Top 5 Poker Players: All-Time Earnings List
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 4:40 PMAs of mid 2010, rounding up the TOP 5 All-Time Earnings list for poker players, we can still find some of the most popular household names in poker. Making the TOP 5 list in all-time poker earnings are:
1- Phil Ivey - $13,531,757
2- Daniel Negreanu - $12,668,866
3- Jamie Gold - $12,223,798
4- Peter Eastgate - $11,308,359
5- Scotty Nguyen - $10,828,112
Phil Ivey, no doubt considered by most and by poker pros as the best all-round poker player to ever play the game, still stands on top of the list with the biggest earnings accumulated by any poker player to date with $13,531,757. Largest poker cash in: LA Poker Classic / WPT Event #29 (Commerce Casino) Feb 28, 2008 - 1st place $1,596,100
Daniel Negreanu, the finest Canadian poker player and considered solid all-round player by many, for both cash games and tournaments, comes in ranked 2nd with $12,668,866.
Largest poker cash in: Doyle Brunson Five-Diamond World Poker Classic II / WPT Main Event (Bellagio Resort Casino) Dec 18, 2004 - 1st place $1,770,218
Jamie Gold, the cool, calm and collected poker player and still considered today as the "Gentleman" of the poker felt tables, ranks 3rd overall and still with the largest ever cash prize
awarded ($12,000,000 WSOP Main Event 2006) to any poker player in history. His all-time poker earnings total $12,223,798.Largest poker cash in: 37th Annual World Series of Poker - WSOP Main Event #39 (Rio Hotel & Casino) Aug 10, 2006 - 1st place $12,000,000
Peter Eastgate, the young Danish poker player from Denmark is still one of the youngest poker players to ever win a WSOP Main Event title (2008) and ranks 4th in our Top 5 Earnings list with total poker earnings at $11,308,359.
Largest poker cash in: 39th Annual World Series of Poker - WSOP Main Event #54 (Rio Hotel & Casino) Nov 9, 2008 - 1st place $9,119,517
Scotty Nguyen, (baby!) the always so smooth operator at the tables, liked by some and hated by others, take him any way you want ...Scotty still commands a lot of respect as a poker player
in the business and ranks 5th overall in poker earnings with $10,828,112.Largest poker cash in: 39th Annual World Series of Poker - WSOP H.O.R.S.E. Event #45 (Rio Hotel & Casino) Jun 25, 2008 - 1st place $1,989,120