Poker Leaderboard: World Poker Tour Earnings

The World Poker Tour’s season has officially wrapped up with the completion of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, making it an ideal time to check in on the tour’s all-time earnings leaderboard.

The top 10 saw a big shakeup thanks to the event, with champion Eliot Hudon surging into sixth place despite no prior cashes on the tour. His $4,136,000 victory in the largest tour event ever held was enough to see the Canadian surpass the likes of Gus Hansen, Chino Rheem, Card Player columnist Jonathan Little, and Alan Goehring, all of whom have their names listed on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup multiple times.

Carlos Mortensen remains the tour’s leading money earner with more than $6.7 million. He is one of just seven players with three or more WPT main event titles to his name. Among his trio of victories on the tour was his title run in the 2007 WPT Championship. He topped a field of 639 entries in that $25,000 buy-in event to earn $3,970,415. That was the largest payout ever awarded in a WPT main tour event until Hudon’s recent victory.

Daniel Negreanu sits in second with $5,973,450 in main tour earnings made across 25 career cashes. The two-time WPT champion’s most recent deep run saw him place 17th out of 2,960 entries in the WPT World Championship for $176,200. As a result, he now sits just $765,220 behind Mortensen on this leaderboard despite only recording five main tour cashes in the past decade. He has two million-dollar scores on the tour, both coming in his two title runs that took place in 2004.

Rounding out the top three is two-time champion Michael Mizrachi with $5,135,478. Like Negreanu, Mizrachi secured a pair of seven-figure wins during the poker boom of the mid-2000s. His most recent big score saw him finish ninth in the 2021 WPT Venetian for $91,035. Earlier this summer, his brother Robert returned to Venetian and took down the WPT main event, making the duo the only brothers to both win on the tour. ♠