LivB112 Interview - Poker News - News, Views and Gossip

1 – Could you introduce yourself please?

My Name is Olivier Busquet, i’m 27 year old male, from NYC, my job is pro poker player. I read a lot work out, play sports, go out to restaurants, clubs, interested in politics, art, science, philosophy. I love tennis and basketball, and I used to run track and to play a lot of chess.

2 – Could you talk about your own story in poker? When did you heard about it and started to play?

About 3 years ago, I had never really played poker with friends or casually or anything, a friend invited me to play in a game among friends. I played; I was not good but liked it.
Then, someone I worked with told me I could play on the internet. So, I got an account and put some money in, couple hundred dollars and started to play cash game at smallish stakes 1-2$.I lost my BR a few times. I was working at the time at a small trading firm in NYC, Wall Street job, living at home with my parents.

I have always loved games, competition, and strategy. Poker was a natural fit for my personality I’m not a gambler-type, I don’t like casinos and I don’t get a thrill from taking risks for their own sake. Many high stakes players make huge bets on all types of different and in my opinion dumb things; I am nothing like that.

So I started to read a little about poker and play more, improved. I remember the first day I moved up to 2-4, i got destroyed. Thought it was a totally different game and that I was just bad, which I was at the time of course, but the money difference was huge for me. I remember I finally flopped a set, and my opponent had a higher set, and I was so sad.I went broke soon thereafter, and redeposit.

I started to read more, but just books eventually, I got sick and tired and there was no 3-6$ so I went str8 to 5-10. If I ever had 1k, I would sit 5-10.I went broke many times with this brainless strategy. I knew nothing about bankroll management or game selection or anything.

I wasn’t a winner in the 2-4 game, but eventually at 5-10, I would make runs, and then lose, but I was improving a lot. I was still very bad though.

Eventually I met a guy named Dustin Dirksen, who was new to ftp and making a lot of money quickly. We became friends AND he told me about a site called “Twoplustwo”.I started reading from highs takes cash section of twoplustwo.At this time, I had a different job at a hedge fund in Connecticut. I ran good as I improved, and I went on a big run at 5-10. Then moved to 10-20$, made more, 25-50$ made some more, and had 100k in about 5-6 weeks. Then I moved to 50-100$ and got destroyed and tilted. I played every top player I could find, and lost my 100k in about 3-4 days. I was totally devastated....

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10-01-2008 , 02:13 PM

imhungry

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hello, i'm the webmaster of this website.

i'm very angry against one modérator on 2+2, who banned me Because I intended to post a link towards the interview.

I have never seen an exclusion for a future crime. it's first time on the internet forum.

And now the complete interview is here on this post, i'm angry.

can you (or moderator please) just erase 3/4 of the interview here, you can just post the beginning.

(sorry for my english )

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10-01-2008 , 02:19 PM

The4thFilm

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you can't post blog links since it's obv spam

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10-01-2008 , 02:25 PM

Transa

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Great interview. Anyone know who ImTheFrancise is?

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10-01-2008 , 02:28 PM

imhungry

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Originally Posted by The4thFilm

you can't post blog links since it's obv spam

i'm ok if salesbeast post an extract or the best of, no problem for me, but not the whole interview ,especially after one dumb moderator ban me like the movie minority report.

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10-01-2008 , 02:39 PM

Bevo54

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Great read..thanks for the post Salesbeast.

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10-01-2008 , 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by imhungry

i'm ok if salesbeast post an extract or the best of, no problem for me, but not the whole interview ,especially after one dumb moderator ban me like the movie minority report.

I went to your site to read it from the first post.

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10-01-2008 , 02:44 PM

HIV

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pretty interesting

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10-01-2008 , 02:49 PM

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Wow that was a great interview. Tons of good advice or things to learn from.

I also liked the part where he says he started playing HU SNGs because someone made fun of his sharkscope score, and now he is #1 on the leader board. sick

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10-01-2008 , 02:52 PM

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Good read. Thanks salesbeast.

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10-01-2008 , 02:55 PM

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damn he lost a lot before winning

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10-01-2008 , 03:00 PM

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Livb has been given a lotta crap on these boards but has always been nothing but a mature person when we played 220 $ HU sngs vs me in early 07. Its kind of funny to think about how we agreed to not sit each other and now he plays 5k HU sngs and i 10-12 table 6 man sngs. Im happy to see liv being shown in a different light then when people usually talk negative about him

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10-01-2008 , 03:13 PM

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great read

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10-01-2008 , 03:26 PM

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the simple fact that his interview contains the quote "nordberg is very good" speaks volumes

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10-01-2008 , 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by snorer

the simple fact that his interview contains the quote "nordberg is very good" speaks volumes

care to elaborate?

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10-01-2008 , 05:20 PM

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Agreed, awesome interview and i hope he ended up breaking that dudes bankroll - pisses me off when people tap the tank and its kinda lol to think how many players have probably become good solid winners because of it, and in this case becoming much better than the guy who was mocking him

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10-01-2008 , 05:29 PM

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I enjoyed it very much.

He seems very honest and grounded. And he's always been very nice to me irl.

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10-01-2008 , 06:13 PM

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I’m not a gambler-type

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Then I got fired from my job, because I was playing poker at work… and they caught me. They even warned me, and I didn’t care, I hated my job. And I was obsessed with poker.
I thought about poker constantly, I didn’t see my friends much, I didn’t have a girlfriend. I would read about poker or play 95% of my free time. I would run home from the train every day, and sit at my computer until I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Sometimes play all night, not sleep and go to work. Sometimes call in at work and pretend to be sick.
I was obsessed… and not in a good way.

OK dude.

Good interview though.

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10-01-2008 , 06:19 PM

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good iview and his sharkscope is damn impressive~

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10-01-2008 , 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TylerD

OK dude.

Good interview though.

maybe he was referring to his poker style and not his lifestyle

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10-01-2008 , 07:58 PM

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lawl at his d********ing the travel channel so he couldn't watch the WPT.

good read.

edit: why does the filter catch "d a d b l o c k ing"

anyway - lawl at his father blocking the travel channel so he couldn't watch the WPT

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10-01-2008 , 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by TylerD

OK dude.

Good interview though.

LOL, I thought the same thing. Cool interview.

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10-01-2008 , 08:19 PM

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what is the "stop loss" strategy mentioned?

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10-01-2008 , 09:24 PM

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its pretty funny how he says you have to be self-aware yet he is completely oblivious to the fact that ITF soulcrushes him every sng they play, and is like 1k/sng v him.

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10-01-2008 , 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ill chop plz

its pretty funny how he says you have to be self-aware yet he is completely oblivious to the fact that ITF soulcrushes him every sng they play, and is like 1k/sng v him.

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10 - I saw you played a lot versus “imthefranchise”…

Yes, I have lost a lot playing him and he is no doubt very good. But the simple fact is that he has run insanely good versus me.

11 - Did he win that war?

He’s definitively beaten me for a lot

12 - Could you tell us how’s his style?

He is very good; he is tricky, aggressive post flop but makes small bets. I think he has a very good sense of hand ranges. Mentally he is also very strong, he rarely tilts. If he starts to lose, he quits right away.

seems like he understands that he's gotten owned by ITF imo.

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