A dollar apart: The Hendon Mob's money list and its own player profiles do not always agree
Reading the United States all-time money list and three player profiles on the same day turned up a one-dollar gap between the two on each of Shaun Deeb, Vanessa Selbst and Doug Polk. The amounts are trivial; the lesson for anyone citing an earnings figure is not, because the number you quote depends on which Hendon Mob page you read it from.
Anyone who has tried to verify a poker player's career earnings has met the same problem: the figure moves. Tournaments pay out, databases update, and a number copied from a news article last spring is simply not the number the source holds today. That is expected. What is less expected is the source disagreeing with itself.
On 6 October 2026 we read The Hendon Mob's United States all-time money list, generated the previous day, alongside three individual player profiles from the same site. On all three, the list and the profile differed by exactly one dollar.
Vanessa Selbst, 64th among United States players, appears on the money list at $11,946,107 and on her own profile at $11,946,106. Doug Polk, 79th, is $10,534,856 on the list and $10,534,855 on the profile. Shaun Deeb, 41st, showed the same one-dollar split when we read his pages two days earlier.
Why a dollar matters here
It does not matter to the player. A dollar against eleven million is noise, and nobody's standing in the game changes. It matters to citation. A career-earnings figure is the kind of fact that gets copied from site to site without anyone going back to check, and the moment two pages on the same authoritative source give two answers, "according to The Hendon Mob" stops being precise enough to be useful. You have to say which page.
The likeliest explanation is mundane: a ranking table and a player page are probably built by different queries at different moments, and rounding or a single late-settling result can separate them. We are not asserting a cause — we did not find any statement from the site explaining it, and we are not going to invent one.
The convention we now follow
On a player page, we publish the figure from that player's own profile and cite the profile. Where the list itself is the subject — a ranking, a country's top ten — we publish the list's figure and cite the list. Where the two differ, we say so on the page, with both numbers, so a reader checking our work against the source finds the discrepancy already accounted for rather than concluding we got it wrong.
That is a small piece of housekeeping, but it is the whole substance of an earnings reference: being exact about what was read, and where, and when.
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Frequently asked questions
Which Hendon Mob figure should be cited for a player's career earnings?
There is no single right answer, which is the point. We use the player's own profile figure on a player page and the money list's figure where the list is the subject, and we state both when they differ.
How large are the discrepancies?
One dollar in each of the three cases we checked on 4 and 6 October 2026.