POKER INFO - PROILE - Gus Hansen

I played Gus and tried to bluff with 4 7 os and I KQ I won....afterwards he asked if I would teach him how to play.

it would be a honor to play with you! your so good!

Gus Is Simply Amazing,The best that I have overall personally seen due to his aggressive and intimidating yet cool calm and collected style. Keeping Panic away is key. Hus controls this better than anyone that I've seen in the situations that he should .

Gus Hansen is simply a poker master. He has no fear, never intimidated and he is never rattled. He is reckless and fearless with unbelievable skills. Luck has nothing to do with it, I will admit I have seen him draw out on some hands but in the long run the fact of the matter is, is that Gus Hansen is one of the best if not the best no limit hold em tournament players in the world. I can only hope I can become half as good as him.

sammy the brick go you should stop coming to this website and just go back to playing online poker with fake money. You've never played a real tourney in your life. Get a life. GUS ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

in my opinion gus is the best poker player in the world and i'm so glad that he chose poker instead of backgamon i hope gus continues to play poker he got me into the game and i hope i can get at least half as good as he is

Yeah he can read opponents well, sure he figures odds out quickly, but who gives a fuck he never folds, he's an undisiplined player who can't bring himself to fold when he reads his opponent as stronger than he. THen he hits his flop and wins. When you call all in with the first hand at a tourney with AJ against Chip Reese you're a moron not a master.

Sammy...get a life..you have no clue what you are talking about...but keep posting cause the more you do the more obvious it is you don't understand poker well. You are making a fool of yourself on all the poker remarks and you don't even realize it...I find that pretty amusing. Gus is a master at what he does, the way he plays is not for most people but he is good enough to play the way he does. You are not good enough so Gus's style would not work for you at all.

Gus' style wouldn't work for most people, and i'm no exception, but the fact that I know nothing about poker is your stupid asumption only because i disagree with you that Gus is a master. When you're raised an insane amount of chips and can't laydown 63 offsuit as was the case in the final game of the first round of the poker super stars invitational, that shows me that you are not disiplined enough. He held his cards hoping to get lucky. The pot wasn't offering him the odds, what 2-1 on a possible 8-1 off chance he might hit a monster with that hand? The man is a joke and we all saw what he's made of at the WSOP and the fact that he's broke now and is getting his buy ins from other players is proof that he sucks ass.

Once again..you just did not understand what he was doing....I was going to try to explain but you won't get it...He was setting things up so he could win the OVERALL tourn. I do not think that you don't understand poker because you do not agree with me that Gus is a master but if you do not understand fully the purpose of what he does then you should not give an opinion. If you truely understood why Gus did what he did then formed your opinion maybe I could believe you get poker. And I am guessing you did not hear that Gus is broke from Gus..so if you believe everything you hear then you are sad. You may of heard Gus losing over a million dollars in an evening playing cash games...however take into consideration the 3 million he won the week prior. That is how cash games go...for Gus....it's loose big and win even bigger. That is the way he plays. How can you say someone who has won all that money sucks. I understand people not really liking his style but to say that he or anyone one of these professionals suck is very very wrong.

sammy is right,,,gus needs to learn how to fold hands...he has no concept of the idea of pot odds,,,and even if he did he probably wouldnt follo it.... Needs to start playing good, plus he IS broke at the moment.

He need to get the concept of pot odds? What a ridiculous statement.

gus is class takes a gamble with a rubbish hand and gets people of a good hand hopefully he will do well at the wsop 2005

I think this guy has the best style there is. It's just fun, and in the end he gets money! He's not one of those people who sits there for hours just grinding away, slowly bringing in chips at a steady pace, and that's what is great about him. I'm rooting for him at the wsop 2005. By the way, I'll be there some day.

The fact that he he plays in 4000/8000 games says it all,and he's also won a few wpt titles.Why do people keep saying he's a bad player?!obviously people are just joking...but it does get boring reading it

The man knows his stuff...GUS du har min fulde respekt.!

I already said that Gus is a great reader, and numbers man. I just happen to think that he is too stubborn and can't make the big lay down, that's the sign of a truly great player. The best players occationally lay down even the best hand.

