Benjamin Tollerene

Benjamin Tollerene, popularly known as “Ben”, “Ben86”, and “Bttech86”, is an American professional poker player who was born in Fort Worth, Texas on December 20, 1986. He currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. Ben Tollerene became famous in the poker community when he started to actively play at the high stakes limits on Pokerstars and the now defunct Full tilt. Tollerene has won overr $11,000,000 in his poker career with an accumulated best live cash of $1,037,229. Despite the fact that Ben specializes in cash games, he also achieved considerable success in tournament poker.

Benjamin Tollerene: Early Life

Tollerene has always been a hard worker, putting in countless hours of experimenting and research while at school. He earned a Finance Degree from Texas Tech University. He moved to Vancouver to continue playing online because of his love of poker. 

Ben began to play home poker with friends and became fascinated in the game. He became interested in poker after registering at a famous poker forum and began reading all he could find. Ben made a deposit and received a 100% first deposit bonus before beginning to play. Tollerene made significant growth over the years.

Benjamin Tollerene: Poker Career

Ben started playing poker in August of 2008. He competed in the Thackerville, Oklahoma, The River Guaranteed $3,000,000. He finished 129th cashing for $3k.

Tollerene started playing Pot-Limit Omaha in January 2009 and thought the strategy of the game suited his style of play. He participated in the Biloxi 2009 Southern Poker Championship. He placed 14th and earned $2,883.

Tollerene worked hard on his game, and by January 2010, he had qualified for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2010 on Paradise Island. He finished seventh and earned $15,110. Tollerene gained popularity once PLO tables were introduced to Full Tilt. He was one of the fewest players to be able to compete at the highest of stakes. Renowned Swedish poker player Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was a frequent player of the high stake PLO action.

Tollerene had a successful year after Black Friday in 2011. The poker player moved to Canada and began traveling around the world. He enjoyed and excelled at a variety of games. That year was fortunate for him because he not only continued to actively play high stakes games, but he also attained PokerStars’ highest SuperNova Elite status. In June 2011, Ben won $99,493 during the 42nd World Series of Poker in 2011, in Las Vegas.

Benjamin Tollerene Losses Staggering Amount

In 2013, Tollerene attended the 42nd World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He received $2,621 for finishing 106th. He dropped a staggering $1.7 million after sitting down with Viktor “Isildur1” Blom at the end of the night. Tollerene claimed that, while he eventually lost it all, the experience had given him a greater sense of mental fortitude and emotional reserve.

Benjamin got his highest live score when he joined and won the 2019 British Poker Open competition in September 2019, in London. He took first place and received a whopping $1,037,229. 

in September 2022, in Kyrenia at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Cyprus, Ben triumphed over his nerves. He secured the first place in Event one, earning a impressive prize of $807,927.. On the second day of the competition, he won an additional $535,000 and finished fourth. This was the third-largest score of his tournament career, bringing his lifetime earnings to more than $11,000,000.

Conclusion

Benjamin believes that his self-worth as a poker player is not determined by how much money he wins or loses because that is often beyond his control. It had taken a long time for him to reach the point where he could deflect a severe downswing by keeping serenity and normalcy in his life. Ben focuses, to the best of his abilities, on what he can control. He has faith in his strategy, execution, mental control, and so forth. He was always satisfied with his performance and was able to come back stronger each time, ready to execute his strategy and succeed.