Top Poker Players By Winning, All Time Adjusted

#1 – Bryn Kenney – $78,876,835

The soon to be birthday boy – he turns 39 on November 1st – got his start in poker back in 2007 when he turned 21 and could play legally in casinos, but before poker Bryn was one of the best Magic: The Gathering players in the world.
His skills transferred over to poker where he has been a dominant force in high roller tournaments since he burst onto the scene back in the late 2000’s. Kenney has 2 WSOP bracelets to his credit – a live win from the 2014 series and an online win from the 2024 series.

He is one of the few players who boasts an eight-figure win, having placed second in the £1,050,000 NLH Triton Million for Charity tournament back in August of 2019 for an almost £17 million payday, or just over $20 million USD. He has 12 million dollar cashes, all coming from tournaments with $50k buy-ins or greater.

While he’s not an everyday grinder, when the big series puts on big buy-in events, Bryn Kenney is sure to have a seat at the table.

#2 – Stephen Chidwick – $73,754,751

The most successful poker player from Europe is one of only two players who have eclipsed $70 million USD in lifetime earnings.
Chidwick transitioned from a very successful online player to one of the toughest tournament players in the world. Unlike Bryn, Stephen’s biggest cash is “only” $5 million when he finished 4th in that same tournament Bryn placed 2nd, the £1,050,000 NLH Triton Million for Charity. Stephen’s had 16 seven-figure cashes in his career, with three of these having occurred since the June 2025 World Series of Poker, including a $200k Triton Event win in Short Deck for $3.455 million.

Like Bryn, Stephen has had 2 WSOP Bracelet wins in his career, including one from the 2019 WSOP PLO High Roller event which scored him $1.6 million. While he is more of an everyday grinder – he has 82 lifetime cashes at the WSOP, Stephen is still one of the most feared high roller tournament players on the prowl.

#3 – Jason Koon – $69,008,908

#3 on our list is the West Virginia born track star turned professional poker player Jason Koon.
The 40 year-old is a constant on the poker scene, travelling the world over and constantly putting on shows that see him win big. With over $68 million in lifetime earnings, Jason’s done it through more of a grind, with 17 million dollar plus cashes – the biggest being the $1 million NLH Short Deck Ante Only tournament from the 2018 Triton series in Montenegro which saw him take the tournament down for $3.58 million. Montenegro might be his favorite place to play as 7 years after his biggest win, he notched his 2nd biggest cash ever in the $150k NLH 8 handed event, which he also won for $3.4 million.

Jason has 54 cashes to his credit to date and one bracelet from the 2021 WSOP where he won the heads-up NLH championship for $243k. His $2.8 million lifetime earnings at the WSOP puts him well off the top players, but he is one of the most successful players in the Triton series which one can argue is much more difficult to profit at, given the quality of the opponents and the size of those fields. It is only a matter of time before Jason joins the $70 million club though.

#4 – Justin Bonomo – $65,949,368

He’s #4 on the all time money list if you adjust for inflation; #5 If you don’t, however you classify him, Justin Bonomo is always a scary sight when he shows you at your poker table.
“ZeeJustin” is in the exclusive club of those with eight-figure wins, as he won $10 million back in 2018 on the The Big One for One Drop at the WSOP – and this is a big reason why his $18 million in lifetime earnings at the WSOP puts him #5 on that all-time money list. He has 2 other bracelets and one ring to his credit, with the bracelets coming in 2014 winning the $1,500 NLH 6-max event for $449k, and a second bracelet in 2018 where he won the $10k Heads-Up Championship for $186k.

Most of his eleven $1 million plus cashes have come pre-COVID, with his only major score since the pandemic being at the 2024 WSOP Paradise $25k Main Event, where he finished 7th for just over $1 million.

Oddly enough, that was also the last time he had a recorded cash, so the question is – when will we see one of the most successful poker tournament players again?

#5 – Mikita Bodyakovsky – $65.711,885

One of the most feared online poker crushers ever, Mikita Bodyakovsky has a live game that is as fearless as his online one. 
The Belarusian has amassed over $65 million in lifetime live tournament winnings, but it’s been reported he has also won over $2 million playing cash games online at PokerStars – surpassing many poker pro’s live tournament winnings alone. His biggest win came in the 2023 Big One for One Drop at the WPT World Championships in December, 2023 where he pocketed $7.1 million. He has eighteen career cashes greater than $1 million, none from WSOP events. In 2024 he came close with two deep runs at the 2024 Triton Series at the WSOP Paradise series in The Bahamas with deep runs in multiple events and winning over $1 million.

Mikita has not been a force at the WSOP in Las Vegas with only 16 total cashes – two mentioned above for a total lifetime earnings of $1.6 million. When it comes to the European Poker Tour and the Triton Series though, Mikita is a sure bet to be found buying into their high roller events.

#6 – Isaac Haxton – $61,061,525

The Syracuse, New York native was the seventh member of the $60 million club in terms of lifetime tournament earnings, when he won the $100k PLO Main Event at the Triton Jeju Series in September, 2025 for a $2.789 million payday and his second biggest win of his poker career, capping off one of the most successful poker series ever for Ike where he cashed 11 times in the series.

