Name | Bengt Sonnert |
Nationality | Swede |
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Bengt Sonnert is a Swede professional poker player from Linkoping, Sweden. He boasts total live earnings of more than $1.1 million with his highest live cash of $493,780.
Sonnert also plays online, He won in the 2021 WPT World Online Championships in a $2,000 + 100 PLO – Omaha Championship 6-Max for a grand prize of $71,239.
Bengt Sonnert’s first live tournament was recorded in July 2004 at the Rendez Vous à in Paris. He finished 3rd place in a €2,500 No Limit Hold’em event, cashing $34,384.
Participating at the British Poker Open in London in April 2005, Sonnert won the tournament in a Heat 7 event. He took home $7,542.
In November 2005, during the Monte Carlo Millions in Monte Carlo, he secured 4th place in a $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event. Bengt won a substantial $250,000.
Sonnert competed in the Fourth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas in December 2005. He was in 8th place in a $15,300 Main Event, earning $128,795.
During the World Series of Poker Europe in London in September 2008, he placed 4th in a £10,350 World Championship No Limit Hold’em, cashing $493,780.
His most recent appearance recorded was at Sommarlaxen in Gothenburg in June 2022. Bengt won in a SKr 1,200 No Limit Hold’em event and earned a total prize of $9,073.
Sonnert participated at the Poker Masters Online in April 2020. He joined in a $10,000 + 300 Pot Limit Omaha – 6 Max event and finished 2nd place. Sonnet cashed $179,000.
On June 22nd, 2020, he won in a $5,000 + 200 PLO – High Roller Event at the Poker Masters Online Pot Limit Omaha Series, finishing 1st with a grand prize of $108,961.
Two days later, on June 24th, 2020, he secured another victory in a $5,000 + 200 Pot Limit Omaha – High Roller event of the same series, earning $104,000.
In August 2021, Bengt Sonnert achieved a breakthrough in his online poker career by winning his first title at the World Poker Tour World Online Championships. He competed in a $2,000 + 100 PLO – Omaha Championship 6-Max event and finished 1st, earning the championship prize of $71,239.