Poker All Time Money Winners
The all-time money list will always be a hot topic of discussion in the poker world. With the amounts won and places occupied by the players constantly in flux due to numerous high roller events taking place around the world each year, we take a quick snapshot at the current top five names on the list, how much they've won, and how they got there. With a second place finish at the 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in event, Phil Ivey has inched past Daniel Negreanu as poker’s all-time tournament money winner. Ivey banked $600,000 in the event, giving him just shy of $13M in earnings. This puts him ahead of Negreanu by around math math math $413,000 or so. All Time Money List; 2020 Money List; Global Poker Index Ranking; GPI Player of the Year; 2019 Flaghunter Ranking; Short Deck Poker All Time Money List; All Rankings; Poker Database. PokerDB; Calendar & Events; Festivals & Results; Poker Players; Tours & Circuits; Poker Venues; News & More. News; Poker Beginners Guide; Frequently Asked.
By 2006, the World Series of Poker was comprised of 45 tournaments, all awarding gold bracelets to the winners. Well over $100 million in prize money was won, making the WSOP the richest event in all of sports. Over the years this tournament has created some of the biggest poker tournament winners of all time. Of the 15 biggest poker wins in history, 12 have come from the Main Event. Numbers 4 and 5. So, without further ado, here are the 5 biggest wins in poker history based on first place prize money. 2014 WSOP Main Event.
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Poker has always had a unique way of ranking players, it uses money won as a marker of success. It’s difficult to measure cash game players’ success using this system because few sites track results. Online poker MTT, on the other hand, are an entirely different beast. Tournaments results are readily available and several websites log each cash.
Online poker MTT receive a lot of attention because of this. They create the superstars of the game, players who others want to emulate. The five biggest winners have accumulated $85,094,544 in cashes between them.
It’s worth noting the astronomical figures you’re about to read about are cashes and not profit. It’s fair to assume, however, that all five online poker MTT specialists are showing a huge profit.
Niklas “Lena900” Astedt Is The Biggest Online Poker MTT Winner with $19,819,767 in Earnings
Sweden’s Niklas “Lena900” Astedt is the online poker MTT player with the most earnings ever. The Swede has amassed an incredible $19,819,767 in cashes and is set to become the first-ever online player to surpass $20 million in cashes.
Astedt is an incredible player, one who manages to play a loose-aggressive style to perfection. He has 8,409 in the money finishes with an average cash of $2,357. He’s just the perfect online poker MTT player.
$1,154,199 are Astedt’s live tournament winnings. Astedt, amazingly, doesn’t play much live poker. This is partly due to the weird Swedish taxation laws. Also, why would you travel to play live poker when you destroy the online scene?
Peter “Belabacsi” Traply has $17,616,026 in Online MTT Winnings
Peter “Belabacsi” Traply has been racking up online poker MTT cashes for the best part of 15-years. The Hungarian boasts of an incredible 29,058 in the money finishes; how many bubbles must he have burst?
Traply’s 17,616,026 in winnings are enough to rank him second in the all-time listing. He was once a regular in the highest stakes MTTs, but focusses more on mid-stakes these days. Traply doesn’t play much live poker, just like Astedt, yet still has $946,427 in cashes.
The fact Traply lives in Hungary means he’s probably living a lavish lifestyle with his winnings and only plays poker for fun and a little extra income. What a life.
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Chris “Moorman1” Moorman’s $16,335,193 Place Him Third in the Online Poker MTT Winnings Standings
Chris “Moorman1” Moorman was the first online poker MTT to record $10 million in cashes. He was the poster boy for online tournaments, although he’s slowed down plenty recently. Moorman splits his time between his native United Kingdom and America where his wife is from. He also frequently travels to Canada to play in PokerStars’ largest festivals.
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Moorman is a beast in the live poker world, unlike others on this list. The popular Brit has $5,942,729 earnings from live poker tournaments. Two WSOP runner-up finishes, a WSOP bracelet and a WPT title helped Moorman reach this lofty number.
Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet has $16,056,807 in Cashes
Canada’s Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet comes in at fourth-place thanks to $16,056,807 in winnings. Van Fleet has been around since 2006 and is highly regarded. He’s managed 131 outright victories, 94 runner-up and 113 third-place exits in his online career.
He went on an incredible run in October 2019 on GGPoker. Van Fleet won six $25,000 buy-in Super High Rollers for a combined $2,313,912. His victory in the partypoker MILLIONS Online in 2017 is his career highlight thanks to it banking him $1,027,000.
Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson’s $15,266,751 in Winnings Rank Him Fifth
Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson is another Swedish star, one who’s friends with Niklas Astedt. Mattsson has almost 6,000 online poker MTT cashes to his name, which weigh in at $15,266,751. He probably has more earnings but hasn’t listed his new partypoker alias anywhere.
Mattsson is no slouch in the live arena either as he has $1,420,000 in live winnings.
For the last eight years, the largest tournament in the world has been the World Series of Poker Main Event. With the exception of 1992, the US$10,000 buy-in tournament increased in prize pool year-over-year from its start in 1970 until 2007 (the latter a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which reduced the number of players winning their seats via online play).
