Benjamin Rolle

Benjamin Rolle is considered to be one of the best technical Poker players. But at the same time, he is a stealthy person, and here you will get all the known and main information about Ben, his life, and his career in Poker. Here are some of the basics to know:

• Nickname: Benjamin Rolle has several nicknames, and the most known one is “bencb789” at Pokerstars. He also uses “patience” at PartyPoker, “RYE_bencb789” at Natural8, and he uses his own name at GGPoker;
• Nationality: German;
• Residence: Vienna, Austria;
• Born: February 3, 1989;
• Age: Benjamin is 35 years old now;
• Last Results: 200th place at 2023 Wynn Summer Classic, 479th place at 2022 GGPoker.com & WSOP.com World Series of Poker Online, 25th place at 2021 WPT World Online Championships.

Benjamin Rolle’s Biography

Ben was born in Germany in the small city of Cottbus. Since his childhood, he was interested in Football. That is when he played for FC Energie Cottbus. Then he plays in the district league for FSV Viktoria Cottbus. But when he became older, he started to play computer games. His favorite was Counter-Strike, and he was kind of a skilled player with good results. But back in those days, Cybersports were not so popular, so he stopped to play CS.

Instead, in 2008, he started to play and since then he has had good results in online and live championships. Benjamin also moved to England, because of high taxes in Germany. Then he lived in Sweden, and now Ben lives in the Austrian capital – Vienna.

Poker Career

Like many pokerists, Benjamin started to play Poker with his friends. And in 2008 he started to play at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. And after Full Tilt Poker was closed, he only played at Poker Stars for some time. Unfortunately, the information about his results at Full Tilt Poker is lost, but at the moment of closing, he had more than 90,000 Poker Matches on the site. Many of them were Sit&Go matches with $200 and $500 limits. The exact info about profit is not available, but the total amount of prizes is more than $33,000,000.

Benjamin Rolle became a popular pokerist after winning Fedor Holtz at WCOOP with a $1,172,000 prize. After that, Ben created his own education platform for people who want to play Poker better. This platform is called “Raise Your Edge”. The website is popular among people, and Benjamin and his team actively teach people how to improve their skills in Poker. Read “Top 5 Tips We Learned from Ben Rolle“.

Live Poker Achievement

Of course, like almost every Poker player, Benjamin participates in many Live Poker tournaments. Unfortunately, his results there were not as good, as in Online Poker. Here are some of them:

• PokerStars Championship Barcelona, 2017 – 3rd place in €5,200 No Limit Hold’em with prize of $45,310;
• 46th World Series of Poker – WSOP 2015, Las Vegas – 36th place in Six-Handed  $5,000 No Limit Hold’em with a prize of $13,855;
• 10 Cash Placements at WSOP in total;
• 3 Cash Placements at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour;
• 1 Cash Placement at PokerStars Championship;
• 1 Cash Placement at Main Event of Partypoker Live.

Online Poker Achievements

Benjamin really likes to play tournaments online. He played on many popular websites for a long time. That is why he has all his main achievements and impressive results in Online Poker:

• Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker 2016 – 1st place against Fedor Holtz with prize of $1,172,000;
• More than $35,000,000 earned in Sit&Go and tournaments at PokerStars;
• Member of the PokerStars Pro Team since 2021;
• 3 Cash Placements at GGPoker WCOOP in 2020.

Top Five Career Cash

Another important point about Benjamin Rolle is his best winnings. All of them are also connected with his Oline Poker career and results there. Here is the table with his top chases.

Benjamin Rolle’s Socials

For a long time, Ben was one of the stealthiest players in Poker. But then he revealed his face, and now he actively works with his social media account and posts a lot. Here are some of them:

• Instagram;
• Twitter of Raise Your Edge;
• YouTube of Raise Your Edge.