1 – Could you introduce yourself please? 请价绍一下你自己? 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. 我叫Olivier Busquet,我27岁,来自纽约，我的工作是专业扑克玩家。
2 – Could you talk about your own story in poker? When did you heard about it and started to play? 能谈谈你自己在扑克上的故事吗？你是什么时候听到这样并开始玩的？ 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. 大约三年前，我还只有跟朋友偶尔玩玩牌。一个朋友邀请我参加朋友间的比赛。我玩了，玩得不好但我喜欢它了。 然后，跟我一起工作的人告诉我可以在互联网上玩。所以，我弄了个账号并且放了点钱进去，从一百美元开始玩些1-2$小赌注的现金游戏。我在BR上损失几次。我是在纽约的一个小贸易公司工作，是华尔街的工作，和我父母住在一起。 I have always loved games, competition, and strategy. Poker was a natural fit for my personality I’m not a gambler-type, I don’t like casinos and I don’t get a thrill from taking risks for their own sake. Many high stakes players make huge bets on all types of different and in my opinion dumb things; I am nothing like that. 我总是喜欢游戏、竞争和策略。扑克正好符合我的个性。我不是个赌徒型，我不喜欢赌场，我不会从为了自己的好处从风险中获得快感。很多高赌金的玩家下很多不同的大赌注，在我看来是愚蠢的事；我没有这样。 So I started to read a little about poker and play more, improved. I remember the first day I moved up to 2-4, i got destroyed. Thought it was a totally different game and that I was just bad, which I was at the time of course, but the money difference was huge for me. I remember I finally flopped a set, and my opponent had a higher set, and I was so sad. 所以我开始读一些关于扑克的东西并玩得更多，更好。我民得第一天我升到2-4，我被摧毁了。认为这是一个完全不同的游戏而我却是最差的，当是就这是这样，但钱的差别对我来说很大。我记得最后翻牌内三条，而我对手有更高的内三条，我很伤心。 不久后，我再次存钱。 I started to read more, but just books eventually, I got sick and tired and there was no 3-6$ 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. 我开始读得更多，但只是书本。我感到厌倦并没有3-6$而直接到5-10。如果我玩1K，我多次在这无大脑策略中破产了。我不知道资金管理或游戏选择或任何东西。 I wasn’t a winner in the 2-4 game, but eventually at 5-10, I would make runs, and then lose, but I was improving a lot. I was still very bad though. 我在2-4游戏中我不是赢家，最后在5-10，我要运行，但还是输了，但我改善了很多，还是非常糟糕。 Eventually I met a guy named Dustin Dirksen, who was new to ftp and making a lot of money quickly. We became friends AND he told me about a site called “Twoplustwo”.I started reading from highs takes cash section of twoplustwo.At this time, I had a different job at a hedge fund in Connecticut. I ran good as I improved, and I went on a big run at 5-10. Then moved to 10-20$, 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. 最后我遇到一个叫Dustin Dirksen 的家伙，他在FTP是新的，但很快赚了很多钱。我们成为朋友并且他告诉我有个站点叫做“2+2”。我开始阅读2+2中的高赌注现金部分。这时，我在康涅狄州一家对冲基金工作。我玩得挺好在5-10，然而到10-20，赚更多，又到25-50，并且在5-6个星期赚得10万。然后我到50-100我被摧毁了。我同我能找到的每位顶级玩家玩，并且在3-4天内损失10万。我彻底玩蛋了。 Well for a long time, I didn’t have any money, and would deposit 2k or 3k and play 5-10, and would lose it almost every time. So I was totally broke, I had zero money, but I had a job and I lived at home. 之后一长段时间，我没有钱，我又存二千或三千并玩5-10，并每次输了。因此我完全破产了，我没钱了，但我有工作，我住在家里。 Eventually one of the guys (krisqueen) I played with at 25-50, decided to stake me, i wrote him a long email and he agreed to give me a chance, so he staked me 5k. 最后其中我玩的一个家伙（Krisqueen)玩25-50，决定赌注我，我写给他一长的邮件他同意给我一个机会，最后给了我5千赌金。 I lost most of the stake, and decided to try my luck at another site. I moved the rest of the money, maybe 2k to Pokerstars. 我输了大部分的赌金，我决定在另外的站点试试运气。我将余下的资大概2千到扑克之星。我开始玩3-6，每一局后直接到5-10，在扑克之星，我继续不好。我的赌注是很大的问题，所以我付了Krisqueen很多钱，便我用我欠的跟他玩，并有我自己的BR。 我到10-20并输了，然后将剩余的资金移到FTP（大概三万） During this time, I would play HU SnG’s from time to time. I was ok not but good, and would lose overal 这此期间，我会有时玩HU SNG，我确定不是很好，会失去所有。l.
