Austrian poker players: the all-time live money list

Austria is a small country with a disproportionately large presence at the top of live poker. Fifteen Austrian players have profiles here, ordered by recorded live tournament earnings, and the top of the list is made up almost entirely of players who built their totals in high-roller and super-high-roller fields rather than on the open-field circuit.

How this list is ordered

By recorded live tournament earnings in US dollars. Online results are excluded, and so are cash-game winnings, which no public database tracks. A player's position therefore says a great deal about which tournaments they enter and very little about how well they play any particular format.

The shape of the Austrian list

Matthias Eibinger, from Graz, leads on $33,873,729 — close to twice the second-placed figure. Behind him come Daniel Rezaei of Leibnitz on $17,854,284, Bernhard Binder on $17,049,360 and Klemens Roiter on $15,473,394, both of Vienna, then Thomas Mühlöcker, also Vienna, on $13,421,820.

That is an unusually top-heavy list for a country of Austria's size, and the reason is the format those five play. Totals in the eight figures are not built by winning open-field main events; they are built by entering high rollers where a single result can be worth more than an entire season of ordinary tournaments. The flip side rarely appears in a money list: the buy-ins that produced no cash are not deducted anywhere, so a large recorded total is a measure of volume at high stakes as much as of profit.

Below the top five the list steps down sharply. Manuel Fritz of Vienna is sixth on $7,931,282, then Jonas Kronwitter of Kitzbühel on $4,499,507 and Gerald Karlic on $4,094,347. From there the figures run from Manuel Stojanovic's $3,372,580 down through Jessica Teusl of Wiener Neustadt on $2,416,611, Ivo Donev of Bregenz on $2,403,912 and Armin Rezaei of Vienna on $2,381,293, to Ric Kol, Harry Casagrande and Josef Klinger in the $1.7m to $1.9m band.

Vienna, and the rest

Six of the fifteen give Vienna as their home city, and the remainder are spread thinly — Graz, Leibnitz, Kitzbühel, Bregenz, Wiener Neustadt. That concentration is partly an artefact of how players report a hometown, but it also reflects where the Austrian live scene has historically been centred.

Where Austrians play

The domestic live calendar runs through the Casinos Austria houses, and the festival schedule — including the long-running Austrian championship series — is listed on our Austrian tournament pages. Austrian players are also regulars on the European circuit, and for the high-roller group the recorded results come overwhelmingly from events outside Austria.

A note on rankings that fall

Each profile carries both a current all-time world rank and a best-ever rank. The two drift apart over the years with no action from the player: the recorded total is fixed while other players' totals grow past it. A falling rank in these pages describes the field, not a decline in the player.