Poker news tagged with 'ben sulsky'

Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky wins twice this week and on both counts, he came up top on the Biggest Winners list of online high stakes tables at PokerStars.

On March 21, 2018 Wednesday, it appears that American legend Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky is definitely on a roll, as he managed to win yet again a big one and came out on the top spot in the PokerStars high stakes leaderboard. The one he beat heads-up at the $100/$200 tables to get that nice payout - it's Swedish pro BERRI SWEET - the very same one he beat back on March 19, 2018 Monday, winning $90,770 that day!

Read more » Ben Sulsky gets another Big Win of $116,455 Online at PokerStars High Stakes Tables

On March 19, 2018 Monday, the poker player who won the lion's share from PokerStars high stakes tables was American legend Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky, who went home with a payout of $90,770!

Read more » Ben Sulsky wins $90,770 Online at PokerStars High Stakes Tables

Saturday, January 6, 2018, was Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky's lucky day, as he was crowned the first prize winner at the PokerStars high stakes tables. He won a total of $110,744 at PokerStars $1k/$2k 8-Game tables, playing heads-up against Russian poker pro Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov.

Read more » Ben Sulsky wins $110,774 at PokerStars Online 8-Game tables

A high-stakes poker player has posted in the 2+2 forum to share his experience and warn other people about a coaching scam right after an impersonator of famous poker pro Ben ‘Sauce123' Sulsky took him for a fake coaching session in exchange for an undisclosed payment sum in the form of Bitcoin cryptocurrency.

Read more » Ben Sulsky Impersonator Dupes Player in High Stakes Coaching Scam

I's high time to compile the online high stakes results of 2013 as the first quarter is in the books. According to highstakesdb, the biggest winner to date is Alexander "PostflopAction" Kostritsyn. The Russian pro has played 724 sessions (53,623 hands) and generated a profit of a whopping $3,732,237.

Read more » High Stakes: 2013 First Quarter Results

Last week's biggest winner online was "kagome kagome" with a profit of $1.2 million. According to highstakesdb, he's real name and age are not known, but Read more » High Stakes: Mystery German Won $1.2 Million Last Week!

It's high time to compile last year's biggest winners and losers on Full Tilt and PokerStars. According to highstakesdb, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky won an incredible $3,595,666 - about a million dollars more than the Finnish poker pro Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen in second place.

Read more » HighStakes: Biggest Winners and Losers of 2012

The final match between Daniel "jungleman / w00ki3z" Cates and Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky took 3,179 hands (about 10 hours) to complete. Cates dominated most of the match with his aggressive and creative style of playing heads-up poker. Sulsky only made a short comeback about 8 hours into the match, but Cates proved too strong for him to handle.

Read more » Daniel Cates Wins PokerStars' All-Star Showdown!

The final match between Daniel "jungleman / w00ki3z" Cates and Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky took 3,179 hands (about 10 hours) to complete. Cates dominated most of the match with his aggressive and creative style of playing heads-up poker. Sulsky only made a short comeback about 8 hours into the match, but Cates proved too strong for him to handle.

Read more » Daniel Cates Wins PokerStars' All-Star Showdown!

The All-Star Showdown semifinals were played over the weekend. Team Online's Ike Haxton and Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky battled for 19 hours (about 4,200 hands) until a winner had been crowned: Ben Sulsky. Not long after this marathon match came to an end it was time for the second semifinal between Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond and Daniel "w00ki3z" Cates. This match took a little more than seven hours to run through just over 3,000 hands. Cates was down for the most of the beginning hours of the match, however, he made an amazing comeback in the last 800 hands of the match and managed to defeat Sulsky.

The final of the All-Star Showdown is being played right now. Sulsky and Cates are guaranteed at least $250,000 each. The winner will take home an amazing $550k and the first All-Star Showdown trophy.

A total of 8 players entered PokerStars All-Star Showdown for $100,000 each. Three of four quarterfinals are now in the history books, and Ben Sulsky, Isaac Haxton and Daniel Cates are through to the semifinals.

