There is a lot of money to be made playing poker. Many of the game’s best players have
climbed the 🏀 ladder and made millions on the live and virtual felt in the world of poker
tournaments.
Let’s take a look at 🏀 the top ten best poker players of all time, based on
tournament earnings.
Honorable mentions
First, a shout-out to numbers 11–20!
20. Phil
🏀 Hellmuth, Jr. (US):R$24.8 million
19. Christoph Vogelsang (US):R$25 million
18. John
Juanda (Indonesia):R$25.2 million
17. Jake Schindler (US):R$26 million
16. Isaac Haxton
(US):R$27.6 million
15. 🏀 Antonio Esfandiari (US):R$27.8 million
14. Mikita Bodziakouski
(Belarus):R$28.5 million
13. Daniel Colman (US):R$29 million
12. Steve O’Dwyer
(US):R$30.4 million
11. Cary Katz (US):R$31.3 million
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10. Jason Koon
(US):R$31.4 million
The Triton Poker ambassador Jason 🏀 Koon has had himself quite a year
in 2024, adding more thanR$6 million in tournament winnings to his already impressive
🏀 resume.
A fixture on the Triton high roller tournament scene, Koon’s two biggest career
cashes came in a pair of short 🏀 deck events on the Triton circuit. Koon won both events,
cashing for more thanR$6.4 million in just those two tournaments 🏀 alone.
Koon’s latest
big score came at the 2024 U.S. Poker Open. The Triton Poker ambassador took a
third-place finish in 🏀 theR$50,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for aR$336,000 payday.
9. Phil
Ivey (US):R$31.7 million
A player that needs no introduction to even casual poker 🏀 fans,
Phil Ivey’s poker accomplishments span across both tournaments and cash games on the
high-stakes circuit.
While Ivey’s presence is synonymous 🏀 wth the “poker boom” era of
the mid-2000s, four of his top ten biggest tournament scores have come since 2024.
🏀 Interestingly enough, Ivey’s three top cashes all came in A$ 250,000 buy-in events at
the Aussie Millions, in three different 🏀 years.
Modern-era Phil Ivey frequently appears
in the high roller tournaments and cash games presented by Triton Poker. Ivey’s Hendon
Mob 🏀 resume includes nine cashes of seven figures, including a seventh-place finish in
the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event 🏀 ($1,404,014).
8. Fedor Holz (Germany):R$32.5
million
25-year-old Fedor Holz is, indeed, one of the best poker players in history.
During 2024 and 🏀 2024 seasons Holz had one of the sickest runs ever, winningR$21 million
during this short span. Most recently, Holz finished 🏀 in 2nd place behind Justin Bonomo
in the 2024 WSOPR$1 million Big One for One Drop, taking home the heftyR$6 🏀 million
consolation prize.
7. David Peters (US):R$34.5 million
Always a fixture on the high
roller circuit, as well as a threat to 🏀 win any tournament, David Peters has kept a
steady climb up the all-time money list throughout the last few years.
Peters 🏀 first
cash came in 2007, when he was playing at much more modest stakes than the five, six
and seven-figure 🏀 plus buy-ins he plays now. He added two more seven-figure cashes to
the resume in 2024.
COVID-19 forced a hiatus for 🏀 the high-roller tournament circuit for
most of 2024, but Peters is right back to his winning ways in 2024. Peters 🏀 won three
events at the 2024 U.S. Poker Open, winning the player of the series award for the
second straight 🏀 time.
6. Stephen Chidwick (England):R$35.6 million
Stephen Chidwick is
considered, even among his peers on the high roller tournament scene, to be 🏀 quite
possibly the best tournament poker player in the world.
The Englishman has spent
considerable time at the top of the 🏀 Global Poker Index player rankings, and broke
through for his first World Series of Poker bracelet this summer at the 🏀 2024
WSOP.
Chidwick owns seven career cashes that top theR$1 million mark. The biggest of
those came at the £1,050,000 Triton 🏀 Poker Million for Charity event, where Chidwick
finished 4th forR$5,368,947.