What makes you think your right sammy the brick...maybe what you think is Gus being "stubborn and can't make the big lay down" he is really creating a table image where his opponents know he will call bluffs and in the long run he will get paid off with big pots. How can you criticise him for being stubborn when you only see selected key hands on tv...its not a true reflection of how the table is playing. He wouldn't win big tournements or be playing in big cash games if he couldn't make big lay downs....you clearly dont know much about poker which is probably why you chose to come on this website and abuse posters and pro poker players.

I just saw Gus Hansen at the Shooting Star tournament. Without a doubt, he was the most personable, friendliest player in the room. He always stopped to say hello to fans, and he gave several fans extra poker t-shirts, including taking off his sweatshirt and giving it away when he ran out of extras. I was so impressed with his attitude. I don't consider myself a "fan" of players, but I'm now a fan of his. Best of luck, Gus, and keep being a genuine nice guy.

Sammy are you really that dumb? Let me explain something...when you are watching Gus it is on TV, when you watch something on TV there is what you call editing. When something is edited it means they only show you some parts of it. They will not show the hands that Gus lays down..that would be boring..they are going to air the hands where Gus makes his moves on people. You call him undisiplined because he does not know how to lay down hands, well just because they are not showing it on TV does not mean it does not happen. A big part of poker is playing the player and sometimes people actually make moves on people and that's called "bluffing". Maybe you have heard of it?

bluffing only works when you're betting not when you're calling, Gus isn't an aggresive bettor, he's more of a loose caller, and the fact that his calling with crazy hands is a recurring theme at all tourneys he is shown in. Editing or not you know that Gus is loose, and much too wild.

Respect for Gus Hansen. If you call his play for lucky then you'll never know how to play yourself.Who said poker by the book is the most effective?Har jeg ret eller har jeg ret!

Yeah he is a loose player, but when he calls with these "shitty hands"he is sending a message to the table.Players make a note not to try and bluff him as he is likely to call...also the fact that he is very loose pre flop means it is hard for any one to get a read on him..and then his post flop play is what really sets him apart.I dont understand how you can criticise him "sammy the brick",if he is a calling station then there is no way he'd have the success he does in tourneys and cash games.OK then Sammy the brick how do you account for his success??

I agree Gus is way too lucky...he "sucks" out on the River too many times. I seen him catch his last card to make his hand. He is a joke! I'n getting sick and tired of watching him play.

gus hanson is lucky plain and simple.... plays pure trash hands then gets as lucky as hell on the flop

he probably has x-ray vision which allows him to see the flop before it's put out. that's cheating, using ur superpowers.....

he did double up like 10 times at the bay 101 day 1 when he came an hour late

He has played well against week players, his 3 wPTwins have been against weak players whom he, like Ivey, and Daniel N out play week players on the flop with weak hands, and thats great, the difference is that Dan and Phil can also do that against strong players. THough he won the Super Stars Invitational, he won it with many suck outs in the early goings. Better players like Reese, Greenstein, and Brunson had HORIBLE LUCK in that tourney. As far as cash games, his style does not suit cash games, and he's known as a loser in the top cash games, in the Bellagio game with Brunson, Greenstein, Danny N., Ivey, and Reese, where it's a mixed game, usually HORSE, or SHOE he's a real fish in these games, for 3 reasons. 1. he's a one trick pony, tournament hold em is all he can do well at, he's also a horrible stud hi/lo player, 2. he's playing against top players, not college kids who play online, 3. his style is too wreckless, it works EXTREMELY well at tournaments because you have to build your chip stack quickly to be able to keep up with the blinds that continue to rise. You all tell me about editing on tv, the same can be said about the toruneys on a whole, all we see is what he wins, what we don't see is that he loses more turneys than he wins. Yeah he still wins, but he can't do that in a cash game, where there is no rush to get chips, where solid play is best.

awesome player. looks a bit like my friend mivvy!

sammy the brick. Reading his last post just makes me laugh he's trying to discredit a top pro!!saying he can play well against weak players but not strong ones....well i would love to have the money that Gus has i mean as sammy the brick says he plays in the biggest cash games 4000/8000 and is a big loser but still he plays it regularly for the last 2/3years...it just makes you wonder a)Why he continues to play it? and b)Where the hell does he get the money from to continue playing in it?....Either sammy the prick is full of shit or Gus Hansen is a crap poker player hmmmmm not sure which it is!