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Through the years, David Benyamine has demonstrated that he is one of the most dangerous players in poker. Whether Benyamine is playing at a tournament or a cash game, he shows that he has the skills to outlast his opponents. His competitive spirit and inner drive propel him to poker greatness. Read on to know more about one of the top poker players in the world!

David Benyamine’s Beginnings in Poker

Benyamine was born in 1972 in Paris. In his early adulthood, Benyamine was a world-class tennis player and talented billiards player. He first learned how to play poker when he was 12-years-old, but he didn’t take it seriously until a severe back injury forced him away from the tennis courts.

Benyamine first started playing poker competitively when a friend who worked at the Aviation Club de France brought him along to play. He started with low-limit games and slowly built up his bankroll. He gradually developed into a skilled player and was regarded as one of the most dangerous high-stakes cash game players in Europe. He racked up several big wins when he toured the European Poker circuit. His other huge wins came from international high-stakes cash games.

Professional Poker Career of David Benyamine

Benyamine’s big break came in the 2003 Grand Prix de Paris held at the Aviation Club, during the second season of the World Poker Tour. He won a total of US$430,969. His second big finish was at another final table of the WPT at the L.A. Poker Classic where he finished in 6th place for US$94,540.

Benyamine continued to impress poker fans and players the following years. In 2008, he worked his way to the top of the Bellagio Cup IV during season 7 of the WPT for US$840,295.

Benyamine also won the WPT Battle of Champions II invitational event. At the final table, he defeated great poker pros like Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Mel Judah, and Hoyt Corkins.

Benyamine won his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2008 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split. His top finish earned him US$535,687.

David Benyamine and Online Poker

Benyamine has shown his prowess at live tables, but he is also known for great performances at top online poker websites. On his website, Barry Greenstein tells a story of Benyamine playing for two and a half days straight. Benyamine was playing in the Big Game and was down over a million dollars because of some reckless play. To make up for his losses, Benyamine played for around 60 hours and ended up breaking even.

Even if Benyamine is primarily a cash game player, he also plays high-stakes online poker under Full Tilt. He also has other online poker aliases, like 'magicpitch1', 'ballsrider', 'looseslots' and 'davidbenyamine2'. He is said to play the best at $200 to $400 Pot Limit Omaha sessions.

David Benyamine Trivia

Here are some things about David Benyamine that you may not know about:

Benyamine is engaged to professional poker and blackjack player Erica Schoenberg.
According to some rumours, Benyamine was once stopped at the US airport because his name is similar to that of a suspected terrorist – and it didn’t really help that he was carrying US$25,000 in cash for a poker tournament.
There is also an unconfirmed rumour that Benyamine owed poker pro Patrik Antonius millions of dollars at one time.

David Benyamine’s Style of Play

When it comes to David Benyamine’s style of play, here is a game analysis by Barry Greenstein:

Aggressiveness: 7
Looseness: 8
Short-handed: 8
Limit: 7
No-limit: 7
Tournaments: 7
Side games: 8
Steam control: 3
Against weak players: 7
Against strong players: 8

According to Greenstein’s analysis, Benyamine is both loose and aggressive at the tables. He is also good at both limit and no-limit games.

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David Benyamine Winnings

To answer the question 'how much is David Benyamine worth?', the Hendon Mob Poker Database estimates that he has US$7,258,478 in total live winnings. US$1,255,644 comes from games played in Europe, US$4,702,806 comes from games played in the Americas, and $1,236,277 comes from games played in Oceania. These figures don't include his winnings from games at online poker sites. The exact value of David Benyamine net worth has not been revealed.

Benyamine has a total of 68 cashes from live casino games. He is currently in 2nd place on the France All Time Money List. He is also in 77th place on the All Time Money List.

1) World Series of Poker

David Benyamine has had great runs at the WSOP. His total winnings are estimated at US$2,239,249. He has one WSOP bracelet. He has 31 cashes, and has made it to the final table ten times.

