| Rank | Player | Career Earnings | WSOP Cashes | Best Finish |
| 1 | Steve O’Dwyer | $47,447,397 | 18 | 5th – 2015 |
| 2 | Cary Katz | $40,401,884 | 65 | 2nd – 2013, 2017, 2023 |
| 3 | Christoph Vogelsang | $38,000,058 | 31 | 2nd – 2022 |
| 4 | Sean Winter | $33,864,055 | 41 | 2nd – 2018 |
| 5 | Seth Davies | $33,209,339 | 41 | 4th – 2021, 2023, 2023 |
| 6 | Patrik Antonius | $29,675,212 | 27 | 3rd – 2007 |
| 7 | Matthias Eibinger | $24,209,221 | 21 | 4th – 2024 |
| 8 | Rainer Kempe | $22,579,929 | 67 | 4th – 2019 |
| 9 | Aaron Zang | $21,896,250 | 0 | N/A |
| 10 | Sam Trickett | $21,844,988 | 19 | 2nd – 2010, 2019, 2019 |
The World Series of Poker is back with another massive slate of events in 2025, offering another chance for several of the biggest names on the circuit to finally remove themselves from the most dreaded leaderboard in the game: the ‘best without a bracelet’ list.
The top 12 players on poker’s all-time money list all have WSOP titles under their belts, which puts 13th-ranked Steve O’Dwyer at the top of this collection of elite players. O’Dwyer has cashed for nearly $6.8 million since the last time this leaderboard was examined in late November of 2023. However, the 42-year-old American poker pro now lives abroad and has not cashed in a bracelet event since 2018, which was during WSOP Europe. His last in-the-money finish at the WSOP in Las Vegas was back in 2013.
While he certainly doesn’t appear to be chasing this particular piece of hardware at the moment, O’Dwyer’s $47.4 million in career earnings cement him as the highest-earning tournament player without a bracelet to his name.
Cary Katz joins O’Dwyer as the only other player with more than $40 million in career earnings to not have won a bracelet. Katz has cashed for nearly $40.4 million across 296 total in-the-money finishes on the tournament scene, with 65 cashes in bracelet events for more than $7.5 million.
The 55-year-old high-stakes regular and successful businessman has come agonizingly close to hoisting the gold several times, with three runner-up finishes and one third-place showing at the series. Most notably, the PokerGO founder took second in the $100,000 high roller in 2023 for nearly $1.6 million.
There are three more bracelet-less players with career earnings over $30 million, including Germany’s Christoph Vogelsang ($38 million), and a pair of Americans in Sean Winter ($33.9 million) and Seth Davies ($33.2 million).
Vogelsang and Davies are both Super High Roller Bowl champions, while Winter secured both the Poker Masters Purple Jacket and the U.S. Poker Open series championship in 2022. All three have multiple millions in earnings in WSOP events but have yet to close out a win at the series. ♠