Ben Yu

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Ben Yu
Ben Yu (2013)
Ben Yu (2013)
  Personal information  
Date of birth January 8, 1986
place of birth United StatesUnited States Dayton
Nicknames
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benyu604PokerStars & Full Tilt Poker

WhyIsGamoraWSOP.com
place of residence United StatesUnited States los Angeles
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,650,773
Total prize money $ 7,104,894
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 100
Best main event 150th ( 2018 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 4th
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: August 3, 2020

Benjamin "Ben" Yu (born January 8, 1986 in Dayton , Ohio ) is a professional American poker player . He is three-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

Personal

Yu grew up in Los Angeles . He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in civil and environmental engineering with a minor in public policy in 2008 . Before starting his poker career, Yu worked as a professional break dancer . He lives in Los Angeles.

Poker career

Career

Yu played on the online poker rooms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker under the nickname benyu604 from January 2013 to April 2014 . Since 2008 he has been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

Yu was the beginning of July 2008 for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em in the money. He reached his first final table at the 2010 WSOP and came second in a shootout event for around $ 115,000 in prize money. In January 2012, Yu won the Red Rock Poker Challenge Main Event in Las Vegas for a $ 75,000 prize money. At the end of June 2015, he won the Limit Hold'em Championship at the 2015 WSOP , securing almost $ 300,000 in prize money and his first bracelet . In mid-December 2015, Yu sat at the final table of the Main Event of the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and received more than 600,000 US dollars in prize money for his third place. In June 2017, he won the Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship of the World Series of Poker 2017 and received a prize of around 230,000 US dollars and his second bracelet . At the 2018 WSOP , Yu finished third in the Seven Card Stud Championship and a few days later took second place in the Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for prize money of just under one million US dollars. He then won the $ 50,000 high roller event and received a prize of more than $ 1.65 million in addition to his third bracelet. At the Poker Masters 2018 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Yu reached the money twice in September 2018 and won prize money of almost 500,000 US dollars.

Overall, Yu has earned more than $ 7 million in poker in live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Yu cashed 100 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2015 10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship 117 0.291,456
2017 10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship 080 0.232.738
2018 50,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller (Big Blind Antes) 128 1,650,773

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ben Yu in the World Series of Poker database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Ben Yu Establishes Himself as One of the Best Limit Hold'em Players in the World on pokernews.com on June 27, 2015, accessed on April 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Ben Yu in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ benyu in the PocketFives database, accessed April 10, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008 ($ 1,500 Limit Hold'em - Shootout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 1,500 Limit Hold'em - Shootout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ 2012 Red Rock Poker Challenge ($ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship (Event # 50)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  9. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em WPT Main Event (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  10. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship (Event # 34)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 10, 2018.
  11. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 10,000 Seven Card Stud - Championship (Event # 38)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 24, 2018.
  12. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 25,000 Pot Limit Omaha - High Roller (Event # 42)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 24, 2018.
  13. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 77)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 15, 2018.
  14. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 25,000 + 1,000 Pot Limit Omaha (Event # 3)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 17, 2018.
  15. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Yu, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yu, Benjamin (full name); benyu604 (nickname); WhyIsGamora (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio , United States