World Series of Poker top all-time winners

Since its inception in 1970, the World Series of Poker has held thousands of tournaments and awarded billions of dollars in prize money. Here are the top all-time WSOP winners:

1. Phil Hellmuth

Nobody has won more bracelets for WSOP tournament victories than Hellmuth with 17. Just ask him. He’s happy to remind you of his accomplishments. The “Poker Brat” won the 1989 Main Event and is the only player to capture both the WSOP and WSOP Europe Main Events.

2. Phil Ivey

Widely regarded as the best player of his generation, Ivey earned his 11th career bracelet in 2024 by winning the $10,000 buy-in Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship Six-Handed event. In 2002, he won three bracelets, matching the record for most WSOP tournament victories in a year.

3. Doyle Brunson

The man who literally wrote the book on Texas Hold’em with his “Super System,” Brunson has 10 WSOP tournament wins. He won back-to-back Main Event titles in 1976 and 1977, and also finished runner-up in 1980. “Texas Dolly” was enshrined in the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.

4. Johnny Chan

One of four players to win the Main Event in consecutive years, Chan’s 1988 victory was immortalized in the poker movie “Rounders.” Chan nearly claimed a third straight Main Event bracelet in 1989, but he lost heads-up to Hellmuth. He owns 10 WSOP bracelets.

5. Erik Seidel

He owns 10 WSOP bracelets in a variety of games, with the most recent coming in December 2023 at WSOP Paradise in the $50,000 buy-in Super High Roller. The native of New York was the runner-up to Chan in the 1988 Main Event, and Seidel also made the final table of the Main Event in 1999 when he finished fourth.

6. Johnny Moss

Voted by his peers as the winner of the first WSOP Main Event in 1970, Moss added victories in 1971 and 1974 under the current Main Event tournament format. He is one of two players to win the Main Event three times and went on to earn nine bracelets overall.

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