Confident Quenneville Is No Newcomer
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An online search for a player��s results can often be missing so much of the story.
For instance, when you look up Canadian Troy Quenneville who is playing this HK$400,000 Super High Roller, you would see that he only had about $500 in cashes up until last November. After two big cashes within a couple of days for more than $600,000, he��s now playing in a tournament that cost him the equivalent of $50,000 to enter.
That seems like quite a leap.
However, for the early part of Day 2, Quenneville was chip leading this event.
When you look a little deeper, you realize that he��s been playing online with results dating back to 2008. He��s ��teckidtq�� on PokerStars where he has $2.6 million in winnings, and he goes by ��good player�� on partypoker.
��Yeah, I guess I��m playing professionally. I��ve been playing for 10 years since the Moneymaker boom. I started online. Most of my experience is online,�� Quenneville explained as we sat down with him during the dinner break of the Super High Roller. He talks quietly, pausing to think through his responses before speaking.
��I just finished school about a year and a half ago and I thought about entering the job market but I gave poker one last chance and I��ve just been running really hot.��
That��s a bit of an understatement. The recent Mechanical Engineering graduate went from having essentially no live results to coming second in WPT Caribbean and first in partypoker Million within a couple of days last November, earning $620,000.
��I��m still trying to figure out what happened. I just ran insanely hot, as you can imagine,�� Quenneville explained. ��I was happy with the way I played. Everything kind of just worked out, I don��t know how to explain those kind of results. I got lucky and things went well.��
He��s also found some big online wins this year, topping PokerStars�� Super Tuesday in February and partypoker��s Super High Roller in March.
He still has just five results listed on his Hendon Mob profile, all with flags bearing a red-white-and-blue theme of Costa Rica, where he has lived for the past three years, Punta Cana, and Panama. But his breakout into the live world was hard-earned.
He has been playing live for years but just couldn��t find the results he gets online.
��There was nothing but bricks. I must��ve been oh-for-thirty in WSOP events. It was frustrating for a while but I realized it was easy to lose live for years when one year of live tournaments correlates to one session online and it is easy to lose. So I think the variance got to me. Luckily, lately, the variance is on the other side.��
Still, with just two big live results under his belt, it seems like a leap of faith to dive into this Super High Roller where he has to face the likes of Dan Smith, Isaac Haxton, Fedor Holz, Steve O��Dwyer, Bertrand Grospellier, Sam Greenwood, Davidi Kitai, and others.
��I��ve been winning online pretty consistently. I keep a close eye on my software, seeing my win rate, and I thought I was good money in the field. Especially when I saw how many fun players were in the field. So I kind of took a shot.��
He��s been playing bigger online too, playing four-figure tournaments. He says that has been ��more so in the past year. There��s not a no-limit tournament online that I won��t play, to be honest.��
With some great scores in the past six months, he has that invaluable ingredient: confidence. It can often be what it takes to outshine opponents. ��I think it��s allowing me to play my best game which I believe is good enough [for this event].��
We��ll be watching to see if Quenneville��s recent success can be replicated here at PokerStars Championship Macau. But keep an eye on his online success where he��s proven to be on top of the game.
��I was at PokerStars Panama. That was great. I like this stop. I might hit the next couple PokerStars stops. It allows me to travel. They��re good destinations to see around the world. Other than that, I don��t know how much more live I��ll be playing. I enjoy online.��