In recent weeks, Mads Bertelsen (pictured), known on PocketFives as Mr Longhit, finished second in the PartyPoker $200K Guaranteed and put back $22,000. He was the highest finishing member of the PocketFives community in the tournament and logged his fourth largest score to date.

“I’m just trying to grind a lot of MTTs now when I’m running good in these,” Bertelsen told PocketFives. “I usually play PLO H/L cash games, but there is not a lot of action anymore. So, now I’m playing poker as an MTT pro instead.”

Why has the action dried up at the PLO H/L tables? We asked Bertelsen for his take and he told us, “For starters, the rake is insane. There will be a lot of post-flop pots and a lot of split pots, and they take rake from split pots. That means most regulars will lose playing each other heads-up, so it’s hard to get games started.”

If you’ve never played PLO H/L, Bertelsen called the game “fun” and added, “Equity tends to be close, so fish can play lots of hands and not get punished as much as in Hold’em. Also, there are not as many videos and stuff about the game, so people have to play to improve. The only thing killing the game is the rake.”

Back to tournament poker now. So far in 2015, Bertelsen has finished fifth in the Sunday Million for $57,000, finished ninth in the Sunday Million for $10,000, and taken third in a PartyPoker Pokerfest event for $30,000. The two Sunday Million final tables took place on back-to-back weekends, a pretty incredible feat.

“To get a second chance a week later was insane,” he said of his Sunday Million performance. “It made me want to play more. Poker can get boring sometimes. I like to mix it up and play both MTTs and cash games. But now when it’s going well in MTTs, I want to play a lot more of them.”

The #18 ranked player in Denmark got started in poker playing freerolls like many other PocketFivers. Then, he transitioned to small-stakes MTTs. “As I got better, it became more and more fun,” he said. “I think we all need to be good at something. It gives us pleasure to know we are good and I guess that’s why I kept on playing and improving.”

Away from the game, Bertelsen has a small boat and enjoys fishing, although he’s not able to go very often. “Hopefully I will if summer is good in Denmark this year,” he said. You can find him at #317 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings, four spots off his all-time high. He is the top-ranked player in the Danish city of Vejle.

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