Which player has the biggest winnings in poker. Biggest Wins in the World Series of Poker - Top Ten Millionaire Champions

For the past nine years, the World Series of Poker's Main Event has remained the richest poker tournament in the world. The first millionth was the main match back in 1983. And in 2004 the general prize fund tournament exceeded $10 million. Traditionally, the WSOP Main Event plays no-limit Texas Hold'em. That is, all the happy millionaires, whose victories we will describe below, mastered this very popular type of poker.

10th place – Ryan Riess (USA) – WSOP Main Event 2013 – $8,361,570

Every poker player's dream is to make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker main event. In 2013, young American Ryan Riess not only got there, but also emerged victorious in the tournament. Ryan was paid $8,361,570 for the win. It was big mountain green wads of dollars, which he barely managed to wrap his hands around.

Despite his young age - 23 years old - Riess did not rush to spend all the money he won on super expensive cars and yachts. The poker player invested a large part in the stock market, and is now a shareholder of such global brands as Facebook, Disney and Disney. Ryan also became a co-owner of the Union Pacific railway company.

9th place – Greg Merson (USA) – WSOP Main Event 2012 – $8,531,853

9th place - Greg Merson (USA)

Surprisingly, before Ryan Riess in 2012, the winner of the same WSOP Main Event was also a young (24 years old) professional poker player from the States, Greg Merson. For a long time he could not believe his triumph and sobbed loudly, looking at the champion’s gold bracelet encrusted with diamonds and a high pyramid of dollars ($ 8,531,853). Only ten minutes later, the newly-minted winner, tightly hugging his mother, gave his first interview to journalists. He said: “I thought I was ready for the Main Event marathon, but it wasn’t until the final table that I realized it was impossible to prepare for THAT!”

To get this high title and millions of dollars in prize money, Greg changed a lot in his life: he gave up alcohol, recovered from drug addiction and took lessons poker game from the old masters. Merson spent the remaining millions from taxes on his family and closed cash games in Baltimore, where the poker player had previously been unable to get into due to lack of money. Greg personally bought 500 bucks worth of clothes for himself!

8th place – Joe Cada (USA) – WSOP Main Event 2009 – $8,547,042

8th place - Joe Cada

Joe Cada is the true embodiment of the American Dream. An ordinary guy from the Midwest becomes a millionaire overnight! Joe walked towards success for five whole years out of the 21 years he lived. Kada met the world early gambling, since his mother worked as a croupier in a casino. As a teenager, Joe started playing cards, and then focused on online hold'em and achieved good results - his bankroll was half a million dollars.

Having received the status of “adult” at the age of 21, Kada confidently rushed to conquer live tournaments. Here he quickly lost his savings, and Joseph simply did not have the money for the opening buy-in of the WSOP main event. Sponsors invested in it, each of whom received 2 million of the $8,547,042 prize money Kady! It’s good that shortly before the final, Joe signed a contract with the PokerStars room, which paid the player an additional $1,000,000 for representation.

Although Joseph is young, everyone notes his amazing prudence regarding money. The guy didn’t start throwing around bucks, but bought a house in Las Vegas and plans to open his own business.

7th place – Pius Heinz (Germany) – WSOP Main Event 2011 – $8,715,638

7th place - Pius Heinz

The WSOP Main Event 2011 and its main prize of $8,715,638 was won by a young poker player from Germany, Pius Heinz. At the time of his triumph he was only 22 years old. Pius became acquainted with poker through the broadcasts of major events on TV. He played with friends at home and at the same time adopted the skills of famous online poker players.

Heinz, after his unexpected victory for many, said that he felt better acting at home on the computer than at large live tournaments. Pius didn't like Las Vegas and all its publicity and tinsel.

When asked where he would spend the huge prize money, Heinz said that he does not like to advertise his plans and just wants to feel comfort and happiness around him. Pius practically went into the shadows after his triumph, but with that kind of money he can afford it!

6th place - Jonathan Duhamel (Canada) - WSOP Main Event 2010 - $8,944,310

6th place - Jonathan Duhamel

Jonathan Duhamel is another young poker winner. He won the 2010 WSOP Main Event and took home $8,944,310. He was 23 years old when he competed in the finals.

