[RR] “What about career WPT records?” Roderick the Rock inquired.
[SS] “Here you go”, Stan the Stat offered. “The current1 Top Ten for Career Player of the Year Points, Career Earnings, Tournaments Played, Cashes, Final Tables, Wins, Cash Rate, Final Table Rate, Win Rate, and Earnings Per Event, with rate statistics requiring a minimum of 30 events.”2
WPT Career Player of the Year Points
| Rank | Player | POY Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Negreanu | 6,100 |
| 2 | Antonio Esfandiari | 5,650 |
| 3 | Gus Hansen | 5,300 |
| 4 | Phil Ivey | 5,250 |
| 5 | Erick Lindgren | 4,850 |
| 6 | Carlos Mortensen | 4,750 |
| 7 | Hoyt Corkins | 4,675 |
| 8 | Michael Mizrachi | 4,450 |
| 9 | Jonathan Little | 4,400 |
| 10 | David Pham | 4,300 |
[SS] “I know they changed how POY points are tabulated along the way, but the totals are still an interesting career scoreboard. Esfandiari is very highly ranked (2nd) compared to his career earnings (18th). Lindgren (5th) is also relatively high (15th in earnings).”
WPT Career Earnings
| Rank | Player | Earnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlos Mortensen | $6,733,506 |
| 2 | Daniel Negreanu | $5,743,899 |
| 3 | Michael Mizrachi | $4,667,683 |
| 4 | Tuan Le | $4,514,063 |
| 5 | Gus Hansen | $4,110,801 |
| 6 | Alan Goehring | $3,942,344 |
| 7 | Joseph Bartholdi | $3,760,165 |
| 8 | Jonathan Little | $3,714,750 |
| 9 | David Chiu | $3,680,511 |
| 10 | Nick Schulman | $3,548,956 |
[SS] “Mizrachi and Negreanu are the only two who are also currently in the Top 20 in World Series of Poker earnings, at #14 ($7,339,923) and #15 ($6,851,500), respectively. Along with Phil Ivey, Mortensen, J.C. Tran, Chiu, and Erick Lindgren, they’re the only seven players who have won three million dollars on both the WPT and WSOP (Antonio Esfandiari and David Williams are each one medium WPT cash short). Esfandiari, of course, leads the combined earnings list by far because of his $18,346,673 Big One for One Drop win in 2012, with Phil Hellmuth, Negreanu, Jamie Gold, and Mizrachi rounding out the Top 5.
A total of sixteen players have won over three million dollars on the WPT, 42 over two million, and 158 at least one million.”
WPT Tournaments Played
| Rank | Player | Events |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kathy Liebert | 124 |
| 2 | Erik Seidel | 118 |
| 3 | Barry Greenstein | 117 |
| 4 | Allen Kessler | 114 |
| 5 | Lee Markholt | 110 |
| 6 | Daniel Negreanu | 105 |
| Steve Brecher | ||
| 8 | John Juanda | 102 |
| Curt Kohlberg | ||
| 10 | Gavin Smith | 99 |
[SS] “A total of 206 WPT events have been held through Season XII, so Liebert has played in just over sixty percent of them. Season I had the fewest events, 11, while Season XI had the most, 24. Four events have been held every season: the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, the Legends of Poker, the L.A. Poker Classic, and the WPT World Championship. Three missed only the first season: the Borgata Poker Open, Grand Prix de Paris, and Bay 101 Shooting Star. One lasted through the first ten seasons: the World Poker Finals.”
WPT Cashes
| Rank | Player | Cashes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lee Markholt | 24 |
| 2 | Erik Seidel | 20 |
| Barry Greenstein | ||
| Allen Kessler | ||
| Jonathan Little | ||
| 6 | Daniel Negreanu | 19 |
| John Juanda | ||
| Hoyt Corkins | ||
| 9 | Kathy Liebert | 18 |
| Erick Lindgren | ||
| Carlos Mortensen |
WPT Final Tables
| Rank | Player | Final Tables |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phil Ivey | 9 |
| 2 | Scotty Nguyen | 8 |
| 3 | Daniel Negreanu | 7 |
| David Pham | ||
| Gus Hansen | ||
| 6 | John Juanda | 6 |
| Hoyt Corkins | ||
| Kathy Liebert | ||
| Erick Lindgren | ||
| Nam Le | ||
| J.C. Tran | ||
| Antonio Esfandiari |
WPT Titles
[SS] “Darren Elias is the only player to win four events.3 Hansen, Mortensen, Rheem, and Zinno have each won three, while 19 players have won two: Mohsin Charania, Cimpan, Scott Clements, Corkins, Freddy Deeb, Esfandiari, Randal Flowers, Giannetti, Goehring, Greenstein, Le, Lederer, Lindgren, Little, Mizrachi, Negreanu, Rettenmaier, Tran, and Vedes.
Ten players have won multiple WPT titles and multiple World Series of Poker bracelets: Corkins, Deeb, Esfandiari, Greenstein, Lederer, Lindgren, Mizrachi, Mortensen, Negreanu, and Tran.4
No woman has won an open event, although Van Nguyen took down the 2006 WPT Invitational charity event.
{ February 15, 2017 update: Canada’s own Ema Zajmovic captured the 2017 WPT Playground Main Event in Kahnawake, Quebec to etch her name in the record books and take home $200,769. }”
WPT Cash Rate
| Rank | Player | Cash % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe Serock | 34.1% |
| 2 | Vivek Rajkumar | 32.3% |
| 3 | Mohsin Charania | 31.8% |
| 4 | Byron Kaverman | 31.4% |
| 5 | Matt Salsberg | 29.4% |
| 6 | Dave Ulliott | 27.0% |
| 7 | Christian Harder | 26.2% |
| 8 | Keven Stammen | 25.7% |
| 9 | Nenad Medic | 25.4% |
| 10 | Justin Young | 25.0% |
| Roy Winston |
[SS] “Joe Hachem has cashed in 42.9% of the 21 events he’s played and Abraham Gray in 56.3% of 16.”
