After winning the most in the online poker world in 2012, Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky is down more than $1.2 million to start this year, according to data from HighstakesDB.
A lot of his losses have come to Viktor Blom. The Swede took Sulsky for a ton earlier in the week, and then Sulsky got some back. However, on Thursday, the two faced off again, and Blom crushed the American.
Altogether, Sulsky dropped $1 million on the day to multiple opponents.
The 25-year-old New Hampshire native started playing poker in high school, and after a short break from the game, he managed to turn a meager bankroll into one that was capable of sustaining sessions at $500-$1,000 no-limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker.
Sulsky told Card Player back in 2010 that he used to grind at Turning Stone Casino in New York, which is an 18-and-older brick-and-mortar property.
“I’d go there and sleep in my car all weekend, because I was playing $1-$2 and was really interested in turning a profit for the weekend,” Sulsky said. “I realized that I was spending $60 on gas and another $40 on food, so I needed to sleep in my car. I would be out there in upstate New York in December, freezing my ass off, going to bed at 6 a.m. after playing for 25 hours.”
It was only a few years before Sulsky was playing the biggest online games in the world.
Suslky also explained what has made him so successful in poker:
“I am not afraid to be aggressive when I should be. I do a lot of work away from the tables and am very self-critical of my game […] [M]y game has gotten pretty good from rigorously looking at hands every day and putting in a lot of time. I also just love the game, and don’t mind putting in the hands or taking shots, and moving down when I have to. I am not stuck in my ways, at all.”
Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com to see if Blom and Sulsky will continue playing epic $400-$800 pot-limit Omaha battles on Full Tilt.
