Ben86

Ben86 is 15th on the list of biggest poker winners tracked by HighstakesDB. The data is based on 569043 hands played and his total cash game profits amount to $3,834,925.

Ben86 is the PokerStars screen name of American online poker professional, Ben Tollerene. Ben can be seen at the highest stakes tables battling it out against some of the best in both NLHE and PLO. To continue playing online poker he re-located to Vancouver after Black Friday.

Ben started his poker career with a $500 deposit onto Full Tilt and grinded his way through the stakes in NLHE. He credits his discovery of the 2+2 poker forum as a crucial point in his career and after absorbing as much information and advice as possible, he quickly moved up the stakes eventually settling for some time at $25/$50 NLHE.

Noticing that many of the games biggest winners were transitioning to PLO Ben realised that he could take a step ahead of the curve if he joined them as the game was still relatively new to the majority of players and even the best players had a lot still to learn. Tollerene's move has proven very successful. Between the highstakes tables of Full Tilt and PokerStars, Tollerene is over $11m in profit, with close to $10m of that coming from the PLO tables, making him the biggest online PLO winner of all time.

Tollerene's most famous exchanges at the tables probably took place under his Full Tilt moniker "Bttech86" where he regularly took on Viktor "Isildur1" Blom at the highest stakes PLO tables available. During one memorable couple of weeks in 2013 the pair would regularly load up 4  x $500/$1000 CAP PLO tables and play for millions of dollars. Despite the fantastic competition, invariably Ben would end up in profit as Viktor's love of gambling often got the best of him.

Unlike many of his contemporaries Tollerene has thus far stayed clear of the highstakes mixed game tables, remaining loyal to his preferred big bet games. Clearly while others feel they need to extend their playing portfolio to seek out edges, Tollerene is still comfortable with the ones he already has.

Ben Tollerene has also seen great results in tournaments, with $3.5m in online tournament earnings, including high roller NLHE title wins at both WCOOP and SCOOP for a combined $1m. Recently he also won the $25k High Roller during the partypoker Powerfest series for a huge $850k score. He also has $4.7m in live tourney winnings, where once again the lions share of his winnings have come in high roller events with buy-ins of $25k-$100k.