User:Scarmaker

Scarmaker is an amateur poker player from Banská Bystrica, Slovakia best known as runner-up of several czechoslovakian online tournaments, third place finisher of $1000 Expekt Welcome Freeroll and for making an in the money finish in Expekt Freeroll Challange Final 1.

Poker style and personality
At the tables, Molivan is well known as an agressive shit-talker, often confusing even himself. His playing style though, can be described as very tight or tight-agressive. In one of his home games he stated "OK, I am gonna play aggresively today" to which one of his opponents, chinese poker legend Ha Li responded "So you're going to play three hands out of twenty, right?"

Online Poker
In April-July 2008 he made regular final table finishes in online CZ/SK weekly freerolls hosted by CDpoker outlasting 50-100 players and finishing 9th, 8th, 3rd and 2nd. Two times he missed final table finishing 12th and 13th.

In 10 July 2008 he made his first heads-up in $3 buy-in CZ/SK Pokerportal.sk freezeout. Losing most of his chip stack in pre-flop all-in when his hand of J♣ J♥ was beat by opponent's cards J♦ Q♠ on a board of cards K♠ T♥ T♦ 9♠ 5♥, Molivan eventually lost when he went all-in few hands later after flopping a top pair. Opponent held an overpair and Molivan didn't improve on neither turn nor river taking second prize of 34$.

During August and September Molivan qualified to all four Expekt Freeroll Challenge finals that took place from 11th to 14th September. In all of them Molivan made a deep stack finish winning prize money two times.

Although end of the year was very unsuccesful for him, losing critical amount of money, he began year 2009 big-time by finishing 3rd in $1,000 Expekt Welcome Freeroll and taking 160$ prize for his efforts.

Several days later he made another heads-up in $3 Pokertip.cz $100 Added Re-buy tournament. After few hands, with chip count nearly equal he went all-in holding A♠ 3♠ to be called by opponent's 8♥ 9♥. Flop came out 7♥ 8♦ J♥ giving his opponent leading pair and both straight and flush draws, leaving Molivan with just two outs. He didn't improve and finished second once again, winning 65$.

In the following two months he participated in Pokermania.sk Slovak Poker Tour and made two in the money finishes winning total of 59$ as well as winning his first multitable tournament ever on 11 Feburary. Outlasting all 120 players of $50 Pokerspravy.sk Freeroll field Molivan took a total prize of $13.5 and an invaluable fame. Molivan was also able to outlast 1957 players in €3,000 Guaranteed R/A and finished 42th earning another 20$ and he made several other cashes in various tournaments as well.

Molivan's biggest succes came in April 2009. Just two days after making another heads-up winning 63$ in 3$ pokerZIVE 150$ Added Freezeout, he made remarkable back-to-back heads-up finisihes in $750 GP Rebuy with $1 buy-in outlasting more than 300 players each time.

First time he was able to overcome 1:3 chip disadvantage in heads-up lasting just 10 hands to win $334. In the last hand he called his opponent's all-in pre-flop with Ac Jd facing pocket sevens. The board ran out Qc Qh 8c 8s Jd making higher two pair.

Two days later he ended up just one place short from repeating his succes by finishing second winning another $161. This time it was him, who was ahaed at the beggining of heads-up with 2:1 chip lead but wasn't able to seal the deal.

His great efforts were soon followed by making another two final tables, this time in Czechoslovak Championship of Teams. For 4th and 6th place in tourneys with 5$ he earned 81$.

As of December 2009, his total online tournament winnings exceed $2000.

Live Poker
In June 2008 Molivan attended an 1€ buy-in freezeout in Spain with fellow hometown players, but was first to be eliminated.

During summer holiday in 2008 Molivan attended several home games in Banská Bystrica, four times finishing in heads up winning twice, both times against another two time champion Michal Džudrženik. In 2009 he participated in two such home games making one runner-up finish. To this date, out of total eight tournaments he made it to the heads-up five times.

As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $70.

Personal life
Sucks.