The first tournament to reach a million dollar prize pool was the 1983 WSOP Main Event. The WSOP Main Event of 2004 had the first prize pool of above $10,000,000.
The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen.[1]
Below are the 30 largest poker tournaments with respect to the prize pool in United States dollars and not number of entrants. This list includes live and online poker.
Currently, 14 of the 15 largest prize pools in history have been WSOP Main Events. The second largest prize pool outside of the Main Event is the 2012 WSOP event known as The Big One for One Drop, held from July 1–3. It featured a buy-in of US$1 million, the largest in poker history. Of the buy-in, $111,111 was a charitable donation to the One Drop Foundation, and the WSOP took no rake. All 48 seats available for that event were filled, resulting in a prize pool of $42,666,672, with over 5 million dollars donated.[2] The second largest pool for any event outside of the WSOP was the 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge, with a HK$2 million (US$260,000) buy-in plus a rebuy option. The event drew a field of 73, of which 21 made a rebuy, resulting in a prize pool of HK$182,360,000 (slightly over US$23.5 million).[3]
All of the 30 richest tournaments to date were played in No Limit Hold'em.
| Event | Prize Pool (US$) | Winner | 1st Prize | Ref. |
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| 2006 WSOP Main Event | $82,512,162 | Jamie Gold | $12,000,000 | [4][5] |
| 2019 WSOP Main Event | $80,548,600 | Hossein Ensan | $10,000,000 | [6] |
| 2018 WSOP Main Event | $74,015,600 | John Cynn | $8,800,000 | [7] |
| 2010 WSOP Main Event | $68,799,059 | Jonathan Duhamel | $8,944,310 | [8] |
| 2017 WSOP Main Event | $67,877,400 | Scott Blumstein | $8,150,000 | [9] |
| 2019 Triton Super High Roller Series - Triton Million | $65,660,000 (£54,000,000) | Aaron Zang | $16,775,820* (£13,779,491) | [10] |
| 2019 Triton Super High Roller Series - Triton Million | $65,660,000 (£54,000,000) | Bryn Kenney* | $20,563,324* (£16,775,820) (2nd place) | [10] |
| 2011 WSOP Main Event | $64,531,000 | Pius Heinz | $8,711,956 | [11] |
| 2008 WSOP Main Event | $64,333,600 | Peter Eastgate | $9,152,416 | [12] |
| 2016 WSOP Main Event | $63,327,800 | Qui Nguyen | $8,005,310 | [13] |
| 2014 WSOP Main Event | $62,820,200 | Martin Jacobson | $10,000,000 | [14] |
| 2012 WSOP Main Event | $62,021,200 | Greg Merson | $8,527,982 | [15] |
| 2009 WSOP Main Event | $61,043,600 | Joe Cada | $8,547,042 | [16] |
| 2015 WSOP Main Event | $60,348,000 | Joe McKeehen | $7,680,021 | [17] |
| 2007 WSOP Main Event | $59,784,954 | Jerry Yang | $8,250,000 | [18] |
| 2013 WSOP Main Event | $59,708,800 | Ryan Riess | $8,359,531 | [19] |
| 2005 WSOP Main Event | $52,818,610 | Joe Hachem | $7,500,000 | [20] |
| 2012 WSOP Event 55 – The Big One for One Drop | $42,666,672 | Antonio Esfandiari | $18,346,673 | [21] |
| 2014 WSOP Event 57 – The Big One for One Drop | $37,333,338 | Dan Colman | $15,306,668 | [22] |
| 2016 Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza | $27,437,564 | Elton Tsang | $12,248,912 | [23] |
| 2019 PokerStars NL Hold'em Players Championship | $26,455,500 | Ramon Colillas | $5,100,000 | [24] |
| 2018 WSOP Event 78 – The Big One for One Drop | $24,840,000 | Justin Bonomo | $10,000,000 | [25] |
| 2004 WSOP Main Event | $24,224,400 | Greg Raymer | $5,000,000 | [26] |
| 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller | $23,511,128 | Stanley Choi | $6,465,560 | [27] |
| Super High Roller Bowl 2015 | $21,500,000 | Brian Rast | $7,525,000 | [28] |
| 2016 WSOP Event 67 – High Roller for One Drop | $19,316,565 | Fedor Holz | $4,981,775 | [29] |
| 2013 WSOP Event 47 – One Drop High Roller | $17,891,148 | Anthony Gregg | $4,830,619 | [30] |
| Super High Roller Bowl 2017 | $16,800,000 | Christoph Vogelsang | $6,000,000 | [31] |
| 2007 WPT Championship | $15,495,750 | Carlos Mortensen | $3,970,415 | [32] |
| 2013 GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Main Event | $15,376,897 | Niklas Heinecker | $4,456,885 | [33] |
| 2011 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure | $15,132,000 | Galen Hall | $2,300,000 | [34] |
| * | Due to a prize splitting deal Aaron Zang received £13,779,491 ($16,775,820) for 1st, original payout for 1st was £19,000,000 ($23,100,000). Bryn Kenney received a larger cash prize of £16,775,820 ($20,563,324) for 2nd place. |
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