Ben Rolle’s 2024 Results & Advice for 2025

Decent Results of 2024: Why Ben Rolle’s Advice Is Legit

After VeniVidi1993 shared astonishing +$2,8M results of 2024, other players joined him with their reports — and Ben Rolle was among them.

He published a mini review of his results on X (ex-Twitter) with a few key points:

For the first half of the year, Rolle streamed some of his sessions, engaging in the chat and dedicating part of his attention to the technical side of streams. It turned out to be too energy-consuming and distracting, so for the second half of 2024 he changed his plans:

“I stopped streaming in the 2nd half of the year but still recorded all of my sessions and uploaded them to our Champions Subscription for our members.

I realized that playing offstream is indeed a massive advantage. I can openly talk more about adjustments and exploits, therefore detecting flaws in my game more quickly (obviously, I couldn’t do this on stream).”

One of the important reasons behind Ben’s success in 2024 was focusing on exploits instead of being married to solvers:

“I keep the theory simple. I focus on exploits. When I see a spot, I know what I need to do. I don’t care what a Solver tells me to do. I focus on exploiting human weaknesses. I focus on consistency. I don’t tilt. Most of my winnings come from patience, not tilting, and playing my value hands well. That’s it.“

He attached two graphs as illustrations of his results — one from PokerStars and another overall — to his post.

Difference Between Top-Tier Crushers & Losers in Poker

Ten years of coaching taught Rolle a lot about players’ mindsets, psychological diversity and mental abilities. The more knowledge he accumulated, the more clearly Rolle started to see differences between successful poker players and “losers”.

What Is Typical of a Loser?

No matter how much money they’ve already made or how much experience they have, they all share one thing in common: They adopt a “beginner’s mindset.”

Losers always ask: “But, but, but…” — they focus on justifying their plays and seeking confirmation that what they’re doing is correct. They’re too afraid to admit there’s more to learn.

Losers also rely on solver outputs because it’s easy. There’s nothing to question – just copy and paste. They’ll debate for hours on river strategies and flop sizes but avoid exploring new exploits, challenging their beliefs, addressing fears, considering population tendencies. And then they wonder why they’re not making progress and other Top Regs are scoring left and right. Why?

Because doing so would require admitting their weaknesses. The work they simply don’t want to put in. They insist on playing poker their way, refusing to believe that there are many opportunities out there to gain an edge.

What Is Typical of a Top-Tier Crusher?

Absolute top-tier crushers always ask: “Why?” “When?” “How?” — they can control their egos and are unafraid to question their plays and refuse to label many plays as “standard.”

High stakes crushers and solid mid-stakes players shared one thing in common: an openness to explore the vast possibilities for finding edges.

Rolle explains it in this quote in detail:

“Of course, there’s more to it – patience, mindset, bankroll management, and so on. But if you want to learn from better players & coaches (assuming you have a good coach), having the ability to keep an incredibly open mind is absolutely necessary to crush at poker – or, frankly, at anything.”

Money-Printing Mindset Skills for Poker Players

Rolle is sure that some kinds of mental expertise are real game changers for poker players. They not only allow players to be more stable in terms of psychology but also help to make much more money. His list of useful money-printing mindset skills includes:

• Being patient with a short stack – Remember, there are WSOP Main Event winners who had just 10-20bb after Day 1.
• Being okay with busting on the very first hand of a Final Table – It’s part of the game.
• Being confident when making moves around the money bubble – Pressure is opportunity.
• Not having ego problems when moving down in stakes during downswings.
• Continuing to work hard after winning a big tournament.
• Not over-adjusting when moving up in stakes – Just because you’re playing higher stakes doesn’t mean you need to change your solid game plan.
• Being able to quit a session when you’re not running good or playing well – Protect your mental game and bankroll.
• NOT quitting a session just because you won a lot of money – You’d be surprised how many players are afraid to lose their winnings.

Develop them and apply them to any session and you’ll notice a positive shift in your game, mental well-being and results.

Bad Poker Habits for MTT Players to Avoid in 2025

After spending some time on thinking and analysing experience of his student sand colleagues as well as his own, Ben Rolle pinpointed 8 “deadly sins” of tournament poker players:

1. Chasing Losses Mentality
2. No/Bad Bankroll Management
3. Being too scared in deeper stages of a Tournament
4. Being triggered against aggressive opponents
5. Results Oriented thinking
6. Being careless about your chips early in a Tournament (because you have “a ton” of chips)
7. Tilt
8. Ignoring basic math (Pot odds, Equity, ICM, etc)

According to Ben, you just can’t ignore any of them without serious consequences:

“Throughout my career as a player and coach, I have experienced that just ONE of these can result in a poker player turning into or remaining a losing player.”

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