World Series of Poker 10 Biggest Winners of All Time
With the 2010 World Series of Poker main event about to get underway, Gambling911.com looks at the WSOP top 10 moneymakers of all time.
In the top position is the 2006 World Series of Poker winner, Jamie Gold, who walked off with a whopping $12, 068,751 in what was the peak year for the main event before online poker prohibition came into effect later that year, making it more difficult for players to access Internet poker rooms via their credit cards. Additionally, post-Gold, online players found it more difficult to qualify as there were fewer rooms and more restrictions.
Still, WSOP winners since 2006 keep knocking on Gold's door. All three of the remaining top 4 players have won more at the World Series of Poker than Gold's predecessor, Australia's Joe Hachem.
Phil Hellmuth, Jr., the face of UB.com, may be the current World Series of Poker bracelet record holder but he still just barely cracks the top 10 at number 10.
Seven of the top 10 are Americans. Russia, England and Australia are also represented within the top 10.
1st
Jamie Gold
$ 12,068,751
2nd
Peter Eastgate
$ 9,221,395
3rd
Joe Cada
$ 8,574,649
4th
Jerry Yang
$ 8,264,023
5th
Joe Hachem
$ 7,985,348
6th
Allen Cunningham
$ 6,717,546
7th
Greg Raymer
$ 6,492,062
8th
Ivan Demidov
$ 6,461,252
9th
Paul Wasicka
$ 6,219,572
10th
Phil Hellmuth Jr
$ 6,157,229
Patrick Flanagan, Gambling911.com
