Poland's all-time money list 2026: twenty millionaires, and most of them live abroad
Twenty Polish players have now passed $1m in live tournament earnings, with Wiktor Malinowski's $13,853,907 nearly double second place. Reading the top twenty's profiles turns up a Vienna cluster, a woman at No. 12 in the open ranking, and one player who owes 83% of his career to a single cash.
Poland's all-time live tournament money list crossed a quiet milestone this year: twenty players above $1,000,000. The twenty-first, Marcin Wydrowski, stands at $997,706 — $2,294 short — so the line falls exactly at Mikolaj Zawadzki's $1,043,803.
The figures below were read from The Hendon Mob's Poland all-time money list and from individual player profiles on 2 October 2026.
One player, a quarter of the list
Wiktor Malinowski's $13,853,907 is not just first, it is close to double Dzmitry Urbanovich's $7,935,709 in second. Together the pair account for more than the next eight players on the list combined. Third place, Dominik Panka, is on $4,541,365 — a third of the leader.
That is a steeper top than most markets of comparable size produce, and it reflects where the money sits: Malinowski's record is built on the Triton Super High Roller Series, a circuit almost no one else on the Polish list plays regularly.
The Vienna cluster
The more interesting pattern is geographic. Reading residences off the profiles of the top twenty, four of them — Jakub Michalak (4th), Dawid Viktor Smolka (7th), Grzegorz Kozieja (10th) and Monika Hrabec (12th) — are listed as living in Vienna. Tomasz Brzezinski (8th) is in Malta.
The Hendon Mob files results under a player's nationality, not their address, so a Polish flag on the money list says nothing about where that player is based. For anyone reading the list as a picture of poker inside Poland, that is a meaningful distortion: a good share of the country's live earnings is being won by players who left.
Monika Hrabec, twelfth overall
Hrabec sits 12th on the open list with $1,441,056. Not twelfth among women — twelfth among everyone, ahead of eight of the men in the top twenty, with a best cash of $771,000 that is larger than the best cash of the player immediately above her. On the figures we read she is comfortably the highest-placed Polish woman on the list.
Two careers, read from one number each
The ratio of a player's best cash to their lifetime total is the quickest way to see what kind of record produced a ranking, and the Polish top twenty happens to contain both extremes.
Piotr Nurzynski (11th) has $1,454,225 in total and a single best cash of $1,207,892 — about 83% of everything he has won. His best-ever position on the global all-time list was 1,427th; he is now 2,403rd, and his Global Poker Index placing had drifted to 72,784th when we read it. Nothing was lost; the field simply kept climbing past a total he has not added much to.
Tomasz Gluszko (13th) is the mirror image. His $1,419,800 was assembled from a biggest cash of just $140,139 — under a tenth of the total. His GPI placing of 1,081st is the profile of someone still playing a full schedule.
A note on precision
The money list and Gluszko's own profile disagreed on the same day, by roughly $3,300 ($1,416,465 against $1,419,800). Hendon Mob country lists and player pages do not always refresh together, and small gaps like this are normal. Where they differ we take the profile as the more current figure.
All figures are a snapshot of 2 October 2026 and move whenever a Polish player cashes.
Frequently asked questions
How many Polish players have won more than $1m in live poker?
Twenty, as of 2 October 2026. Mikolaj Zawadzki is the last on $1,043,803, and 21st place stands $2,294 below the line at $997,706.
Who leads Poland's all-time money list?
Wiktor Malinowski on $13,853,907, close to double the $7,935,709 of Dzmitry Urbanovich in second.
Do the top Polish players live in Poland?
Several do not. Four of the top twenty are listed as resident in Vienna and one in Malta. The Hendon Mob files results by nationality, not address.
Which Polish player has the most concentrated record?
Piotr Nurzynski. A single $1,207,892 cash accounts for about 83% of his $1,454,225 lifetime total.