Some of his online and live titles before this year include a SCOOP Event for $66k in 2010. His first major score was finishing 14th in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for over $633k. He won a FTOP event in 2009 for $146k. His earliest live tournament wins were in June 2006 where he won a side event of the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge II for $50k then won a $500 event at the 2006 U.S. Poker Championship. Lamb was born in 1985 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Things you might not know:
- Lamb began his playing poker during his stay at Trinity University in San Antonio in 2004.
- Lamb ended up dropping out after realizing his passion and time was spent more on poker than academics.
- Lamb turned his eighth $100 deposit into $93,000 in just two weeks, only to lose $75k of it in one session against Phil Galfond. At that point he only had $300 in cash in his pockets at the time.
- Lamb was a dealer during the early days of his poker career at Tulsa's Cherokee Casino (now called the Hard Rock Casino).
- Lamb, who has been known to enjoy serious partying, stopped all drinking this Jason Mercier admitted that five of his top ten hangovers were due to extreme partying with good friend Ben Lamb.
- Lamb leads the WSOP Player of the Year standings over Phil Hellmuth, with seven more bracelet events to be played in September in Cannes, France at WSOPE.
- Lamb is currently in fifth position of the remaining nine for the WSOP Main Event November 9 final table with 20,875,000 in chips.
- Lamb went deep in five straight big tournaments at the 2011 WSOP where he said it felt like one long session of tournament play.
- Lamb's bread and butter game and what he plays most of the year is online cash games, specifically PLO.
- Lamb recognizes that no matter how well he has played, he has run well, had good table draws and had luck on his side to do so well.
- Lamb felt the live, 30 minute delayed, coverage of the Main Event was bad for him but very good for poker.
- Lamb feels with his online wins and his recent WSOP run that if he manages his money well, he's set for life.
- Lamb feels with his online wins and his recent WSOP run that if he manages his money well, he's set for life.
Lamb, on his way to winning the $10k PLO Championship, defeated a field that included John Shipley, Sami Kelopuro and Christopher King.
When asked about the importance of confidence in poker, he said "If your plays are working, you'll have an air of confidence other players will notice," said Lamb, after finishing Day 3 of the main event with 354,500 in chips. "You'll be more confident when you put in a big bluff or people will see you winning and not want to play against you. If you have the kind of image I currently have, you can utilize it to get a little more respect. I think it's pretty important. Phil Hellmuth has a great image. People play so bad against him. I think it contributes to his success. I think it's contributing to my success."
When asked for his advice on taking shots or playing big games, he said “I think it’s important that people take shots. There’s just so much opportunity you can gain by doing it. You shouldn’t do it every day, but if a good game comes along … every month you’ll see one of those great games come along.”
“When it does, sell some pieces if you can’t afford it, because you should probably play it. There’s a lot of people who never opt to not take the shot. The ones who take it every time go from $300,000 in a day a couple of times a month to broke, so you need to find a balance.”
“When it does, sell some pieces if you can’t afford it, because you should probably play it. There’s a lot of people who never opt to not take the shot. The ones who take it every time go from $300,000 in a day a couple of times a month to broke, so you need to find a balance.”
Three Lamb videos featuring interviews after the 2009 WSOP Main Event, 2011 WSOP ME Bubble coverage and his reaction to making the November 9:
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