He Lost Half His Net Worth…Then Became A Super High Roller! Ben Heath Tells All!

He Lost Half His Net Worth…Then Became A Super High Roller! Ben Heath Tells All!

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July 25, 2026 · 1h 24m

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Ben Heath shares his journey from a math student to a successful professional poker player, detailing his highs and lows in the world of high-stakes gambling.

Ben Heath was supposed to do something sensible.Finance.Teaching.Something with math.Something that made his parents feel normal.Instead, he played $3.50 sit-n-gos.A lot of them.Ben grew up in Brighton, England, playing chess, strategy games, and tiny family card games for one-cent coins. Then he went to Warwick, studied math, and started making a little money online during university.Not millions.Not nosebleeds.Just enough to avoid getting a job.Then one of his tutors casually mentioned that a few former students had gone into professional poker.That was all it took.Ben finished his degree, skipped the finance track, and gave himself two years to make poker work.From there, things got weird fast.He met Charlie Carrel through a university Skype group, went to Amsterdam with people he’d never met, moved to London, grinded Zoom cash, played live cash on weekends, went broke, ran it back, and started taking shots that were probably not approved by any financial advisor.At one point, he had around $100K to his name…then put a huge chunk of it into a €50K in Barcelona.It went badly.Then it went very, very well.Aussie Millions runner-up.A Wynn score he somehow left in the cage.A…

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Hosts: Art Parmann, Justin Young

Guest: Ben Heath

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