2) World Poker Tour

For the WPT, Benyamine tallies a total of US$1,907,082 in winnings. He has one championship title to his name. He has 11 cashes, and has made it to the final table four times.

3) European Poker Tour

Benyamine has a total of US$272,497 from participating in EPT games and tournaments. He has yet to reach a championship title.

Notable Career Highlights

Here are some of best finishes in David Benyamine’s poker career. The information in the table below is taken from cardplayer.com.

Date	Event	Buy-in (in USD)	Place	Winnings (in USD)
Jan 26, '11	$250,000 Super High Roller at the 2011 Aussie Millions	$247,256	3	$995,824
Jul 17, '08	No-Limit Hold'em WPT Championship Event at the 2008 Bellagio Cup IV (WPT)	$15,000	2	$840,295
Jun 21, '08	Event 37 - World Championship Omaha High-Low Split 8 or Better at the 2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker	$9,400	1	$535,687
Jul 04, '13	Event 55 - The $50,000 Poker Players Championship at the 2013 44th Annual World Series of Poker	$50,000	4	$497,122
Jul 13, '08	No-Limit Hold'em Championship at the 2003 Grand Prix de Paris	$10,717	1	$410,886
Feb 18, '10	Final Table at the 2010 PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker IV	$0	1	$400,000
Apr 24, '10	WPT No-Limit Hold'em Main Event at the 2010 Five-Star World Poker Classic (WPT)	$25,000	4	$329,228
Jun 16, '08	Event 28 - Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys at the 2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker	$4,700	3	$316,307
Jan 22, '11	Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge at the 2011 Aussie Millions	$98,900	6	$150,000
Nov 06, '10	$10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event at the 2010 41st Annual World Series of Poker	$10,000	58	$138,285
Feb 24, '04	No-Limit Hold'em Championship at the 2004 L.A. Poker Classic (WPT)	$9,900	6	$132,355
Oct 06, '08	High Roller Showdown - Event 7 at the 2008 PokerStars.com EPT London - Season V	$36,411	8	$120,967
Sep 09, '12	Pot-Limit Omaha Triple Chance at the 2012 WPT Grand Prix de Paris	$6,294	1	$118,408
Jun 20, '11	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low Split Championship at the 2011 42nd Annual World Series of Poker	$10,000	5	$96,836
Aug 20, '10	Event 2 - No-Limit Hold'em High Roller at the 2010 2nd Annual Full Tilt Cyprus Classic	$25,000	4	$82,935
Mar 06, '11	2011 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship	$25,000	5	$75,000
Mar 02, '08	NBC Heads-Up Championship Event at the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Championship	$20,000	5	$75,000
Jan 16, '11	Event 48 - No-Limit Turbo Six Max High Roller at the 2011 PokerStars.com EPT Caribbean Adventure - Season VII	$10,000	4	$72,555
Oct 05, '08	EPT Main Event at the 2008 PokerStars.com EPT London - Season V	$9,463	12	$62,938
Jun 11, '08	Event 18 - No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/ Rebuys at the 2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker	$4,700	7	$58,990
Jun 30, '13	Event 52 - $25,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em at the 2013 44th Annual World Series of Poker	$25,000	14	$53,781

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Last week, when PokerStars acquired Full Tilt Poker, a handful of stories began to develop. First, players wanted to know how and when they would receive their account balances on Full Tilt. That one was easy for “Rest of World” players, whose account balances will become available within 90 days, but U.S. players will have to wait for the Department of Justice to unveil its payment plan.

