Interview to Liv Boeree

-I love being part of team pro. It's like a support group. We have these guys in an event who make sure that you're ok. Also, you know all these opporturnities that come from it,and the sort of fun:  TV shows and celebrities things that you get to do...It's also the prestige, you know? I'm  incredibly proud to represent the brand and to be able to wear the patch and be a part of the team. It's  a pretty unique feeling in poker 'cause it's not like a team game so it's sort of special. 

 

-Not that much right now. Like I'm dating Igor, who is one of the very bests and he and I discuss stratgey- Like before this final table we were doing some examining the situations and so on, like I do a bit of that to keep my game but I this summer for example, I didn't really play much poker I was focusing on some other things so I didn't really have the time to brush up, so coming here and playing for the first time in a while, was like WOW... but I think when you have a certain base level of skill you can like learn to adapt and also I think that I'm playing pretty much the best poker in the last couple of years right now.

 

 

-Loosing with fifteen left in the WSOPE, in like 2011, the one that Phil Hellmuth ended up winning like o1.5 million euros, fifteen left so I got into a this big,big pot which would have got me to the final table,  with ace-queen against ace-ten and the river was a ten. I would never forget that one. I would've at least final table it and it would have an article that yeah I  you remember them but at the same time remembering badbeats is less useful that remember the times when you play badly because then at least those you can learn from. Lamenting over something over something you can't controle doesn't achieve anything. So I try not to think about that except for that one, I alwas remember that one (laughs)

 

 

-Right, my advice would be is play the game as an amateur as long as you can is always possible to just double check that you really enjoy it but also be a good at you are good at because you need to play a lot to conclusively know, get an idea of your skill and if you can find a way to play and keep your normal day job, play as much as you want as well. That's the best because then you have the security and you still get to play all the parts of the game. But, that said, if you have long enough record that you are profitable and you are good, then I guess satellites, I mean I got my self started playing satellites again I didn't have the bankroll to play these main events and so always satellited my way in that how I won San Remo. Yeah I think that's the way to go, satellites are great value and they teach you how to play short stack as well. 

 

-Yeah, yeah, I had them twice. I guess the most memmorable was in 2013 and there were like things in my life that weren't going pretty well and on top of that I think I didn't cash in 33 tournaments in a row or something like that, statistically very,very unlikely yeah. I'm sure I probaly wasn't playing as well as I should be but plus the bad luck and it was rough, it was really rough and you spend a lot of time like doubting yourself, like "what am I doing?" but what you have to do during that? Is make notes of all the things you're not sure about, all the hands of you're unsure, check with professionals and if they keep coming "Oh no I would have done exactly the same thing" then you have to go "ok I'm being unlucky" and statistically some one has to be the really unlucky one and same statiscally some one has to be Phill Helmuth on the other end, has to be the luckiest.

So just remember that there's like this sort of belt of probabilities and sometimes your're in the middle of it,sometimes you're lucky and sometimes you are unlucky and the hard part is to find out which part of it is down to your bad playing and which part of it is actually down to bad luck.

-Thank you, I really appreciate that.

 

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