Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg is a British professional poker player, Twitch streamer, YouTuber and PokerStars Team Pro who has become one of the most established poker creators of the streaming era.
Best known simply as Spraggy, he has spent more than a decade playing poker professionally while building an audience around the reality of the online tournament grind.
What started with an old webcam and a desire to make poker less solitary developed into a career with more than 175,000 Twitch followers, over 110,000 YouTube subscribers, two WCOOP titles and two Global Poker Awards for Best Streamer.
Spraggy has also proved himself away from the computer. He won the 2023 UKIPT Brighton Main Event and has accumulated more than $660,000 in recorded live tournament earnings.
Who Is Spraggy?
Spraggy is the online name of Benjamin Spragg, an English professional poker player and content creator from Stroud.
Poker entered Spragg’s life long before Twitch did.
He has described playing with friends in a garage and watching poker videos online as some of the experiences that initially drew him into the game. PokerStars records show that he began playing on the site in 2010.
After graduating from university in 2012, Spragg began playing poker full-time.
His early career was considerably more conventional than the creator career that would eventually make him famous. He concentrated on grinding online poker and initially played cash games before moving increasingly towards tournaments.
There were early signs that he could compete live, too.
In August 2013, Spragg travelled to Ireland for the UK & Ireland Poker Tour in Galway. He finished sixth in the €1,100 Main Event for €30,210, one of the first major live tournaments he had played.
He then largely returned to the online grind.
The next major change in his career would come from broadcasting it.
How Spraggy Became a Poker Streamer
By the middle of the 2010s, poker streaming was beginning to create a new type of poker personality.
Jason Somerville had shown that viewers would watch online poker for hours at a time, while Jaime Staples and other early Twitch creators were building communities around their everyday tournament sessions.
Spraggy was paying attention.
He had already been playing professionally for several years, but the routine had become repetitive. Online poker could be profitable and intellectually demanding, but it was also a job performed largely alone in front of a computer.
Streaming offered something different.
Spraggy has explained that he found an old webcam, turned it on and simply began broadcasting his sessions.
The appeal was not just the possibility of building an audience. Twitch gave him people to talk to while playing.
That relationship with viewers became fundamental to Spraggy’s content.
Rather than presenting himself simply as an elite player teaching poker, he allowed viewers to experience the normal swings of tournament poker with him. There were final tables and victories, but there were also bad beats, failed Sundays, frustration and long sessions where nothing particularly glamorous happened.
That relatability helped the channel grow.
Spraggy began streaming poker on Twitch in 2016 and quickly became part of a new generation of poker creators changing how the game was watched online.
Spraggy Joins PokerStars
Spraggy’s rise on Twitch eventually attracted the attention of the poker site where he had already spent much of his playing career.
In 2017, PokerStars signed Spraggy alongside fellow emerging streamer Fintan “easywithaces” Hand.
It was a significant moment.
When Spraggy had started playing, PokerStars Team Pro members were players he could search for in the client and watch from a distance. He was now joining the same team himself.
The partnership developed into a long-term relationship.
Spraggy remains a PokerStars Team Pro in 2026 and plays online on the site under the username “Spraggy.”
His role now stretches far beyond simply wearing a PokerStars patch at live tournaments. He streams major online series, appears in PokerStars content and participates in community promotions built around his audience.
That includes the 2026 PokerStars WCOOP Games, where players can qualify to represent Team Spraggy during WCOOP.
Spraggy’s Poker Career
Spraggy’s creator career has always been built around actually playing poker.
He began as an online cash game player before tournament poker increasingly became his main focus.
That change suits streaming particularly well.
Multi-table tournaments naturally produce long-running narratives. A session might begin with dozens of entries spread across several events before gradually narrowing to one deep run that can keep thousands of viewers watching.
Spraggy has played everything from very small online tournaments to some of the biggest events available on PokerStars.
His ability to move between stakes has also helped maintain the accessibility of his content.
Viewers might see him playing a major championship one week and competing in considerably cheaper tournaments the next.
His career now includes two WCOOP championships, a UKIPT Main Event title and more than $660,000 in recorded live tournament cashes.
Spraggy Wins His First WCOOP Title
One of the defining moments of Spraggy’s online poker career came during the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker.
It did not happen in a $10,000 event.
Spraggy entered the $5.50 WCOOP-05-L Mini Sunday Cooldown, an eight-handed turbo Progressive Knockout tournament.
The event attracted an enormous field of 12,192 entries.
Spraggy won it.
First place was worth $4,349, an amount far smaller than many prizes he had already played for, but the significance came from finally becoming a WCOOP champion.
For Spraggy, the title mattered more than the buy-in.
It was his first major PokerStars Championship of Online Poker title and provided something tangible beyond another profitable session.
The victory also happened live in front of his streaming audience.
