Friday
July 30, 2010
Andreas "Skjervøy" Torbergsen is one of the best PLO players in the world, and he has made millions playing online highstakes games. Soon we will surely see him even more at the tables, because he's the newest Red Pro on Full Tilt Poker.
Skjervøy is now also a member of Team CardRunners, and his first CardRunners video will debut today.
Below you can read some information about this great player, and remember also to check all other interesting information from the CardRunners website.
"Where are you from?
I'm from Skjervøy, a small town in Norway with 2500 people, 70 degrees north. I moved out from home at 17 to go to high school in Tromsø. A lot of poker players with success are from there, especially the old Prima crew (riise, terken, ulle etc.).
How did you get into poker?
My very first poker experience was with my father playing 5 card draw for nickels and dimes. I was about twelve years old. What really got me into poker was the weekly game we had when I shared/rented a house with two friends when I was 19. There were 5-8 of us buddies playing for hours, having a lot of fun and learning a lot.
What about PLO specifically?
I played it on my first trip to Vegas in 2005. There was a group of us from Norway that convinced Bally's to open a 1-2 PLO table that we spent some hours playing and drinking on. I was a (dead tight) .50-$1 full-ring grinder before that, playing mostly on the Ongame network. I was out there because I'd won a WSOP package.
When I returned from Vegas I gave myself a PLO roll (kept separately from NLHE) on Party Poker and I grinded it up until I started playing 10-20 PLO there in late 2006. Then I basically spent my roll traveling the world for 5 months in early 2007 before starting back up from 2-4 being staked.
I still play (mostly) NLHE and some HORSE MTTs, live but also on Sundays. The highest NLHE I played online is 5-10 six-max on Party when I had a break from PLO in late 2007/early 2008. It got too boring with 2 cards, so I had to go back to PLO.
Do you prefer to play live or online?
I prefer online. It's much faster and a lot easier to do since I live in a country where casinos are illegal."
Source: CR