{"id":40815,"date":"2015-08-24T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=40815"},"modified":"2020-03-16T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:34:34","slug":"meet-the-people-ben-kett-the-ninja-turtles-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/meet-the-people-ben-kett-the-ninja-turtles-captain.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet The People: Ben Kett \u2013 The Ninja Turtles\u2019 Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you one of the many partypoker player currently competing in the UK Team Challenge<\/a>? If so, you will no doubt have bumped into Ben \u201cDoobieFish\u201d Kett and his trio of team mates at some point, not least because they are the current runaway leaders of the competition, the only team to have surpassed 2 million chips.<\/p>\n

Ben, the captain of the so-called The Ninja Turtles, is a 33-year old business analyst from Harlow, Essex who is a superb poker player. After playing three-card brag at his local snooker club 12 years ago, Ben saw Late Night Poker and was immediately enthralled with the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was both the game and the characters that struck me,\u201d said Ben \u201cDevilfish, Vicky Coren, \u201cJacarama,\u201d Simon Trumper with that ponytail and also Jesse May\u2019s inimitably enthusiastic commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

From that moment on, Ben immersed himself in poker, starting with six and nine-man sit \u2018n\u2019 go tournaments before progressing to multi-table sit \u2018n\u2019 go tournaments, the latter being his bread-and-butter for a while in 2011 when he took redundancy from his job.<\/p>\n

Ben then started to grind multi-table tournaments full time for two-years before grasping the opportunity to return to his old work place in a role that he\u2019d wanted a few years previously, but he still makes time for poker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI now play $3-$55 buy-in rebuys and up to $109 freezeouts and anything bigger than that I play satellites for. With the excellent Dusk Till Dawn live satellites on partypoker, I am already getting involved in these and will be playing the upcoming Pokerfest Live and World Poker Tour events at DTD.\u201d<\/p>\n

After seeing the UK Team Challenge promotion<\/a> on Twitter, Ben spoke to three of his poker playing friends and decided to put a team together. The thought of a two-month challenge that was going to involve an element of volume struck a chord with Ben and his online \u201ccrew\u201d and The Ninja Turtles were born.<\/p>\n

The Ninja Turtles are made up of:<\/p>\n