Sauce1234 is 92nd on the list of biggest poker winners tracked by HighstakesDB. The data is based on 106272 hands played and his total cash game profits amount to $706,900.
Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky is an online poker pro who, like so many other future pros, got his start by playing recreationally with friends. While working at a supermarket, the US-born Sulsky sparsely played online poker as well, and even managed to win $3k in a freeroll at one point, which he promptly cashed out and spent away from the tables.
It wasn’t really until he was a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that Sulsky really started to take poker seriously as he started playing the $1/$2 NLHE stakes. After busting his initial $500 bankroll at Full Tilt Poker, Sulsky borrowed another $500 and never looked back.
In November of 2008, Sulsky’s winnings hit $100,000 at Full Tilt after less than a year of play. In January of 2009, Sulsky also ran his winnings at PokerStars up over $100k while playing under his most notable screen name of “Sauce123.” In August, 2010, Sulsky’s winnings reached $1 million at PokerStars; by October, 2010, his winnings at Full Tilt reached the same milestone.
Since starting play on the $50/$100 and $100/$200 NLHE tables, Sulsky’s only major downswing came when his winnings dipped under $500k at PokerStars to start 2011. His Full Tilt Poker winnings have steadily increased without any prolonged downswings, and his peak came in December after reaching $1.4 million in profit.
Not everything is roses for Sulsky though because he’s suffered through some pretty bad PLO sessions at the $100/$200 and $200/$400 limits. But overall, he’s even proved to be a winning Omaha players over time too.
In addition to his exploits on the poker tables, Sulsky had also done some poker coaching for LeggoPoker. And seeing as how he’s one of the top NLHE players in the world, Sulsky’s coaching services are probably in pretty high demand.