Poker news tagged with 'ben tollerene'

A total of 41 entries were made in this year's Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge. There are now only 6 players remaining after two days of play and they are fighting for the entire prize pool of a whopping $4,018,000!

Read more » 2016 Aussie Millions: $100,000 Challenge Final Table Set

On Sunday, 46 players from many different countries entered the most expensive online poker tournament to date: PokerStars 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) $51,000 Super High Roller!

Read more » Ben "Ben86" Tollerene Wins $51k Super High Roller

On Monday, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene once again played some epic heads-up matches at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. The two high stakes pros began with three $200/$400 PLO tables and Blom was ahead with $290k after 1,5 hour of play. Tollerene then suggested that they should move on to the $500/$1000 tables instead and Blom accepted.

Read more » Swingy Heads-Up Match Between "Bttech86" & "Isildur1"

Last week we reported that Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was up over $4 million (the biggest winner of 2013) after taking Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene for $1.7 million in a 5 hours and 40 minutes heads up session at Full Tilt Poker. Things have changed a lot since then and he's now up "only" $2 million! The main reason to this huge drop is that Tollerene got his revenge on Blom. That's right! The two resumed their heads up battles on Friday and Saturday and it all ended with Blom losing about $1.5 million to the American poker pro.

Russian poker pro Alexander "PostflopAction" Kostritsyn is now the biggest winner online of 2013 with $3,842,936 (735 sessions and 54,243 hands), Tollerene is the second biggest winner with $2,265,144 (386 sessions and 34,289 hands) and Blom is ranked third with $2,149,144 (1109 sessions and 112,671 hands).

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On thursday, Viktor "isildur1" Blom took on Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene at Full Tilt's $500/$1000 CAP PLO tables. After about 1 hour of play Blom had won $60k from Tollerene and they agreed to open 2 new tables. Blom's lead had increased to around $200,000 after 2 hours of play and, once again, the two decided to split and open up new tables.

Blom went on a insane winning streak after this and it almost seemed like the poker gods sided with him in every single pot. After 5 hours and 40 minutes of heads up action, the two high stakes pros called it a day. Blom had won $1.7 million from Tollerene and, believe it or not, he had almost $1.1 million on one table alone. Blom is now (once again) the biggest winner online of 2013. He has won $4,065,079 according to highstakesdb - about $200,000 more than the second biggest winner: "PostflopAction".

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It ended up being a very thrilling (and long) quarterfinal between Phil Galfond and Ben Tollerene for the last ticket to the semifinals. The two poker pros, who live in the same apartment building in Vancouver and know each other very well, battled it out for over 14-hours and 4,341 hands until a winner had been crowned: Phil Galfond. Galfond will now face Daniel "jungleman / w00ki3z" Cates on Saturday. It will be very interesting to see who wins that battle!