3 – At which buy-ins did you started playing HU SnG’s? 你玩HU SNG从什么买入开始的。 100$ I think. Well, it depended how much money i had, because when I went back to FTP, I played pretty high stakes, and went on a big run again. 我想是100美元。这取决于我有多少钱。因为我回到FTP。我打得相当高，并继续大的。 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. 然后我工作被开除了，因为我在工作时玩牌...，他们抓到我了。他们甚至警告过我，但我不在乎，我不喜欢工作。我迷恋扑克。 我一直想着扑克，也没有常看我的朋友。我没有女朋友。我要阅读扑克书并拿95%的时间玩。我要每天坐火车回家，而我坐在电脑前直到我的眼睛睁不开。有时通宵玩，不睡觉就去工作。有时在工作中假装生病。 这样的迷恋...不是个好方法。 My parents were worried, after I got fired, I wanted to play poker fulltime, but I didn’t have a big bankroll. I was confident I would win. I also started playing tournaments 在我被开除后我父母很担心，我想全职玩扑克。但我没有大的资金。我相信我会赢，我还开始打锦标赛并玩得挺好。 I was still a losing HU SnG’s player, and only playing when i was tilting or bored. 我还是在HU SNG的输家，并且只在我倾斜和烦的时候玩。 I got into a fight with my father because he had the cable company block the channel that played poker. So I couldn’t watch the WPT every week… 我还跟我父亲吵，因为他让有线电视公司切断了玩扑克的频道，这样我不以每个星期看WPT... So I decided to move out, and got my own place Manhattan. Then my expenses got bigger, and I played in bigger games… and got crushed. I lost most of my money. 所以我决定搬出去，并且在曼哈顿找了个地方。然后我的花费变大了，而我玩更大的游戏... 我惨败，我失去了大部分的钱。 I was pretty good, but not great, and would tilt and lose a lot. Eventually a good friend (wuddacooler) staked me and i made money right away and paid him back. I had some money but literally tilted and lost it all right away. 我非常好，但不伟大，我会倾斜并输很多。最后一个好朋友(wuddacooler)下注我，我赚了钱并且还给他。我有些钱，但学是失去了这一切。 然后我完全偶然的遇到一个家伙，以前从来没跟他谈过，我告诉他我的故事，他说他会投资我。他甚至没有很多钱，很奇怪。这是我在扑克中遇到的最偶然也是最大方的事。他实际上给了我到一个有5千的帐号。 So the first day, I won a 24 dollar tournament on his stake for 5k. Paid him back the same day and had 5k of my own. I decided to take HU SnG’s seriously…why? 所以第一天，我在他的5K中赢得24美元赛事。在同一天还给了他并有我自己的5千。我决定认真对待HU SNG，为什么？ Because on day, I was in a tournament and talking trash to someone. And someone told me I was down 4k, and that I was bad. But I didn’t have any clue what they were talking about. He said “sharkscope”. And I looked on the website sharkscope for the first time. I was determined to improve my results, driven by my ego mostly. 因为这一天，我在锦标赛中和人瞎聊。有人告诉我我下了4k，这样我是不好的。但我没有任何关注它他说的什么。它说“sharkscope"这样我第一次看到sharkscope。我觉决要提升我的结果，主要由本能驱动的。 So i started playing 100 dollar non turbo HU SnG’s, and taking them very seriously, playing 20-30 a day, and following on sharkscope like a hawk. 所以我开始玩100美元的非快速的HU SNG，并认真的玩了20-30我想鹰一样的盯着sharkscope. I was good right away, after I dedicated myself to them. I played super aggressively and people were weak, especially at nonturbos. In turbos you had some maniacs but nonturbos mostly nits. So my style worked well, I just grinded like this for months. I always had confidence in myself because of sharkscope. No matter what i had a record of my results and I could analyze them and break them down. 我马上很不错了，之后我决注于它他。我玩得相当积极而人们很弱，特别在非快速中。在快速中，你会有一些疯子，而非快速中都是些傻瓜。所以我的风格相当好，我靠这样磨了几个月。因为sharkscope我叫是有自信。不管我有什么样的结果记录我能分析他们并打败他们。 我知道在某些天象星期五就特别差。我会在星期四晚上去去多一点。我在星期五醒未醉未醒的感觉无价值，我会玩得差。我开始知道所有这些事，并特别注意。当我会倾斜这就更昴贵了。
