Sunday Briefing: Ben Tollerene Bags $310K Score

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Sep 17, 2018 4 min read

Sunday, September 16 was a massive day for online poker tournament players thanks to the PokerStars WCOOP nearing its conclusion, two $1 million guaranteed POWERFEST events at partypoker and the XL Eclipse series being in full swing at 888poker.

Ben Tollerene was one of the day’s biggest winners; let’s see what he got his hands on.

partypoker POWERFEST #095-SHR: $1M Gtd Championship Event

The first of two $1 million guaranteed POWERFEST Championship Events saw 312 players part company with $5,200, creating a massive $1,560,000 prize pool as a result. This huge prize pool was shared among the top 40 finishers with a min-cash weighing in at $12,168, a final table appearance being worth $31,200 and the champion walking away with $310,440.

Team partypoker member Roberto “WelshWizard” Romanello burst the final table bubble, busting in ninth-place for $24,180.

“MaXiMuSpkr” was the final table’s first casualty and they were followed to the sidelines by “PaLpAlIZa”, “Kackucy” and “PokerG1rl69.”

Each of the final four players were guaranteed a six-figure score. Team partypoker’s Anatoly “NL_Profit” Filatov fell in fourth place for $114,660 only a week after he banked a $159,000 prize.

Sweden’s Niklas “Drultiooo” Astedt then busted in third place for a $157,560 addition to his bankroll, leaving Jon “sordykrd” Van Fleet and Ben “CowEyed” Tollerene to play heads-up for the title.

Van Fleet, winner of partypoker’s inaugural MILLIONS Online event last year for more than $1 million, fell in second place and collected $224,640, which allowed Tollerene to get his hands on $310,440.

Tollerene has a superb record in partypoker’s biggest online events. He won $393,900 in May 2018 when he finished fourth in a $5 million guaranteed POWERFEST event and won the $25,500 Super High Roller POWERFEST event in Sept. 2017 for $846,772.

partypoker POWERFEST #097-HR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO

The other $1 million guaranteed POWERFEST Championship Event was a $1,050 PKO tournament that saw 1,199 players create a guarantee-busting prize pool of $1,222,980.

Canada’s “nolet20” was the player who emerged victorious in this tournament, taking home $102,214 for their first-place finish plus an additional $88,328 worth of bounties for a combined score of $190,542.

Nolet20 defeated “whresmymind” heads-up to secure the title and the lion’s share of the prize pool, resigning their heads-up opponent to a total prize worth $88,816.

Earlier in the tournament, the partypoker sponsored pros Anatoly “NL_Profit” Filatov and Kristen “Krissyb24” Bicknell busted in the money, the latter falling in 19th place for $3,297 and $2,827 from the bounty prize pool.

British grinder Ben “bfzhang” Farrell reached the final table, but busted in fifth place for a combined $34,261.

PokerStars WCOOP-55-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max PKO

The PokerStars WCOOP-55-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max PKO entry list read like a who’s who of online poker, which wasn’t surprising considering the tournament cost $5,200 to enter.

A field of 203 players created a prize pool of $1,015,000, more than twice the size of the guarantee, and this was shared among the top 23 finishers.

Each of the eight players at the final table was guaranteed at least $16,872 from the prize pool plus whatever they had accumulated in bounties along the way. Finnish star Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden fell in eighth place for a combined $24,372 with Hungary’s Laszlo “omaha4rollz” Bujtas collecting $52,438 for his seventh-place exit.

Kahle “ROFLshove” Burns, Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond and China’s “huang33” then fell by the wayside with Galfond winning the most cash despite finishing in fifth place thanks to him securing $31,796 worth of bounties to go with his $36,066 prize.

Romania’s Nedelcu “Narcisus90” Narcis crashed out in third place after firing three bullets at the tournament. His persistence paid off to the tune of $105,121 when bounties were taken into consideration.

Narcis’ exit left “MB TREMENDO” and the UK’s Lucas “Bit2Easy” Reeves to battle it out for the title. It was a battle that Reeves would emerge victorious from, getting his hands on a combined $219,741 with his Uruguayan opponent busting with $87,173 to console themselves with.

PokerStars $2,100 Sunday High Roller

Bryn “BrynKenney” Kenney triumphed in the $2,100 Sunday High Roller at PokerStars to lock up a $45,028 first-place prize. The outspoken Kenney locked horns with Italian star Dario “Secret_M0d3” Sammartino for the title and he brushed him aside to leave Sammartino to collect a $34,100 payout.

UK-based Spaniard “girafganger7” was the final table’s first casualty, their ninth-place netting them $5,528.

Russia’s “hello_totti” was the first player to bank a five-figure score, namely $11,217 when they fell in sixth place. Hello_totti was joined on the rail by Roman “RomeOpro” Romanovskiy, Scott “Aggro Santos” Margereson and “bartek901” before Sammartino and Kenney embarked in their one-on-one battle.

Former Magic The Gathering pro, Kenney has won more than $25 million from live poker tournaments and is a huge winner online, too.

You can check out the biggest results from the 888poker XL Eclipse series in our dedicated daily recap here at PokerNews.com.

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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