Spraggy celebrated accordingly.
Spraggy Becomes a Two-Time WCOOP Champion
He did not have to wait long for another one.
During WCOOP 2021, Spraggy reached the business end of a much larger event, the $1,050 Turbo Progressive Knockout.
This time the stakes were considerably higher.
Spraggy won again, collecting approximately $68,000 and his second WCOOP title.
The moment became even more memorable because fellow streamer Parker “Tonkaaaa” Talbot also won a WCOOP event on the same day.
It captured much of what had made Spraggy’s streaming career successful.
The poker mattered, but so did watching major moments happen live alongside friends and thousands of people online.
Spraggy remains a two-time WCOOP champion entering the 2026 series.
He is also involved heavily in PokerStars’ current WCOOP promotion, with Team Spraggy competing in the new community-based WCOOP Games.
Spraggy Wins UKIPT Brighton
For years, Spraggy’s biggest successes came online.
That changed dramatically in September 2023.
Spragg entered the £1,100 UKIPT Brighton Main Event, where 352 entries created a field containing professionals, recreational players and several recognizable names.
Spraggy reached the final table.
Eventually, only Spragg and four-time WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche remained.
Spraggy won the heads-up battle to secure his first major live tournament title.
The victory was worth £69,120, recorded by Hendon Mob at approximately $86,258, and remains the largest live tournament cash of Spraggy’s career.
There was also a neat symmetry to the result.
A decade earlier, Spraggy had reached the final table of the 2013 UKIPT Galway Main Event as a relatively unknown professional.
By Brighton in 2023, he was the PokerStars Team Pro other players recognized at the table.
Spraggy has described the victory as particularly meaningful because it brought that part of his career full circle.
Benjamin Spragg Poker Earnings
Benjamin Spragg has more than $662,000 in recorded live tournament earnings.
His results include:
- Winner, 2023 UKIPT Brighton Main Event: approximately $86,258
- 2nd, 2025 PokerStars Open Barcelona €1,100 event: approximately $49,834
- 6th, 2013 UKIPT Galway Main Event: approximately $40,108
- Multiple cashes at European Poker Tour stops
- Numerous World Series of Poker cashes
- Cashes at the Irish Poker Open and other major European festivals
His recorded total stood at $662,231 in September 2026.
As with every tournament database, that figure should not be confused with poker profit or net worth.
Live tournament earnings do not deduct buy-ins, travel expenses or other costs. They also exclude Spraggy’s extensive online poker results, cash game history, sponsorship income, streaming revenue and other creator income.
Quick Facts
- Real name: Benjamin Spragg
- Known as: Spraggy
- Nationality: English
- From: Stroud, England
- Residence: Stonehouse, England
- Profession: Professional poker player, streamer and creator
- PokerStars username: Spraggy
- Playing professionally since: 2012
- Poker streaming since: 2016
- Joined PokerStars Team Pro: 2017
- Main game: No Limit Hold’em tournaments
- WCOOP titles: 2
- UKIPT titles: 1
- Recorded live tournament earnings: $662,000+
- Largest recorded live cash: $86,258
- YouTube subscribers: Approximately 110,000
- YouTube views: More than 32.7 million
- Twitch followers: Approximately 175,500
- Global Poker Awards: Two-time Best Streamer winner
- Wife: Marle Spragg
- Major appearances: WSOP, EPT, UKIPT, Irish Poker Open and PokerStars online championships
Spraggy on Twitch
Twitch is central to Spraggy’s identity as a poker creator.
Unlike a conventional YouTube poker vlog, where hours of play can be reduced to the most entertaining hands, Twitch shows the grind as it happens.
Viewers see long stretches without a final table.
They see bad beats.
They see multiple tournaments disappear from the screen one after another.
And occasionally they see the exact moment a player wins a WCOOP title.
That unpredictability has been a major part of Spraggy’s appeal.
His streams combine poker analysis with conversation, humor and interaction with viewers rather than operating as formal coaching sessions.
By 2026, Spraggy had built a Twitch audience of roughly 175,500 followers.
Current streaming data also continues to place him among the most watched British poker channels on the platform.
Spraggy’s YouTube Channel
YouTube gives Spraggy a different way to tell the same poker stories.
Instead of asking viewers to watch a complete Twitch session, his YouTube videos turn deep tournament runs and unusual sessions into shorter narratives.
The channel was created in July 2016 and has grown significantly alongside his streaming career.
By September 2026, Spraggy had approximately 110,000 YouTube subscribers, more than 32.7 million total views and over 660 published videos.
His videos generally focus on online tournaments, live poker trips, major final tables and unusual challenges.
Unlike Wolfgang Poker, whose enormous audience has been driven heavily by Shorts, Spraggy’s creator identity remains much more closely connected to long-form tournament poker and streaming.
