The Interview with Olivier “LivB112″ Busquet

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: High Stakes News, Player Profiles, Player to watch, Poker, Poker player
• Date: Oct 3,2008

Olivier Busquet is a 27 year old male from New York City. He says that he likes to read a lot, work out, play sports, go out to restaurants and clubs. He is interested in politics, art, science, philosophy. He also says he loves tennis and basketball and he used to run track and to play chess.

He started playing poker three years ago when a friend invited him to a game among friends. He says he has always loved different games and poker was perfect fit. He started playing online at $1/$2 stakes while still working in a trading firm. He says he didn’t have bankroll management at all and busted up several times.

Then he met a guy named Dustin Dirksen who introduced him to the site called twoplustwo. He began to read the high stakes section at the twoplustwo and his game improved a lot. He had a good run and eventually build a bankroll worth of $100k in just 5-6 weeks! Then he moved to $50/$100 stakes and got destroyed by top players. He lost his whole bankroll in just few days.

Then a guy called krisqueen staked him for $5k and after quite rough start he build he’s new bankroll to $30k. During this time he also started to play heads up sit&go’s, though he first lost more than won. Then he got fired from the job because he played poker during working hours. He says he was totally obsessed by poker and not in a good way.

He eventually got broke and staked again and broke yet again. Then a guy he met randomly, a guy he hasn’t never spoken before, and the guy decided to stake him for $5k. He says it was one of the most random and generous things he has seen in poker. The random guy gave him an access to an account he had with $5k.

Busquet won a $24 tournament for a first prize of $5k in the first day and paid the guy back his $5k and had $5k of his own. Then he heard a site called sharkscope and started to take sit&go’s seriously. He dedicated himself to becoming better in heads up sit&go tournaments. He started to check out his results from sharkscope constantly and his game improved.

Now looking his stats from sharkscope you can see that he have won over $1.2m playing sit&go’s, so it is fair to say that he truly have improved. His nickname at Full Tilt Poker, LivB112, is also in the top of many gategories of the leaderboards at the sharkscope. His other nick is Adonis112 at PokerStars.

If you want to check out the whole interview from Pokerigged.com, you can find it here.

Source: Pokerigged.com