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Richard Veenman is a Dutch fixed limit hold ’em player with a lot of charisma and a big personality. At the start of 2014, he retired from both professional poker and PokerStars Team Online. In addition to the difficulties of balancing a day job with a serious poker career and his decision to retire, Richard also discusses the Dutch poker scene, how he got started, why he never followed the crowd to no-limit hold ’em, and what representing a poker site meant to him.
You can follow Richard on Twitter @tzen1 and read his blog, in English, at http://www.tzen1.com/. If you’re disappointed that we didn’t talk limit hold ’em strategy with him, you can get your fix with videos like this one at Poker School Online.
Timestamps
0:30 Hello & welcome: How cold is it?
4:51 Strategy: Set mining against tough opponents
43:45 Interview: Richard Veenman
You talk a lot about playing poker at the Borgata on the show. Do you have an opinion of which casino between Parx and Borgata is better for NL $2/$5 and $5/$10 games?
Unfortunately I’ve never been to Parx–though I’ve heard good things about the action there.
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I shove that turn the as Nate was starting to mention. I know he said it’s bad. I tend to do it a lot and expect to get called by bluff catchers and sometimes by the draw I am representing. People tend to be suspicious of over bet shoves when there is a draw on board.
Richard sounds like a cool guy. I hope I get to meet him in Vegas this summer.
The question is how many bluff-catchers he has in his range.