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Ben Yu has quietly carved a niche as one of the top performers each summer during the World Series of Poker, and can dominate the high-stakes cash games as well.
The 2008 Stanford University graduate has over $7 million in lifetime live tournament earnings. Prior to 2015, Ben had just $525,000 in earnings. In 2015, he won his first of three bracelets in $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship, good for $291,456. Two years later he earned another bracelet in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship for $232,738. Last year, he won his third bracelet, this one in the $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller (Big Blind Antes) for a career-best $1,650,773.
Proving to be quite the mixed-game specialist, Japan’s Tamon Nakamura captured his second title of the 2022 U.S. Poker Open, defeating Phil Hellmuth heads-up to take home $239,700 in Event #6: $15,000 8-Game. Nakamura now has four cashes at the 2022 U.S. Poker Open and sits atop the series leaderboard at the halfway point of…
Ben Yu used the final few levels of play to mount a climb up the leaderboard to end as the overwhelming chip leader heading into the Event #6: $15,000 8-Game final table at the 2022 U.S. Poker Open. Yu bagged 2,400,000 in chips to lead the final seven players that include Damjan Radanov, Bryan Micon,…
A big day of action at the Rio Hotel & Casino saw the penultimate day of the 2021 World Series of Poker crown the Player of the Year and see the two final tournaments of the series reach their finals days with big names in charge. Addamo in Control in High Roller Michael Addamo leads…
The Main Event reached Day 4 at the Rio as PokerStars player Ramon Colillas ended the day as chip leader with a total of 5 million chips. ,000,000 chips, with Demosthenes Kiriopoulos (4,500,000) and Stephen Song (4,417,000) second and third in chips. Main Event Drama on Day 4 Sees Brits in the Hunt With players…
The inaugural season of the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate features the industry’s most high-profile poker tournaments with buy-ins of $10,000 or greater and includes more than 100 tournaments across the globe. The top performer as ranked by the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate leaderboard will earn the Player of the Year title…
