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WSOP Millionaires

The WSOP has made millionaires out of 56 poker players over its 36 year history. The last two WSOP’s have had so many entrants that many of the players at the top of the WSOP millionaires list haven’t even won a single event at the WSOP: Steve Dannenman for example, lies in third place on the all-time list having competed in only one WSOP, in which he came third. Indeed all the players who made the 2005 final table are now millionaires.

In light of this the most successful players at the WSOP have to be considered prior to the millennium, when the prizes became so inflated. Johnny Chan is undeniably the WSOP’s most successful player, although he is closely followed by T.J. Cloutier and Phil Hellmuth, all three of whom feature in the top ten despite not having made a main-event final table in the last four years.

Nevertheless, money talks….

1. Jamie Gold - $12,000,000 (2006 Champion)
2. Joe Hachem - $7,525,850 (2005 Champion; 2 cashes in the WSOP)
3. Greg “Fossilman” Raymer - $5,433,450 (2004 Champion; 25th in 2005; 5 cashes)
4. Steven Dannenmann - $4,250,000 (runner up in 2005 earned him every penny of that $4.25 million and was enough to put him third in the all time money list!)
5. Johnny “The Oriental Express” Chan - $3,744,331 (back-to-back WSOP Champion in 1987 and 1988; second placed in 1999; joint leading bracelet holder with ten WSOP bracelets; 29 cashes)
6. T.J. Cloutier - $3,697,251 (most ever cashes in the WSOP (43); holder of 6 WSOP bracelets; runner up to Chris Ferguson in 2000; the most successful player never to win ‘the big one’)
7. David Williams - $3,507,705 (runner up in 2004; 2 cashes)
8. “Action” Dan Harrington - $3,472,858 (1995 Champion - $1 million; fourth in 2004 - $1.5 million; 2 WSOP bracelets; 8 cashes)
9. Phil Hellmuth Jr. - $3,406,705 (1989 Champion; 9 WSOP bracelets; 42 cashes)
10. Josh Arieh - $3,188,590 (third place in 2004; bracelet winner in 1999 and 2000; 2 cashes)
11. Chris “Jesus” Ferguson - $3,121,456 (2000 Champion - $1 million; 5 WSOP bracelets; 42 cashes)
12. Erik Seidel - $3,039,748 (runner up in 1988; fourth in 1999; 7 WSOP bracelets; 36 cashes)
13. Chris Moneymaker - $2,521,000 (2002 Champion; 2 cashes)
14. John ‘Tex’ Barch - $2,500,000 (third place in 2005)
15. Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson - $2,232,019 (back-to-back WSOP Champion in 1976 and 1977; joint leading bracelet holder with 10 WSOP bracelets; 24 cashes)
16. Stu ‘The Kid’ Ungar - $2,068,650 (3 times WSOP Champion - in 1980,81 and 97; 5 WSOP bracelets; 13 cashes)
17. Dewey Tomko - $2,013,593 (3 WSOP bracelets; 28 cashes)
18. Aaron Kanter - $2,000,000 (fourth place in 2005)
19. Robert Varkonyi - $2,000,000 (2002 Champion)
20. Scotty Nguyen - $1,975,922 (1998 Champion; 4 WSOP bracelets; 28 cashes)
21. Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow - $1,953,190 (2 WSOP bracelets; ninth in 2005; 15 money finishes)
22. David Chiu - $1,919,105 (4 WSOP bracelets; 33 cashes) Juan Carlos “El Matador” Mortensen - $1,842,705 (2001 Champion; 2 WSOP bracelets; 9 cashes)
23. Huck Seed - $1,823,968 (1996 Champion; 4 WSOP bracelets; 23 cashes)
24. Phil Ivey - $1,812,920 (5 WSOP bracelets, 21 cashes)
25. Andrew Black - $1,783,700 (3 cashes)
26. Berry Johnston - $1,752,352 (1986 Champion; 5 WSOP bracelets; 41 cashes)
27. Men “The Master” Nguyen – $1,736,985 (5 WSOP bracelets; 42 cashes)
28. Layne Flack - $1,676,615 (5 WSOP bracelets; 16 cashes)
29. Allen Cunningham - $1,675,313 (3 WSOP bracelets; 23 cashes)
30. Hamid Dastmalchi - $1,570,960 (1992 Champion; 3 WSOP bracelets; 8 cashes)
31. Sam Faha - $1,514,210 (1 WSOP bracelet, 4 cashes)
32. Scot “magic” Lazar - $1,500,000 (sixth in 2005)
33. Farzad Bonyadi - $1,488,070 (3 WSOP bracelets; 13 cashes)
34. John Bonetti - $1,402,607 (3 WSOP bracelets; 24 cashes)
35. Jack Keller - $1,400,790 (1984 Champion; 3 WSOP bracelets; 19 cashes)
36. Jay Heimowitz - $1,358,215 (6 WSOP bracelets; 29 cashes)
37. Daniel Bergsdorf - $1,300,000 (seventh in 2005)
38. Julian Gardner - $1,259,420 (8 cashes)
39. Jim Betchel - $1,229791 (1993 Champion; 14 cashes)
40. Russ Hamilton - $1,226,415 (1994 Champion; 6 cashes)
41. Mel Judhah - $1,174,150 (2 WSOP bracelets; 27 cashes)
42. John Juanda - $1,169,010 (3 WSOP bracelets; 28 cashes)
43. Al Krux - $1,154,205 (1 WSOP bracelet; 7 cashes)
44. Brad Kondracki - $1,150,000 (eighth in 2005)
45. Tom McEvoy - $1,144,657 (1983 Champion; 4 WSOP bracelets; 26 cashes)
46. Glenn Hughes - $1,144,270 (5 cashes)
47. Eli Balas - $1,140,466 (3 WSOP bracelets; 22 cashes)
48. Brad Daugherty - $1,088,529 (1991 Champion; 13 cashes)
49. Noel Furlong - $1,070,785 (1999 Champion; 3 cashes)
50. “Miami” John Cernuto - $1,070,130 (3 WSOP bracelets; 28 cashes)
51. Brent Carter - $1,062,230 (2 WSOP bracelets; 30 cashes)
52. Hieu “Tony” Ma - $1,034,753 (2 WSOP bracelets: 17 cashes)
53. Daniel Negreanu - $1,031,680 (3 WSOP bracelets; 19 cashes)
54. Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot - $1,020,380 (1 WSOP bracelet; 18 cashes)
55. Ted Forrest - $1,019,382 (5 WSOP bracelets; 14 cashes)
56. Humberto Brenes - $1,009,093 (2 WSOP bracelets; 31 cashes)
57. Mansour Matloubi - $1,004,732 (1990 Champion; 11 cashes)