Punters Lounge Players: Interviews

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This thread will contain all the interviews done with Punters Lounge poker players. My aim is to give more of a platform for the poker players on PL to get them more recognition and give us a bit more insight into their successes. Some interviews will be small, focussing on a particular tournament they've been successful in and other interviews will be longer with more in-depth strategy discussion etc. Hope they're informative and enjoyable :ok

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Re: Punters Lounge Players: Interviews Interview with Rivrd about his superb result here and other strategy chat: Q: Legendary Pl'er Rivrd, you have such consistent results over a long time-span, what keeps you motivated? Rivrd: My motivation is that there is always room for improvement and each game throws up its own challenges, i have many flaws in my game but have been working hard on a few over the last few months which has shown improvement more recently in some results. Q: Looking at your great $4.6k win in the 888 $30k challenge were you hanging into the money or circumstances saw you go down to just 1.5bbs? Rivrd: Very rarely will i try to hang into the money, i had lost a couple of flips which had caused me to get short stacked i had noticed in this case that it was right on the bubble and for time of play was worth hanging in until it popped. Q: It must have been quite a series of all-ins to get back into it, were there any memorable hands? Rivrd: The bubbled had popped and was just a matter of getting the chips in in the right spot. In this case there were 2 raises before me and i had J Q all in and felt that i would be pretty much have live cards. i was up against A 10 and A K and was lucky enough to hit a set of Qs. Five hands later i had pocket 9s and shipped that in to get called and i rivered a fullhouse. I made a couple of steals from then, and then the hand that moved me back up was my KK v AK which held up and then doubled further up with a set of 4s against a call from a player with A9. Q: With tournaments being so top-heavy how do you generally approach a final table? Rivrd: I'm never afraid of bubbling a final table but often if im in a good position i will let the aggressive players take each other to make a ft which often happens. Q: Were you a bit more relaxed for this final table as you had come back from having a ‘chip and a chair’? Rivrd: My only thoughts were winning once i was on the final table i had a half decent stack but there were still a couple of decent players to get through and also the calling stations that were ultra agressive. When it got down to 4 players it was a matter of sustaining an equal amount of chips and not to drop to low. Q: What was the heads-up battle like and is it somewhat harder to finish second than say fourth for example due to getting so close but missing out? Rivrd: Was short and sweet really, the calling station had knocked the other 2 players out and he was about 8/2 favourite in chips, i bthink i made a shove with A9 and he called with Q7 and spiked his Q. Was happy with the result one that i had satellited in for $10 and also for coming back from the dead. Q: Anything else you'd like to add? Rivrd: Is to never give up, and also to never be afraid of bubbling before the money or a final table. Keep up the great results mate, I’m sure this will be the first of many chats :)