Let’s check out the highest ten finest poker gamers of all time, based mostly on event earnings.
Honorable mentions
First, a shout-out to numbers 11-20!
20. Phil Hellmuth, Jr. (US): $24.8 million
19. Christoph Vogelsang (US): $25 million
18. John Juanda (Indonesia): $25.2 million
17. Jake Schindler (US): $26 million
16. Isaac Haxton (US): $27.6 million
15. Antonio Esfandiari (US): $27.8 million
14. Mikita Bodziakouski (Belarus): $28.5 million
13. Daniel Colman (US): $29 million
12. Steve O’Dwyer (US): $30.4 million
11. Cary Katz (US): $31.3 million
And now, the highest ten finest poker gamers of all time (thus far)
10. Jason Koon (US): $31.4 million
The Triton Poker ambassador Jason Koon has had himself fairly a 12 months in 2019, including greater than $6 million in event winnings to his already spectacular resume.
A fixture on the Triton excessive curler event scene, Koon’s two greatest profession cashes got here in a pair of quick deck occasions on the Triton circuit. Koon received each occasions, cashing for greater than $6.4 million in simply these two tournaments alone.
Koon’s newest large rating got here on the 2021 U.S. Poker Open. The Triton Poker ambassador took a third-place end within the $50,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion for a $336,000 payday.
9. Phil Ivey (US): $31.7 million
A participant that wants no introduction to even informal poker followers, Phil Ivey’s poker accomplishments span throughout each tournaments and money video games on the high-stakes circuit.
Whereas Ivey’s presence is synonymous wth the “poker increase” period of the mid-2000s, 4 of his prime ten greatest event scores have come since 2018. Apparently sufficient, Ivey’s three prime cashes all got here in A$ 250,000 buy-in occasions on the Aussie Hundreds of thousands, in three completely different years.
Trendy-era Phil Ivey ceaselessly seems within the excessive curler tournaments and money video games offered by Triton Poker. Ivey’s Hendon Mob resume contains 9 cashes of seven figures, together with a seventh-place end within the 2009 World Collection of Poker Important Occasion ($1,404,014).
8. Fedor Holz (Germany): $32.5 million
25-year-old Fedor Holz is, certainly, probably the greatest poker gamers in historical past. Throughout 2016 and 2017 seasons Holz had one of many sickest runs ever, profitable $21 million throughout this quick span. Most lately, Holz completed in 2nd place behind Justin Bonomo within the 2018 WSOP $1 million Massive One for One Drop, taking dwelling the hefty $6 million comfort prize.
7. David Peters (US): $34.5 million
All the time a fixture on the excessive curler circuit, in addition to a risk to win any event, David Peters has stored a gradual climb up the all-time cash record all through the previous few years.
Peters first money got here in 2007, when he was enjoying at way more modest stakes than the 5, six and seven-figure plus buy-ins he performs now. He added two extra seven-figure cashes to the resume in 2019.
COVID-19 compelled a hiatus for the high-roller event circuit for many of 2020, however Peters is correct again to his profitable methods in 2021. Peters received three occasions on the 2021 U.S. Poker Open, profitable the participant of the sequence award for the second straight time.
6. Stephen Chidwick (England): $35.6 million
Stephen Chidwick is taken into account, even amongst his friends on the excessive curler event scene, to be fairly probably the perfect event poker participant on this planet.
The Englishman has spent appreciable time on the prime of the World Poker Index participant rankings, and broke by for his first World Collection of Poker bracelet this summer season on the 2019 WSOP.
Chidwick owns seven profession cashes that prime the $1 million mark. The largest of these got here on the £1,050,000 Triton Poker Million for Charity occasion, the place Chidwick completed 4th for $5,368,947.
5. Dan Smith (US): $37 million
Dan Smith isn’t a vocal participant, however he has been slowly and absolutely transferring up the All-Time Cash Record. 2012 marked a turning level in Smith’s profession, starting with a victory within the Aussie Hundreds of thousands Poker Championship $100,000 NHLE occasion for a really respectable $1.04 million. Smith additionally did significantly nicely on the 2012 EPT-8 in Monte Carlo, the place he received three NLHE occasions over a span of 4 days.
Most lately, Smith positioned third within the 2018 WSOP Massive One for One Drop for $4 million and scored his greatest profession money with a third place end for $8,765,628 on the Triton Million.
Check out Smith enjoying the 2016 WSOP $111,111 for One Drop. He in the end completed in 2nd place, profitable $3,078,974:
4. Erik Seidel (US): $37.8 million
The “previous man” on this record, 61-year-old Erik Seidel is without doubt one of the authentic gamers from New York Metropolis’s Mayfair Clu0b, which incorporates the likes of Stu Ungar, Dan Harrington, and Howard Lederer. Seidel is an eight-time WSOP bracelet winner who has made a powerful 35 closing tables and whopping 92 cashes, together with his 2nd-place end within the 1988 Important Occasion behind Johnny Chan.
Seidel received his largest money payout of just about $2.5 million on the 2011 Aussie Hundreds of thousands Poker Championship $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler NLHE occasion. In 2010, he was inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame.
3. Daniel Negreanu (Canada): $42.2 million
Daniel “Child Poker” Negreanu spent appreciable time atop the all-time cash record till the 2018 WSOP. However Negreanu’s profession isn’t something to scoff at. He has six WSOP bracelets, made 38 closing tables, and has cashed 108 instances, together with as eleventh place end at each the 2001 and 2015 WSOP Important Occasions. Negreanu was inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame in 2014.
Negreanu’s uncanny potential to learn his opponents with unimaginable accuracy has undoubtedly contributed to his spectacular success and well-deserved place among the many finest poker gamers of all time.
