In a single week, the highest gamers on the planet will be part of hundreds of dreamers in Las Vegas for the fifty fifth model of the World Collection of Poker. Whereas a majority of gamers might be going for his or her first money, first last desk, or first bracelet, they must roll by way of a gauntlet of gamers who’ve been there many occasions earlier than, and nonetheless have the drive to stack victories.
Helmuth on high
The self-declared king of the WSOP is, in fact, Phil Hellmuth, who has the {hardware} to again up his brags. His 17 bracelets are seven greater than the 4 gamers tied behind him in second: Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, and Doyle Brunson. Hellmuth first cashed in a WSOP occasion in 1988 — or 35 years in the past.
The soon-to-be-60 year-old gained his first bracelet within the $10,000 Principal Occasion in 1989, racking up a bracelet on common about each different yr. Throughout that point, he gained multiple bracelet in 1993 (three), 2003 (three), and 2012 (two, with one in every of them being the WSOP Europe Principal Occasion).
All however three got here in variants of maintain’em. He additionally gained two razz occasions (together with the $10,000 championship in 2015) and a 2-7 triple-draw lowball occasion in 2021.
Rounding out the highest eight are Johnny Moss with 9 and Males Nguyen and Billy Baxter with seven. The listing then will get very crowded, as 14 gamers have six bracelets. They’re Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb, Chris Ferguson, Jeremy Ausmus, T.J. Cloutier, Josh Arieh, Jeff Lisandro, Jason Mercier, Layne Flack, Brian Hastings, Brian RTast, John Hennigan, Jay Heimowitz, and Ted Forrest — and that’s the highest 22.
5 bracelets will put gamers someplace within the mid 30s, and 4 will discover them within the high 70s, so get to work!.
King of the cashes
Roland Israelashvili, 66, is the person who stands on high of the WSOP all-time cashes listing with 495, which is 100 extra from Arkadiy Tsinis. The WSOP contains Circuit occasions on this listing, and Israelashvili has been a gentle common on the Circuit trial since at the least 2006.
All these cashes put him simply shy of $4 million from WSOP occasions. He’s additionally tied in eighth on the all-time WSOP Circuit ring listing with 11, however has by no means gained a bracelet. He has a handful of third-place finishes however has but to search out first in a bracelet occasion.
The shortage of the variety of bracelets within the high 10 of this listing stands out. Take away Negreanu’s six bracelets he gained in his 253 cashes (which places him in sixth), there’s solely seven bracelets between the highest 10 gamers — and three of them have been gained by Ari Engel, whose 320 cashes places him third. With 17, Engel owns extra Circuit rings than anybody else on the planet.
Daniel Buzgon (262 cashes, good 4 fourth), well-known curmudgeon Allen Kessler, who sits in seventh with 246 cashes, and Chris Conrad and his 222 cashes (good for tenth) be part of Israelashvili within the high 10 with zero bracelets.
The gamers with one bracelet on this listing are Tsinis, Ian Steinman (256 cashes, good for fifth all-time), Brett Apter in eighth with 245 cashes, and Micheal Holtz (224 for ninth).
President of the financial institution
Bracelets and cashes are good and can get your image on the wall, however let’s be trustworthy, money will all the time and without end be king on the WSOP.
Antonio Esfandiari leads the all-time earnings listing with $22,365,691. He did that in solely 51 cashes, and a whopping majority of that got here within the 2012 $1 million buy-in The Massive One for One Drop, the place he gained one in every of his three bracelets and $18,3467,673.
He sits simply in entrance of Negreanu on the all-time earnings listing, who may cross him this yr. He has $22,120,122. In third is Hellmuth with $17,904,130.
Becoming a member of Esfandiari as $1 million One Drop champions are Dan Colman, who sits in fourth on the earnings listing with $17,413,782 and Justin Bonomo with $16,281,907 (good for fifth). Colman gained $15,306,668 and his solely bracelet in 2014’s model on One Drop, whereas Bonomo gained $10 million in 2018’s contest.
Jonathan Duhamel is subsequent in sixth with $14,666,297. Reigning WSOP Principal Occasion champ Daniel Weinman is seventh with $14,230,320. He had simply north of $2 million in earnings earlier than cashing $12.1 million within the Principal.
Joe Cada’s $13,980,032 places him in eighth. An enormous chunk of that got here from making two Principal Occasion last tables. He gained the Principal Occasion for $8,547,044 in 2009, after which gained one other $2.15 million for ending fifth in 2018.
In ninth is Fedor Holz with $13,384,834. A high-stakes professional, he gained $6 million of that by ending second to Bonomo within the $1 million One Drop. Additionally, $4.9 million of that got here along with his first bracelet win within the $111,111 Excessive Curler occasion in 2016, additionally a Massive One for One Drop occasion.
Koray Aldermir is tenth on the listing with $13,161,049 — $8 million of that got here from being the Principal Occasion champion in 2021. He additionally completed third within the $111,1111 occasion gained by Holtz in 2016, which was good for one more $2,154,265.
Good luck, dreamers, you’re going want it.
