American poker players: the US all-time money list, top to bottom

One hundred American players, in the order The Hendon Mob's United States all-time money list puts them, from Bryn Kenney at $90,849,210 down to Michael Duek at $9,415,056. Every figure on this page was read off the money list itself, and every profile says which page it came from and on what date. Rankings here are a dated snapshot, not a live scoreboard: a place changes the moment a player cashes, and in the nineties of this list the gaps between neighbours are small enough that a single mid-size result reorders them.

How deep the American list actually goes

The top of the list is the part people quote, but the shape below it is the more interesting fact. Our coverage now runs a hundred deep, and the hundredth American — Michael Duek, $9,415,056 — has still won more in live tournaments than the all-time leader of most national money lists. The eight-figure bracket alone holds eighty-eight Americans: Benjamin Yu, 88th on $10,062,532, is the last man above $10 million, and Daniel Sepiol sits immediately below him $6,779 short of it.

That depth is a function of two things. The United States has the population, and it has the summer in Las Vegas, where the largest fields in the game assemble every year without an American needing a passport. No other nationality can build a career total out of home-market tournaments on that scale.

Reading the places near the bottom of the hundred

At the top, the gaps are measured in millions. Below about 85th they are measured in thousands, and two pairs on this reading are close enough to be functionally tied: Jonathan Little (92nd, $9,762,769) leads Eric Baldwin (93rd, $9,759,982) by $2,787, and Cliff Josephy (99th) leads Michael Duek (100th) by $4,037. Treat the order of those names as provisional. It is accurate to the date on the page and nothing more.

Where the numbers come from, and why they differ from other sites

All of it comes from The Hendon Mob, attributed, read one page at a time. Two subtleties worth knowing. First, the money list and a player's own profile page can print totals a dollar or two apart; where we have both we record both and name the page each belongs to. Second, players are grouped by the nationality the money list assigns them, not by where they live now — a player can be on the American list and resident elsewhere, and the profile says so where we know it.

The figures are live tournament results only. They include no online winnings, no cash-game results and no staking arrangements, which is why a player widely considered one of the strongest in the world can sit lower here than his reputation suggests.