British poker players: the UK all-time money list and the modern generation

The United Kingdom's all-time live tournament money list runs to 69,533 ranked players, and our records now cover it continuously from Stephen Chidwick at the top down past fiftieth place. Every earnings figure here is attributed to the page it was read from, with the date it was read.

What the list measures

An all-time money list adds up reported live tournament prize money and nothing else. Online winnings are not in it, cash-game results are not in it, and buy-ins are not deducted, so a player who has entered two hundred high-roller events can show a large total without ever having been ahead. It is a record of money received, not of profit or of current form.

It is also cumulative. No total ever falls, which means a rank can only worsen when other players pass it. Several long-standing British names now sit eight hundred or more places lower on the global list than their own best-ever position, having lost nothing at all.

The shape of the British list in October 2026

Stephen Chidwick leads with $79,927,052 — roughly double the second-placed total and more than twenty times fiftieth place. Below the top two the order is unstable, because one deep run in a high buy-in event moves a player several places at once.

The thresholds are worth knowing: a place in the British top forty takes a little over $4.1 million, and fiftieth place stands at $3,486,439. In the band from 28th to 50th, adjacent positions are frequently separated by less than the price of a single tournament entry — 33rd and 34th are $726 apart — so reading significance into one rank in that stretch is a mistake.

Three eras in one table

The Hendon Mob issues player numbers in sequence, which dates each entry. The British top fifty mixes numbers below 250 with numbers in the high six figures: the televised generation of the 2000s, the tour regulars who followed, and players who reached the same totals recently at modern buy-in levels.

The two groups built their money very differently. Most players in this part of the list owe forty to fifty per cent of their career total to one result. A few did the opposite — Ram Vaswani's largest recorded cash is about 6.5 per cent of his total, which means three and a half million dollars assembled from a long run of smaller finishes.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The database keeps one combined United Kingdom list with each player's home nation recorded alongside, and separately maintains an England-only list. The same career therefore produces two different domestic ranks depending on which list is being quoted: Matthew Ashton is 46th on the combined list and 41st on the England one. Our pages use the combined United Kingdom rank and say where a different figure comes from.

Tax, in general terms

Gambling winnings are not subject to UK income tax, including for players who play full time, which is one reason British players feature heavily in international tournament fields. This is general information rather than tax advice.