Poker players by country: all-time money lists and profiles

Players grouped by the country their money list places them in, with career live tournament earnings read from The Hendon Mob and dated on every profile. The point of organising it this way 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.