Sulsky won his match against Tobias Kuder pretty easy (6 hours), Daniel "jungleman /w00ki3z" Cates eliminated the Swede Alexander "Sussie Smith" Roumeliotis after 9,5 hours of play, and it took PokerStars' recently signed Online Pro Isaac Haxton about 17 hours and more than 3,800 hands to defeat Alex "Kanu7" Millar. Tonight, Phil Galfond and Ben "Ben86" Tollerene will battle it out for the last seat in the semifinals. It will defiantly be a very tough and thrilling match. We will be back with an update tomorrow for the ones interested in how it went.

Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky has been doing extremely well at PokerStars' nosebleed tables in the past three weeks or so. In fact, as of September 1st, he was up $2,678,174 (over $900k from playing NLHE and over $1.7 million from playing PLO) this year, which means that he has won about $2k more than EireAbu (rumoured to be a Dutch pro based in Ireland) - the previous biggest winner of 2012 on PokerStars.

Now, it will be interesting to see how things turn out this week at PokerStars' high stakes tables. Maybe neither "sauce123" nor "EireAbu" will be in the lead next Monday? Anything is possible at these high stakes with so tough competition, so we will just have to wait and see.

It's time to have a look at last week's results from the High Stakes Poker World (online). Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky was the biggest winner with $575,996, followed by Ilari Sahamies, who came second in the EPT Barcelona main event for €629,700 last Sunday, with a $508,383 profit.

Read more » High Stakes: Viktor Blom Lost Over a Millon Dollars Last Week!

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was last week's biggest winner online with a profit of $895k - about 360k more than the 2nd biggest winner, Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond. But it wouldn't take long until he lost most of those winnings.

On Monday, Blom took on Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky on four tables of $200/$400 PLO with antes. The match lasted for staggering fifteen hours and included 85 pots of over $100k. Blom lost $200k in the first 60 hands of of play, but then went on a winning streak over the next 1000 hands or so and took $650k from his opponent. At this point Blom was up $1.6 million since Friday.

Read more » Ben Sulsky Wins $600k from Viktor Blom in Epic 15-hour Heads Up Match

After compiling last week's online cash games, it is clear that the American pro Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky was the biggest winner with a $401,718 profit. A player called "Phisherman36" also did very well last week. With a $388k profit the anonymous player secured the second place on the list of last week's biggest winners.

Read more » High Stakes: "Sauce123" won $401k last week!

The poker phenomenon Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was involved in some really thrilling games this weekend. For example: Blom played some shorthanded $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha against Theo "TheoJ" Jorgensen, Jeans89, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky and other regulars at PokerStars nosebleed tables. There were plenty of pots where more than $100k was up for grabs, and one 3-way-pot even exceeded $200,000 (below you can see how this hand was played out).

Read more » High Stakes: $700,000 swing for Isildur1

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom had a tough time at the poker tables last week. This week, however, has been extremely good and he has already eliminated the losses from last week. During the 2 last days Blom has played about 2000 hands of PLO at the limits $25/$50 and $50/$100 at PokerStars. In total, he has won $383,000 against players like Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky, Rui "PepperoniF" Cao and Ilari Sahamies, who he won $130k against in only 200 hands of $50/$100 PLO.

Read more » High Stakes: Isildur1 up almost $400,000 - in only two days!

Even though many of the poker world's biggest high stakes stars are in Vegas at the moment, there are still some decent high stakes games running online. Yesterday, for example, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom took on Rui "PepperoniF" Cao in heads-up match of Pot-Limit Omaha at PokerStars. The game was quite even at first, but after about 1000 hands had been played Isildur1 had full control over the game. When the match had been running for about 4 hours, PepperoniF called it a day and Viktor Blom left the table with a $271k profit.

Read more » High Stakes: Swingy day for Viktor "Isildur1" Blom