5. Dan Smith (US):R$37 million
Dan Smith isn’t a vocal
player, but 🏀 he has been slowly and surely moving up the All-Time Money List. 2012
marked a turning point in Smith’s career, 🏀 beginning with a victory in the Aussie
Millions Poker ChampionshipR$100,000 NHLE event for a very respectableR$1.04 million.
Smith also did 🏀 particularly well at the 2012 EPT-8 in Monte Carlo, where he won three
NLHE events over a span of four 🏀 days.
Most recently, Smith placed 3rd in the 2024 WSOP
Big One for One Drop forR$4 million and scored his biggest 🏀 career cash with a 3rd place
finish forR$8,765,628 at the Triton Million.
Take a look at Smith playing the 2024
WSOPR$111,111 🏀 for One Drop. He ultimately finished in 2nd place, winningR$3,078,974:
4.
Erik Seidel (US):R$37.8 million
The “old man” on this list, 61-year-old 🏀 Erik Seidel is
one of the original players from New York City’s Mayfair Clu0b, which includes the
likes of Stu 🏀 Ungar, Dan Harrington, and Howard Lederer. Seidel is an eight-time WSOP
bracelet winner who has made an impressive 35 final 🏀 tables and whopping 92 cashes,
including his 2nd-place finish in the 1988 Main Event behind Johnny Chan.
Seidel won
his largest 🏀 cash payout of almostR$2.5 million at the 2011 Aussie Millions Poker
ChampionshipR$250,000 Super High Roller NLHE event. In 2010, he 🏀 was inducted into the
Poker Hall of Fame.
3. Daniel Negreanu (Canada):R$42.2 million
Daniel “Kid Poker”
Negreanu spent considerable time atop the 🏀 all-time money list until the 2024 WSOP. But
Negreanu’s career isn’t anything to scoff at. He has six WSOP bracelets, 🏀 made 38 final
tables, and has cashed 108 times, including as 11th place finish at both the 2001 and
2024 🏀 WSOP Main Events. Negreanu was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in
2014.
Negreanu’s uncanny ability to read his opponents 🏀 with incredible accuracy has
undoubtedly contributed to his impressive success and well-deserved place among the
best poker players of all 🏀 time.
2. Justin Bonomo (US):R$53.2 million
Justin Bonomo took
over the top spot with his win in the 2024 WSOPR$1 million Big 🏀 One for One Drop.
TheR$10 million prize swiftly propelled him to #1 on the All-Time Money List. Bonomo
now sits 🏀 at #2 on this list, but he’s always a threat to retake the top spot.
The
35-year-old Bonomo had a crazy 🏀 run in 2024, amassing wins seemingly wherever he played.
This three-time WSOP bracelet winner managed an impressive ten wins in 🏀 various
high-roller events across the world that year, including the May Aria Super High Roller
BowlR$300,000 NLHE event where he 🏀 wonR$5 million and the Macau Super High Roller
BowlR$HK 3 million NLHE event where he pocketed anotherR$4.8 million (HKR$37.8
million). 🏀 Bonomo certainly shows no signs of slowing down.
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1. Bryn Kenney (US):R$56.4 million
Bryn Kenney’s incredible 2024 run has
vaulted him to 🏀 the top of this list, with his biggest career cash coming in August at
the Triton Million. Kenney finished 3rd 🏀 in that event forR$20,563,324.
Kenney’s first
live tournament cash was in 2007. Since then he has steadily added to his impressive
🏀 winnings. Kenney won a WSOP bracelet in 2014 at theR$1,500 10-Game Mix 6-Handed event,
and, in total, he has made 🏀 seven final WSOP tables and cashed 32 times, including a
28th place in the 2010 Main Event. His largest single 🏀 cash of nearlyR$2 million came
back in April 2024, at the PokerStars Championship €100,000 NLHE Super High Roller
8-Max in 🏀 Barcelona. Since then, Kenney has had many top-five finishes across the
globe.
Here’s Kenney with a tremendous bluff at the 2024 🏀 PCA Main Event.
Learn more
about Bryn and his rise to the top here.
Top Five Cash Game Players
While the Hendon
Mob 🏀 database stands as a definitive, comprehensive record of poker tournaments played
around the world, nailing down the top five cash 🏀 game players of all time presents a
more difficult task.