The fate of Duhamel's tournament payouts is incredibly interesting. Jonathan is known to be an avid hockey fan. He often refused to participate in major poker tournaments, as he was flying to another hockey match. The Montreal Canadiens are Jonathan's favorite team since childhood. After his victory at the Main Event in 2010, he donated $100,000 to the Children's Foundation Montreal Canadiens - a fund to help poor children. And now Duhamel supports the organization, being its largest sponsor!

And in 2011, Jonathan came home and discovered that the money remaining from the winnings, the WSOP bracelet and the watch with a personal engraving donated by the tournament organizers had been stolen. Fortunately, the police quickly tracked down the criminals and returned the valuable property to the owner. Then the young poker player found out that the spotter was his girlfriend, who was dissatisfied with the gifts Duhamel gave her that were too cheap in her opinion!

5th place - Peter Eastgate (Denmark) - WSOP Main Event 2008 - $9,152,416

5th place - Peter Eastgate

Peter Eastgate, who quickly broke into the poker elite, was a 22-year-old youth at the time of his victory at the WSOP Main Event. A young man from the tiny Danish town of Odense became interested in hold'em during his school years. At first, Peter wanted to connect his life with economics, but fate or Lady Luck intervened, and Eastgate chose a professional poker career.

Absolutely everything in Peter’s life changed in 2008, which brought him more than $46.3 thousand won in card tournaments. If not for this money, Eastgate would not have been able to pay the buy-in for participation in the victorious WSOP Main Event! In the final of the tournament, Peter beat Russian Ivan Demidov and received $9,152,416 in prize money.

After this triumph, which was completely unexpected for him, Eastgate continued to play well and traveled widely around the world. Now the Dane has taken a break and decided to rethink his life again and, perhaps, start it from scratch.

4th place - Martin Jacobson (Sweden) - WSOP Main Event 2014 - $10,000,000

4th place - Martin Jacobson

In 2014, a famous pro wins the WSOP Main Event, not a young unknown player! Martin Jacobson, a 27-year-old professional from Stockholm, became the first Swedish triumphant in the history of the world championship and received a round sum of $10,000,000 for his skill.

“This is incredible! I was concentrated and surprisingly calm. I always had the feeling that my championship was destined to happen,” Martin said after the victory.

In general, Jacobson dreamed of becoming a sous chef of a restaurant and could not even imagine that he would make a great poker career! Now Martin lives in London, constantly travels around the world following poker tours and does not regret at all that he did not stay at the stove with a ladle in his hand. Since 2008, the Swedish player has managed to earn more than $14.8 million from poker. What chef in the world earns that much?!

3rd place - Jamie Gold (USA) - WSOP Main Event 2006 - $12,000,000

3rd place - Jamie Gold

WSOP Main Event 2006 collected $82,512,162 and the largest number of participants was 8,773. Tournament winner Jamie Gold took the third-largest poker winnings in history - $12 million!

Of all the WSOP Main Event winners, Jamie received the most criticism. His opponents were angered by his defiant behavior at the final table. But most of all they were touched by the incredible, simply fantastic luck of Gold, who over and over again received the only card he needed at that moment! Jamie began participating in the tournament as part of a team of movie industry stars and, frankly speaking, did not feel any respect from other poker players. But Gold was so unstoppable that it seemed that it was he, and not his rivals, who was the true professional here.

After his victory, Jamie was repeatedly sued by his friends and buddies in an attempt to chop off a hefty piece of his $12,000,000 prize money - they say that Gold promised to give half of his winnings for the services they provided.

2nd place - Daniel Coleman (USA) - The Big One for One Drop WSOP 2014 - $15,306,668

2nd place - Daniel Colman

Tournament The Big The One for One Drop organized by the WSOP is so huge that just participating in it costs $1,000,000! In 2014, its winner, 24-year-old Daniel Colman, received $15,306,668. The total prize fund of the event, including contributions to charity, was $37,333,338. It was divided between eight finalists.

The Battle of Big One lasted three days until the moment when Daniel Colman, left alone with his eminent namesake Daniel Negreanu, knocked him out of the tournament. But immediately after the victory, the young player behaved more than strangely - he flatly refused to answer journalists’ questions, and then made a sensational statement: “Poker is a dark and cruel game" How one could say such a thing when 15 million dollars and kopecks lie at one’s feet is incomprehensible!