4 - Do you think the mental side of poker is an important factor? 你让为扑克智力方面是重要因素吗？ Its the most important aspect of being a HU SnG pro. Not of playing one game, or a series of 10 games, but grinding day in and day out.1k games a month on average, dealing with the variance, playing your best as much as possible improving your game, adapting to other peoples styles, keeping confidence, staying motivated. So much mental, and I wasn’t a natural. I have had huge emotional roller coasters; I have lost confidence totally many times… but always came back. 对于HUSNG专家来说这是很重要的。 I played a guy named bmwnick1 who played a very different style from me, and seemed much more in control. I had trouble beating 550s and moving up. After playing nick, I thought about what he did differently. And he limped a lot, played small pots in position. So, I did a test! I decided to limp every single hand I had, for about 1k games. And I did well, not great, but well. It changed my outlook a lot: There were certain players who when you limp at 15-30 for example, will raise QT offsuit. If you have say KJo and call, flop is A72, they bet out, you fold and they win. If you had risen originally with KJ, they call with Q10, same flop, they check, you bet, they fold, you win. I knew aggression was important, but most players just check q10o when you limp. It was a certain group of players that didn’t and gave me problems. I had to know my opponent, and adjust to how they played. My style became that of a chameleon, always adjusting. Being able to be a maniac against a nit, but a trapper against a maniac. I try not to have one style, I try to play according to my opponent. I know basic principles and can apply them. Position is important, aggression too; hand ranges are essential etc… Those are fundamental building blocks, but the difference between good players and great players at HU SnG’s, is that great players can play many different styles depending on who they play. That is one difference between “sifosis” and “skilled_sox” for example. Sox is aggressive all the time, sifosis is generally conservative, but can play very differently depending on who he is playing. 这些基础，但在好的玩家和强的玩家还有不同，就是强的玩家能跟据他所玩的类型用不同的风格。举例来说，就是"sifosis"和"skilled_sox"的区别，sox总是很凶，sifosis一般都挺保守，但能够根据它所玩的对象非常的不同。 So, I played a lot of tournaments and HU SnG, and did well, and grinded and moved up to 1100$. Well, there are really two issues when you move up: There’s the external issue of your opponents: do they get better as you move up? Generally yes but not necessarily. 有一些外部的因素：当你往上时他们更好了吗？一般来说是的，但不一定。 Then there is the internal issue: can u handle the swings? Does the money matter too much? Do you play the same? Do u play better or worse? 然后是内部因素：能否处理波动？钱是不是够多？玩得是否一样？你玩得更好还是更差。 5 - Is there a huge gap between the $1100 and the $2200 SnG’s? Because at that point, every players are great, isn’t it? Yes, difference can be small but still exist. 是的，差别很小但存在。 6 - Is that a technical or mental difference? both
7 - About your sharkscope graph : for about 10,000 games you’re winning consistently, then until 19,000 you start to win a lot faster, and then change again at the time of the 2+2 challenge. Could you explain that to me please? Yes, 2 reasons: I moved up in stakes, and I changed my style (the bmwnick part of the story…).
