Proud of his French heritage, Montreal native Marc-Andre Ladouceur is a multi-talented individual. After he graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Finance, the Canadian played tennis at the competitive level and was a regional champion on numerous occasions. He purchased a bar in North Carolina as a business venture before getting into poker full-time in 2010. He has used it as a means of funding his travel-heavy lifestyle ever since!
Best known by his PokerStars screenname ‘FrenchDawg’, Marc-Andre was sponsored by the online cardroom giant until 2016 and is well-respected in the poker community. He has generated more than $3,500,000 from tournament earnings, split evenly between his live and online accomplishments. Marc-Andre became an EPT champion in 2012 after he took down the €5,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller for $170,951.
This victory helped to make up for what turned out to be a very bittersweet WSOP for the Canadian that same year. Ladouceur made it down to the final two tables of the $10,000 Main Event but did not seal his name in poker history by becoming one of the 2012 November Niners. His thirteenth-place exit earned him $465,159 and most likely left a somewhat sour taste in his mouth as he was only twelve places away from a mammoth $8 million+ score.
Amazingly, tournament poker and his many scores in this world are not even counted as his proudest achievement in the game. He rose through the stakes playing cash games online, and stated in a 2014 interview that his biggest success was going from $1 / $2 games on PokerStars to beating $25 / $50 tables in just 18 months.
Ladouceur has transitioned to playing Pot Limit Omaha more regularly in recent years and is regarded as one of the strongest players around at this variant. Fellow PokerStars pro Lex Veldhuis hired the Canadian to coach him and help improve his PLO game – a testament to just how respected he is. If you’re a fan of this type of poker, Lex recorded these valuable sessions and posted them to his YouTube channel here.
Marc-Andre is also a manager of the Montreal Nationals – season 1 winners of the Global Poker League that features the likes of Mike McDonald and WSOP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson. He is a savvy investor that diversifies his portfolio beyond poker, recently becoming a partner for a bar in Montreal called ‘Don B. Comber’.
