Poker Leaderboard: All-Time Money List

Rank Player Earnings
1 Bryn Kenney $74,056,233
2 Justin Bonomo $66,248,460
3 Stephen Chidwick $61,082,815
4 Mikita Badziakouski $60,150,136
5 Dan Smith $57,897,662
6 Jason Koon $57,865,226
7 Daniel Negreanu $53,455,934
8 Adrian Mateos $52,472,144
9 Isaac Haxton $52,327,233
10 David Peters $49,243,660
11 Erik Seidel $48,290,319
12 Fedor Holz $47,256,929
13 Phil Ivey $47,200,301
14 Steve O’Dwyer $46,200,100
15 Timothy Adams $40,497,634
16 Cary Katz $40,362,734
17 Nick Petrangelo $39,249,803
18 Sam Greenwood $38,236,092
19 Jake Schindler $37,608,559
20 Christoph Vogelsang $36,904,913
21 Daniel Dvoress $36,712,866
22 Alex Foxen $36,458,032
23 Sean Winter $33,575,429
24 Seth Davies $32,319,318
25 Paul Phua $31,155,977

The first-ever $250,000 buy-in poker tournament was held in 2011. The trailblazing event, held at that year’s Aussie Millions, was won by Erik Seidel for $2.5 million. The victory grew his career earnings to more than $13.7 million, which was good for second on the all-time money list at that point.
Now, more than a decade later, events that cost several hundred thousand dollars to enter are held multiple times each year. As a result, $13.7 million in career scores is barely enough to place one inside the top 100 on poker’s all-time money list (99th-ranked Sorel Mizzi has $13,666,110 to his name). As of November 2024, it takes more than $31 million in career earnings to crack the top 25.
The 65-year-old Seidel has since tripled his career haul to nearly $48.3 million, and that’s not even enough to rank inside the top 10 (the 10-time bracelet winner is currently sitting in 11th place).
Bryn Kenney holds a sizable lead thanks to the $6 million he added across two big scores at the Triton Monte Carlo stop. (See pg. 28) His $74 million total gives him a $7.8 million advantage over second-ranked Justin Bonomo with $66.2 million. Kenney is the first player to surpass $70 million, largely thanks to his record-setting $20,606,421 windfall in the 2019 Triton Million Charity Invitational. He has 11 scores of seven figures or more, with five for multiple millions.
Bonomo has also accrued several multi-million-dollar paydays (six to be exact). His largest also came in a million-dollar buy-in affair. He took down the 2018 Big One For One Drop to secure $10,000,000 and his third World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
Stephen Chidwick and Mikita Badziakouski are the only other players to top $60 million, with Dan Smith rounding out the top five by a hair over Jason Koon.
Of the top 10, nine players are still under the age of 40, with Adrian Mateos (30), and Mikita Badziakouski (32) the youngest. Daniel Negreanu at age 50 is the oldest, and currently sits in seventh place with $53.5 million. ♠