Ike’s biggest win came many years earlier in December, 2018 where he won the #300k Super High Roller Bowl V for $3.672 million – one of his thirteen cashes greater than $1 million. It took James 4 and a half years after that to add the one missing piece to his poker trophy case – a WSOP bracelet. He conquered the $25k High Roller NLH 8-max event in 2023 to win his first gold bracelet and $1.7 million in the process.

Ike has a lot of momentum going into the busy December poker season – and many of the top players are hoping that they travel to a series that Haxton isn’t playing.

#7 – Dan Smith – $60,534,818

Like a lot of the top poker players today, Dan Smith got his start in a similar game before transitioning to poker, but unlike most – he started playing at 16, well below the legal age to gamble in the US.
Going to college on a chess scholarship, Dan dropped out of school at 18 to pursue poker – and it turned out to be a very wise decision. Earlier this year, he became the sixth member of the $60 million club in lifetime earnings when he cashed in three Triton Poker Super High Roller events in Montenegro for over $475,000. His poker career began back in 2008 when he recorded his first cash – the $1,500 Main Event of the Heartland Poker Tour at Turning Stone in Upstate New York for a little over $100k. His biggest cash of his career came in 2019 where he won the £1,050,000 NLH Triton Million for Charity event for £7,200,000, or $8.765 Million USD. Dan has had 13 million dollar cashes, 6 of which were for more than $2 million. The WSOP has been kind to Dan as well with a bracelet in the 2022 $25k Heads-Up event for $509k, 20 final tables, 77 cashes equaling $12 million in total earnings, and there’s no sign of him slowing down anytime soon.

#8 – Daniel Negreanu – $59,652,200

Kid Poker makes the list in the eight spot, just shy of the $60 million mark in lifetime earnings, but he sits #1 all time in WSOP winnings, thanks in large part to being the only 2 time WSOP POY. Growing up in Toronto, Daniel’s initial dream was to become a professional snooker player, hustling people all over Toronto. While spending his days in pool halls instead of school, Daniel learned poker and started playing in illegal games all over the city. His first recorded (and legal) cash came in 1997 when he played in the Orleans Open in Las Vegas, finishing 10th in a $230 NLH event for $1,050. Daniel has added 550 cashes since, most notably the 2014 WSOP $1 Million Big One for One Drop where he came second for a $8.288 million cash. Daniel has only 10 million dollar cashes to his credit and only one has come post pandemic, winning the $300k Super High Roller Bowl VII for $3.3 million.
With how much he loves the WSOP – and now that GG Poker owns the brand – expect more of Kid Poker in The Bahamas in December, and again next summer at the 2026 WSOP.

#9 – Phil Ivey – $56,598,026

It’s hard to imagine where Phil Ivey would be today on this list had it not been for the Full Tilt scandal of 2011 – some of the sponsored pros never truly returned to poker, while others like Phil, were able to regain the drive to keep playing the game. Phil sits with 11 WSOP bracelets – second only to another Phil – and has 96 cashes for a total lifetime earnings of $11 million, but took time away from the game after the scandal hit. He “only” has 260 recorded cashes, 14 of which were for more than $1 million, and the two biggest cashes were both wins at the $250k Challenge NLH event during the Aussie Millions series in Melbourne; the biggest happening in 2014 for $3.582 million, and the second largest happening 2 years earlier for $2.058 million.

That scandal caused Phil to essentially skip playing poker in 2011 – looking at his Hendon Mob, he had a year in between cashes when we went to Melbourne in 2011 and then in 2012. He then had a three and a year span from February 2015 where he cashed twice at the 2015 Aussie Millions, to May 2018 where the only recorded cash he had was a Triton Super High Roller event in the Philippines for $656k. Only in May, 2018 did Phil really return, winning $2 million USD in two Triton events in Montenegro, before 4 cashes at the WSOP that year. Had Phil played regularly in those time periods, he might have been able to get over $60 by now but unfortunately we’ll never know. What we do know – is Phil is back to being a regular face on the biggest poker stages in the world.

#10 – Adrian Mateos – $54,126,680

The youngest player on our list comes in at #10, where we find Spain’s Adrian Mateos. His career started in 2012 where his first recorded cash was a win – €32k in a €600 NLH event in Madrid. Three months later, he took down the €1100 EPT Madrid Main Event for €103k and the world was introduced to Mateos. 312 cashes later, including 4 WSOP bracelets and 19 final tables, and 13 cashes of $1 million or greater, Adrian has amassed over $54 million in lifetime earnings. His $14 million won at the WSOP ranks him seventh all time, and his $3.265 million win in the 2021 $250k Super High Roller NLH event is his biggest cash at the WSOP, and second in his career, only behind a second place finish in the 2024 Triton Montenegro 8 handed, $212k NLH event where he won $3.292 million. With his age, Adrian should be a mainstay on the high roller poker scene worldwide for many years, if not decades, to come.