Benjamin Rolle Wins 2025 WSOP Online Main Event
Benjamin Rolle has won the 2025 WSOP Online Main Event, earning $3.9 million and his first World Series of Poker bracelet in a field that nearly matched the largest in online poker history.
Known online as “bencb789,” Rolle came into the final table with the chip lead – a contrast to his position the year before, when he finished eighth.
The $5,000 buy-in tournament, hosted on GGPoker, drew 5,961 entries and generated a prize pool of over $28.3 million.
WSOP Online Main Event Final Table
Zengxiang Chen came into the final table with a decent size stack, though he ran into trouble early after three-bet jamming A♦ J♠ over an open from Anatoly Zlotnikov. The flop and turn held for him, but the 10♣ on the river gave Zlotnikov’s A♥ 10♦ the better hand and ended Chen’s run in ninth place.
Amit Ben Yacov followed not long after. Working with 17 big blinds, he three-bet over an early-position open holding A♥ J♦, and was called by Felix Rabas, who had opened with pocket aces. The board gave Yacov a jack on the turn, but nothing else followed. He exited in eighth.
Rolle, who had come in as chip leader, lost some ground early but regained it with A♦ K♠ after opening from the button and calling a 20-big-blind shove from Andreas Christoforou, who held 7♥ 7♦ in the small blind. The flop – 10♣ J♠ Q♦ – gave him Broadway. So, Christoforou was drawing dead before the turn and was eliminated in seventh.
Soon after, Santiago Plante open-jammed from the small blind with K♠ 7♣ and was called by Rolle in the big holding A♥ 10♦. The board ran out 10♥ 3♠ 4♠ 6♦ 4♥, giving Rolle top pair and another knockout. Rabas eliminated Marco Agustin Perez in fifth, and Zlotnikov followed by winning a race with K♠ Q♦ against the pocket sixes of Daniel Smiljkovic, sending him out in fourth.
Three-Handed Pressure Breaks Open
Rolle, Zlotnikov, and Rabas had all navigated the final table differently, but at this stage, the stacks were close and the margin for error had narrowed – which would change when the biggest hand of the tournament played out between Rolle and Rabas.
After Zlotnikov folded the button, Rolle opened the action from the small blind with A♥ K♣. Rabas, holding A♠ 9♠, raised his big blind to 12,250,000. Rolle responded with a three-bet to 26,250,000, and Rabas moved all in for just over 87 million. The call came immediately.
The flop landed K♦ 8♠ 6♠, giving Rolle top pair and leaving Rabas with a flush draw. The 8♦ turn kept things open, but the K♥ on the river improved Rolle to a full house and left Rabas with little behind.
He made one more move not long after, shoving into Zlotnikov’s pocket aces. The board offered no help; his run ended in third, and heads-up play was set.
Quick Finish at the End
Rolle came into heads-up with a huge lead – the hand against Rabas had put him firmly in control, and Zlotnikov, left with just nine big blinds, had little room to wait.
Zlotnikov limped the small blind with A♠ 9♥, and Rolle shoved with K♠ Q♠. The call came quickly. The flop – 5♠ K♥ 2♥ – gave Rolle top pair. The turn brought the J♠. Only an ace would keep Zlotnikov in it, but the river came K♦, sealing a milestone victory for the German pro.
Rolle’s Redemption
Away from the spotlight of this final table, Rolle had been building a presence across the online game. He runs Raise Your Edge, a training platform, and streams regularly across multiple poker sites. In 2024, he joined CoinPoker as an ambassador, hosted freerolls, and took down a Bitcoin-themed CoinMasters event for 17,000 USDT.
He’s logged more than $35 million in online MTT earnings, but this result is of a different caliber for a poker player: A first WSOP bracelet and a seven-figure cash. He called it the biggest final table of his life – and he only went and won it.