Another story is the relaunch of Full Tilt. Currently, PokerStars doesn’t plan to acquire licensing in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, and Estonia, but in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia, Full Tilt will be up and running come November. Posters in the TwoPlusTwo community want to know whether or not Full Tilt will continue its rakeback program or adopt a VPP system like PokerStars, and there has been speculation that players will be capable of sending site-to-site transfers between PokerStars and Full Tilt. When asked about site-to-site transfers on the TwoPlusTwo Pokercast, Lee Jones, the head of Home Games for PokerStars, said, “It’s certainly in our interest for players to be able to do that, so we’ll work hard to find an acceptable solution.”

There’s also the issue of purchased/sold Full Tilt accounts after Black Friday. Some players had their entire bankrolls on Full Tilt, and when their money was frozen, they had to sell at a discounted rate. Now the players who sold their account balances will be responsible for repaying whoever bought them. This has the potential to be a disaster.

We’re going to touch upon a different story in this week’s Five Thoughts — player loans. In February, Group Bernard Tapie attorney Behnam Dayanim claimed that the debts of a few high-stakes poker players to Full Tilt were holding up a pending deal. According to Dayanim, Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, Layne Flack, and Barry Greenstein owed Full Tilt approximately $18 million. At the time, Greenstein told PokerNews that he owed Full Tilt $400,000, but he wouldn’t just give it to GBT.

“I just had this feeling like if I dealt with them, they'd be real easy to deal with, money would go to them, and then I could just see them totally disassociating from the U.S. players. Then at some point, the American players would come to me and say, ‘Nice going. You gave Tapie money. Why didn't you look out for me? Now there's no money left for U.S. players.’”

Nice read, Barry.

Greenstein plans to pay his debt now that Full Tilt is in safe hands, but what about the other players?

1. Collecting $18 million

Collecting money from a group of people is terribly difficult — just ask anyone who has sold action for multiple tournaments. Seldom is the money collected on time, and when it is, it takes a Herculean effort to track everybody down.

Such is the case for the $18 million owed to Full Tilt by Ivey, Benyamine, Lindgren, Matusow, Flack, and Greenstein. On Tuesday, when the deal went through, Greenstein posted the following on TwoPlusTwo:

The last line is especially interesting, and knowing PokerStars, they’ve already thought of a few ways to collect the money — nobody watches $18 million burn to ashes without trying to fan the flames.

There are a couple of ways to coax these players into paying back their debts, including sponsorship deals. For a player like Lindgren, who was allegedly very dependent on his Full Tilt checks coming in the mail, you can sign him to a limited sponsorship deal. For example, if Lindgren owes Full Tilt $1 million and his sponsorship deal is worth $800,000 per year, make him take $600,000 per year for five years. This will allow Lindgren to play in as many fantasy football leagues as he wants, and PokerStars will eventually accrue the $1 million it is owed.

Lindgren may not be the best example because his popularity took a huge hit, but this plan suits players like Matusow and Benyamine perfectly.

For someone like Ivey, who allegedly plays on PokerStars under the handle “RaiseOnce,” lock his accounts until he pays the debt. I’m quite certain that Ivey, arguable the biggest action junkie in the poker world, would swallow the loss to be able to play in the Ivey Thunderdome once again. Likewise, for players like Lindgren who need to rebuild their rolls after the events of Black Friday, they need access to the tables to do so — live poker is too slow and not as profitable as grinding online.

The last option that comes to mind is legal action, but after the last 15 months of drama, it’s probably not in PokerStars’ interest to waste any more time or money in court.

In a perfect world, the players who owe Full Tilt money would take Greenstein’s lead and pay back their debts. Unfortunately, this is far from a perfect world, and none of the players who were loaned money by Full Tilt are Lannisters.

2. Negreanu’s ranting again

Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu finally broke his silence and released a new edition of “The Rant,”, which was formally known as “The Weekly Rant.” Because of the craziness of the World Series of Poker, Negreanu was unable to film as much as he’d hoped, and rather that give his audience false hope, he has decided to just film and upload sporadically rather than weekly. This week’s topics include the sale of Full Tilt, a WSOP wrap up, homosexuality, Breaking Bad, and badminton.