1st place – Antonio Esfandiari (USA) – The Big One for One Drop WSOP 2012 – $18,346,873

1st place - Antonio Esfandiari

You can’t say “the biggest win in poker” about this amount; after seeing the number line of $18,346,873, you can only remain reverently silent. Entire stacks of tight green packs were brought on a cart to Antonio Esfandiari for winning the tournament The Big One for One Drop in 2012. It was and remains the largest poker win in the world in history!

Before he became interested in hold'em, Antonio made a living by pulling rabbits out of hats and went by the nickname Magician. Perhaps perfect mastery of art card tricks helped Esfandiari read his opponents' hands?! Be that as it may, none of the poker champions has received such a large cash prize yet.

After his triumphant victory at Big One, Antonio shared his impressions with reporters: “My heart was pounding against my ribs and was ready to jump out of my chest. I tried to control my emotions, but the thought that I could here and now become the owner of this pile of money got in the way!” Esfandiari could compare his victory in the tournament only to sex - nothing else, according to the poker player. Well, all that remains is to take the champion’s word for it!

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Jason Mercier(12th on the All Time Money List, $18,252,390 Total Live Earnings and $1,622,181 best live tournament result): “When I made it to EPT San Remo in 2008, my life changed dramatically. $1,372,893 - that's how much I won when I was 21 years old. Before that, my biggest win was about 15 thousand dollars online. Having become a millionaire, I was able to buy a house, apartments, a yacht, and good cars. I also started doing charity work.”

Bertrand Yolki Grospellier(41st place in the All Time Money List, $11,025,774 Total Live Earnings and $2,000,000 - the best result in live tournaments) said: “When I won a lot of money in poker, I was able to fulfill my dream of traveling around the world with mom. Before that, she never thought that she would be able to visit such places on Earth!”

Felipe Ramos(942nd place on the All Time Money List, $1,515,237 Total Live Earnings and $100,000 - the best result in live tournaments) said what he experienced: “I became a millionaire thanks to WCOOP. I will never forget this. There was one me before I won and a completely different one after. I was able to travel around the world freely, buy good things. This is the best thing I've experienced in my life."

Vanessa Selbst(32nd place in the All Time Money List, $11,843,153 Total Live Earnings and $1,823,430 - the best result in live tournaments) shared the small joys of having big money: “Of course, the life of a millionaire is very different from the life of an ordinary person. And it's not even about luxury. I just stopped getting upset about little things - paying bills, car breakdowns, the need to buy something for life. I don't think about it and there is more joy in my life.

But I think not only about myself. I created a charity foundation that helps unjustly convicted people. And I believe that this is the best thing that my money brought. Now when I play, I want to win not only for myself, but also for others.”

Chris Moneymaker(274th place on the All Time Money List, $3,647,547 Total Live Earnings and $2,500,000 - best result in live tournaments) also loves to help: “As soon as I started winning poker, I contacted charities and began donate some of the money. As a family, we really want to create a shelter for homeless animals. This will bring us much more joy than owning expensive things. This is what happened, for example, with the convertible I had dreamed of all my life. I drove it spring and summer. And then I forgot about him. Now I want to sell it so that I can use this money to help poor animals.”

Top 10 winnings on PokerStars

Room PokerStars made so many millionaires - both professionals and amateurs of poker. It is often the amateurs who win Spin & Go tournaments with the highest multiplier. And this game, which brings in millions, radically changes the lifestyle of the winners.

Recently, at the Sunday Million holiday, the champion became a millionaire. SCOOP, which will open very soon, will make the winners of the two tournaments richer by seven-figure sums. As you can see, there are many opportunities to win a million dollars at PokerStars.

Top 5 live wins:

5. Pieter De Korver - $3,024,167 at EPT Grand Final:
4. Jeff Rossiter - $3,155,886 at GuangDong Asia Millions:
3. Glen Chorney - $3,196,354 at EPT Grand Final:
2. Phil Ivey - $3,582,752 at Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge:
1. Nicholas Heinecker - $4,456,884 at GuangDong Asia Millions.

Top 5 online winnings:

5. Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi - $1,468,001 at SCOOP Main Event-High:
4. David “PlayinWasted” Kaufmann - $1,493,499 at WCOOP Main Event:
3. Jonas "llJaYJaYll" Lauck - $1,517,541 at WCOOP Main Event:

2. Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko - $1,715,200 at WCOOP Main Event:
1. Tyson “POTTERPOKER” Marks - $2,278,097 at WCOOP Main Event.

