Ben Lamb

Ben Lamb
Ben Lamb (2011)
Personal information
Date of birth	March 31, 1985
place of birth	Tulsa
Nicknames 0	benbaPokerStars & Full Tilt Poker benba lambUltimateBet
place of residence	Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 4,021,138
Total prize money	$ 11,381,207
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	17th
Best main event	3rd ( 2011 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: July 8, 2020

Benjamin "Ben" Lamb (born March 31, 1985 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is a professional American poker player .

Lamb has made just under $ 11.5 million in poker playing live tournaments . He won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker in 2011 and reached the final table of the main event of that tournament series twice.

Personal

Lamb graduated from Jenks High School in his native Tulsa in 2004. He then studied at Trinity University in San Antonio , but dropped out due to his poker career. He later worked as a dealer at Cherokee Casino in Tulsa. Lamb lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Lamb started playing poker at the age of 18 . From July 2006 to May 2016 he played online under the nicknames benba ( PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker ) and benba lamb ( UltimateBet ) and has earned more than one million US dollars with tournament poker . Since 2006 he has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

In June 2006 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and finished twelfth in a tournament of the Pot Limit Hold'em variant . His first major win came in July 2009 when he finished 14th in the WSOP Main Event for more than $ 600,000 in prize money. In the 2011 WSOP to Lamb initially secured with a tournament victory in Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) his first bracelet and over $ 800,000 in prize money, and then came the main event at the final table , he in November 2011 as part of the November Nine behind Pius Heinz and Martin Staszko finished in third place. This achievement earned him $ 4 million, and he was subsequently honored with the WSOP Player of the Year Award . Also the Card Player Magazine awarded him at the end of the Player of the Year from. Afterwards he was seen less often at poker events, so Lamb didn't cash at the WSOP from 2012 to 2016 . At the end of January 2015, he finished second in the Aria High Roller at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas for $ 300,000 in prize money. In mid-April 2017, Lamb won the mixed game High Roller at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas with a prize of almost 300,000 US dollars. In July 2017, Lamb reached the final table of the WSOP main event , which began on July 20, 2017. He started as a short stack and finished ninth for a cash prize of one million US dollars. At the end of January 2018, Lamb won the A $ 25,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne with a prize of almost 740,000 Australian dollars . In June 2018, he won both US $ 10,500 PLO events at Aria Casino within three days for prize money of around US $ 165,000 each. In mid-May 2019, Lamb achieved second and first place at tournaments of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Budva, Montenegro, securing the equivalent of more than one million US dollars.

Prize money overview

Lamb (fourth from right) as part of the November Nine 2011

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2006	00.218,761	4th
2007	00.122,878	1
2008	00.016,045	-
2009	00.731.231	-
2010	00.140.886	-
2011	05,352,970	1
2012	00,000.000	-
2013	00,000.000	-
2014	00.012,472	-
2015	00.300,000	-
2016	00,000.000	-
2017	01,462,587	2
2018	01,052,532	3
2019	01,713,431	2
2020	00.257,415	-
total	11,381,207	13

Web links

Commons : Ben Lamb  - collection of images

• Ben Lamb in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Ben Lamb in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Ben Lamb in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Ben Lamb in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Бен Ламб (Ben Lamb) on propokerpro.org, accessed October 12, 2015 (Russian).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ben Lamb in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 12, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ben Lamb on pokernews.com, accessed October 12, 2015.
4. ↑ Ben Lamb in the World Series of Poker database, accessed February 29, 2016.
5. ↑ Benba in the PocketFives database, accessed on January 9, 2020 (English).
6. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 12, 2015.
7. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 12, 2015.
8. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 12, 2015.
9. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 12, 2015.
10. ↑ 2011 World Series of Poker Player of the Year ( memento January 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on bluff.com, accessed on April 1, 2017 (English).
11. ↑ Ben Lamb Wins 2011 Card Player Player of the Year Award on cardplayer.com from January 1, 2012, accessed on April 1, 2017 (English).
12. ↑ Aria High Roller 2 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 18, 2017.
13. ↑ Bellagio Mixed Game High Roller 1 ($ 25,000 + 400 Bellagio Mixed Game High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 18, 2017.
14. ↑ Meet the 2017 Non-November Nine: WSOP Main Event Final Table Bios on pokerlistings.com on July 18, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017.
15. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event Championship (Event # 73)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 21, 2017.
16. ↑ 2018 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 25,000 Challenge (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 28, 2018.
17. ↑ Aria 10K PLO-01 ($ 10,000 + 500 Pot Limit Omaha) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 25, 2018.
18. ↑ Aria 10K PLO-02 ($ 10,000 + 500 Pot Limit Omaha) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 25, 2018.
19. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 200,000 Pot Limit Omaha (Event # 8)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 17, 2019.
20. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 500,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em - Ante Only (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 17, 2019.