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Below are the top 10 lists from every major pro poker circuit as well as poker’s All-Time Money List. These lists are a showcase of the greatest poker players in the world.
Top 10 Biggest Live Poker Winners
Daniel Negreanu (CAN) – $32,618,269
Erik Seidel (USA) – $29,392,158
Antonio Esfandiari (USA) – $27,051,662
Daniel Colman (USA) – $25,553,932
Phil Ivey (USA) – $23,856,035
Scott Seiver (USA) – $21,640,111
Phil Hellmuth (USA) – $20,977,293
Sam Trickett (GBR) – $20,557,091
Fedor Holz (GER) – $18,495,177
John Juanda (IND) – $18,111,006
Top 10 Biggest
wsop Poker Winners
Antonio Esfandiari (USA) – $21,516,913
Daniel Colman (USA) – $17,225,883
Daniel Negreanu (CAN) – $15,554,887
Jonathan Duhamel (CAN) – $14,492,038
Phil Hellmuth (USA) – $13,593,288
Jamie Gold (USA) – $12,194,746
Sam Trickett (GBR) – $11,265,538
Martin Jacobson (SWE) – $11,252,427
Greg Merson (USA) – $10,138,226
Joe Cada (USA) – $10,021,247
Top 10 Biggest WPT Poker Winners
Carlos Mortensen (SPA) – $6,738,672
Daniel Negreanu (CAN) – $5,767,453
Michael Mizrachi (USA) – $4,819,484
Tuan Le (USA) – $4,514,063
Gus Hansen (DEN) – $4,110,801
Alan Goehring (USA) – $3,942,344
Jonathan Little (USA) – $3,787,753
Joe Bartholdi Jr. (USA) – $3,760,165
David Chiu (USA) – $3,680,511
Nick Schulman (USA) – $3,559,047
Top 10 Biggest EPT Poker Winners
Steve O’ Dwyer (USA) – $8,779,818
Ole Schemion (GER) – $6,569,983
Mike McDonald (CAN) – $6,416,012
Igor Kurganov (RUS) – $6,340,212
Scott Seiver (USA) – $5,960,904
Jason Mercier (USA) – $5,959,952
Mustapha Kanit (ITA) – $5,959,716
Bertrand Grospellier (FRA) – $5,855,951
Martin Finger (GER) – $5,333,581
Bryn Kenney (USA) – $4,971,880
Top 10 Biggest APPT Poker Winners
Amichai Barer (CAN) – $1,735,918
Sunny Jung (SKO) – $1,163,950
Alan “Ari” Engel (CAN) – $1,120,110
Manny Stavropoulos (AUS) – $1,116,608
Grant Levy (AUS) – $1,008,965
Lennart Uphoff (GER) – $959,623
Sorel Mizzi (CAN) – $918,421
Gabriel Le Jossec (CAN) – $816,818
Jimmy Zhou (CHI) – $759,190
Martin Rowe (GBR) – $717,530
Top 10 Biggest LAPT Poker Winners
Jose Ignacio Barbero (ARG) – $817,446
Victor Sbrissa (BRA) – $473,076
Alex Manzano (CHI) – $386,430
Dominik Nitsche (GER) – $381,030
Joshua Kay (USA) – $376,588
Carlos Hey De Lima (BRA) – $373,725
Angel Guillen (MEX) – $342,658
Martin Sansour (PER) – $332,700
Leo Fernandez (ARG) – $310,501
Carter Gill (USA) – $309,925
As you can see @
veronica, there is not one woman on the lists above...
Selbst and Liebert Top Women’s All-Time Money List
The Poker Boom brought both an explosion in the popularity of poker and the integration of women into the game. The few female pros that frequented the circuit prior to the Boom became superstars after and helped usher in a new era for the game.
There are presently 27 women with lifetime tournament earnings exceeding $1 million. The top 10 of the Women’s All-Time Money list is a solid mix of old school female pros and modern day superstars that have reaped the benefits of the monster prize pools of the modern era.
Leading all women is Vanessa Selbst. In just over a decade, she has risen to the top spot with over $11.64 million in earnings. Kathy Liebert was the women’s former #1 player, currently with over $5.98 million in lifetime earnings. Liebert and Selbst are the only females in history to earn over $5 million.
Other women on the all-time money list include future Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman and inaugural WSOP-E Main Event Champion Annette Obrestad.
