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Top 5 Most Popular Poker Players in 2020

  • Published Date December 2, 2020
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Poker is the most famous, engaging and the most profitable sports in the world. There is one fun fact you may never have heard of, that there are 100 million poker players in the world? And only 60 million of them are from the USA. From these 100 million, only some of them are able to make it in a professional poker display.

There are two main factors that drive people to play poker: for fun and living. The latter seems challenging and even impossible. It actually needs learning, training, and lots of practice to become a professional poker player

A player earns the right to call himself a professional when playing poker is his daily job and can sustain all his needs from his profession. To reach at the top of the poker community is not an easy task. These players have fought hard for their place in 2020. Let’s take a look at the top five most popular players in 2020.

Bryn Kenny - Mega Crusher

As we said, the largest number of poker players are based in the USA. Because of this, it need not surprise us at all that the best poke player that tops the list is from the USA. He started as a Magic: The Gathering professional player before finding that he was skilled at playing cards too. 

Bryn Kenny began his career in 2007 and became popular year by year. Seven years later, by 2014, he grabbed his first WSOP bracelet. He made 11 final WSOP tables, and 44 WSOP cashes. The largest single cash Bryn made was in 2017, and the value was $2 million! Since then he generally finished top 5 finishes on most of the tournaments. 

Kenny’s biggest cash was at the Triton Million in 2019 - the highest one-year total of all time. He finished second and won around $20.5 million. This massive historical win lifted Bryn’s all-time career earnings over the $50 million mark and ever since he has continued to grow. Bryn has climbed at the top of the All-time money list, where he leads with over $56 million in lifetime winnings. 

Justin Bonomo - ZeeJustin

Again, we have another American as the second-best poker player in the world. In reality, prior to that, Justin Bonomo was in the first place. Two years ago, in 2018, it was Bonomo’s year, with some impressive wins every time he played. The American poker player took down the $1 million in Big One for One Drop at the WSOP for $10 million! This big win propelled him to the first spot. But, Bryn Kenny pushed him away from the spot. 

At the WSOP, Justin has made 55 cashes, made 19 final tables, and won 3 bracelets and 1 circuit ring. It seemed he knew what moves his opponents were going to make. From various competitions around the world, he has 10 consecutive wins in a row. 

The 34-year-old poker player won his first Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) winning $4.8 million. Within two months, he won a second SHRB ring, and he took the title for $5 million. Recently, he won the SHRB Online for $1,775,000 and became the first player to win 3 SHRB titles.  His net worth is around $49 million.

Daniel Negreanu - Kid Poker

Daniel Negreanu, aka Kid Poker is a legendary poker player. He is the most successful Canadian poker player and the third-best in the world. The rise of Daniel into mainstream prominence started in the poker-boom era of the mid-2000s. He has been the face of Poker Stars from 2007-2019, serving as the company’s ambassador. 

Kid Poker has many career highlights that include six WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles. He reached the WSOP final table 39 times and cashed 127 times. The Canadian professional poker player was named WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and 2013. He was the first and the only player to receive this recognition more than once. 

According to experts, he has an amazing ability to deduce his opponents cards and adapt his game style according to them. Always swift with his opinion, he has been one of the most influential voices in the game. That involves a significant presence in multimedia through podcasts, social media, vlogs, writing, and many more. 

Whether it is live or online, Daniel continues to prove his mettle. In the first online WSOP in 2020, he cashed a staggering 31 times, taking down a massive score in the $10,000 Heads Up Championship in the process.  His net worth is around $42 million. He has become a favourite among his fans not only for his skills but also because of his gregarious personality.

Dan Smith - Cowboy Dan

Well, there are a lot of people that will tell you that Dan Smith is not a vocal player. But, step-by-step he accomplished to reach the All-Time Money List. Eight years ago, everything changed, as 2012 was a turning point in Dan’s career.  

Smith achieved first place at the Aussie Million Poker Championship $100,000 NHLE event and won around $1.04 million. However, there is one more remarkable thing that Smith did six years ago. In 2014, he won three NLHE events in Monte Carlo in a span of 4 days. That was probably the greatest accomplishment that he achieved in his entire career. 

Four years later he made it to the top 6 players in the world by finishing third place in 2018 WSOP Big One for One Drop cashing $4 million. Six and seven-figure scores have become the norm for Dan Smith. At present, his net worth is around $37 million.

Erik Seidel - Sly

The great poker players never fade away - they keep on accumulating big scores, even though their peers are dwindling. The Las Vegas born professional poker player, Erik Seidel has a net worth of $35.7 million. Seidel is one of the poker players from New York City’s Mayfair Club. Dan Harrington, Howard Lederer, and Stu Ungar were also members of this club. 

He started his poker career before the beginning of the Internet poker boom. Erik won his first WSOP bracelet in 1992. He has won 8 WSOP titles and 1 WPT title. Furthermore, he made an impressive 35 final tables and 92 cashes in his WSOP career. 

Seidel was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2010. His biggest cash payout was made in 2011 at the Aussie Millions poker championship in the Super High Roller No-Limit hold’em event for $250,000.

After reading the top 5 most popular poker players, you must also be pumped up to take up poker as a professional career! Did you know? Many of the top professional players in the world started playing in online poker rooms against their peers. 

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