A comprehensive online cash game database doesn’t exist in the
poker 🏀 world, and high-stakes cash game results from live poker rooms are impossible to
track.
A select group of cash game players 🏀 are considered among their peers as the most
feared cash game players in the world. Let’s take a look at 🏀 five names that being on
any “world’s best poker cash game players list:
Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger
While a
top-five cash game player 🏀 rankings list is certainly a topic for debate, Linus
“LLinusLLove” Loeliger would likely be considered a consensus pick by his 🏀 fellow
high-stakes opponents. Loeliger played in the 10NL online streets back in 2013, but
he’s reached the pinnacle of high-stakes 🏀 online games in the past four years.
The
Statname database lists Loeliger withR$2.1 million in career cash games winning at
stakes 🏀 of 50NL and up on PokerStars. The database includes hands played across No-Limit
Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha.
More thanR$2 million of 🏀 that total comes from stakes of
2,000NL or higher for Loeliger. Those high stakes number likely represent just some of
🏀 Loeliger’s true winning, as the Swiss poker crusher plays on multiple online poker
sites.
“BERRI SWEET”
Statname lists Swedish player “BERRI SWEET” 🏀 as the No. 1 all-time
online cash game winner at PokerStars. That resume includesR$4.5 million in earnings on
the world’s 🏀 largest poker site.
The real-life identity of “BERRI SWEET” is unknown,
making it difficult to truly gauge how much money this 🏀 player has won in poker cash
games. With a speciality of Pot-Limit Omaha, “BERRI SWEET” has wonR$2.4 million at
20,000NL 🏀 stakes alone.
“BERRI SWEET” wonR$324,ooo in April 2024 on PokerStars according
to Statname, not a bad haul for the modern-day online 🏀 cash game
economy.
“ActionFreak”
Another PLO specialist with an unknown real-life identity,
“ActionFreak” has earnedR$2.1 million in profit over their career on 🏀 PokerStars. While
the real name is still unclear, the screen name is a known PLO-crushing
entity.
“ActionFreak” stepped up to take 🏀 on Phil Galfond in the RunItOnce Galfond
Challenge in the early months of 2024. Galfond came away from the 15,000-hand 🏀 match as
the winner, but Galfond’s victory has to be considered an upset against one of poker’s
top modern-era PLO 🏀 players.
Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov
Upswing Poker founder Doug
Polk produced a “Top 10 Cash Game Poker Players” video for his YouTube page 🏀 in 2024. In
the video, Polk and one-time Upswing coach Andres “educa-p0ker” Artinano discuss who
they considered as the top 🏀 ten cash game players at the time.
While that video is
already three years old, the No. 1 name chosen by 🏀 Artinano has to make our top-five
cash game player list. Timofey “Truetller” Kuznetsov now appears somewhat regularly in
high-stakes live 🏀 cash games, with appearances at the formerly-named Bobby’s Room at the
Bellagio Las Vegas, as well as Triton Poker cash 🏀 games in the Asia-Pacific
region.
Highstakes DB tracked Kuznetsov’s high-stakes online hands from 2011-2024. From
that sample, “Trueteller” came away withR$3,095,168 🏀 in profit.
Jonas “OtB_RedBaron”
Mols
The player known by the online screen name “OtB_RedBaron” is a certified online
poker legend. “OtB_RedBaron” was 🏀 such a crusher that Andres “educa-p0ker” Artinano once
made an Upswing Poker course called “Crush the Baron,” which focused entirely 🏀 on the
strategies employed and the database statistics put forth by “OtB_RedBaron.”
We now
know that “OtB_RedBaron” is the PokerStars online 🏀 handle belonging to Belgian poker pro
Jonas Mols. According to Statname, Mols is upR$1.7 million at PokerStars over the
course 🏀 of his career. Again though, that sample doesn’t represent all hands played by
Mols at all stakes across all poker 🏀 sites.
There you have it, the best poker players in
history, to date!
Who is your favorite?
And who do you anticipate to 🏀 make their way on
to this list? Comment below!
Until next time!
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