Benjamin Heath

British poker player Benjamin Heath has won over $18.2 million in career winnings and a WSOP bracelet. His first bracelet came in 2019, when he won the $50,000 High Roller for $1.48 million. In 2021, he came in second to Adrian Mateos. In the WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller. narrowly missing out on a second bracelet. Nevertheless, he made more than $2 million, the largest single sum of money of his career.

Benjamin Heath: Early Life

Ben Heath mentioned that when he was young, he used to be quite shy. Because of this, he wasn’t really keen on winning the bracelet. He even mentioned that he would have preferred coming in second place. However, as it turned out, he ended up winning, and he admitted that the feeling is indeed wonderful.

Ben graduated from Warwick University with a first-class honors degree in math. Although he was determined to become a professional poker player, he clearly has succeed in his goal.

his parents were incredibly supportive of his poker goal and that he would not have succeeded this far without them. He is happy he took the risk because his career earnings to date total more than $18 million.

Benjamin Heath: Poker Career Highlights

• Ben Heath uses the screen name 1Don’tStop1 when playing poker online at PokerStars. 
• In late October 2013 in Newcastle upon Tyne, he won his first live tournament. 
• The British player won a side event of the European Poker Tour in Malta at the end of March 2015, and as a result of a deal, he received prize money totalling nearly 60,000 euros. 
• He made his World Series of Poker debut in June 2015. 
• Heath earned about $140,000 by placing eighth at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures High Roller in the Bahamas in mid-January 2016. 
• He won a PokerStars Championship event at the same venue the following year, earning more than $140,000 in prize money. 
• He received one million Australian dollars for placing second in the main event of the Aussie Millions January 2017.
• He finished 4th at the PSC High Roller in Prague in December 2017.
• At the EPT in Monte Carlo at the end of April 2019, Heath also placed 4th in a $50,000 tournament and earned about $300,000.
• He won the $50,000 High Roller event at the 2019 WSOP, earning a bracelet and almost $1.5 million in prize money.
• He finished third in the Triton Poker Series’ Main Event in London at the beginning of August 2019 and was awarded the equivalent of more than 1.6 million US dollars. 
• He earned €455,000 for finishing third in the partypoker Millions Europe Super High Roller in Rozvadov in the middle of August 2019, and placed fourth with a prize of $1 million USD at the Super High Roller Bowl Russia in Sochi in mid-March 2020. 
• Heath received an amount of more than $800,000 for finishing 3rd in the $100,000 High Roller at the WSOP 2022, which was held at Bally’s Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas. At the WSOP 2021, he finished 2nd in the Super High Roller and broke the $10 million mark in overall tournament money with over $2 million in prize money. 
• He placed 4th at the EPT Super High Roller in Barcelona in mid-August 2022 and won about €700,000, and won over €1.3 million in prize money by making it to the final tables of both the Super High Roller and the High Roller at the EPT Monte-Carlo in early May 2023. 

Conclusion

Ben Heath plays poker professionally. He became well-known in the poker world for his exceptional achievements and results in playing tournaments.  He is the third highest-earning poker player in the UK with over $18 million in earnings from live tournament play.