A list of the most successful and successful poker players has appeared on the Internet. We present to your attention the Top 10 online players. Every amateur and professional knows their names and everyone wants to be like them. Today we'll be looking at cash games from sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt. It is on these sites that games with the highest stakes are usually held.
Top 1 Phil Ivey
Let's start our ranking from the first place, namely with Phil Ivey, who has become the most successful cash game player. He is 38 years old, but Ivey is already famous throughout the world thanks to his amazing poker game. Already at the age of 16, he knew who he would be and what he would do. Phil always dreamed of becoming a professional poker player. When he worked at a telecommunications company, he often beat his colleagues at poker. So, little by little, he was drawn into professional poker. His first big victory happened at the WSOP tournament, he won about $200,000.
Top 2 Patrik Antonius
Patrik Antonius takes second place in the ranking. He became famous for being able to play on Full Tilt under several accounts (nicknames) at once. For Patrick, 2009 became a legendary year, when he took part in a heads-up session and not against anyone, but Victor Bloom himself. It was in this game that the biggest prize fund- $1.5 million. This fight was won by Patrik Antonius and became almost a legend. I would also like to note the fact that Patrick won only $16 million on Full Tilt.
Top 3 Phil Galfond
Third place is rightfully taken by Phil Galfond. His rise as a professional player was on the PartyPoker portal, where he quickly reached the most expensive games. He then moved on to cash games, where he experienced overwhelming success. From that moment on, he became one of the best in the business. In one day he was able to earn almost $2 million.
Top 4 Dan Cates
The fourth place in our ranking is taken by Dan Cates, who managed to earn $10 million in cash games. And it all started with video games, where Dan spent his entire childhood. Gradually his hobbies began to change, and he decided to try his hand at poker. At first he was unlucky and lost. But since Cates was a very diligent guy, he turned into a real professional in just two years.
Top 5 Di Deng
Di Deng rounds out the top five best players in poker. I must say that Dee is a very secretive guy and there is very little information about him. But what everyone knows is that he knows how to achieve his goals. He revealed his abilities at Full Tilt. On this moment His account balance is $8.5 million.
Top 6 Hak Dang
Sixth place is taken by Hak Deng. By the way, he is Di Deng's brother. Hak is a humble guy who knows how to beat his opponents. And that’s why he now has more than $7 million in his personal account. The Dang brothers are a very formidable force in online poker e.
Top 7 Ben Tolleren
Seventh place belongs to Ben Tollerene. He is only 23 years old, but he has been playing poker since 2007. Ben is always open to the press and admits that poker is his only source of income. He does what he likes and does it well. His account is not small – $6.5 million.
Top 8 Brian Hastings
Brian Hastings is number eight on the list. Since childhood, Brian loved mathematics and all the exact sciences. Thanks to probability theory, which was taught at his university, Hastings developed a passion for poker. From that moment his life changed, he began to play poker professionally. There is quite a bit in his personal account – $6 million.
Top 9 Rafi Amit
Rafi Amit, as everyone has already guessed, occupies ninth place in the ranking. Fame and fame came to him back in 2005, when he won first place in the WSOP. More than $5.5 million is in his personal account.
Top 9 Ashton Griffin
The last tenth place was taken by American Ashton Griffin. Griffin is a true poker star. Before he became rich and famous, Ashton was a real poor man. Now he has more than $5 million in his account.
Top 10 best online poker players:
- Phil Ivey - $16,556,631
- Patrik Antonius - $15,804,368
- Phil Galfond - $10,082,549
- Dan Cates - $8,205,232
- Di Dang - $8,096,382
- Hak Dang - $7,441,380
- Ben Tollerene - $6,576,548
- Brian Hastings - $6,359,799
- Rafi Amit - $5,466,642
- Ashton Griffin - $4,854,719
Ranking online poker leaders is a difficult task. The fact is that such official data practically does not exist. The only site on the Internet that provides some information about online winnings is HighstakesDB, but even there the results are not complete, and there are no statistics at all for 2007. On top of that, there are many gaps regarding European poker networks.
But the good news is that the lion's share of high stakes cash games take place on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, and HighStakesDB provides the most comprehensive information about the games played from these two online poker favorites. As for MTT and SNG tournaments, there are almost no statistics on these competitions online. That is why we only take cash games into account.
Leader this list will be an American poker pro Phil Ivey.
Since the age of 16, Phil dreamed of becoming a professional poker player, and in 2000 he won his first WSOP bracelet.
Ivy online first started playing poker games on the Full Tilt Poker website, where he joined the original team of the pro room. He managed to win $19 million on Full Tilt in 320,000 hands, gaining fame as the strongest cash game player. After the events of Black Friday, Phil did not officially play online for a long time, and with the restart of Full Tilt, he reappeared in this room, but with a new nickname - Polarizing, but his former success has not yet returned - over the year Phil Ivey went into the red by $2,686,113 per 82,000 changes.
