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Gus Hansen Strategy

Loose aggressive strategy à la Gus Hanson

Gus Hansen, one of the best poker players at the moment (check the high stakes poker footage in our video link... It is about someone loosing $300,000 in one hand!!! And guess who wins…), has come up with a very easy basic strategy for advanced players who want to get known with the loose aggressive playing style. Please keep in mind that this is definitely not a strategy for the beginning player! You need to have a certain basic feeling about the game in order to use this strategy successful!!!

Gus gives every card a certain value. The total value of your hand (two cards so the sum of two values) determines which hand you should play in which position.

Gus gives the following values to the cards below:

Ace = 14 points
King = 13 points
Queen = 12 points
Jack = 11 points
Ten = 10 points
Nine = 9 points

Early position

Gus says that you can only play hands with a minimum value of 25 points in early position. For example Ace with a King (14+13=27) or Queen with a King (12+13=25) en thus for example NOT King with a Jack (13+11=24). BESIDES THAT you should also play all big pairs, namely everything from AA till 9-9.

Middle position

Gus says that in middle position you can only play hands with a minimum value of 21 points. For example Jack with a Ten (11+10=21) or Nine with Ace (9+14=23). In case the cards are suited or connectors you can add an additional 1 or 2 points.

Late position

In general every hand is playable in late position as long as there has not been raised yet. Especially suited cards or connectors can be pretty profitable in late position, of course given that you play them in the right way.