WPT Final Table Rate3
| Rank | Player | Final Table % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gus Hansen | 14.9% |
| 2 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 10.5% |
| 3 | Phil Ivey | 10.3% |
| 4 | Vivek Rajkumar | 9.7% |
| 5 | Scotty Nguyen | 9.3% |
| 6 | Matt Salsberg | 8.8% |
| 7 | Ted Forrest | 8.6% |
| 8 | Byron Kaverman | 8.6% |
| Keven Stammen | ||
| 10 | Humberto Brenes | 8.3% |
| Tommy Vedes |
[SS] “Jared Jaffee has final tabled 16.0% of the 25 events he’s played; if he goes 0-for-his-next-5 that only drops to 13.3%, which would rank him second. Alessio Isaia has final tabled 27.3% of 11.”
WPT Win Rate3
| Rank | Player | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gus Hansen | 6.4% |
| 2 | Tommy Vedes | 5.6% |
| 3 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 5.3% |
| 4 | Cornel Cimpan | 5.1% |
| 5 | Chino Rheem | 4.5% |
| 6 | Carlos Mortensen | 4.1% |
| 7 | Matt Giannetti | 3.8% |
| 8 | Howard Lederer | 3.4% |
| 9 | Vivek Rajkumar | 3.2% |
| 10 | Roy Winston | 3.1% |
| Eric Hershler | ||
| Tuan Le |
[SS] “Jordan Cristos has two victories in 18 events (11.1%), so if he played in a dozen more events without winning, he’d still be at 6.7%, which would rank first. Likewise, Randal Flowers has two victories in 21 events (9.5%).”
WPT Earnings Per Event3
| Rank | Player | Average Earnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vivek Rajkumar | $93,627.13 |
| 2 | Eric Hershler | $88,667.44 |
| 3 | Carlos Mortensen | $88,328.22 |
| 4 | Gus Hansen | $86,208.13 |
| 5 | Martin de Knijff | $79,680.62 |
| 6 | Tuan Le | $70,532.23 |
| 7 | Cornel Cimpan | $67,431.51 |
| 8 | David Chiu | $63,315.10 |
| 9 | Elky Grospellier | $61,995.24 |
| 10 | Chino Rheem | $61,850.75 |
[SS] “Vanessa Selbst is the top woman, at $30,570.10. Joseph Bartholdi has an average of $170,916.59 in 22 events. If he failed to cash in his next eight events, that would only drop to $125,338.83, which would rank first. Yevgeniy Timoshenko has an average of $77,398.14 in 29 events, which would drop to $74,818.20, good for sixth.”
[LL] “Just…” {counting on fingers} “ten lists?” Leroy the Lion teased.
[SS] “I have some others that I didn’t think were interesting enough. Here are some of the leaders though:”
- Highest Career Earnings Without a Final Table: Glenn Lafaye, $721,378 (Jimmy Tran, $718,056)5
- Highest Career Earnings Without a Title: Hasan Habib, $2,750,597 (David Pham, $2,355,611)
- Most Tournaments Without a Cash: Narendra Banwari, 39 (Juan Mortenson, 27)
- Most Tournaments Without a Final Table: Tony Cousineau, 100 (Tom McCormick, 88)
- Most Tournaments Without a Title: Kathy Liebert, 124 (Allen Kessler, 114)
- Most Cashes Without a Final Table: Casey Kastle, 18 (Jimmy Tran, 15)
- Most Cashes Without a Title: Allen Kessler, 20 (John Juanda, 19)
- Most Final Tables Without a Title: David Pham, 7 (Kathy Liebert and John Juanda, 6)
- Most Consecutive Cashes: Daniel Negreanu and Kirk Morrison, 4 (both in 2007)
Footnotes:
- Data is updated through the end of Season XII (April 2014). For the latest midseason information, see the official WPT Career Stats. {May 5, 2015: Sorry, this doesn’t seem to be updated anymore.}
- The 30-event minimum comes from Daniel Negreanu, who tabulated some of these numbers in 2009 but doesn’t seem to have kept his data up to date.
Career Player of the Year Points only tabulated through Season XII, as the system changed for Season XIII to use data from the Global Poker Index.
- Anthony Zinno became the third three-time WPT winner on March 9, 2015. Amazingly, he’s never reached a WPT final table he didn’t win, taking down his third title in one fewer final table than Mortensen and Hansen. Zinno also joined Darren Elias and Marvin Rettenmaier as the only players to win consecutive events, and jumps to the top of the WPT Final Table Rate and Win Rate boards (both 18.75% [3 out of 16]) as well as the Earnings Per Event rankings.
{ April 21, 2016 Update: Chino Rheem became the fourth player to win three WPT Main Events by defeating 341 opponents in the Seminole Hard Rock finale, earning $705,885. }
{ February 25, 2017 Update: Darren Elias became the fifth player to win three WPT Main Events by defeating 488 opponents in the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event, earning $335,436. }
{ May 23, 2018 Update: Darren Elias became the first player to win four WPT Main Events by defeating 161 opponents in the inaugural Bobby Baldwin Classic, earning $387,580. }
- J.C. Tran became the tenth member of the double-multiple list on March 15, 2014. 55 players have won at least one WPT and one WSOP title.
- Lafaye and Tran have played in 2 and 71 events respectively.
The official site lists Chris Moorman with no cashes at the same time it says he won the 2014 L.A. Poker Classic. The latter is the truth. Daniel Perper’s stats are also inconsistent. The WPT has been contacted about these discrepancies.
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