Olivier Busquet

Olivier Busquet started his ventures into the competitive world at the tender age of six.

Born on August 22 1981 in New York City, Olivier Busquet started his ventures into the competitive world at the tender age of six. He learned to play chess from his father and before long he was travelling the country playing tournaments. He played for a while, but after entering the high school, he focused more on sports where he managed to have very noticeable results in both track running and basketball. His hard work and great results during high school education opened a place for him at the Cornell University. His initial intention was to major in mathematics, but he ended up graduating with a degree in philosophy instead. After finishing his formal education, he worked on the Wall Street for a few years and during this period he got introduced to poker home games. He immediately liked the game and started playing online. It was not long before he started playing the highest stakes cash games available. He took somewhat unorthodox approach to learning, as he would challenge some of the best poker players to play against him. Although this has probably proven to be an expensive course in poker, he believed that the best way to learn was to play against the people who were better than him. Strategy and competition were the parts of poker that came naturally to Busquet, but bankroll management, tilt control and game selection have proven to be quite a challenge. It took some time and some losses before he eventually found his comfort zone, after which he became the first player to profit $1,000,000 in online sit and go tournaments. Just recently, Busquet fired up quite a discussion in the online poker community when he made a statement via his tweeter that online poker was chess while live poker was checkers. This prompted comments from many well-known players like Daniel Negreanu and started up a really big thread on the 2+2 forum, with people defending their positions with all sorts of arguments. He did say eventually that his statement was perhaps misunderstood and tried to explain more what he was getting at with it. As for his live results, the biggest one came quite early in his career when he won 2009 WPT Borgata Open Event for $925,000, followed by his EPT Monte Carlo High Roller runner-up finish worth nearly $800k. His tournament winnings total $4.2 million, and his other notable poker achievements include two WSOP final table finishes. He also came third in the $25k WCOOP online heads-up event. As for his WPT win, he said it was a dream come true for him.
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WPT Alpha8 Season 2 - Outtakes

Presenter hiccups from the World Poker Tour Alpha8's second season, with Ali Nejad, Olivier Busquet and Tony Dunst

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Tatjana Pasalic with Olivier Busquet - You Basically Luckboxed It?

Tatjana Pasalic interviewing Olivier Busquet during Global Poker Masters

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Olivier Busquet Talks about One Drop Mission

Olivier Busquet talking about his experience with the One Drop project

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Viffer a Non-Believer vs Busquet

David 'Viffer' Peat not believing Olivier Busquet

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Olivier Busquet Pulls a Big Bluff against Dan Colman

Olivier Busquet pulls a huge bluff against Dan Colman on the river

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EPT London Day 2: Olivier Busquet Interview

Rikard is joined by Olivier Busquet for a longer interview to cover things like EPT, his friendship with Dan Colman and the T-shir...

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Dan Colman and Olivier Busquet - The Bonus Cut

Pokerstars Bonus Cut - Dan Colman and Olivier Busquet had a student / coach relationship, and the two recently faced off against e...

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EPT11 Barcelona Super HR Final Table - Part 5

Part 5 of 5. Livestream Replay of the EPT11 Barcelona Super High Roller final table. Heads Up between Olivier Busquet and Daniel C...

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EPT11 Barcelona Super HR Final Table - Part 4

Part 4 of 5. Livestream Replay of the EPT11 Barcelona Super High Roller final table. Featuring Dan Shak, Sam Trickett, Olivier Bus...

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EPT11 Barcelona Super HR Final Table - Part 3

Part 3 of 5. Livestream Replay of the EPT11 Barcelona Super High Roller final table. Featuring Dan Shak, Sam Trickett, Olivier Bus...

Colman and Busquet Under Attack: T-Shirts With Political Statements Okay or Not?

In the days following Olivier Busquet's victory in the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller, the media and poker community have given a lot of attention to the American. This time, however, reasons have

Olivier Busquet: Let's Not Overhype the Role of 'Poker Ambassadors'

Big:S;ometimes poker is all about big winners, hands well played, and kids with dreams, as Norman Chad would put it. But sometimes, just like any other area of private or professional life that

Colman and Busquet Offering Poker Lessons to Support One Drop Charity

BIG:T;o benefit the One Drop Foundation, Dan Colman and Olivier Busquet are offering poker lessons via a charity auction. The winner of the auction will get an exclusive poker package worth $10,000

Olivier Busquet Disses Phil Hellmuth

Olivier Busquet created a controversy when he stated that Phil Hellmuth was in the wrong for thanking his sponsor during a WSOP bracelet acceptance speech.

Poker Pros Wager on Their MMA Fight

Olivier Busquet and JC Alvarado agreed to the fight and in true poker fashion, both players have put down large sums of money on the upcoming duel.

Poker Pro Beaten Up by UFC Champion

​When poker pro JC Alvarado decided to get in some serious training for his much-hyped MMA fight with fellow poker star Olivier Busquet, he probably didn’t expect to get the living daylights knocked out of him.

Olivier Busquet vs JC Alvarado

The long-awaited MMA fight between Olivier Busquet and JC Alvarado turned out to be a brutal affair, with Busquet winning by TKO after 3 rounds of full-on ground and pound.

Looking for a New Game?

​The World Series of Poker is not just about Texas Holdem, it’s about other less known poker games too. Forget about Omaha, Stud and Lowball, do you know anything about Badacy? How about Baducy?

Poker's Greatest Comebacks

One of the most amazing aspects of any game is when someone - seemingly down and beaten – miraculously fights back against the odds and somehow takes the greatest prize.

UFC Fighters Use Poker to Unwind After a Training Camp

A short UFC promotional clip that was posted recently on Alistair Overeem's Twitter account shows that fighters affinity for card games is still alive and well