Who is the best online poker player

does anyone know who has made the most money online?

it's really hard to tell... if it comes to CASH RING GAMES, there really is no way to track that... but I have seen some amazing players win over $250,000 in a single pot... so it could have millions in their bankroll.

a sure way to find out how they are doing in the Tournaments... is to check out this site:

Official Poker Rankings - Poker Ratings, Poker Results and Statistics

Here you can keep track of their Return on Investment, as well as their wins and losses....

So Far the most Profitable player on the Following Sites are:

FULL TILT
knickadam55 Net Profit of $484,806
ROI = 20%

POKERSTARS
AJKHoosier1 Net Profit of $1,431,751
ROI = 168%

PARTY POKER
TherookieQQ9 Net Profit of $264,630
ROI = 463%

So it looks like the guy from Pokerstars has made the most money in TOURNAMENTS... but we don't know how well he does in CASH RING GAMES.

Enty.

Ivey's made a decent chunk of change.

Phithy is on an all sites average

I still don't agree with the way OPR ranks these guys, 1 huge win (wcoop/ftops or w/e) and you skyrocket to the top.
You could have a -400% ROI playing 10$ SnGs and hit one big win you satted into and next thing you know you are on top of the rankings.

FYP

apparently gus hansen pulled some 2 mil out of tilt last month, and also lost some 1 mill in a day or so... plays at the 50K buyin w ivey and other of our heroes..

Dont know who has won the most, but i do know that the largest hand was a couple months ago over 600,000 on one hand the winner was pair of dueces. the second largest hand came minutes later at the same table. their names escape me.

i dont really have an answer to your question. But there are alot of players that are really impressive when comes to tourneys. The top 3 online tourney players ive seen. 1. "imabigkidnow" 2. "da_professional" 3. "GetPW3ND"

Those screen namesmake me wonder whether or not they are over the age of 18. Either way they are making good money, and it would be nice to have an online strategy guide written by them collaboratively.

I agree and disagree.

First, the agree part. I don't like the way they do the rankings. Buy-in amount is weighted very heavily, and due to this you do get people with negative ROI's ranked fairly high.

Secondly, one big win does not skyrocket you. I know. I won almost $500 once and my ranking went exactly nowhere even though at the time my ROI was absurd. It wasn't until I went rather deep in another mtt that the ranking moved up.

Couple other things, OPR does track satellites. I won a few times for the hundred grand mtt satty and it shows up as a $11? win even though I really only won 11 T$. If you win a $5.50 satty and get into a $550 mtt and then bust out, it will still show you are being down $5.50 overall.

Lastly, I firmly believe that non of the tracking software (online or otherwise) works 100% of the time. I went and added up all the sharkscope and OPR and Pokertracker wins and losses, and it's WAY off from what I actually have.

AJKHoosier1 is ranked as the#1 player this year with a lifetimewinning of
$1,971,669
but carter CKINGUSC king who is ranked at 26place has won $2,019,793 in total (due to winning the wcoop at stars)
but i often look at AJKHoosier1 playin on pokerstars and he is the best in my opinion

yes there is, although not for stars.

Top Online Poker Winners Texas Hold'Em

Best player this year is durrrr, 4.44 BB/100 over 40000 hands at the highest stakes, for a total profit of $2,451,032. Not really a surprise.

honestly i would think there lifetime winnins would be more than just 2 mil


the guy is 22 yo hes got like a lifetime to turn 2mil into a gaziljon mil!

Each month its different for sure. Some have great months like gus'. ( up some 2 million) and then the next down 2 mill.

Is this a trick question?

Best How........

Patrick Atonius - $20,000,000+

PHIL IVEY !!!!

but here u can see some rankings
Poker Rankings - Live Poker Tournament Rankings

i think the professional celebrity poker players that play in real life and also online are the best

do mean player or site if player i would not say ftp they are being sued by a person that was a 1% owner that never got paid for promoting ftp she is suing for $40 mil howard lederman tried to give her $250,000 but she is just filed to and is suing for 40mil that is why i think ftp is a scam they knew she was going to take them to court so they are taking ppl money thats why you hear of to many bad beats on ftp has to be a bad beat you wont keep calling if you dont have a great hand

dint chris moneymaker win the WSOP from a $4 or $40 satellite online tourney?

I have watched many big FTP games. Juanda, Ivey, and other pros such as DURRRR or Urindanger have 1m in their account... this is from ring games... tourney games i have NO idea

I believe it is David Benjamine (France). He plays almost everynight at Fulltilt in the big PLO games. Durrrr (tom dwan) also does very well. The website highstakesdb.com has monthly and annual standings plus hand replays of all the big hands

