Top 5 richest Poker players of all time
Top 5 richest Poker players
- all time tournament winnings -
Poker does of course not only come in the forms of cash games.
Tournaments are the long lasting competitions where hundreds of players try their best to
win prestige and huge amounts of money.
While there are no puplic records for cash games, every tournament win can be tracked.
So lets take a look today of Poker's biggest tournament winners of all time!
#5 Phil Ivey (USA) - 23,856,035 USD
aka Phil - Age 39
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ivey
#4 Daniel Colman (USA) - 27,152,017 USD
aka Dan - Age 26
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Colman
#3 - Antonio Esfandiari (USA) - 27,353,449 USD
aka The Magician - Age 32
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Esfandiari
#2 - Erik Seidel (USA) - 31,013,773 USD
aka Sly - Age 57
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Seidel
#1 - Daniel Negranu (CAN) - 32,619,169 USD
aka Kid Poker - Age 42
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Negreanu
| Daniel Negreanu | $ 32,619,169 |
| 2nd | Erik Seidel | $ 31,013,773 |  |
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| 3rd | Antonio Esfandiari | $ 27,353,449 | |
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| 4th | Daniel Colman | $ 27,152,017 | |
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| 5th | Phil Ivey | $ 23,856,035 | |
These numbers are somewhat misleading, even beyond only taking into consideration tournament winnings
The problem is that they don't take losses into account. A player like Sidel or DN could have half a million in tournament winnings in a given year, and still finish the year down, because they play so many high stakes tournaments.
There's not any in the top 5, but id be willing to bet that there are quite a few losing, BE, or near BE players in the top 100 or so all time winners calculated this way
you do have a point. however thats the most accurate and only trackable information on the net you can find. it doesnt even include cash games... so while e.g. Phil Ivey could be winning 1 mio in tournament winnings in 2016, he may have lost e.g. 0.5 mio in cash games. BTW the buy ins (especially for WSOP events) are mostly given to the pros by their sponsor (FullTiltPoker, 888 Poker etc.)