From time to time, people have a question: who is the owner of the biggest poker winnings in the official history of the game? For several years now (since 2012), this person has been Antonio Esfandiari, an American with Iranian roots.

If we talk about the amount of the prize, it was definitely the largest one-time payment to one player or athlete: $18.34 million! Yes, that's the kind of money you can make by playing poker successfully in just a few hours.

And a significant event happened on July 3, 2012, as part of the largest tournament in the history of the WSOP. 47 of the strongest poker players on the planet took part in it, and the entry fee was simply an incredible amount: one million dollars!

Antonio Esfandiari managed to beat Sam Trickett in a protracted and exciting heads-up match, for which the champion was awarded the largest win in poker history and, of course, a platinum bracelet from the World Series of Poker.

What helped you win?

Probably, the American player was simply lucky, since no one counted him among the favorites to win. There were also obvious skeptics about him, who claimed before the start of the tournament that Antonio Esfandiari would be eliminated after the first few hands.

So underestimating the player’s abilities also helped him achieve his cherished goal and become a champion. He played cards mostly without straining, as if he felt that his finest hour had come!

After the first day of the tournament, Antonio had the fourth-largest stack at his disposal, and an all-in in the second round on the second day made him the chip leader of the final table. The final hand of the heads-up proved incredibly exciting as the American's set of fives held up against Sam Trickett's flush draw.

In an interview after the game, Esfandiari said that he dedicated the victory to his father, who always believed in him and supported him. Even the bracelet they won was given to the parent as a sign of gratitude for their trust.

Similar big wins in poker they show ordinary people, beginners and fans of the game that anything is possible! Anyone can win a big prize, because a lot here depends on the attitude to win and a little bit of luck!

PokerStars set a new record after Sunday tournament Sunday Million, which took place on December 18th as part of PokerStars' 10th Anniversary celebration, 62,116 players signed up for a $215 buy-in, generating a prize pool of $12,423,200. PokerStars' previous record for prize pool was recorded at the World Poker Tournament Main Event. Online Poker 2010 (WCOOP 2010) - $12,215,000.

Anniversary tournament The Sunday Million ended around 14:30 Moscow time on Monday, lasting about 15 hours. The winner, after a six-way final table deal, was Canadian player 'First-Eagle' for $1,146,574.65. The places between the players were distributed as follows:
1. First-Eagle (Canada) $1,146,574.65
2. Unstoffable (Spain) $580,724.34
3. BLAABAR (Sweden) $709,896.78
4. tunafish919 (Australia) $627,317.26
5. Dimedroll (Russia) $995,996.85
6. SkunkDen (Australia) $758,986.42

A few hours after the end of the First-Eagle game, Kyle Wire still couldn’t believe his victory: “It’s incredible, I still can’t believe that I won. It's an amazing experience."

The 24-year-old unemployed gambler, whose highest winnings before winning the Sunday Million was about $40,000, plans to play poker for a living, use some of his winnings to pay off student loans and take his parents on vacation.

Sunday Million tournament begins

A total of 7,682 players cashed in with a minimum winnings of $521.16. Many players qualified for the tournament for free using points regular player(FPP) PokerStars, including player 'Nest17'. He qualified for the tournament through the Mega Path satellite and ended up finishing in 20th place with just 8 FPP points for $22,931.04. Well, the highest place among the members PokerStars teams Pro went to Marcel Luske, who finished 129th for $4,169.28.

High Roller Tournament

That same evening, PokerStars celebrated its 10th anniversary with another event, a high roller tournament with a $10,300 buy-in and a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. By the time registration for the tournament closed, 187 of the world's top online players confirmed their participation, increasing the prize fund to $1,870,000.

After nearly 14 hours of play, Australia's 'jcl87' won the tournament for $402,050. Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel finished in 15th place for $28,050.

PokerStars 10th Anniversary

Both events, which took place on Sunday, December 18, were the final events as part of PokerStars' 10th anniversary celebrations. Also, as part of the anniversary celebration, 100 packages for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure were raffled off in freerolls, setting a new world record for the number of players who took part in the online tournament (200,000 players). During the promotions, the 72 billionth distribution and the Mega distribution, more than $1,000,000 were drawn as bonuses. Over the entire period of the promotion, a total of more than $15,000,000 was drawn.

