Poker Leaderboard: UK Money List Career Tournament Earnings

The United Kingdom has produced many great poker players. When it comes to tournament poker success, the UK’s most prolific performer is among the most accomplished in the entire world.

Stephen Chidwick has accumulated more than $46 million dollars in recorded tournament earnings across 371 career cashes. The 33-year-old from Deal, England has won 38 titles so far, with two in recent weeks at the EPT Paris festival. He has earned nine, seven-figure paydays on the circuit overall, including $5,380,200 for his fourth-place showing in the largest buy-in event ever held: the 2019 £1,050,000 buy-in Triton Million event. Chidwick seems well positioned to maintain his place atop this leaderboard for quite some time, as he holds more than double the earnings of his nearest competitor in Sam Trickett.

While Trickett has not been a fixture on the tournament circuit lately, there are a few players who have made big pushes up the standings in the past year, including Ben Heath. The 30-year-old bracelet winner from Brighton, England has cashed for more than $4.6 million in the past 12 months, with his largest score in that span being a $805,024 cash for a third-place finish in a 2022 WSOP $100,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event.

Sam Grafton became just the fourth player from the UK to surpass the eight-figure mark in career earnings recently, thanks in large part to his career-high cash of $5,500,000 earned as the champion of last year’s Coin Rivet Invitational $200,000 buy-in event held during the Triton Mediterranean Poker Party. The 42-year-old from Leamington Spa, England now has nearly $13 million in total cashes to his name.

Four-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser has also pushed his way into the top 10 after he recorded his largest tournament cash yet in December. Glaser placed second from a field of 2,960 in the WPT World Championship main event to earn $2,830,000. The huge payday increased the Southampton native’s career earnings to nearly $6.6 million and helped him surpass the late Poker Hall of Famer Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott. ♠