It has been a fruitful summer so far for many of the superstars sitting atop poker’s all-time money list. Four of the nine players who boast over $60 million in recorded career tournament earnings have added a million dollars or more to their totals since the start of June, with three of that group increasing their tallies by multiple millions.
Leading the way is Bryn Kenney, who was already in first place on this leaderboard. Kenney has cashed for $5,813,322 during the summer months, with three seven-figure scores recorded along the way. The 39-year-old pro from New York kicked off his spree with a runner-up finish in the $250,000 high roller at the World Series of Poker for $2,776,634.
Bryn Kenney
The two-time bracelet winner’s next big performance saw him place third in a $50,000 buy-in at the series for another $1,041,908. Then, just a few weeks after that, he took down the $100,000 buy-in King Poker Cup in Korea for another $1,954,000.
Those three cashes for a million or more brought Kenney’s career count of such scores to 17, including seven multi-million-dollar paydays.
Kenney set the record for the largest payout in poker history when he cut a heads-up deal in the 2019 Triton Millions charity event to earn $20.6 million. He now has more than $92 million in total earnings, giving him a $12 million lead over his nearest competition on this leaderboard.
| Rank | Player | Earnings | Top Score | Cashes For $1M+ |
| 1 | Bryn Kenney | $92,002,616 | $20,606,421 | 17 |
| 2 | Stephen Chidwick | $79,964,075 | $5,380,200 | 17 |
| 3 | Jason Koon | $77,592,535 | $3,653,260 | 17 |
| 4 | Mikita Badziakouski | $72,137,501 | $7,114,500 | 19 |
| 5 | Adrian Mateos | $70,315,713 | $6,370,000 | 15 |
| 6 | Justin Bonomo | $69,415,857 | $10,000,000 | 11 |
| 7 | Isaac Haxton | $67,810,176 | $3,672,000 | 14 |
| 8 | Dan Smith | $64,197,682 | $8,784,000 | 13 |
| 9 | Alex Foxen | $61,071,703 | $4,563,700 | 10 |
The Rest Of The Best
Stephen Chidwick, who is also a two-time bracelet winner, had a fairly quiet summer with five cashes totaling just over a quarter of a million dollars. Despite not adding much (by his standards) to his career haul, the 37-year-old from Deal, England remains in second place in the race for the most tournament earnings. Chidwick is currently just one high-roller min-cash away from becoming the second player in poker history to surpass $80 million in career cashes.
2026 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Jason Koon rounds out the top three on this list with just shy of $77.6 million. The all-time Triton Poker titles leader accrued over $1.1 million across a trio of cashes at the WSOP this summer. Most of that came from the two-time bracelet winner’s fifth-place showing in the $250,000 buy-in, which earned him $972,375.
Belarusian star Mikita Badziakouski ticked over $72 million in career earnings thanks to a $585,000 payout earned as the runner-up in the kickoff event of the ongoing Onyx Super High Roller Series in North Cyprus. The 34-year-old leads all of the players on this list in terms of the amount of seven-figure scores he’s accumulated over the years, having cashed for a million dollars or more 19 times so far.
Adrian Mateos rounds out the top five with $70.3 million. The Spanish wunderkind cashed for over $5.3 million this summer, including taking down the previously mentioned $250,000 event at the WSOP for his sixth bracelet and $4,334,411. Mateos, who is just 31, is the youngest player to ever win as many titles at the series. Mateos also won two PokerGO Tour high roller events and a $25,000 buy-in at the Wynn Summer Classic, bringing his win total to four in the span of a single month.
Foxen Closing The Gap
Alex Foxen
While the sixth through eighth ranked players saw little or no change in their career earnings this summer, ninth-ranked Alex Foxen has added over $2 million since the beginning of June. One week after his wife Kristen Foxen earned her record-extending sixth bracelet, Alex took down the $10,000 super turbo bounty event for $594,246 and his fourth career gold bracelet. That was the largest of his 13 cashes in this stretch, followed closely by the $522,347 he earned for a sixth-place showing in a $100,000 buy-in a few days earlier.
Foxen is now the outright leader in the Card Player Player of the Year race, having won five titles across 12 final-table finishes so far in 2026. He is also inside the top five in the 2026 PokerGO Tour points race, with 14 qualified cashes towards that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
This strong start to the year has pushed Foxen past the $60 million mark, making him the ninth player to ever surpass that milestone.
Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu is less than $75,000 away from joining the $60 million club. He earned the third-largest score of his career this summer, securing $2,257,718 and his eighth bracelet as the winner of the WSOP $100,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller.
Additional photo credits: Badziakouski (Manuel Kovsca / PokerStars), Mateos (Miguel Cortes / WSOP).
