Benjamin Pollak

Benjamin Pollak
Benjamin Pollak (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	April 23, 1983
place of birth	Paris
Nickname	MagicDealPokerStars & Full Tilt Poker
place of residence	London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 3.5 million
Total prize money	$ 12,940,047
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	23
Best main event	3. ( 2017 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	3
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	9
Last updated: January 9, 2020

Benjamin Bernard Pollak (born April 23, 1983 in Paris ) is a professional French poker player .

Poker career

Career

Pollak lives in London . He has been playing online under the nickname MagicDeal since 2007 and has total tournament income of around 330,000 US dollars on the PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker platforms . Since 2007 Pollak has also taken part in renowned live tournaments.

In June 2010 Pollak won the main event of the Trophées Haussmann in Paris with a prize of around 100,000 euros . In July 2010 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 cashed in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the beginning of December 2011 Pollak reached the final table at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Prague and received 104,000 euros for his fourth place. In April 2013 he was again at the final table of a WPT main event and finished second in Barcelona for 126,000 euros. At the 2013 WSOP he reached the seventh day of the tournament in the main event and was eliminated there in 27th place for almost $ 300,000 in prize money. At the end of August 2014, Pollak finished fifth in the High Roller of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona for 219,000 euros. At the beginning of February 2015, he reached the final table at the EPT Main Event in Deauville and finished fourth for just under 200,000 euros. At the 2017 WSOP , Pollak reached the final table of the main event , which began on July 20, 2017. He started third in chips and finished third behind Scott Blumstein and Daniel Ott for $ 3.5 million in prize money. At the PokerStars Championship in Barcelona Pollak took third place in the high roller at the end of August 2017 and received prize money of almost 700,000 euros due to a deal with Ronny Kaiser and Markus Dürnegger . At the beginning of November 2017, Pollak finished second behind Niall Farrell in the High Roller of the World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov for around 460,000 euros. In February 2018 Pollak won the sixth event of the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas with a bonus of 416,500 dollars and finished fifth in the race for the US Poker Open Championship trophy with a total of three cashes in the series . At the 2018 WSOP , he reached the sixth day of the tournament in the main event and finished in 42nd place for around $ 190,000 in prize money. At the end of August 2018, Pollak finished fifth at the EPT Super High Roller in Barcelona and received almost 450,000 euros. A few days later he won a 50,000 euro high roller event on the same spot and secured a prize of 979,000 euros. At the end of October 2018, as in the previous year, Pollak reached the final table of the High Roller of the World Series of Poker Europe in Rozvadov and finished the tournament in third place for around 370,000 euros. In early May 2019, he won the EPT High Roller in Monte-Carlo and received more than 700,000 euros due to a deal with Koray Aldemir .

In total, Pollak has earned almost $ 13 million in poker in live tournaments , making him the second most successful French poker player after Bertrand Grospellier .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2007	00.017,878	1
2008	00.020,142	-
2009	00.054,701	1
2010	00.224,971	2
2011	00.350.615	1
2012	00.00.9261	-
2013	00.621.902	-
2014	00.603.712	1
2015	00.695.751	1
2016	00.301.764	-
2017	04,979,065	-
2018	03,866,899	2
2019	01,193,391	1
2020	00,000.000	-
total	12,940,047	10

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Pollak  - Collection of Images

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WSOP 2017: Three men and a bracelet; Blumstein, Ott, Pollak battle for $ 8.15M on pokerstars.com on July 22, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Meet the 2017 Non-November Nine: WSOP Main Event Final Table Bios on pokerlistings.com on July 18, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2017.
3. ↑ Benjamin Pollak in the World Series of Poker database, accessed July 20, 2017.
4. ↑ MagicDeal in the PocketFives database, accessed July 20, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Benjamin Pollak in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017.
6. ↑ Trophees Haussmann (€ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017 (English).
7. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 20, 2017.
8. ↑ WPT Prague (€ 3,200 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017 (English).
9. ↑ PartyPoker WPT Barcelona (€ 3,200 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017 (English).
10. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 62)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017 (English).
11. ↑ EPT - 11 - ESPT - 5 - Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 # 31 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017 (English).
12. ↑ EPT - 11 - FPS - 4 - Deauville (€ 5,000 + 300 # 11 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 20, 2017 (English).
13. ↑ 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 July 24, 2017.
14. ↑ PokerStars Championship Barcelona (€ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship High Roller # 41) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 28, 2017.
15. ↑ 2017 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 3, 2017 (English).
16. ↑ US Poker Open ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 9, 2018 (English).
17. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event Championship (Event # 65)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 11, 2018.
18. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 27, 2018 (English).
19. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 17)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 29, 2018 (English).
20. ↑ 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Highroller (Event # 8)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 26, 2018 (English).
21. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT High Roller (Event # 30)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2019 (English).