What Degree Does Every Poker Player Need? Humanities!
In late December, Denmark’s Peter Anders Rasmussen (pictured), known on PocketFives as SvendAage, claimed a Triple Crown. Doing so meant taking down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments with at least 100 players each across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Rankings within seven days. That’s no easy feat, but it was Rasmussen’s second Triple Crown of December.
“It feels awesome,” Rasmussen told us about his second accolade. “I have been playing a lot online in the past three or four years and never achieved it before. It’s a fun extra perk of playing online.” He actually won four tournaments during his run: the PokerStars $8.80 Rebuy, Betfair $30 Cubed, Ladbrokes $30 Six-Max Cubed, and PartyPoker $12,500 Guaranteed.
“The toughest tournament in terms of the player pool was the $54 Knockout on PartyPoker, which only runs on Sundays,” he relayed. “It was so deep-stacked that it took nearly 11 hours before it was done. But, the Rebuy on PokerStars was the toughest to win since there’s so much variance in that tournament.”
Rasmussen has 125 tracked victories in his profile and nearly 1,400 cashes on PokerStars alone. We asked him to talk about his weekly schedule and he responded, “I’ve been making living out of playing poker for the last four years and I’ve always been really good at mostly thinking about poker as a job. Therefore, I’ve managed to grind even when I don’t feel like it, as it’s one of the few jobs that is fun all the time.”
As we said in the title of this article, Rasmussen is studying Humanities. “It’s actually quite funny because there’s like 0% math in my degree,” he joked. “A lot of my classmates are wondering why I’m playing poker and studying Humanities.I always tell them that in poker, math isn’t that important as many think it is.”
What he ends up doing with his Humanities degree isn’t clear. “It’s such a wide degree,” he pointed out. “I think I might figure it out down the road, something involving marketing, public relations, psychology, or education.” He is studying at Roskilde University, a university 20 minutes away from Copenhagen.
He joined PocketFives in mid-2012 and plays as Thisispeteon PokerStars and PAXTERon PartyPoker. He got involved in the game like a few other Danes did, seeing Gus Hansen (pictured) make mincemeat of WPT fields: “I started playing and was horrible, limping aces, flatting every hand I played, etc. I actually stopped playing, but then my friend started to win a lot of money every month. He helped me get a CardRunners account and that was pretty much the turning point for me. I started playing €3 sit and gos on Boss and ended up playing €50 and €100 sit and gos before I switched to tournaments. Now, 90% of my time spent in poker is in tournaments.”
Denmark has now scored 30 PocketFives Triple Crowns. Nearly 700 registered PocketFivers comprise the Denmark Poker Community, which has over $64 million in scores, including $5.3 million in the last three months.
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