Poker Leaderboard: European Poker Tour Earnings

The European Poker Tour has been running since the fall of 2004, with a few breaks in action along the way. One such halt to the EPT was due to the brief shelving of the tour in 2017, thanks to a rebranding as the PokerStars Championship that lasted just one year. More recently, the tour was put on hiatus due to the live poker shutdown around most of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Only four EPT series were held in 2020 and 2021, with one being online and the other three taking place in Sochi, Russia. The first live stop outside of Sochi was the 2022 EPT Prague festival, which ran from March 5-16. The centerpiece of the whole affair was the €5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, which was won by Polish online qualifier Grzegorz Glowny for $754,555 USD.

Canada’s Mike McDonald remains the tour’s all-time leader in main event earnings with more than $3.4 million. The 32-year-old set the record as the youngest EPT main event champion at 18 years of age, when McDonald won the EPT Dortmund main event in 2008 for nearly $1.4 million. This was the first of two seven-figure paydays he recorded in EPT main events, with the other being the $1,064,865 he took home as the runner-up finisher in the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event.

Glen Chorny is second on this leaderboard, thanks almost entirely to the $3,193,822 he earned for winning the 2008 EPT Grand Final main event. The Canadian player’s second-largest cash on the tour was an $80,000 payday for a 13th-place showing in that year’s PCA main event. The Netherlands’ Pieter de Korver sits in third place on this list. Like Chorny, his spot is largely due to a win in the season-ending EPT Grand Final main event. He took down the 2009 running for $3 million. ♠