The last time Ben Tollerene cashed in a live poker tournament, it came in a win in the £100,000 buy-in event at the 2019 British Poker Open. Just shy of three years after that victory, Tollerene made a triumphant return to the live circuit by winning the 2022 Triton Mediterranean Poker Party $30,000 buy-in six-max no-limit hold’em event. This was the first live poker tournament he had cashed in since his victory in London.
“I’m very tired,” Tollerene told Triton Poker after winning the event. “I was sort of stressed because I haven’t played poker in a while and I was struggling to remember everything.”
It seems for Tollerene, a former fixture at the high-stakes cash game tables online, playing poker with huge sums on the line was just like riding a bike. He was able to overcome the stress he was feeling and close out the win, earning $807,000 for the win. This was the third-largest score of his tournament career, bringing his lifetime earnings to more than $10.3 million.
While this was Tollerene’s first cash of the year, the 1,122 Card Player Player of the Year points he earned as the champion were enough to move him within reach of the top 300 in the 2022 POY race standings presented by Global Poker.
The sizable turnout of 123 entries saw the prize pool swell to $3,698,100. Only the top 17 finishers cashed, with recent World Series of Poker Online bracelet winner Pieter Aerts being the last player sent packing outside of the money.
Plenty of big names made deep runs, including Paul Phua (17th(, reigning WSOP main event champion Espen Jorstad (15th), European Poker Tour Sochi main event winner Artur Martirosian (13th), bracelet winner and four-time Triton event champion Jason Koon (12th), and bracelet winner Sam Greenwood (9th).
The second of two days in the event began with the 17 in-the-money finishers returning and Viktor Kudinov in the lead. Kudinov ultimately finished seventh, setting up the official final table of six led by two-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski, who won a race with pocket jacks besting the A-K suited of Kudinov to […]
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