Below are the top 10 spots on the Women’s All-Time Money List:
Vanessa Selbst (USA) – $11,833,779
Kathy Liebert (USA) – $6,069,939
Annie Duke (USA) – $4,270,548
Annette Obrestad (NOR) – $3,929,551
Vanessa Rousso (USA) – $3,551,241
Liv Boeree (ENG) – $3,116,381
Joanne “JJ” Liu (USA) – $3,040,755
Jennifer Harman (USA) – $2,727,167
Victoria Coren Mitchell (ENG) – $2,461,985
Maria Ho (USA) – $2,024,425
Antonius, Ivey and Cates Among Top
online poker Players
Patrik Antonius is currently online poker’s all-time money leader with over $17 million in earnings.
Phil Ivey is no longer #2 all-time in career earnings. That spot now belongs to Daniel Cates. His lifetime earnings as jungleman12 and w00ki3z are now $11.53 million, over a million more than Ivey. Ivey finished 2015 at online poker’s biggest loser, dropping him to #3 all-time with $10.27 million earned.
Below are the lists of the online poker’s greatest cash game players. We have divided the lists between Full Tilt,
pokerstars and a finally a combined list ranking the greatest poker player by money earned online.
Some of you may notice that certain players are not listed online despite having massive earnings in the past or present. These players have chosen to make their long-term earnings private and are therefore excluded from these lists.
Top 10 Biggest PokerStars Winners
Jeans89 – Jens Kyllönen (FIN) – $4,981,233
Sauce123 – Ben Sulsky (USA) – $4,894,297
Kanu7 – Alexander Milar (UK) – $2,652,937
EireAbu – Unknown PLO Pro (IRE) – $2,591,915
azn_baller3 – Unknown PLO Pro (THA) – $2,206,846
1Il|1Il|1il| – Hac Dang (CAN) – $2,045,723
GVOZDIKA55 – Vladimir Shchemelev (RUS) – $1,904,194
longerpig – Unknown Pro (UK) – $1,386,319
Isildur1 – Viktor Blom (SWE) – $1,344,380
Vaga_Lion – Rob Akery (UK) – $1,314,937
Top 10 Biggest
full tilt poker Winners
Phil Ivey (USA)* – $19,242,744
Patrik Antonius (FIN)* – $11,315,549
jungleman12 – Daniel Cates (USA) – $10,270,847
Urindanger – Di Dang (USA) – $7,411,127
OMGClayAiken – Phil Galfond (CAN) – $6,599,839
FinddaGrind – Patrik Antonius (FIN) – $5,716,052
theASHMAN103 – Ashton Griffin (USA) – $4,843,362
EazyPeazy – Abe Mosseri (USA) – $4,160,304
Brian Hastings (USA)* – $3,890,941
KaiBuxxe – Nikolaus Jedlicka (AUS) – $3,186,718
* Played under real name as Full Tilt Poker Pro
Top 10 Biggest Online Poker Winners
FinddaGrind – Patrik Antonius (FIN) – $17,031,601
jungleman12 / w00ki3z – Daniel Cates (USA) – $11,423,240
polarizing / RaiseOnce – Phil Ivey (USA) – $10,441,963
Urindanger / ilvdnfl – Di Dang (USA) – $8,088,654
OMGClayAiken / MrSweets28 – Phil Galfond (CAN) – $7,882,703
Jeans89 / Ingenious89 – Jens Kyllönen (FIN) – $5,203,473
$tinger 88 – Brian Hastings (USA) – $4,867,425
theASHMAN103 – Ashton Griffin (USA) * – $4,802,650
Sauce1234 – Ben Sulsky (USA) – $4,894,297
Kanu7 / IReadYrSoul – Alex Milar (UK) – $4,608,600
* Results exclusively on Full Tilt Poker
I think the lists is self explanatory. Men are currently the best poker players in the world & the reason for this, I think, is that Poker is about aggression, & men have a built in aggression factor that stems from the days when we were still wearing furs & living in caves. To hunt for food back then and provide for your family, you had to have a certain amount of built-in aggression. Have you ever killed an animal for food or hunted. Not for the faint of heart, you need a certain level of aggression to take an animals life. Woman didn't need this kind of aggression to rear children, gather berries and so forth. I can't see the ratio changing anytime soon, but hey... Good luck Girls.
So there is my take on the whole who's better @ poker... Men or Woman.
Hope you enjoyed it & see you @ the final table