8 - What was your style before that? Super aggressive, running over everyone, potting it, raising every hands shoving every pairs, etc… 超凶，每手牌加注，每个对子全押。
9 - Was it a winning style on those $110 SnG’s? Yes and 220$. For the last part of my graph, I’m not sure why I’ve had so much trouble winning on ftp the last 4 months. A lot of it is variance in 5ks.
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.
13 - Why to play against each other? Because of ego? To keep practicing on a high level? Some ego, some because there is so little competition on ftp in 5ks…
14 - Who are regulars in $5k? getmoneyobv, plzstoplookin, bmwnick1, fl39, knickadam55.Nordberg is pretty good too.There are a couple players I don’t know at all, but have done well. They never sit first and game select hardcore: nina_wiggle, purecash25 is another, greatdanbino is good.
15 - What’s the percentage of the gambling players? Players like that are pretty rare, maybe 10-20%. But that doesn’t leave the rest to be regulars, I play a lot of tournament and cash game players, who are good at poker, but aren’t necessarily great at HU, or aren’t necessarily great at HU tournaments. HU SnG’s and HU cash can be pretty different, especially as the blinds move up. HU cash game players for example, tend to play out of position much less because position tends to make more of a difference as the hand develops. So when stacks are deeper they matter more. so high stakes HU cash players have a huge aversion to play oop consequently, they fold their blind a lot, but for them they are not used to that mattering, because they are used to just reloading when they get below a level. And if they lose a bunch of small pots they don’t care when they win the big one. But in a HU SnG, if you fold too much you can’t reload and you get shortstacked, and are at a huge disadvantage. I am more willing, to play a hand oop, sometimes that hurts me. Also in cash games,3 betting with a garbage hand doesn’t make sense if you have 29o and someone makes it 150, and you make it 500 with 29o.In a HU SnG, with even stacks not many people will call. Some will and you have to know that, but most will fold or shove. So if they fold or shove, your hand doesn’t matter. You are either calling or folding, so having a hand like [910s] doesn’t help you if you’re folding to a shove. In a cash game its totally different, your rarely in a fold/shove spot, so players waste hands like that by 3 betting and folding.
16 - Which is the blind level you find out that others start to play badly? On FTP, I think 30-60, they start to shove too wide preflop. With like 15bbs, they shove suited connectors and weak aces. They usually don’t have a strong grasp of hand ranges. That is one big difference between ImtheFranchise and most cash game players. He is very good as the blinds get bigger, has a seemingly intuitive understanding of hand ranges. And at FTP the blind levels change rapidly. And there are more of them so small adjustments to hand ranges is important. On pokerstars it’s different, which creates a very different dynamic On pokerstars, certain players play the 25-50 level HORRIBLE: they start to shove all the time, at 25-50 its so bad. Also at 50-100 on pokestars, there are people, even good players, who shove like 90% of hands, its not that its horrible, but its exploitable and beatable, and unnecessary in my opinion.
17 - How can you get so accurate at reading others? Is it only because of your own experience or because of some mathematics? No, it’s more experience and feel based.
18 - Do you play along with a tracker? No, I use no stats or software or tracker or anything. The only thing i use besides the poker sites is sharkscope. But the reality is I have always been very good at math especially arithmetic. Very quick with numbers, so a lot of it comes naturally. But also when people use math in poker, assumptions are huge, so people pretend to know what they are doing or that they’re play is math obligated. But it’s based on assumptions they make that could be wrong or just adjusted to have a different outcome. The fact is that poker is and will always be a people game. You cannot simply apply math because people are unpredictable and can act irrationally and it happens all the time.
19 - What about the amount to bet in HU? Is that really important for you? Very, but its hard to breakdown precisely how. Well that also depends on your opponent. Half pot, 3/4 pot, and full pot give off different impressions, people perceive them differently. ImTheFranchise has a good strategy, because he usually bets the same percentage of the pot, so it’s hard to read. But there are many different approaches: some people bet pot with big hands, some people bet pot with bluffs, good players obviously mix it up. In general though, since in poker especially HU you don’t normally have a strong hand, I think being able to get away with making smaller bets is better. Because you risk less to win more. Also your style is important; if you play many pots your average strength hand will be worse. So you should be betting smaller. If you play fewer pots your hand on average will be stronger, so you should be betting larger to build bigger pots with better hands.
