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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8 years ago22,331BestPokerVids,

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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...

WSOP Online Gold Bracelets Plan Splits The Poker Pros

Phil Hellmuth has 15 of them, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson 10 each, and 99.9% of poker have none

UFC Star Forrest Griffin Shows Jason Somerville Some Illegal Moves

Breaking the rules in poker is one thing, but breaking them in the Octagon is a whole different world of hurt

Who Has Run The Worst in Their Live Tournament Career? Asks Olivier Busquet

The role of luck in poker seems to be the talking point of the week, and Busquet stumped a lot of fans and followers

Poker Pros on Psychedelics

The run up to the WSOP often sees the players chatting about smoking pot, but Olivier Busquet has taken the conversation one step further.

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

Ben Tollerene Wins Lucky Hearts $5K NLH For $163,944

The 31-year old’s dedication to the game resulted in another victory this week, taking down the $5K buy-in side event for $163,944 at WPT Lucky Hearts in Hollywood, Florida.

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

Olivier Busquet Claims King of the Hill 2 Title and $200,000

Olivier Busquet downed Shaun Deeb and then Parker ‘TonkaaaaP’ Talbot to secure a $200,000 payday and the title at Rivers casino in Pittsburgh

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

First Round Matchups Announced For King of the Hill II

Phil Hellmuth will be hoping for a repeat of the ‘white magic’ which he used to defeat Doug Polk and Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates last month.

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

Justice is Blinds Returns With Vanessa Selbst, Olivier Busquet and Ingrid Weber

Vanessa Selbst will host the third edition of her Justice is Blinds, a charity poker event benefiting the non-profit advocacy organization Urban Justice Center.

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

King of the Hill II in October to Feature Hellmuth, Busquet, Deeb and Talbot

The success of the inaugural "King of the Hill" competition in August has prompted Poker Night in America to do it all over again this October in a King of the Hill II.

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