A veteran of the GipsyTeam editorial team. Previously worked as deputy editor-in-chief of 64 Chess Review, football reporter, assistant professor of genetics and a gardener. In poker and poker journalism since 2007. Once played on a WSOP final table with Phil Helmut. In 2022 he was ranked in the top 100 in the world sports Chess ranking and top 99.9% in blitz on lichess. Pretends to specialize in pot-limit Omaha.
The first of three episodes of the mini-series includes the most interesting hands and commentary from Ben Rolle from the 200bb stack in the early levels to the final table.
The Grid's newest guest is Xuan Liu, who shares a Squid format hand, talks about randomization failure, and her poker travels across Canada.
Ben Rolle (Bencb) gives advice on how to use a solver most effectively when starting out in poker. In his opinion, a student should always have an experienced instructor sitting next to him, and independent work at an early stage is much more likely to do harm than good.