High Stakes Online Poker Results

(All sites, All Gametypes, 2008-01-01 to 2008-11-19)
WinnersResultsSessionsHandsHoursPhil Ivey$6.923.025,89 1478854851556,42trex313$3.419.512,82 14721330041591,73OMGClayAiken$3.275.853,74 16461329271802,87durrrr$3.226.148,34 22522006842709,83Urindanger$3.069.864,03 16141531251750,69David Benyamine$2.939.865,49 26472414993617,91howisitfeellike$2.742.905,60 81145767740,65CHUFTY$2.368.891,85 17691387152267,60Gus Hansen$1.874.440,32 27071833653925,36Ziigmund$1.867.493,41 14321206581208,35
LosersResultsSessionsHandsHourslady marmelade$-6.506.758,95 23435857483,57patatino$-4.042.466,88 21335470483,43elmariachimacho$-2.788.162,67 4714245185,41LarsLuzak$-1.347.844,39 23924732217,10Bleachbum$-1.097.457,00 768562102,82noataima$-990.652,40 809279113,52MR B 2 U SON$-953.659,75 1345171117,68MSampoerna$-945.242,15 19523453228,52Ugadabugada$-876.097,20 41730522531,43John Juanda$-853.830,65 93336605722,66

High Stakes Online Poker Results

(All sites, All Gametypes, 2008-01-01 to 2008-11-19)
WinnersResultsSPhil Ivey$6.923.025,89 trex313$3.419.512,82 OMGClayAiken$3.275.853,74 durrrr$3.226.148,34 Urindanger$3.069.864,03 David Benyamine$2.939.865,49 howisitfeellike$2.742.905,60 CHUFTY$2.368.891,85 Gus Hansen$1.874.440,32 Ziigmund$1.867.493,41
LosersResultslady marmelade$-6.506.758,95 patatino$-4.042.466,88 elmariachimacho$-2.788.162,67 LarsLuzak$-1.347.844,39 Bleachbum$-1.097.457,00 noataima$-990.652,40 MR B 2 U SON$-953.659,75 MSampoerna$-945.242,15 Ugadabugada$-876.097,20 John Juanda$-853.830,65

Even if Ivey is first in the ranking of the most winning player of the year it is probably Boosted j who is the Best online Player

i dnt have much knowlendge on this but whenever patrick antonius is on fulltilt i watch n he allways makes 300-500 thousand in a session so i would say him

Also note most high-stakes players play games like HORSE and PLO as well. I think Ivey's in the top few in like every single game, not positive though.

Jeroen's post pretty much puts an end to the discussion - for those that couldn't decipher it, the top 10 in winnings this year are:

Phil Ivey: $6.923.025,89
trex313: $3.419.512,82
OMGClayAiken: $3.275.853,74
durrrr: $3.226.148,34
Urindanger: $3.069.864,03
David Benyamine: $2.939.865,49
howisitfeellike: $2.742.905,60
CHUFTY: $2.368.891,85
Gus Hansen: $1.874.440,32
Ziigmund: $1.867.493,41

Note that Patrick Antonius isn't among them - there's a possible explanation for that though, he's only been playing under his own name at Full Tilt since the middle of the year.

Largest hand wasn't deuces for $600K, BTW - Urindanger won a $723,938 pot when his aces beat Durrr's kings in late October.

Actually, something else to think about - below are the ten biggest winners tracked by HighStakesDB since they started keeping records at the beginning of 2007:

Phil Ivey: $8.919.759,30
Urindanger: $4.368.508,94
David Benyamine: $4.089.187,79
OMGClayAiken: $3.889.096,08
durrrr: $3.538.326,23
KaiBuxxe: $3.186.717,60
howisitfeellike: $2.771.917,85
trex313: $2.619.416,47
pr1nnyraid: $2.608.053,88
FinddaGrind $2.341.627,11

The top seven on this year's list appear above. Interesting to note that Gus Hansen doesn't appear twice though - he may be up this year, but it demonstrates what the swings in his game can be like.

Antonius (FinddaGrind) makes it in at #10 under his old username, suggesting you can probably expect his new name to eventually wind up on the biggest winners list.

Also interesting is that Niki Jedlicka (KaiBuxxe) is #6 on this list, but his new name is #5 on the biggest losers since January 2007 list as well at -$2.186.883,24.

HighStakesDB doesn't track PokerStars games (or Party / Ultimate Bet / etc) so this is basically a list of who's won bit on Full Tilt - I don't think any of the other sites really offer nosebleed action anyway though?

Well I think that last post just about sums it all up. This doesn't pertain to big money, but I do know that Chris Ferguson made 10,000 dollars for charity on Full Tilt by starting with nothing in the play money section and winning tournaments where the prize was entry into a real money tournaments.

Really depends what game you're talking about...

NL Cash: Probably Durrrr, with many others like Antonius, Phil Galfond and the Dang brothers right behind.

MTTs: So many... AJKHoosier, sctrojans, belowabove and Moorman are amazing, but there are too many to mention.

SNGs: livb112 seems to do well for himself at HU sngs, don't know many sng experts though...

The best all around player is really tough to determine, they're all really specialize at one sort of game, but I think it's safe to say it's easier to translate your success from cash games to tourneys than the other way around. This guy called rivermanl on pokerstars seems to crush everything there is to play though, so watch out for him. When you take into account those other fuzzy stud games and stuff it's even harder to just pick one player.

I like Ivey or Hansen for the best all around players.