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Benjamin Rolle
Benjamin Rolle, known online as “bencb789,” is a German professional poker player, coach, and content creator based in Vienna, Austria, and one of the most accomplished online tournament players of his generation. With over $35 million in online tournament winnings, a WSOP bracelet won in the 2025 WSOP Online Main Event, and the Raise Your Edge training platform reaching over 100,000 students worldwide, Rolle occupies a rare position in poker as both an elite competitor and one of the game’s most respected educators. He has been a CoinPoker ambassador since November 2024.
Career Earnings & Biggest Results
With recorded live and online tournament earnings exceeding $5,530,839 (according to The Hendon Mob and WSOP.com), Rolle’s overall online earnings are estimated to exceed $35 million - a figure that places him among the highest-earning online tournament players in history. His career-best score of $3,900,000 came from winning the 2025 GGPoker WSOP Online Main Event, a 5,961-entry field that generated a $28.3 million prize pool, earning him his first WSOP gold bracelet.
Notable results include:
- September 2025: 1st place in the GGPoker WSOP Online Main Event for $3,900,000 - his career-best score and first WSOP bracelet.
- 2016 WCOOP: 1st place in the $102,000 Super High Roller at PokerStars for $1,172,461, defeating a final table that included Fedor Holz, Isaac Haxton, and Mikita Badziakouski.
- 2022: 1st place in the GGPoker Super MILLION$ for $357,739.
- 2021: 1st place in the SCOOP-M Main Event on PokerStars for $838,908.
- 2020: 2nd place in the Super High Roller EPT Online for $302,838.
Biography & Poker Background
Born on February 3, 1989, in Cottbus, Germany, Rolle grew up playing football for local clubs including FC Energie Cottbus before discovering poker during his college years. His first job as a supermarket cashier left him uninspired and he soon turned his competitive energy toward the tables, beginning with $1 sit-and-go tournaments on Full Tilt Poker in 2008. His early years involved multiple bankroll busts before a period of serious study and disciplined grinding propelled him from micro-stakes SNGs to $5,000 buy-in tournaments.
His first major breakthrough came at the 2014 SCOOP, where he won a Spring Championship event for around $200,000. In 2016, he won the $102,000 WCOOP Super High Roller - at the time the most expensive online tournament ever held - for $1,172,461, defeating Fedor Holz heads-up. That result announced him to the wider poker world and remains one of the defining moments of the online high-stakes era.
Rolle founded Raise Your Edge in 2014, initially as a small coaching operation. It grew into one of poker’s most recognised training platforms, with its Tournament Masterclass becoming the standard-bearer for MTT education. The platform now counts over 100,000 students worldwide. In 2019, he began publicly revealing his identity and moved his content to YouTube and Twitch, where the Raise Your Edge channel has accumulated over 113,000 subscribers. He has also been vocal about the challenges poker content creators face on YouTube, publicly sharing his experience of using legal action in the EU to challenge unjustified platform restrictions on gambling content.
In November 2024, Rolle joined CoinPoker as an official brand ambassador, becoming part of a team that includes Patrick Leonard, Fernando “JNandez” Habegger, and Mario Mosböck. He has continued to stream his sessions and compete at the highest level, with the 2025 WSOP Online Main Event win cementing his status as one of the game’s elite competitors.
Play Style & Strategy
Rolle is a multi-table tournament specialist with a game built on deep theoretical knowledge, disciplined bankroll management, and a relentless focus on continuous improvement. His rise from micro-stakes SNGs to winning the biggest online Main Event in the world is a function of exactly the study habits he now teaches through Raise Your Edge. He places significant emphasis on mental and physical preparation, working with performance coaches, practising meditation, and training physically to maintain focus across long grinding sessions. He is among the strongest advocates in the poker world for treating the game as a skill-based profession requiring the same discipline as elite sport.
CoinPoker Ambassador
Benjamin Rolle is an official ambassador for CoinPoker, the cryptocurrency-based online poker platform, a role he took on in November 2024. He streams his CoinPoker sessions and represents the platform as part of one of the strongest ambassador rosters in online poker, alongside Patrick Leonard, Fernando “JNandez” Habegger, and Mario Mosböck .
Social Media & Online Presence
- The Hendon Mob Profile
- WSOP Official Profile
- YouTube Channel (Raise Your Edge)
- X (Twitter) Profile
- Instagram Profile
- Twitch Channel
- Raise Your Edge
Video Highlights
Callum Jury is SoMuchPoker's Live Content and Social Media Specialist, reporting live from WSOP and Asia Pacific poker festivals including the APT and PokerStars LIVE series. Originally from the Lake District in the UK, he has covered the Southeast Asian poker circuit since 2025, combining day-by-day tournament reporting with the social and digital content that brings the action to fans.
