Ben Sulsky

Last updated

Ben Sulsky
Nickname(s)Sauce123
Sauce1234
PrtectYaNeck
Born (1987-11-22) November 22, 1987 (age 37)
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s) None
Final table(s)2
Money finish(es)4
Information last updated on 1 July 2015.

Benjamin Sulsky (born November 22, 1987) is an American professional poker player from Durham, New Hampshire. Sulsky plays under the aliases Sauce123 on PokerStars and Sauce1234 on Full Tilt Poker. He specializes in Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) and No-Limit hold'em (NLHE). [1]

Contents

Poker career

Sulsky started playing online freeroll tournaments never depositing any money when he first started playing. He built up a bankroll of $3000 and proceeded to lose $1200 in one night. He cashed out the rest and did not play poker for two years. He returned with a $1000 deposit, which he lost. He deposited another $1000 and started playing $0.10/$0.25 with bankroll management rules of 25-30 buy-ins. Sulsky never went broke and never looked back. [1]

By 2012, he was considered one of the best players in the world at NLHE and PLO. He described having trouble finding action as other players refused to play him. [2] He defeated Phil Galfond at the 2013 World Series of Poker $10,000 No Limit Hold'em heads-up event finishing 4th for $110,485. [3] He is currently an instructor for Galfond's website Run It Once. [4]

In 2013, Sulsky played fellow professional poker player Doug Polk in a highly publicized match of 15,000 hands in heads up No-Limit hold 'em and was defeated for $740,000. Polk also received an additional $100,000 bonus for his victory. [5]

Sulsky is considered an online cash game specialist rarely playing live tournaments. [1] Sulsky has won over $5,500,000 on his PokerStars account, Sauce123, but is down over $400,000 on his Full Tilt account, Sauce1234. He formerly played as PrtectYaNeck on Full Tilt earning over $500,000. [6]

He became more active on the live tournament circuit during the 2015 World Series of Poker finishing 4th in both the $50,000 Poker Player's Championship and the $100,000 One Drop tournament earning over $1,400,000. [7] [8] As of October 2016, his total live winnings exceed $1,700,000. [9]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gus Hansen</span> Danish poker player (born 1974)

Gustav Hansen is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, one WSOP bracelet and the 2007 Aussie Millions main event, and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Before turning to playing poker professionally in 1997, Hansen was already a world class backgammon player and a youth tennis champion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Negreanu</span> Canadian poker player (born 1974)

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. In 2014, independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index recognized Negreanu as the best poker player of the previous decade.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jennifer Harman</span> American poker player (born 1964)

Jennifer C. Harman is an American professional poker player. She has won two World Series of Poker bracelets in open events, one of only four women to have done so.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erick Lindgren</span> American poker player (born 1976)

Erick A. Lindgren is an American professional poker player. He has won two World Poker Tour (WPT) titles, two World Series of Poker bracelets, and more than $10,500,000 in tournament earnings during his poker career. As of April 2020 he is 85th on the all-time money list of poker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chau Giang</span> American poker player (born 1955)

Chau Tu Giang is an American professional poker player who is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a three-time final tablist of the World Poker Tour with over $3 million in live tournament winnings alone.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johnny Lodden</span> Norwegian poker player (born 1985)

Johnny Lodden is a Norwegian professional poker player prominently known for his online success. He frequently played under the alias "bad_ip" on Prima network online high-stakes games, and for a brief time he was considered the biggest winner in the largest online cash games in the world. Lodden has also been known to occasionally play on PokerStars under the alias "Lars-Magne". In August 2007 Lodden gave a brief interview with the Danish poker journal Acemag, where he admitted to having lost his whole bankroll and had to retire his old bad_ip account and start from scratch with a stake from a friend.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonathan Little</span> American poker player (born 1984)

Jonathan Little is an American professional poker player who won both the World Poker Tour's Season VI Mirage Poker Showdown and Season VII Foxwoods World Poker Finals and won the WPT Season VI Player of the Year award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Karam</span> Canadian poker player (born 1980)

Marc Karam is a Canadian professional poker player. In addition to playing in major international poker tournaments, he plays online poker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Dwan</span> American poker player (born 1986)

Thomas Dwan Jr. is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr". Dwan has won prize money in live poker tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Poker After Dark, the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grant Hinkle</span> American poker player

Grant Hinkle is an American poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event. He earned $831,462 at the event, bringing his total live tournament winnings to $1,640,843.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phil Galfond</span> American poker player (born 1985)

Phil Galfond is an American professional poker player. Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championship in 2015 and the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship in 2018. Due to his success as a high-stakes online player, he appeared on multiple seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.

Peter Jetten is a Canadian poker player. Jetten is known for playing online poker under the screen name "Apathy". He has over $9,300,000 in live poker tournament winnings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brian Rast</span> American poker player (born 1981)

Brian Rast is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Alexander Millar is a British professional poker player who specializes in online high-stakes heads-up cash games, specifically No Limit Hold'em, playing under the alias Kanu7 on PokerStars and IReadYrSoul on Full Tilt Poker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doug Polk</span> American poker player (born 1988)

Douglas K. Polk is an American professional poker player. Polk played under the alias WCGRider, specializing in heads-up No Limit hold'em (HUNL).

Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris is a Greek-Canadian professional gambler and principal owner of Spanish soccer club CD Castellón. Formerly the director of quantitative research and development for the Dallas Mavericks, Voulgaris was considered one of the most prolific NBA sports bettors in the world.

Alexandre Luneau is a high-stakes French professional poker player specialising in mixed games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Koon</span> American poker player (born 1985)

Jason Koon is an American professional poker player from Weston, West Virginia, known for his accomplishments in live and online poker tournaments.

Linus Loeliger is a Swiss professional poker player who specializes in online No Limit Texas hold 'em (NLHE) cash games. Loeliger focuses almost exclusively on no-limit hold 'em.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mikita Badziakouski</span> Belarusian poker player (born 1992)

Mikita Badziakouski is a Belarusian professional poker player known for his accomplishments in live poker tournaments.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Interview with Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky". HighStakesDB. May 13, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ Showell, Matthew (June 9, 2013). "Sulsky: Game Selection "Killing Online Poker's Appeal"". Poker Listings. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Maldonago, Pamela (June 9, 2013). "Phil Galfond and Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky Discuss Marathon Heads-Up Match at the WSOP". PokerNews . Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Klöhn, Arved (August 12, 2013). "Ben Sulsky teaching again – Joining Run It Once". PokerOlymp. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ Holloway, Chad (October 25, 2013). "Doug "WCGRider" Polk Defeats Ben "Sauce1234" Sulsky in $100K Challenge". PokerNews. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sauce123". HighStakesDB. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Fast, Erik (June 30, 2015). "Jonathan Duhamel Wins 2015 WSOP $111,111 One Drop High Roller". CardPlayer. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  8. ↑ Rinkema, Remko (June 24, 2015). "Sulsky Has Fun with Tournament Poker Variance in the $50K Poker Players Championship". PokerNews. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Benjamin Sulsky's profile on The Hendon Mob". The Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.