Poker Leaderboard: World Poker Tour Main Event Cashes

Darren Elias has found incredible success on the World Poker Tour, with consistent results in WPT main tour events year after year since making his first cash back in 2011. The New Jersey resident currently leads all WPT players in several crucial categories, including most main event titles won (4), most main event final tables made (12), and most main event cashes (43) secured.

Of the four main statistics that the WPT website tracks, the only category he doesn’t lead in is WPT earnings, with his $3,955,444 in scores being good for 11th in that category. Spanish poker pro Carlos Mortensen remains the leader in that statistic, with more than $6.7 million in cashes to his name. The 2001 WSOP main event champion earned nearly $4 million for winning the 2007 WPT Championship, which is still the largest payout in tour history.

Elias has made nine more in-the-money finishes than the second-ranked player on this leaderboard, which is three-time WPT champion and four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Anthony Zinno (34 cashes). The former lawyer won WPT Player of the Year in Season 13.

Poker triple crown winner and two-time WPT champion Mohsin Charania sits in third on this list with 32 cashes on the main tour, most recently final tabling the same Five Diamond World Poker Classic event that he won back in 2014 at Bellagio.

Brian Altman is fourth on this list with 29 cashes. Altman joined Elias and Zinno as one of just seven players to ever win three or more WPT main event titles when he took down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa main event last June. Other three-time winners include Eric Afriat, Gus Hansen, Chino Rheem, and the aforementioned Mortensen.

Two-time WPT champion and Card Player columnist Jonathan Little rounds out the top five on this leaderboard. He is one of five players currently sitting with 28 main tour cashes to his name. With WPT earnings as the tiebreaker, Little narrowly beat out Erik Seidel, Jared Jaffee, Lee Markholt, and Jake Schwartz, having accumulated more than $4 million on the tour over the years.