Yes, badminton.

Magic casino offenbach am main street. Regarding the purchase of Full Tilt, Negreanu states, “I’ve never been more proud to be associated with PokerStars. I know the company is run like a well-oiled machine from top to bottom…Had PokerStars not stepped in, it seems virtually impossible that anybody was ever going to get any money out of their accounts.”

Pretty standard stuff from a company man like Negreanu. He goes on to discuss his WSOP, which was fairly uneventful outside of a final table appearance in Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em, and called it “disappointing.”

Everything is all well and good until Negreanu flies way off the radar and starts talking about the antigay Chick-fil-A (which he pronounces “chick-filla” rather than “chick-fill-ae”) story that surfaced in the United States last week. Look, Negreanu is great for the game because he’s outspoken, and he has every right to say whatever he wants whenever he wants, but the people at PokerStars must be cringing while watching their most respected pro analyze biblical text on YouTube.

Personally, Negreanu deserves a ton of credit for being unafraid to speak his mind on such a polarizing issue. His fearlessness is admirable. However, I’m afraid that one of these days he’s going to say the wrong thing at the wrong time and it’s going to negatively affect him in a big way. People get very sensitive when it comes to religion and politics, and in the grand scheme of things, Negreanu is less protected than say a player in the NBA or the NFL.

Having an opinion is awesome, and too few poker players are vocal about paramount issues within the poker world, but this issue is a bit dicey. Negreanu has stones, but he should be careful.

3. Ultimate Beat

Scott Bell, a former professional poker player who was affected directly by the Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker scandal, has spent years investigating what really happened on the two sites between 2004 and 2008. He teamed up with DoubleHead Pictures to produce a documentary about the scandal titled Ultimate Beat, and a teaser was released on Thursday, Aug. 2.

Bell has clearly worked hard over the last few years researching the issue, gathering information, lining up interviews, and filming key subjects, but the “trailer” is incomplete. First, we have to identify the most important demographic for an informational documentary about the UB/AP scandal. The majority of people in the poker industry know there were two websites operated by the same company and that they stole from their players. However, if you visited random home games across the world and asked about UB/AP, few people would know anything. A majority of them might not even know what Ultimate Bet or Absolute Poker are.

A documentary like this has to target the same demographic that watches Tuesday night broadcasts of the WSOP, not online poker grinders who are privy to the ins and outs of the poker world. If the average person was channel surfing and came across this trailer, he or she would change the channel immediately. To start, the narrator is drawn out and boring, the images aren’t visually appealing, there are too many talking heads, and there’s very limited B-roll. If Bell truly has years and years of research, then he’s really dropped the ball if this trailer is a true representation of the documentary as a whole.

Conversely, Jay Rozenkrantz did the right thing by not releasing BOOM: The Incredible True Story of Online Poker too early. Rather than release an abridged, pre-Black Friday version of the film that isn’t relevant anymore, they put the project on hold and redeveloped the entire film. These things take time, and if they’re rushed or done incorrectly, then all of that hard work goes to waste.

The people outside of the poker world need to know about the UB/AP scandal, but it also needs to be presented to them in the right manner. Perhaps releasing an underdeveloped documentary less than a decade removed from the issue isn’t the best course of action for Bell and his crew.

4. Michael Phelps and poker

Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals (18 of which are gold). He’s also an avid poker player, making regular visits to Parx Casino in Pennsylvania, and the Borgata, among other casinos in Atlantic City. Phelps has been connected to several professional players, including Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Jeff Gross, Phil Hellmuth, and fellow swimmer Phil Collins. Gross was even Phelps’ roommate in Baltimore, Maryland.

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After winning one of four gold medals in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Phelps took to Twitter to thank his friends and fans. Ironically, a large number of them were poker players:

Thanks jen!RT @REALJenHarman: Congrats @MichaelPhelps for breaking the record for winning most medals ever. .. http://t.co/ryjAMmIk