Ben Tollerene

Ben Tollerene
Ben Tollerene (2015)
Personal information
Date of birth	December 20, 1986
place of birth	Oak Harbor
Nicknames 0 0	Ben86PokerStars Bttech86Full Tilt Poker CowEyedpartypoker
place of residence	Vancouver
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 1,037,229
Total prize money	$ 9,515,346
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	11
Best main event	143rd ( 2011 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: June 9, 2020

Benjamin "Ben" Tollerene (born December 20, 1986 in Oak Harbor , Washington ) is a professional American poker player .

Personal

Tollerene comes from Fort Worth, Texas . He received a bachelor's degree in finance from Texas Tech University in Lubbock . Tollerene lives in Vancouver .

Poker career

Career

Tollerene has been playing online since September 2006 under the nicknames Ben86 ( PokerStars ) , Bttech86 ( Full Tilt Poker ) and CowEyed ( partypoker ) . In September 2015 , he won the Super High Roller at the World Championship of Online Poker , which was held on PokerStars , with a prize of $ 817,000 . Overall, Tollerene has tournament revenue of over $ 3 million. With cash games , he made just under $ 11.5 million in profit by May 2018. Since 2008 he has also been participating in renowned live tournaments .

Tollerene was in June 2009 for the first time at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and occurred in two tournaments of the variant No-Limit Hold 'em the money. At the end of August 2015, he finished tenth at the super high roller event of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona for almost 100,000 euros in prize money. At the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne at the end of January 2016, he finished second in the A $ 100,000 Challenge behind Fabian Quoss for the equivalent of just under 650,000 US dollars. In November 2016, Tollerene won the high roller tournament of the Rock N Roll Poker Open in Hollywood with a prize of over 450,000 US dollars. At the first edition of the PokerStars Championship (PSC) in January 2017 in the Bahamas, he first achieved sixth place in a high roller event for $ 200,000 in prize money and later won a Turbo 6-Max with just under $ 150,000 in prize money . In mid-March 2017, Tollerene won the PSC's super high roller event in Panama City and received just under 540,000 US dollars. At the end of May 2017, he finished third in the Aria Super High Roller at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, securing prize money of more than one million US dollars. In late May 2018, Tollerene won the Aria High Roller with a prize of $ 416,500. In mid-November 2018, he finished sixth at the Millions World at the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in Nassau , Bahamas, and received prize money of 450,000 US dollars. In September 2019, Tollerene won the main event of the British Poker Open in London and secured a prize money equivalent to more than one million US dollars.

In total, Tollerene has earned more than $ 9.5 million in poker playing live tournaments .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2008	0.060,645	-
2009	0.047,866	-
2010	0.015.110	-
2011	0.184.711	-
2012	0.000.000	-
2013	0.00.2621	-
2014	0.000.000	-
2015	0.132.379	-
2016	1,269,334	1
2017	3,282,235	2
2018	3,358,114	4th
2019	1,162,331	1
2020	0.000.000	-
total	9,515,346	8th

Web links

Commons : Ben Tollerene  - collection of images

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Road Gamblers of the 21st Century at repositories.lib.utexas.edu (page 11), accessed on February 8, 2018 (PDF).
2. ↑ Ben Tollerene in the World Series of Poker database, accessed April 17, 2017.
3. ↑ Bttech86 in the PocketFives database, accessed on April 17, 2017.
4. ↑ Ben86 on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed on February 12, 2018 (English).
5. ↑ Bttech86 on Full Tilt Poker on highstakesdb.com, accessed February 12, 2018.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Ben Tollerene in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 17, 2017 (English).
7. ↑ EPT - 12 - ESPT - 6 - Barcelona (€ 48,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller 8Max # 19) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 17, 2017.
8. ↑ 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em $ 100,000 Challenge (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 17, 2017.
9. ↑ 2016 Rock N Roll Poker Open ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - RR Poker Open 2016 High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 17, 2017.
10. ↑ PokerStars Championship Bahamas ($ 48,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 35)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 17, 2017.
11. ↑ PokerStars Championship Bahamas ($ 10,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo 6 Max (Event # 90)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 17, 2017.
12. ↑ PokerStars Championship Panama ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship Super High Roller (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 17, 2017.
13. ↑ Aria Super High Roller 19 ($ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 28, 2017.
14. ↑ Aria High Roller 86 ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 29, 2018.
15. ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions World) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 14, 2018.
16. ↑ 2019 British Poker Open (BPO) (£ 100,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - BPO Event # 10) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 15, 2019.