Recently, Denmark’s Mads Pedersen (pictured), who is better known in our community as MadsMP, claimed his first PocketFives Triple Crown. Doing so requires taking down three tournaments with at least a 100-player field and a $10,000 prize pool across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Online Poker Rankingswithin a week. Pedersen did so in the PokerStarsBig $11, iPoker Super Tuesday, and PartyPoker $25,000 Guaranteed Rebuy in the span of six days for his newest profile badge. He was kind enough to lend us a few minutes.

PocketFives: Awesome job on the Triple Crown. Tell us how you’re feeling.

Mads Pedersen: I’m feeling great. I have never felt better poker-wise. I’ve been close to getting one of them before, so it feels good to finally get there.

PocketFives: You had some huge scores in it, including the PokerStars Big $11, which had 10,000 entrants. What was it like navigating that huge field?

Mads Pedersen: The Big $11 was actually pretty straightforward, to be honest. I was single-tabling it from when there were about 50 players left. It’s always fun to go deep in one of the “Bigs” on PokerStars. I can’t remember if I had any huge suckouts, but of course it requires some run-good. That said, I really connected well post-flop and when I first had a stack, I was really cruising.

PocketFives: Another leg of your Triple Crown came in the iPoker Super Tuesday. What was that field like?

Mads Pedersen: The Super Tuesday at iPoker is a way harder tournament to get through, but I think the structure of it suits me greatly. I’ve been playing it close to every Tuesday for the last three or four months.

PocketFives: Why does its structure suit you?

Mads Pedersen: Tournaments with that buy-in are usually deeper, which gives me the opportunity to play more post-flop, where I believe I might have an edge over some or most of the field. Most poker players probably believe they have an edge, though, or else they wouldn’t be playing.

PocketFives: Do you have any plans for the money from the Triple Crown tournaments?

Mads Pedersen: Building a bigger bankroll and moving up. I might participate in some EPTs in the future, but I’m not sure about that yet. I’m playing backed at the moment, so it’s partly up to my backer as well. Right now, I’m playing mid- to high-stakes games and really want to establish myself at the highest stakes online, so that’s what I’m trying to do.

PocketFives: One of the hot topics in poker recently has been the implementation of a shot clockto limit time spent on decisions in hands. Are you in favor of it?

Mads Pedersen: I haven’t really thought a lot about that, but I wouldn’t mind having it in some cases. Then again, in other cases, I like to have some time to think a specific line through.

PocketFives: We have one more question before we let you go. Are you headed to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this year?

Mads Pedersen: I’m not planning to go this year, but am way more likely to go next year. I’ve had one opportunity to go to the WSOP before this year, but don’t feel like going there in 2014 since I have a lot of other plans and my live experience isn’t really that great. So, I figured going from Denmark to the US to get smashed by live regs – I can probably find something more fun to spend my time on.

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