Ben Tollerene has won the final event of the 2024 Poker Masters. The longtime high-stakes player, known to many by his screen name ‘Ben86’, topped a field of 68 entries in the $25,200 buy-in high roller to earn $510,000 and his tenth recorded tournament title.
Tollerene now has more than $16.1 million in career earnings accrued across 126 in-the-money finishes. This was his fourth final-table finish of the year, including a runner-up finish in the $250,000 buy-in event at the World Series of Poker this summer for a career-best score of $3.5 million.
This latest victory conveyed 504 Card Player Player of the Year points upon Tollerene. He now sits in 140th place in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker.
Tollerene also earned 306 PGT points, enough to finish in sixth place in the series-long standings despite no prior cashes during this eight-event festival. Jim Collopy had already locked up the 2024 Poker Masters Purple Jacket before the last day of this final event began.
The final day began with seven players remaining and bracelet winner Andrew Licthenberger atop the leaderboard. Victoria Livschitz was the first to fall. She got her last 7 big blinds in preflop with K-Q trailing the A-Q suited of World Poker Tour champion Taylor von Kriegenbergh. Both players ended up with a pair of queens on the river, but von Kriegenbergh’s kciker played to earn him the pot. Livschitz secured $68,000 as the seventh-place finisher. She now has nearly $2.1 million in recorded live earnings.
Filipp Khavin got his last few big blinds in with pocket fours racing against the K-Q suited of fellow short stack Sam Soverel. The board brought both overcards for Soverel, giving him two pair for the win. Khavin headed home with $93,500 for his sixth-place showing.
Soverel, who was adorned in the Purple Jacket he won in 2019, was still the shortest stack heading into five-handed despite scoring that knockout. The two-time bracelet winner was not the next to fall, though. Bracelet winner Aram Zobian’s pocket tens were cracked by the pocket nines of von Kriegenbergh, who flopped a set and […]
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