Considering Phil’s offline winnings ($17 million in tournaments), he can rightfully be considered the most successful poker player in history.
Patrick is considered an expert in heads-up play and has been a regular on Full Tilt. His former nicknames: PatrikAntonius, CryMeRiver9, Luigi66369, FinddaGrind (last). In total, Patrick won $15.8 million during his FTP career.
Phil Galfond became the third player in the ranking of the best online players.
He started in SNG tournaments, and after moving up in limits, he switched to expensive cash games. Under the handle OMGClayAiken on FTP and MrSweets28 on PokerStars, Phil fought against the very best, earning over $10 million.
Dan Cates— 4th in the ranking of online players, his total online winnings amounted to more than $8 million. Cates played video games as a child and later moved on to online poker. He started at the micro-stakes and within a couple of years reached the heights of the industry, fighting and defeating such monsters as Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom.
Top 10 best online poker players:
1. Phil Ivey - $16,556,631
2. Patrik Antonius - $15,804,368
3. Phil Galfond - $10,082,549
4. Dan Cates - $8,205,232
5. Di Dang - $8,096,382
6. Hak Dang - $7,441,380
7. Ben Tolleren - $6,576,548
8. Brian Hastings - $6,359,799
9. Rafi Amit - $5,466,642
10. Ashton Griffin - $4,854,719.Top 10 best online poker players of the PokerStars room:
1. Jens Kyllenen (Finland) – $3,832,957
2. Ben Salsky (USA) – $3,452,553
3. Ben Tolleren (USA) - $2,804,597
4. Alex Millar (USA) – $2,714,894
5. Ola Amundgard (Norway) - $2,650,420
6. Rafi Amit (Israel) - $2,358,904
7. azn_baller3 (Thailand) – $2,270,553
8. Hak Dang (USA) - $2,088,563
9. EireAbu (Ireland) - $1,793,874
10. Ilari Sahamis (Finland) - $1,787,367Top 10 Best Online FTP Poker Players
1. Phil Ivey (USA) – $16,556,631
2. Patrik Antonius (Finland) - $15,804,368
3. Phil Galfond (USA) – $8,633,833
4. Dan Cates (USA) – $7,543,703
5. Hak Dang (USA) - $7,441,381
6. Di Dang (USA) – $7,411,127
7. Brian Hastings (USA) - $5,383,881
8. Ashton Griffin (USA) – $4,854,719
9. Ab Mosseri (USA) – $4,160,304
10. Ben Tolleren (USA) - $3,771,951.
Of course, the number 1 sport in Russia is hockey. But our fellow countrymen are capable of showing excellent results not only in strength martial arts, but also in those where you need to use intelligence to win. Take chess, for example: most of the greatest grandmasters are Russian. Another very popular modern game where you work with your head is poker. And here, what’s good is that ours don’t give up, showing excellent results on the world poker arena. We decided to compile the top 5 best poker players in the country in live events, and also selected the five most successful representatives of Russia online.
Let's start with our legends who were able to glorify themselves and their homeland by playing in live poker tournaments:
- 5th place - Alexey Bilokur (career prize money - $3.95 million)
Our top is opened by a resident of the Russian capital Alexey Bilokur. He is one of the few players who, above all, sets himself the goal of growing professionally, and not being content with fleeting prize money. But, nevertheless, over the years of playing, he has already managed to earn almost $4 million. In 2014, his main dream came true - Bilokur won a WSOP gold bracelet, becoming the best in the limit hold'em tournament with a buy-in of $10 thousand. For winning the tournament, he received $398,576 thousand prize money. It is worth noting that this is not his biggest career win. Two years earlier, Alexey won the PCA High Roller No-Limit Poker Tournament, where his prize money amounted to $1,134.93 million. Alexey Bilokur is currently ranked 834th in the GPI ranking.
- 4th place – Alexander Kravchenko (career prize money - $4.23 million)
A native of Arkhangelsk is the first Russian to win a WSOP gold bracelet. 2007 was the most successful year in his career so far - it was then that Kravchenko sensationally reached the final table at the WSOP Main Event, where he was eliminated in 4th place, receiving $1,852,721 million as a reward. Also that year he received the title of “Player of the Year” in Paris, for the best performance among players from Europe. Currently ranked 794th in the GPI ranking.