Spraggy’s Popular Poker Videos
Turning $50 into $33,000 Playing Poker?!
One of Spraggy’s most watched searchable long-form videos follows a tournament run in which a $50 entry creates the possibility of a five-figure score.
The video has generated more than 200,000 views.
It is a good example of why tournament poker translates so effectively from Twitch to YouTube.
The original session can last for hours. The finished video turns that grind into a clear story with an entry point, escalating stakes and a potential payoff at the end.
$1 vs. $5000 Poker Tournament
Another of Spraggy’s most popular videos compares the experience of playing an extremely cheap poker tournament with competing in a $5,000 event at the European Poker Tour.
The contrast gets to the heart of Spraggy’s content.
His career has taken him into major tournaments around the world, but the lower-stakes poker that many viewers actually play still remains part of the channel.
Why Spraggy’s Streams Work
Poker streaming creates a strange challenge for creators.
The streamer cannot know whether the session will produce anything worth watching.
A poker vlogger can play privately and edit out hours of routine hands. A Twitch streamer has to make those hours entertaining in real time.
Spraggy built his reputation partly by being able to do that.
His commentary moves between hand analysis, jokes, conversations with viewers and whatever else is happening around the stream.
Poker remains the reason the broadcast exists, but the community is a major reason people stay.
That distinction explains why his audience has survived much longer than many creators who experienced shorter periods of rapid growth.
Spraggy is now a decade into his poker streaming career.
Two-Time Global Poker Award Winner
The poker industry has also recognized Spraggy’s work as a creator.
He won the Global Poker Award for Best Streamer for his work during 2021.
Several years later, he won it again.
At the sixth Global Poker Awards in February 2025, Spraggy was named Best Streamer for 2024, beating a category that also included Bert “girafganger7” Stevens, Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet and Lex Veldhuis.
It was Spraggy’s second Global Poker Award.
The same ceremony was particularly successful for the Spragg household.
His wife, Marle Spragg, won Best Short-Form Content Creator.
Spraggy and Marle Spragg
Poker has also played a major role in Spraggy’s personal life.
He is married to American professional poker player and creator Marle Spragg, formerly Marle Cordeiro.
Marle built her own reputation in poker through cash games, tournament appearances, comedy and poker content before becoming a PokerStars ambassador herself.
The couple married in Las Vegas in 2021.
They have since become one of poker’s most recognizable creator couples while maintaining separate playing and content careers.
In late 2025, Ben and Marle became parents.
PokerStars described Spraggy in February 2026 as a new father to a three-month-old son.
Parenthood has added another dimension to a life already divided between streaming, online poker and regular travel to major live tournaments.
From Online Grinder to Live Tournament Champion
The evolution of Spraggy’s career is particularly interesting because the order is different from many famous poker personalities.
He did not become famous by winning a televised live tournament and then move into content creation.
He became a professional online grinder first.
Then he became a streamer.
Then he became a PokerStars ambassador.
Only years later did one of his biggest live tournament moments arrive.
Winning UKIPT Brighton showed that the creator label did not replace Spraggy’s identity as a professional player.
The two careers had simply become intertwined.
Spraggy at the WSOP and EPT
Spraggy now regularly appears at major live tournament festivals.
His recorded results include World Series of Poker cashes in Las Vegas and numerous European Poker Tour results.
EPT Barcelona has been particularly productive.
In August 2025, Spraggy finished second in a €1,100 No Limit Hold’em event for €42,560, worth almost $50,000.
He returned to Barcelona in 2026 and cashed both a PokerStars Open Cup event and the €5,300 EPT Main Event.
He has also played at EPT Monte Carlo, the Irish Poker Open and other major festivals across Europe.
Live poker now gives viewers another side of Spraggy beyond the online sessions that established his name.
Spraggy and the Sunday Million
Spraggy remains closely connected to PokerStars’ biggest online tournaments.
That includes the Sunday Million.
He qualified for the 20th Anniversary edition in 2026 alongside other PokerStars ambassadors and major online professionals.
Poker Type has been following the tournament closely, including the growing Sunday Million 20th Anniversary field and Spraggy’s place among the qualifiers.
The timing is particularly busy for him.
The Sunday Million anniversary finals begin on September 6, the same day as WCOOP 2026, while Spraggy is simultaneously captaining his community in the WCOOP Games.
It means much of his September 2026 poker schedule is happening in exactly the environment where his creator career originally flourished: major online tournaments being played in front of an audience.
Beyond Poker
Poker occupies a large part of Spraggy’s public life, but it is not his only interest.
PokerStars lists football, golf and Dota 2 among his interests away from the tables.
Gaming also fits naturally with a creator whose career developed on Twitch.