20 - You said you would change your strategy according to your opponent. But how do you do when you don’t know him at all? If I’ve never played someone, I usually start off slowly, limp a lot, raise good hands play straight forward. I try to get a sense of how he/she plays. I will throw in a 3 bet to see if he calls how fast he calls, etc… In limped pots I try to represent different hands, and try to value bet as thinly as possible I try to create an image and exploit it, depending on the actual hands I get and the plays I make. I can either have a conservative or aggressive image, and I try to exploit that. I’m also aware that many people know me without me knowing them and they assume I am capable of making big bluffs. Having a reputation it’s good for me; it makes better players avoid me and creates game selection by itself.
21 - Have you ever played with guys like “genius28″, “stevebet” or “dariominieri”? Yes of course. Genius only a few times, he is of course good but by no means unbeatable. Dario is overrated and didn’t impress me. I’d rather not share too much about specific players that I continue to play but dario and steve are beatable, and I will play them.
22 - Do you play some HU cash games? Not really, I still tilt, and I don’t love playing poker as much. I make a lot of money doing what I do, and I’ trying to balance my life with less poker and more fulfilling things
23 - How many games within a day?
Usually one table sometimes more. I play about 50 hours a week.
24 - How can you play high stakes games 50hrs/week without tilting? I do tilt
25 - But looking to your sharkscope graph, it looks like you keep control of your downswings, just like a machine? I am much disciplined, but I do tilt, and when I lose I focus a lot to come back.
26 - Do you play with a “stop loss” strategy as Phil Ivey does? No.
27 - And what about game selection? No I don’t game select much… (ndlr: laughs), but I do have friends and I don’t play my friends. Many of my friends are good HU SnG players on FTP and some on PS. getmoneyobv, plzstoplookin, wag dodge, bmwnick1: I don’t play any of them.
28 - What’s a day to livb22? How do you get the balance between poker and social life? That’s a tough question, I have a girlfriend that I love very much, I try to spend as much time with her as I can and I am close with my family and friends. I don’t have a typical day, it depends totally, I play whenever I want, no set schedule.
29 - What are your objectives on the middle term? And long term? Short term I want to be ranked 1 and 2 on sharkscope. For the long term I want to win a big live tournament WSOP or WPT.
30 - Do you think to still be playing on the long term? It depends how profitable it can be, if I can continue to make a lot of money than I want to play for a while. I would really like to be sponsored by a site to play, because I pay so many rake. A sponsorship would make me a lot of money.
31 - Do you play some 6-max cash games or others, for fun? Sometimes.
32 - Do you think about playing live cash games? Yes.
33 - So can you tell me what your bigger downswing is? And upswing? Downswing, maybe losing 100k in 4 days. Upswing, I’m not sure, prolly on stars recently.
34 - What do you usually do with your money? I drive an expensive car (Maserati), I live in a penthouse apartment, buy cloths, and go out to nice restaurants but I also invest my money.
35 - The game dramatically changed in cash games since 2004, is that the same for SnG? Yes people have definitely improved but less so than cash games. I think part of the reason is there is less information, there aren’t instructional videos, and also it is HU, so HU tougher to learn. So much opponents and context specific things. So many variables.
36 - What would you like to say to beginners? I would say, learn lessons like bankroll management and game selection as early as possible. Try to read as much as you can from smart articulated players, and then just play a lot. Try to be decision oriented, not results oriented and be self-aware. It’s important to be self-aware; many people overestimate their abilities as poker players. Know yourself, How good you are, it’s just poker, just a game. If someone is better than you or if you can’t become very good it’s not the end of the world, it’s a stupid card game. No more no less. It doesn’t make you a bad or good person
37 - Thank you very for taking the time to answer my questions No problem. |
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