Brazilian poker players: the all-time live money list

Brazil has the deepest tournament player pool in South America, and the list below shows it: a wide band of players in seven-figure territory rather than one or two outliers. Poker is a competitive skill game and a form of entertainment, and these are the Brazilians who have had the most success at it in live tournaments.

How to read this list

The order is by total recorded live tournament earnings in US dollars, the unit The Hendon Mob reports in. Each figure was read from that player's own money-list entry and carries the date we checked it, because these numbers change whenever a player cashes.

The top of the list

Yuri Dzivielevski leads our Brazilian list at $14,863,019, ahead of Pedro Padilha at $9,365,508 and Felipe Boianovsky at $7,660,621. Below them the list is unusually dense: Alisson Piekazewicz at $5,914,299, Kelvin Kerber at $5,634,730 and Bruno Volkmann at $5,438,744, then a long run through the four-million bracket taking in Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Jr., Felipe Ramos, Belarmino De Souza, Andre Akkari and Fabiano Kovalski. All of these were verified on 25 September 2026 against The Hendon Mob's Brazil all-time money list.

That density is the story. In most countries a money list drops away sharply after the first two or three names. Brazil's does not — there are eleven players on our list above $3.5 million. It is the profile of a country with a genuine domestic circuit feeding players into international events, rather than a handful of individuals who happened to travel.

Where the Brazilian names come from

Andre Akkari, at $4,084,195, is the name most often credited with opening the game up in Brazil, and he sits mid-table on earnings — the same pattern as in several European countries, where the player who built the audience is not the player who won the most. Pablo Brito Silva's record is built differently again: $3,654,472 across 80 recorded cashes, which is a volume career rather than a few large scores. Philipe Pizzari Pinto's $3,149,439 across 23 cashes is the opposite shape.

Cashes alongside earnings is the useful comparison on any of these pages. Two players with similar totals can have arrived there by completely different routes, and the number of cashes is what tells you which.

Vivian Saliba

Vivian Saliba appears at $1,344,898, the highest-placed Brazilian woman on our list.

The domestic circuit

Brazil's flagship is the BSOP, the Campeonato Brasileiro de Poker, whose November BSOP Millions festival at the WTC Sheraton in Sao Paulo carries the largest guarantees in the country's calendar. Our Brazil tournaments page has that schedule, and the Brazil market page covers how online play is regulated.

All earnings figures are attributed to The Hendon Mob, which is where we read them. Live tournament results are a record of past play and say nothing about what any player should expect in future.