- 3rd place - Vitaly Lunkin (career prize money - $5.91 million)
A native of Moscow with early childhood started to get carried away mind games. He plays excellent backgammon and also became the best in renju competitions, but it was poker that brought him worldwide fame and fame! During his long playing career (since 2002), Vitaly can boast of two WSOP bracelets, as well as several serious results in European Poker Tour tournaments. His first loud triumph happened in 2009, when he won the WSOP 40th Anniversaty tournament with a $40 thousand buy-in. Then his prize amounted to $1,891,018 million. Then in 2013, he made people talk about himself again, winning the Super High Roller tournament in Barcelona, for which he received just over $1 million. He currently ranks 392 in the GPI ranking.
- 2nd place - Ivan Demidov (career prize money - $6.84 million)
Perhaps, it was after the enchanting success of Ivan Demidov at the WSOP that a real poker boom occurred in Russia. The young Muscovite was seriously interested in e-sports, where he also reached certain heights. But over time, Sergei Rybachenko “pulled him” into the game, agreeing to pay all of Ivan’s expenses at various world events, taking 80% of his prize money for himself.
As a result, this tandem bore fruit already in 2008: Demidov visited two “finals” of the WSOP and WSOPE tournaments, and at the Main Event he managed to finish the game in second place! Then his prize was $5.8 million, Demidov received only 20%. IN last years Ivan stopped pleasing us with high results, for which he dropped to 5659th place in the GPI ranking.
- 1st place – Igor Kurganov (career prize money - $10.67 million)
Igor Kurganov was born in the USSR, but he managed to prove himself as a strong poker player already as a resident of Germany. Igor prefers to play events for “heavyweights”. It was his success in the Super High Roller tournament in 2014 that brought him fame and popularity: at the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour in Monaco with a €100 thousand buy-in, he became the best and earned €1.07 million. This result allowed him to take the lead in the amount of career prize money Ivan Demidov and become the most successful poker player in Russia.
Now we will tell you about the five most successful Russian online poker players:
- 5th place – Vasily “ravic85” Tsapko (online winnings - $2.601 million)
Vasily Tsapko is considered one of the most successful Russian MTT regulars at high stakes. He is also famous for his excellent play in turbo tournaments. During his online career, he already managed to score several first places in Sunday events, but his biggest cash prize awaited him after participating in the WCOOP Main Event in 2015, where he managed to take 5th place, immediately adding $400 thousand to his bank account. In the ranking GPI it is in 6895th place.
- 4th place – “hellohellohello” (online winnings - $3.007 million)
The player who occupies 4th place in our ranking, like many online players, decided to remain in the shadows. The only thing we know is that he is a resident of Tolyatti, who is probably the most successful player in his city. His gaming preferences are multi-table tournaments.
- 3rd place – Alexander “NoPlanB” Mordvinov (online winnings - $3.108 million)
Another Moscow resident is in our top. Alexander began his online career in 2009. He did not immediately begin to play for large stakes, overcoming the micro-limits level at the start of his career. Initially, he mainly played at cash tables, later he switched to heads-up play at medium and high limits. But in the end, he realized that playing multi-table tournaments was more interesting (and, as it turned out, more profitable), after which he became an MTT regular. In the GPI ranking it occupies a modest 25596th place.
- 2nd place – Anton “aJarov” Yakuba (online winnings – $3.77 million)
The famous regular from St. Petersburg is already the owner of several Triple Crowns. He also repeatedly reached the finals of such major tournaments as the Sunday Warm-up. In 2015, he was a member of the Russian national team, which then celebrated its triumph at the World Cup of Poker. Prefers to play on PokerStars.
- 1st place – Maxim “MAMOHT_T” Mamontov (online winnings - $5.744 million)
Unfortunately, we know practically nothing about the player who topped our rating. But the main thing we know is that he is our fellow countryman, who shows excellent results online, having won more than $5.77 million! An MTT regular from Krasnodar, in addition to poker, likes to play Dota 2 and travels a lot with his wife. At one time, Maxim was among the top 20 MTT players around the world.
Separately, I would like to note the results of another of our fellow countrymen – Andrey “aangierr” Poteychuk. This poker player fell just short of getting into the top players online ($2.601 million), and also managed to earn decent money offline ($2.549 million). Andrey managed to do something that many players cannot do - he perfectly balances between participating in live events and long gaming sessions online.
In offline competitions, Poteychuk won the EPT series tournament in 2011, becoming the best at the tournament in San Remo ($957.47 thousand in prize money), and after some time he won the WPT stage in Prague, adding another $630.263 thousand to his budget. online, Andrey, at the dawn of his career, unexpectedly managed to take first place in one of the tournaments of the Mini FTOPS (Full Tilt) series, for which he received $146.92 thousand. Then he moved to PokerStars, where last year he “dragged” Spin and Go for $180 thousand ., and also became fifth in the weekly Sunday Million tournament (about $50 thousand).
