play against him.

A. Pre-Flop

1. He likes to limp and see flops. Gus doesn't like to risk all his chips early in an event.

2. He takes early position pre-flop raises seriously and therefore is less likely to re-raise the player. Early position is the first three positions after the big blind.

3. He will call pre-flop raises often in the big blind with speculative hands when the pot odds are 2-1 or better. Speculative hands are drawing hands like 5-4 suited.

4. He is willing to raise pre-flop with K-x suited if he is first in the pot and in late position.

5. He looks to raise pre-flop on the button, cut-off or power positions.

6. He will re-raise pre-flop on the cut-off or the button with a hand as weak as K-7 offsuit if he thinks the raiser is weak; especially if that raiser is seated right next to him in a back position.

B. Flop

7. He doesn't always make a continuation bet on the flop. He will check with awful flops for him; that is, for example a coordinated flop where the flop totally misses his hand.

8. He tries to avoid being outdrawn by putting the other player all-in on the flop or the turn when the pot size dictates it's the best play.

9. He will fold top pair on the flop when he gets bet into on the flop; although he prefers not to fold if he was the pre-flop raiser.

C. Turn

10. He has no issue in folding his hand if someone check raises him on the turn.

D. Overall

11. He doesn't call an all-in bet without the best hand. The exception is when the odds and the relative chip stack situation dictate a call.

12. He does not have FPS, or Fancy Play Syndrome, as he will move all-in when he knows he has the best hand.

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