Olivier Busquet

Olivier Busquet
Olivier Busquet (2017)
Personal information
Date of birth	22nd August 1981
place of birth	New York City
Nicknames 0	adonis112PokerStars livb112Full Tilt Poker
place of residence	New York City
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 1,188,996
Total prize money	$ 9,005,013
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	41
Best main event	244th ( 2008 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	16
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	10
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: June 10, 2020

Olivier Busquet (born August 22, 1981 in New York City , New York ) is a professional American poker player .

Personal

Busquet played chess in his childhood . In high school he played basketball successfully and was a good runner over the 800 and 1,600 yards. After graduating from Trinity High School, Busquet attended Cornell University in Ithaca for a degree in philosophy . He then worked on Wall Street until he joined a large hedge fund management firm in Connecticut . Busquet lives in New York .

Poker career

Busquet played online from June 2006 to September 2017 under the nicknames adonis112 ( PokerStars ) and livb112 ( Full Tilt Poker ) . Its online tournament earnings will be around 840,000 US dollars . In mid-September 2011 , Busquet won a heads-up event of the World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars for a prize of $ 224,000. Since 2008 he has also been participating in renowned live tournaments .

The end of June 2008 Busquet was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em the money. In September 2009 he won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour in Atlantic City with a prize of over $ 900,000. At the beginning of May 2010, Busquet took second place behind Tobias Reinkemeier in the High Roller of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Monte-Carlo and received prize money of almost 600,000 euros . In early October 2011, Busquet finished fourth at the EPT High Roller in London for the equivalent of almost 270,000 US dollars. At the end of March 2012, he reached the final table of the EPT Main Event at Campione d'Italia and took second place for 430,000 euros. At the 2013 WSOP , Busquet finished ninth in the most expensive event on the tournament schedule, the High Roller for One Drop , and received nearly $ 400,000 in prize money. At the EPT High Roller in Prague in mid-December 2013 he again took second place for just under 260,000 euros. At the end of April 2014, Busquet finished eighth at the EPT Super High Roller and received 241,000 euros in prize money. In August 2014 he won the Super High Roller of the EPT in Barcelona and received his highest prize to date of just under 900,000 euros. At the 2015 WSOP , Busquet reached the final table at Millionaire Maker and finished the event in third place out of the original 7,275 players, earning him just under $ 600,000 in prize money. A year later, he finished third in the Heads-Up Championship of the WSOP 2016 for a prize of just under $ 125,000. In mid-August 2019, Busquet took third place at the high roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood , Florida , which was worth around $ 340,000.

In total, Busquet has earned more than $ 9 million in poker live tournaments. From April to November 2016 he played as part of LA Sunset in the Global Poker League and made it to the playoffs with his team.

Web links

Commons : Olivier Busquet  - Collection of Images

• Olivier Busquet in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Olivier Busquet in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Olivier Busquet in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Olivier Busquet in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Olivier Busquet in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on November 11, 2017 (English).
2. ↑ livb112 in the PocketFives database, accessed on November 11, 2017.
3. ↑ WCOOP-41: $ 10,300 NLHE Heads-Up in PocketFives database, accessed January 19, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Olivier Busquet in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2017 (English).
5. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008 ($ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2017.
6. ↑ 2009 Borgata Poker Open - WPT ($ 3,300 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2017.
7. ↑ EPT - 6 - Grand Final (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2017.
8. ↑ EPT - 8 - UKIPT - 2 - London (£ 20,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2017.
9. ↑ EPT - 8 - Campione (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2017.
10. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - One Drop High Roller (Event # 47)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2017.
11. ↑ EPT - 10 - EUREKA - 3 - Prague (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2017 (English).
12. ↑ EPT - 10 - FPS - 4 - Grand Final (€ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2017 (English).
13. ↑ EPT - 11 - ESPT - 5 - Barcelona (€ 48,500 + 1,500 # 10 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2017.
14. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em Millionaire Maker (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2017.
15. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Heads Up Championship (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2017.
16. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 17, 2019.
17. ↑ LA Sunset on the Global Poker League website, accessed November 11, 2017.