Top 10 best poker players in the world
Poker has never been so popular, which can be seen, for example, from the amounts that are earned in this world with this game. To win a high prize, placing high bets is usually a requirement. Players who bet consistently high amounts are called high rollers. In addition, poker has become even more popular due to online casinos . Players no longer have to leave their homes for this casino games .
But who are the high rollers from the poker world who play with amounts we can only dream of? How did they start their careers and most importantly, how much money do the best poker players in the world make? Discover the list of the ten best poker players of the moment below!
10. Cary Katz
With a hallucinatory $34,660,000, car Katz may bite off the striker as the tenth best poker player in the world. For this self-made man, poker was a hobby for a long time. He had learned the game from his grandmother and turned out to have talent for it.
The entreprenNZD was already earning well with his company specializing in student loans prior to his poker career. He is well known in the United States for his support of the Republican Party.
He never won a coveted WSOP bracelet on a World Poker Tour, yet he ranks tenth in this list of the highest-earning poker players in the world.
9. By Phil Ivey
The Tiger Woods of Poker, Phil Ivey, won an estimated $35,210,000 during his long career as a poker player. He won ten WSOP bracelets and of the nine final tables he reached on the World Poker Tour, he won one.
He was voted best all-round player in the world and earned a rightful place of Honor in the Poker Hall of Fame.
Ivey still lives in Vegas where he motivates young people to work as a poker player themselves. Today he is fully engaged in sponsoring charities and managing his own foundation for charitable institutions.
8. Jason Rizk
Jasmon Rizk never had a stated ambition to become a professional poker player. He received a master's degree in finance and hoped to pursue a career in that field. After a serious injury, he was confined to the bed for a while, and out of boredom began to play poker with friends.
The discovery of this hidden talent has led Jason Rizk to earn a staggering $35,960,000 playing poker so far. An amount he probably would never have earned in the corporate world.
He has one WSOP bracelet and twice reached the final table at the World Poker Tour. Both times he did not take first place.
7. Dan Smith
Dan Smith was born in New Jersey. At school he was active in the Chess Club, a talent that even helped him to a studiebNZDs for a renowned university. However, he discovered that he had a talent for high-level poker and therefore never used these studebnzds.
Smith, like so many professional poker players, soon moved to Las Vegas. He has not yet managed to get a WSOP bracelet, but he did get a final place on the World Poker Tour once and won it right away!
Dan Smith is a true philanthropist. He uses his fame to organize events to raise money for good causes. He also regularly donates large sums of the $38,230,000 he already won with poker.
6. David Peters
The Silent Assassin, as David Peters is called on the tour, already earned $39,000,000 playing poker. He has never won a World Poker Tour or dollarpean Poker Tour but has been to the final table several times. He already has three WSOP bracelets in his pocket.
David Peters is best known for his top performance at a U.S. Poker open. He won three major high roller events in just five days.
5. Stephen Chidwick
The first poker player in this top ten who is not from the United States is Stephen Chidwick. This player is from Kent, England and with his $39,180,000 in assets is the highest earning English poker player ever.
He has already won one WSOP bracelet but the World Poker Tour or dollarpean Poker Tour was not allowed on his account yet. Who often works online poker tournaments can meet this star at the gaming table with a bit of luck under the names TylersDad64 or Stevie444. Even if you have to arrive with a hefty stake amount for this.
4. Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel, The Sixth American to date in this top ten, raised $39,240,000 playing poker. He is the proud owner of nine WSOP bracelets. He sat at the World Poker Tour final table eight times and won one. At the dollarpean Poker Tour final table he was allowed to join once and won it immediately.
He started playing Backgammon professionally in New York. After his studies, Seidel went to work as a trader on Wall Street where he could already earn the starting amounts for his poker career.
3. Daniel Negreanu
The top three is opened by a jewelste Clapper, namely Daniel Negreanu. This Canadian with Romanian roots raised a whopping $46,120,000 during his poker career.
He has been to the final table of the World Poker Tour eight times and has won two. Of the two passages at the final table of the dollarpean Poker Tour, he was not allowed to write a single one on his account. Negreanu has won six WSOP bracelets.
Players can also learn from Daniel Negreanu, about playing poker and building a career in this niche. Negreanu has a podcast and YouTube channel where he posts many videos and interviews.
Negreanu is a welcome poker player on the tour. He has won the WSOP Player of the Year Award several times.
2. Justin Bonomo
The second place among the best poker players in the world is quite rightly occupied by the American Justin Bonomo. He already made $57,195,000 playing poker so far and is not going to leave it at that.
Always fascinated by card games and alternative career steps he started as a professional Magic player. From here he went to the bigger money of poker. He lives in the Panorama Towers in Vegas, just like about 70 other colleagues from the poker world.
Despite the large sums that Bonomo earned, he sometimes gets a little off track. He was banned from playing on several sites for logging in with multiple profiles. He also tried to find clues through the names of friends or family.
1. Bryn Kenney
With a poker fortune of $57,205,000, Bryn Kenney is barely in first place in this prestigious top ten of the best poker players in the world. Like Bonomo, he began his career as a professional Magic: The Gathering player.
He once won a bracelet from the seven final tables at the WSOP. He has not won the World Poker Tour or the US dollar Poker Tour. Despite these meager statistics for the time being, he is at the very top of this list.
Kenney has won the biggest cash prize ever in a live poker tournament. With the second place he took here, he still earned a nice $20,500.00 in one go. This amount has not yet been matched by anyone.
Honorable mention: Dan Bilzerian
Not included in this list, because strictly speaking he earned only a 'mere' $36,600 playing poker, is Dan Bilzerian. However, this flamboyant poker player deserves an honorable mention.
The Instagram King is not a self-made man. His father, of Armenian descent, made a lot of money as a trader and gave his three sons a generous trust fund. Bilzerian uses this money to sponsor his extravagant lifestyle and let the public enjoy it.
He is very popular on social media and has already starred in seven films. Bilzerian often makes the news through wild stories involving booze, drugs, parties and women. The craziest proposal he ever came up with was to give himself up as a candidate for the US presidential election. However, after a few months, he withdrew from the race to the White House.
Bilzerian is a poker player who may not make the biggest amounts of money playing poker, but is still incredibly popular with the general public. In addition to poker, Bilzerian is also fond of betting and everything had to do with gambling.