The young poker player started poking at the young age of 18. When the online poker game became legal, Andrew started nailing the game. He is one of the greatest online poker players at present having a Net Worth of $10 million. Daniel Negreanu.
Updated: 05/01/2018
As well as winning as many poker tournaments and poker games as possible, every poker player wants to win the most cash during one year as by doing so they will be crowned the best player of that year. To find out which poker rooms these poker players play have a look at online poker USA page if you are from US and online poker UK if you are from United Kingdom.
Below you will find the top 10 poker players for 2017 based on the total winnings achieved by each player, and as such any future winnings may affect the position on this listing of the best worldwide poker players!
We have put together some interesting player profiles for each player, which will let you not only know where they live and reside, but also give you a deeper insight into each particular poker player.
As you are about to find out the listed poker players below have walked away with some truly magnificent cash prizes and have travelled all over the world to enable them to do just that!
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Most recent first place tournament win came in a WSOP Circuit Tournament held in the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, it was ring event number 9 called the $1,675 Main Event which had a buy-in of $1,675 and Antonio Esfandiari finished first and won $226,785.
The most recent first place tournament win for Dan Colman was at the 45th Annual World Series of Poker, in the Big One for One Drop – $1,000,000 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament. He finished first in that event and won $15,306,668.00.
At the time of compiling this guide the most recent Daniel Negreanu first place poker tournament win was in a World Series of Poker Europe Event number eight. That being a €25,600 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em High Roller event in which he won for finishing first a prize valued at some €725,000.
Jonathan Duhamel is a regular on the poker tournament circuit, his last major first place tournament win was way back in the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe Event, that was a €25,600 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller tournament in which for coming first he won a very respectable €554,395.
Much like all other professional poker players Phil Hellmuth does enter a large number of big money poker tournaments, and is was in the 2015 46th Annual World Series of Poker Event that being the $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship that he finished first and took home prize money of $271,105.
It has been quite a number of years since Jamie Gold did finish first in a major poker tournament event, and that was in the 2006 37th Annual World Series of Poker Event which was a $10,000 buy in No-Limit Hold’em event in which he won $12,000,000.
To date Sam Trickett has not come first in a major poker tournament, however it was his second place finish in the 2012 43rd Annual World Series of Poker Event that being the Big One for One Drop Event with a $1,000,000 buy-in in which he finished second that saw him win $10,112,001 that has catapulted him onto this list of the top 10 players.
Martin Jacobson’s last first place tournament win was in the 2014 45th Annual World Series of Poker Event that was a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event in which he finished first and took home $10,000,000.
Greg Merson continues to get placed in many poker tournaments, however his most recent big win came in the 2012 43rd Annual World Series of Poker Event that being a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event in which he won the first prize cash prize of some $8,531,853.
Joe Cada continues to get placed in a huge number of poker tournaments however his last first prize win came in the 2014 45th Annual World Series of Poker Event which was a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship event in which he came first and took home $670,041.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on January 12th 2015, in the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure EPT Event, where he came 14th and picked up a cash prize of $89,100.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on November 20th 2014, in the Party Poker WPT Montreal Season 13 Event, where he came 25th and picked up a cash prize of $14,529.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on November 1st 2014, in the Poker stars APPT 8 – Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Event, where he came 7th and picked up a cash prize of $374,140.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on January 8th 2015, in the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure EPT Event, where he came 7th and picked up a cash prize of $24,460
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on October 16th 2014, in the Pokerstars.com EPT London Event, where he came 20th and picked up a cash prize of $34,772
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on November 11th 2014, in the 45th World Series of Poker 2014 Event, where he came 430th and picked up a cash prize of $25,756.
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Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on November 14th 2014, in the Pittsburgh Poker Open Fall Series Event, where he came 1st and picked up a cash prize of $54,414
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on December 16th 2014, in the EPT Prague Event, where he came 2nd and picked up a cash prize of $86,889
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on June 16th 2014, in the 45th World Series of Poker 2014, where he came 44th and picked up a cash prize of $11,141
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on November 11th 2014, in the 45th World Series of Poker 2014, where he came 293rd and picked up a cash prize of $33,734
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on December 4th of 2012, in the Five Star World Championship Event, where he came 4th and picked up a cash prize of $329,339.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on August 17th 2012 at the Poker Stars EPT Event in Barcelona where he was placed sixth and picked up a $220,341 cash prize.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on July 1st at the World Series of Poker 43rd Event where he was placed 2nd and picked up a cash prize of $10,112,001.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on October 20th 2012 where he finished 3rd in the Fiesta Al Lago Event and picked up a cash prize of some $38,679.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on September 29th 2012, at the World Series of Poker European Event where he finished 1st and picked up a cash prize of some $1,466,613.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on was on July 4th at the World Series of Poker 43rd Event where he was placed 208th and picked up a cash prize of $3,119.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on November 23rd 2012 at the Mohegan Sun National Championships where he finished 18th and won a $1,184 cash prize.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on October 2nd 2012 in the World Series of Poker Europe Event where he finished 2nd and won a cash prize of $860,709.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on May 31st 2012 at the LA Poker Series Event where he finished 4th and won a cash prize of $2,720.
Most recent prize paying position in a poker tournament was on the 24th September 2012 at the World Series of Poker European Event where he finished 6th and picked up a prize pot of some $36,566.