Gus Hansen Says 2008 Poker Book Hurt His Career'Great Dane' Returns To Las Vegas For Tournament |
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Though he plays seldomly these days, Gus Hansen is still one of poker’s legends thanks to his work helping popularize the game in the 2000s. However, he believes that his 2008 poker book entitled “Every Hand Revealed” made it harder for him to win at the tables.
Hansen recently made an appearance at this month’s WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio in Las Vegas. He failed to make the money, which he hasn’t done in a major tournament since 2014. Hansen apparently has been revamping his game, in an era when the average skill level of his competitors has increased significantly.
Hansen’s troubles at the internet poker tables were well-documented during a mind-blowing downswing that saw his online losses pass the $20-million mark. Around $17 million of those losses came between 2012 and 2014. The struggles in cyberspace were mirrored in the brick-and-mortar poker rooms. In an interview with the WPT, Hansen admitted that his poker book had a negative impact on his table image. Every Hand Revealed was a hand-by-hand breakdown of his 2007 Aussie Millions win, which gave readers a look into his thought processes.
“What really changed a lot was after my book came out, it seemed like people just never believed I had a hand, in their mind,” Hansen said.
The three-time WPT champion believes he did a poor job taking into account his image as a loose and aggressive player at the tables. Hansen has also admitted to some tilt issues.
“I don’t think I did a good job of adjusting because as we all know, I like to play a lot of hands," Hansen added. "I made a lot of mistakes along the way not adjusting to the perceived image of me. Now, I haven’t played in a long time so maybe sometimes they believe I have something.”
That image was especially challenging because the weakest players in the field learned, according to Hansen, to “put pressure on you.”
“The good players are better and what’s probably more important is the bad players have gotten better,” he said. “You could find a lot of bad players back in the day."
Hansen told the WPT that he there’s “a chance” he plays more tournaments in 2018, now that he’s “getting into a rhythm” at the tables. “I have to re-discover and re-invent things,” Hansen said.
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