2. Justin Bonomo (US): $53.2 million
Justin Bonomo took excessive spot together with his win within the 2018 WSOP $1 million Massive One for One Drop. The $10 million prize swiftly propelled him to #1 on the All-Time Cash Record. Bonomo now sits at #2 on this record, however he’s at all times a risk to retake the highest spot.
The 35-year-old Bonomo had a loopy run in 2018, amassing wins seemingly wherever he performed. This three-time WSOP bracelet winner managed a powerful ten wins in numerous high-roller occasions internationally that 12 months, together with the Might Aria Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl $300,000 NLHE occasion the place he received $5 million and the Macau Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl $HK 3 million NLHE occasion the place he pocketed one other $4.8 million (HK $37.8 million). Bonomo actually exhibits no indicators of slowing down.
1. Bryn Kenney (US): $56.4 million
Bryn Kenney’s unimaginable 2019 run has vaulted him to the highest of this record, together with his greatest profession money coming in August on the Triton Million. Kenney completed third in that occasion for $20,563,324.
Kenney’s first reside event money was in 2007. Since then he has steadily added to his spectacular winnings. Kenney received a WSOP bracelet in 2014 on the $1,500 10-Recreation Combine 6-Handed occasion, and, in whole, he has made seven closing WSOP tables and cashed 32 instances, together with a twenty eighth place within the 2010 Important Occasion. His largest single money of almost $2 million got here again in April 2017, on the PokerStars Championship €100,000 NLHE Tremendous Excessive Curler 8-Max in Barcelona. Since then, Kenney has had many top-five finishes throughout the globe.
Right here’s Kenney with an amazing bluff on the 2015 PCA Important Occasion.
Study extra about Bryn and his rise to the highest right here.
Prime 5 Money Recreation Gamers
Whereas the Hendon Mob database stands as a definitive, complete file of poker tournaments performed around the globe, nailing down the highest 5 money sport gamers of all time presents a tougher activity.
A complete on-line money sport database doesn’t exist within the poker world, and high-stakes money sport outcomes from reside poker rooms are inconceivable to trace.
A choose group of money sport gamers are thought-about amongst their friends as probably the most feared money sport gamers on this planet. Let’s check out 5 names that being on any “world’s finest poker money sport gamers record:
Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger
Whereas a top-five money sport participant rankings record is actually a subject for debate, Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger would doubtless be thought-about a consensus choose by his fellow high-stakes opponents. Loeliger performed within the 10NL on-line streets again in 2013, however he’s reached the head of high-stakes on-line video games prior to now 4 years.
The Statname database lists Loeliger with $2.1 million in profession money video games profitable at stakes of 50NL and up on PokerStars. The database contains palms performed throughout No-Restrict Maintain’em and Pot-Restrict Omaha.
Greater than $2 million of that whole comes from stakes of two,000NL or greater for Loeliger. These excessive stakes quantity doubtless characterize simply a few of Loeliger’s true profitable, because the Swedish poker crusher performs on a number of on-line poker websites.
“BERRI SWEET”
Statname lists Swedish participant “BERRI SWEET” because the No. 1 all-time on-line money sport winner at PokerStars. That resume contains $4.5 million in earnings on the world’s largest poker web site.
The true-life identification of “BERRI SWEET” is unknown, making it tough to really gauge how a lot cash this participant has received in poker money video games. With a speciality of Pot-Restrict Omaha, “BERRI SWEET” has received $2.4 million at 20,000NL stakes alone.
“BERRI SWEET” received $324,ooo in April 2021 on PokerStars in keeping with Statname, not a foul haul for the modern-day on-line money sport financial system.
“ActionFreak”
One other PLO specialist with an unknown real-life identification, “ActionFreak” has earned $2.1 million in revenue over their profession on PokerStars. Whereas the actual identify remains to be unclear, the display identify is a recognized PLO-crushing entity.
“ActionFreak” stepped as much as tackle Phil Galfond within the RunItOnce Galfond Problem within the early months of 2020. Galfond got here away from the 15,000-hand match because the winner, however Galfond’s victory must be thought-about an upset in opposition to certainly one of poker’s prime modern-era PLO gamers.
Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov
Upswing Poker founder Doug Polk produced a “Prime 10 Money Recreation Poker Gamers” video for his YouTube web page in 2018. Within the video, Polk and one-time Upswing coach Andres “educa-p0ker” Artinano focus on who they thought-about as the highest ten money sport gamers on the time.
Whereas that video is already three years previous, the No. 1 identify chosen by Artinano has to make our top-five money sport participant record. Timofey “Truetller” Kuznetsov now seems considerably repeatedly in high-stakes reside money video games, with appearances on the formerly-named Bobby’s Room on the Bellagio Las Vegas, in addition to Triton Poker money video games within the Asia-Pacific area.
Highstakes DB tracked Kuznetsov’s high-stakes on-line palms from 2011-2018. From that pattern, “Trueteller” got here away with $3,095,168 in revenue.
Jonas “OtB_RedBaron” Mols
The participant recognized by the web display identify “OtB_RedBaron” is a licensed on-line poker legend. “OtB_RedBaron” was such a crusher that Andres “educa-p0ker” Artinano as soon as made an Upswing Poker course referred to as “Crush the Baron,” which centered totally on the methods employed and the database statistics put forth by “OtB_RedBaron.”
We now know that “OtB_RedBaron” is the PokerStars on-line deal with belonging to Belgian poker professional Jonas Mols. In accordance with Statname, Mols is up $1.7 million at PokerStars over the course of his profession. Once more although, that pattern doesn’t characterize all palms performed by Mols in any respect stakes throughout all poker websites.
There you could have it, the perfect poker gamers in historical past, so far!
Who’s your favourite?
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Till subsequent time!
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