| Rank | Player | Titles | Earnings | Cashes | Final Tables |
| 1 | Darren Elias | 4 | $4,653,250 | 47 | 13 |
| 2 | Carlos Mortensen | 3 | $6,738,670 | 21 | 6 |
| 3 | Chino Rheem | 3 | $4,097,943 | 11 | 4 |
| 4 | Gus Hansen | 3 | $4,076,802 | 9 | 7 |
| 5 | Eric Afriat | 3 | $3,639,492 | 23 | 9 |
| 6 | Anthony Zinno | 3 | $3,155,419 | 39 | 7 |
| 7 | Brian Altman | 3 | $3,124,165 | 34 | 7 |
The World Poker Tour’s title record has stood for nearly seven years. Darren Elias broke the multi-way tie at three main tour wins back on May 23, 2018, taking down the WPT Bobby Baldwin Classic at Aria for an unprecedented fourth victory. Since that historic triumph, several of the players with a trio of WPT titles to their name have come close to matching Elias’ total, but none have yet managed the feat.
The latest close call saw three-time champion Eric Afriat finish third in the WPT Rolling Thunder main event (pg. 33). Afriat also has runner-up showings at both the WPT Hard Rock Poker Showdown and the WPT Choctaw Championship, as well as a third at the WPT Playground Championship, a fifth at the WPT Montreal main event, and a sixth at the WPT Bellagio Cup. More than half of the Canadian’s $6 million in career earnings have come in WPT events.
Elias first broke through with a win in the 2014 WPT Borgata Poker Open for $843,744. Just a couple of months later, the New Jersey resident took down the WPT Caribbean main event for another $127,680. In 2017, Elias secured his third title by taking down the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic for $335,436.
In addition to being the tour’s title leader, the 38-year-old poker pro also holds the tour’s records for the most main tour cashes (47) and the most main tour final-table finishes (13). Of the four major stat categories for the WPT, the only one Elias doesn’t sit atop of is main tour earnings. His $4,653,250 is good for fifth place in that metric.
There are currently six players tied with three wins. Carlos Mortensen has the highest earnings among them, as he is the tour’s all-time money leader. The Spanish poker legend has more than $6.7 million in cashes on the tour, including nearly $4 million that came from his win in the 2007 WPT Championship.
Chino Rheem and Gus Hansen round out the top five with Afriat as the next-highest earners among the three-time champions. 38 total players have won multiple WPT main tour titles, including the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Michael Mizrachi, Antonio Esfandiari, Jonathan Little, Chad Eveslage, and Barry Greenstein. ♠