Top Cash Game Players August 2026

NL/PL25: Schutz21 Is Back On Top With $3K Profit

Guilherme “Schutz21” dos Santos first appeared in our rankings in January 2026, when he was playing NL10. A couple of months later, he moved up to NL25, where he started making consistent profits. See for yourself:

• June 2026: top-1, +$3.5K
• July 2026: top-3, +$1.8K

In August, he is back on top. There’s a good chance he could end up as the best player at this limit in 2026.

By the way, $$_ DACENT_60 is in second place with a $2.4K profit. He also consistently makes the top spots:

• May 2026: top-3, +$2K
• June 2026: top-3, +$2.4K
• July 2026: top-2, +$1.9K

By the way, you can track an unlimited number of players for free on StatName up to NLH/PLO25.

NL/PL50: Two Newcomers Top the Stakes

The same nicknames most often appear in the rankings of the best players. But that’s not always the case. Two newcomers, folydr and Lessinho, topped the NL50 rankings, each winning $3.3K. This is the first time we’ve seen these two nicknames.

MyBestPokeR, however, has already appeared in the rankings. In March 2026, he finished second with a profit of more than $5K.

NL/PL100: Froufrou12 Returns to the Top Spot

Froufrou12 topped the NL/PL100 rankings in June 2026 with an $8.4K profit. In August, he returned to the top spot and won $9.4K.

BSTUSim is in second place with a $6.9K profit. This is the first time we’ve seen this nickname in the rankings.

In third place is Victor “coeeeelho” Coelho ($6.2K). He finished third again, just like last month. Consistency is a sign of mastery.

NL/PL200: AlexEliseev7 Is Back on Top

This is the third month in 2026 that AlexEliseev7 has finished with the best result at the limit.

• In February, he won $7.4K.
• In May, he won $11K.
• In August, he won another $11K.

As a reminder, he won $36K throughout 2025, although that was at NL/PL100.

Legend!

NL/PL500: 5 of the Top 15 Players Grind Omaha

Three players topped the Omaha rankings on PokerStars and 888poker. What’s more, all three nicknames are appearing in our articles for the first time. They are:

• KP89 with an incredible $11K profit
• Phisherman36 with an $8.8K profit
• sickario with an $8.3K profit

NL/PL1K and higher: kramer147 Tops Two Month In a Row

In July, kramer147 topped both NL/PL2K and NL/PL5K, earning $48K in total. In August, kramer147 focused on a single limit — NL5K — and earned $56K.

We’ve compiled the data for players at the NL/PL1K and NL/PL2K limits into a table.

Overall: Scout327 (St1ckman) Wins $115K+

Scout327, better known as Sergey “St1ckman” Vasiliev, topped the rankings.. St1ckman is a legend. He has been playing poker since the late 2000s, and as early as 2008–2009, he was playing Fixed-Limit Hold’em tables on PokerStars at stakes up to $1K/$2K.

By the way, this isn’t his first appearance in the rankings of the best players. In November 2025, he finished third.

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