The platform’s culture has always extended far beyond poker, allowing Spraggy’s broadcasts to feel more like part of the wider gaming world than a traditional poker television show.
That crossover is part of what helped Twitch bring new viewers into poker during the 2010s.
Where to Play Poker Against Spraggy
Online, Spraggy plays exclusively on PokerStars under the username “Spraggy.”
He is primarily a tournament player and can regularly be found competing during major PokerStars series such as WCOOP and SCOOP.
Players can also encounter him in regular online tournaments and special community events.
Live, there is no single casino where Spraggy permanently plays.
His schedule takes him to PokerStars festivals, the World Series of Poker, UKIPT events, the Irish Poker Open and other major tournaments.
Where to Follow Spraggy
Spraggy remains active across Twitch, YouTube and social media.
- Twitch: Spraggy
- YouTube: Spraggy
- X: @spraggy
- Instagram: @actuallyspraggy
Twitch remains the best place to watch Spraggy play complete online poker sessions, while YouTube provides edited tournament runs, highlights and live poker content.
Spraggy News
- Spraggy Bags Fourth From 5,005 Players in Huge WCOOP Sunday Special
- Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Begins Today as $5M Final Takes Over WCOOP Opening Day
- Benjamin Spragg “Spraggy”
- Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Field Tops 1,400 Ahead of $5M Finals
- More Than 1,000 Players Qualify for PokerStars Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Finals
- PokerStars Launches WCOOP Games With Spraggy, Marle Spragg And Seb Huber
Spraggy FAQ
What is Spraggy’s real name?
Spraggy’s real name is Benjamin Spragg.
He is also frequently referred to as Ben Spragg and uses “Spraggy” as both his online poker username and creator name.
Where is Spraggy from?
Spraggy is from Stroud, England.
Tournament records currently list his residence as Stonehouse, England.
Is Spraggy a professional poker player?
Yes.
Benjamin Spragg has played poker professionally since graduating from university in 2012.
He originally concentrated heavily on online poker before his streaming, creator and live tournament careers developed.
When did Spraggy start streaming?
Spraggy began streaming poker on Twitch in 2016.
He has explained that streaming offered a new challenge and more social interaction after several years of grinding poker professionally.
When did Spraggy join PokerStars?
Spraggy joined PokerStars’ ambassador team in 2017 alongside fellow Twitch streamer Fintan “easywithaces” Hand.
He remains a PokerStars Team Pro in 2026.
What is Spraggy’s PokerStars username?
His PokerStars username is “Spraggy.”
How many Twitch followers does Spraggy have?
Spraggy has approximately 175,500 Twitch followers as of 2026.
His audience makes him one of the most followed dedicated poker streamers from the UK.
How many YouTube subscribers does Spraggy have?
Spraggy has approximately 110,000 YouTube subscribers as of September 2026.
His channel has accumulated more than 32.7 million views.
How much has Spraggy won playing live poker?
Benjamin Spragg has more than $662,000 in recorded live tournament earnings.
That figure does not include his online poker results or cash game results and should not be interpreted as his total poker profit.
What is Spraggy’s biggest poker win?
Spraggy’s largest recorded live tournament cash is approximately $86,258.
He earned it by winning the 2023 UKIPT Brighton Main Event for £69,120.
Has Spraggy won a WCOOP title?
Yes.
Spraggy is a two-time WCOOP champion.
He won his first title in a $5.50 Progressive Knockout event in 2020 and his second in a $1,050 Turbo PKO during WCOOP 2021.
Has Spraggy won a SCOOP title?
As of September 2026, Spraggy has not won a SCOOP title.
Despite his two WCOOP victories, a first Spring Championship of Online Poker title remains one of the notable missing pieces from his PokerStars tournament résumé.
Has Spraggy won a WSOP bracelet?
No.
Benjamin Spragg has recorded numerous World Series of Poker cashes but has not won a WSOP bracelet.
Has Spraggy won a live poker tournament?
Yes.
Spraggy won the 2023 UKIPT Brighton Main Event, defeating a field of 352 entries and four-time WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche heads-up.
It was his first major live tournament title.
Who is Spraggy married to?
Spraggy is married to professional poker player and creator Marle Spragg, formerly Marle Cordeiro.
They married in Las Vegas in 2021 and became parents in 2025.
Has Spraggy won a Global Poker Award?
Yes.
Spraggy has won the Global Poker Award for Best Streamer twice.
His first came for 2021, while his second was awarded in February 2025 for his work during 2024.
What is Spraggy’s net worth?
There is no reliable public figure for Benjamin Spragg’s net worth.
Tournament databases only measure recorded live cashes and do not account for buy-ins, online results, sponsorships, Twitch income, YouTube revenue, expenses or other assets.
Any website claiming to know Spraggy’s precise net worth should therefore be treated cautiously.
