Gus Hansen is today a poker player but it wasn’t like that most of the time. Actually, Gus Hansen is Danish and he used to play sport when he was a kid like a lot of Danish boy. His sport was the tennis and he was quite good at it. At 15, he was a national champion. But, he wasn’t so interested in sport and when he became adult, he decided to earn money with backgammon and casino games. Unfortunately, he couldn’t live properly with this game and even if he became a world champion at it he started to have an interest in something else: playing poker and try to be a professional poker player.

The player attracted quickly the attention of the other player by his atypical style and through it he became an intimidating player. As he said, he doesn’t play cards, he plays poker players. It is the only player who won 4 World Poker Tour tournaments and he has received an invitation for the famous and prestigious tournament: poker superstar. The tournament invites just the best players of poker and it is very hard to get a seat at this table.

In 2007, he won the Aussie tournament of poker “Aussie Million” where he won the big jackpot of 1 192 919 USD. During the tournament, the player recorded all of his good hands and used them to write a book about how to play poker.

The book is titled Gus Hansen, Every Hand Revealed. Imagine that you can have access to the head of a professional player but in the head of a player who is not scared of anything and who loves playing poker by bluffing, a guy able to irritate his adversaries and push them until the fault and eliminate them. He shares with you his secrets which allow him to win, a little bible of the poker.

It is one of the players the most mysterious of this century and one of the most interesting players. His nickname is “Madman” through his way to play not really usual. He plays an aggressive poker and doesn’t care if he has to lose and sometimes he is just completely mad.

The book teaches you the different methods that Gus is using against his adversaries, how to play a hand even if you have no chance to win with it. He explains also all of his bluffs. He told you also how to win with bad hands and win a lot with them. Also, he analyse the amount of chips of any players and tell you what you have to do to get all of their chips. It is the way to know how a good player is playing and have access to his head by reading.

One of his best citations is: “I am an individual person. I love playing. I love what I do and I love the fact that I don’t have to justify myself in front of anyone. Maybe is selfish but if I have to choose between you and I, I will choose me.”