Olivier Busquet Biography
Though his name sounds of French descent, Olivier Busquet is U.S. American. His hometown is our beloved New York, New York. At only 27 years of age, Busquet’s total lifetime winnings are in the realm of $1.3M. Though he’s had about 17 career cashes, his first career title has everyone talking.
snapshot of his winnings from a year ago
Busquet surprised many as he made an amazing comeback and won the 2009 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open. He entered the final table as the chip leader and left with the first place winnings totalling $925,514. At the final table, he worked and, eventually, dominated fellow poker players: Jeremy Brown (2nd Place), Ivan Mamuzic (3rd Place), Yanick Brodeur (4th Place), Keith Crowder (5th Place) and Kenny Nguyen (6th Place). An interview just after the event showed him almost taken back by his win. He stated that at one point, during the tournament, he was down to $1.8M out of $31M. He was happy to pull the win from “holding a couple lucky cards” and “avoiding some cards”.
In addition to his “live” poker career, he is also well-known in the on-line poker world. Mainly, as screen name “livb112″ on Full Tilt Poker and also screen name “Adonis112″ on PokerStars. As a matter of fact, his poker career began online. In an interview with Poker News Daily, Busquet stated that his interest in poker first piqued in his early 20s after losing his money in his first poker game at a friend’s house. After that, he found he could play online and started on partypoker.com. From there, he moved to Full Tilt. He made a small deposit of $100 playing $1/$2 six-max cash. He played a lot on FTP and researched a lot on TwoPlusTwo.com. From there, his perserverance and research paid off as he gradually moved up in stakes.
Busquet typically fancies the heads-up sit-n-goes when playing online. He’s stated that he likes the competitive aspect. His longest session was back when he was still playing cash games and it lasted about 40 hours! He describes himself as an aggressive, analytical, alert, thoughtful and unpredictable poker player. He aspires to play someday play against the top pros including Full Tilt’s Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
As for his personal life, the day after his win, he moved into a new home with his girlfriend and has made it known that he intends to propose to her in the near future.
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