Every gamer who plays poker strives to become the winner of the hand and receive a cash reward for this. Those who have been playing cards for a long time and professionally know that it is not possible to be a winner in every hand. Therefore, such players are accustomed to alternating wins and losses. However, over a long distance they always come out as a plus.

As a result, all prize payments are divided into prizes received for a powerful combination within a certain card game and those that were won over a specific period of time. There are also rewards that are given to poker players even if they were unable to form a strong combination.

What is winning in poker called?

Winning in poker can go by different names. Its name is influenced by the specific situation in which it was received.

Thus, to determine the title of reward for playing cards, the following terms exist:

• A bank or pot is a prize that was earned during one game game. In this case, the player is declared the winner and receives all the chips that created the pot within the betting stages. But, under some circumstances, the bank can be distributed among several gamers. This happens when there is a tie, or the game was played in the Hoy-Lo format, in which a payout is due even in the presence of a weak hand;
• Aggregate Winnings is the total reward that a player managed to earn throughout his entire card career. This criterion may be publicly available if the gamer participates in tournaments. This is explained by the fact that many statistical resources collect information regarding the winners of such events and their payment parameters;
• A prize is a reward for success in a tournament. The size of this payment is affected by the current prize fund and the position taken by the poker player within the event;
• Rush is a win in poker over a period of time that has become particularly successful for the player. This time period has significant differences in profitability from the average statistical parameters for a particular gamer. This difference is in a positive direction. A more significant reward can be associated with both increased dispersion and a banal “lucky streak”.

Winnings in poker are often referred to as jackpots. Many gamers fell in love with this slang name.

Other prize names

Professional players, in addition to the above titles, to indicate cash prize Other names are also used for playing cards:

• WSD is an abbreviation for winning at showdown;
• The best hand is the most profitable deal in the hand;
• Schwartz is a reward in a game when all the bribes go to one gamer;
• March – winning all tricks in one game;
• Mazol – victory of a powerful element on a bribe;
• Robber – success in two out of three hands.

It should be remembered that the amount of remuneration at cash boards and in tournaments is always measured after the fact. In this case, the costs that the gamer incurred in order to receive the payment are not deducted. For example, a player can receive a pot equal to 50 US dollars, where he himself invested half of the amount.

In the case of competitions, the size of the gamer’s prize can be 20 thousand conventional units. However, 10 thousand of them can be entered as a buy-in. When expenses are recovered from a cash prize, this is called net winnings or profit.

For example, a player earned one million US dollars throughout his career, but he spent half of this amount on bets, blinds and buy-ins. In this case, the player’s net winnings are equal to 500 thousand US dollars.

How to get rewards

Poker rules during gameplay Neither bluffing, nor the use of psychological tactics, nor the use of mathematical approaches is prohibited.

As a result, it is possible to receive a prize here, both at the showdown and when entering the list of tournament winners, and under a number of other circumstances. Namely:

• knocking out opponents: the player can become the winner of the game without demonstrating his own elements. This situation will be relevant if manipulative tactics take place during the auction. After all, a gamer can offer opponents a bet that is too high for them. Opponents, in turn, will consider this step risky and refuse to raise the bet, and thus, even before the end of the game, they will fold their cards, and the poker player will take possession of the entire amount in the bank;
• Showdown: This is the name given to a poker win earned by a gamer at a showdown. In this case, the reward goes to the player who managed to form the strongest card combination;
• Low Bank: This is the prize that occurs when playing Hi-Lo. To become its owner, a poker player needs to get to the showdown and collect, unlike the previous case, not a powerful, but the weakest deal. Thus, the player will get half of the existing bank. And in order to become the owner of the entire amount, you also need to build the strongest possible hand. However, it should be remembered that often the low winnings turn out to be several times less than the amount that was used in the trading process;
• prize place: when playing in a tournament, a poker player can receive a reward for any of the prize places. Naturally, the biggest win goes to the one who manages to win first place;
• bounty: this is prize money that is awarded to participants in some variations of tournaments. Even the gamer who failed to reach the top spot can get such a reward. The bounty is awarded to those players who were able to eliminate their opponents from the competition. Once you take your opponent’s chips, you can count on the prize going to you.

Winnings in poker have different names. They are awarded to players in different ways. Earning rewards by playing cards is not that easy. However, the money received is sometimes more than pleasing to its owners.