We recently posted an article on prominent FlopTurnRiver member sauce123’s high stakes heads-up battles with the even more famous nutsinho over the recent weeks, but it seems sauce is feeling sharp against his game, as we’re back with another article on his high stakes adventures, which have netted him $392,076 over the past several days. Poker’s a game where when luck and skill align themselves great things can happen, and sauce123 seems to have been riding both waves in perfect harmony of late.
Ben “sauce123” Sulsky is a force to be reckoned with in the online poker world. Starting taking poker seriously just a few years ago, he very rapidly rose through the stakes of online poker, a success he attributes to running good, being extremely aggressive while hating to fold, and digesting any and all poker literature he could get his hands on. The young player has a truly sick track record, having amassed nearly $2 Million in cash game winnings at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker alone, according to tracking websites. He’s most profitable at short-handed and heads up NLHE games, but you’d have to work pretty hard to get him out of his comfort zone, and he’s willing to play damn near anybody.
Sauce123 is a highly valued member of FlopTurnRiver, and has been a prolific poster in our strategy forums over the past years. He has written strategy posts and guides which have helped out untold masses of aspiring poker players, but he’s also quick to offer his input on hand histories posted on the forum, thereby helping out individual members personally and with good cheer, to this very day. Of course sauce123 was at one time at the receiving end of such help on the very same forums, and is quick to attribute some of his success to both forum posts and his dealings with our other members. Check out our full exclusive interview with sauce here.
So now that you know the player, let’s get to the action. The high stakes tables at PokerStars were ablaze last weekend, as WCOOP Main Event runner-up joeysweetp decided to try his hand at some of the highest games available. There’s a fairly strong stigma that players who have money to gamble at high stakes cash tables via a big tournament score rather than successful cash grinding are going to be easy pickings, and that seems not to be far from the truth in this case, with joeysweetp dropping $296,000 of his $1.4 Million WCOOP Main Event score, last weekend. When there’s money like this up for grabs, players who would otherwise avoid such high-stakes literally flock to the tables, generating massive amounts of action and while these players may feel they have an edge on the alleged fish, they’re also making themselves targets for players like sauce123.
The $50/$100 NLHE cash tables are where sauce123 stirred up a storm, with chips flying every which way but ultimately landing back in his pocket to the tune of $392,076. Never afraid to give action, the weekend also saw sauce123 lose the biggest pot of his PokerStars history, as he ran the second nuts into phounderAA’s nuts in a pot that reached $106,000. While that’s an unfathomable amount of money to lose in a single-hand of poker for most of us, when you’re as good as sauce123 playing with that kind of money on the table also has the flipside that you’re able to win extraordinary amounts of cash in a single swipe, and indeed he was also to find himself on the receiving end of a massive pot to the tune of $154,000. While sauce has been playing for longer than most tracking sites have been around, it’s still impressive enough to note that one such notable site has him up over $920,000 at PokerStars alone since this time two years ago.
If you’re an aspiring player just starting out and you want to follow in sauce123’s footsteps at PokerStars, then you’ve stumbled across the right place to get a leg-up. The FlopTurnRiver strategy forums are completely free, so you can get advice from excellent players and even the man himself to help you along the way, and what’s more if you use our PokerStars Bonus Code when signing up, FTR can offer you an exclusive $600 bonus to help get your bankroll started, and $1,000 in money-added and freeroll tournaments each and every month. There’s no better way to kickstart your poker career.
It’s great to see a valued member like sauce123 experiencing the kind of success he has been lately, and we’re all really excited to see this continue. While he’s long been an outstanding player, he has of course had his fair share of the swings that come with poker, and so it’s always great to see things moving in the right direction. Keep your eyes and ears open for more updates, as who knows what could happen from here!