Poker players by country: 660 profiles with dated career earnings

Looking up a poker player's career earnings? This is an index of 660 live tournament players, grouped by the country their money list places them in, with every earnings figure carrying the date we read it — which is the one thing most earnings numbers published elsewhere do not.

The deepest national lists here are the United States with 105 profiles, the United Kingdom with 53, Canada with 41, Norway with 40, Ireland with 35 and Hong Kong with 34. The point of organising it by country rather than globally is that a national list tells you something a global one cannot: how deep a country's pool really runs, and what it takes to be among its best.

The index at a glance

Profiles on file: 660 published player records.

Countries covered: 37 with at least one profile.

Deepest national lists: United States 105, United Kingdom 53, Canada 41, Norway 40, Ireland 35, Hong Kong 34, Sweden 30, Denmark 26, Germany 25, New Zealand 25, Poland 21, Brazil 17.

What the earnings figures cover: live tournament results only. No online winnings, no cash games, no staking adjustments.

Source: The Hendon Mob, attributed on every profile — the national all-time money list for ranks and totals, and a player's own profile page where we have read it.

Dating: every figure carries the date it was verified. A career total is correct as of that day and no later.

Country attribution: follows the money list's own national attribution, which goes by the nationality a player is recorded under rather than where they live.

Counts verified: 14 November 2026.

What a national money list is good for

A global top hundred is almost entirely American, with a scattering of other nationalities. That makes it a poor map of the game. Read country by country instead and the structure appears — the hundredth American has won more than the leader of most national lists, while a country with three serious players has a top three worth knowing by name.

The deepest lists we cover are the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The most instructive are the small ones, where one career can define a country's entire tournament history — and the most surprising are the mid-sized ones: Norway has 40 profiles on file and Hong Kong 34, both far more than their populations would predict.

How to read the figures

Three things make these numbers less absolute than they look.

They are live results only. No online winnings, no cash games, no staking adjustments — so a player's recorded total is not his profit, and two players on similar figures may have had very different careers. Several players we cover have online records larger than their live ones, and the profile says so where we know it.

They are dated. Career earnings change with every cash, so a figure is correct as of the day it was checked and no later. Each profile prints that date. When our number disagrees with another site's, timing is usually the whole explanation — and if neither site shows a date, neither number can be checked.

They follow the money list's own country attribution, which goes by the nationality a player is recorded under rather than where they live. Plenty of players appear on one country's list from a home in another, and we say so on the profile where we know it.

Where the data comes from

The Hendon Mob, attributed, read a page at a time — the national money list for ranks and totals, a player's own profile page where we have gone and read it. The two occasionally disagree by a dollar or so; where that happens we record both figures and name which page each came from rather than quietly picking one.

We do not crawl the source and we do not bulk-import it. That is why the lists grow a country at a time, and why a national list here may be shorter than the money list it is drawn from.

A note on what these numbers are not

A large career total is a record of gross prize money won over many years, not an income, and not a plan. Buy-ins, travel, staking arrangements and the years that ended flat are all invisible in it. Poker is a game of skill played for entertainment; the careers on these pages are the thin tail of a very large field, and they are interesting for that reason rather than exemplary.