Poker Players: Career Profiles, Tournament Earnings and Net Worth

Most poker profiles start with a number, and most of those numbers mean less than they appear to. Live tournament earnings are the best documented figure in the game: results databases such as The Hendon Mob list every cash a player has recorded at a published event, and they are the source behind the "all-time money list" that gets quoted after every big final table. But a cash is gross. It says nothing about the buy-ins a player paid to get there, the share sold to backers before the event, or the deals struck at a final table.

Online results are patchier. Some players play under screen names that are public, and tracking sites have estimated their winnings for years, but many of the biggest online winners never connected their accounts to their names. Cash games are the least visible of all. A player can be one of the most successful in the world at high-stakes mixed games and still have a modest tournament record.

That is why net worth needs care. Estimates for well-known players circulate widely, and they tend to copy each other. A profile on this desk treats them as estimates, says what they are built on, and puts the weight on what can be checked: titles with their year, earnings with the date they were counted, and the businesses or public roles a player is known for. Several of the best-known names in the game made most of their money away from the table, in software, property, media or casinos, and their profiles say so.

The players covered range widely. There are the tournament record holders and multiple bracelet winners, the high-roller regulars of the Triton and Super High Roller Bowl circuits, the streamers and vloggers who brought a new audience to live cash games, and the figures from outside poker who sat down at the table and stayed. Read any one profile and it links on to others from the same era or the same circuit.

Some careers are worth knowing even in a few lines. Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP Main Event and $2.5 million after qualifying through an $86 online satellite, and the boom that followed runs through the history of the game. Anthony Gregg won the $111,111 One Drop High Roller at the 2013 WSOP, a first bracelet worth $4,830,619. Amanda Musumeci, from Philadelphia, finished 62nd in the 2011 Main Event and second in Event #9 at the 2012 WSOP for $481,643, the largest cash of her career. Angelina Rich won a $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em event at the Venetian's Deepstack Extravaganza in 2015 for $304,386.

If you want the figures side by side, the money-list and rich-list pieces compare players on the same basis and say where the comparison breaks down.