Building a successful career is not usually a walk in the park, and a poker career can’t be built in a day or two.

To become a savvy poker player, you have to emulate those who came before you and found success. To cash at the World Series of Poker, you have to beat a large pool of players, and hence getting a bracelet is not for the faint-hearted.

Anyone who gets a bracelet at WSOP is a real poker grinder. However, if I was to write on everyone who has a WSOP bracelet, I would most likely run out of space.

Therefore, it is only prudent of me to write on the top 3 WSOP players of all time.

 

Top 3 WSOP players

#1 Phil Hellmuth

Phil HELL-muth has been bringing hell to WSOP tables for decades now and he has 15 bracelets to show for it. Therefore, he deserves a place on our top 3 WSOP players of all-time list.

His temperament on the table notwithstanding, Phil Hellmuth is undoubtedly the best WSOP grinder that ever lived. He won his first WSOP bracelet back in 1989 when he was 24 years old.

After defeating Johnny Chan to win the 1989 WSOP main event, Hellmuth started his remarkable journey, setting records which will take years to break. For instance, he is the first player to win both the WSOP main event and the WSOPE main event, a fete he accomplished in 2012.

He has 123 WSOP cashes which amount to an astounding $13,078,21. Also, he has 10 WSOPE cashes which amount to $1,419,453.

 

#2 Antonio Esfandiari

Even though bracelets are the climax of WSOP events, they may not necessarily reflect how successful a player is. WSOP is not always about bracelets, making money is also an important aspect of the grind.

With respect to WSOP earnings, Antonio Esfandiari is by far the most successful World Series of Poker player. Over the years, Esfandiari has stacked up 45 WSOP cashes amounting to a staggering $21,599,517. For a person who left college at age 21 to be a full-time magician, that’s pretty impressive.

He won his biggest WSOP cash in 2012 WSOP Event #55: The Big One for One Drop – $1,000,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $18,346,673. The buy-in for the event was $1m million.

However, he only has 3 bracelets and one WSOPE cash.

#3 Phil Ivey

You may have heard of Phil Ivey after he was sued by Borgata for minting millions of dollars at the casino’s establishment “illegally”. However, controversy aside, Phil Ivey is one of the best WSOP grinders of all time.

Ivey holds the record of the youngest WSOP player to attain 9 bracelets. Currently, Ivey has an impressive 55 WSOP cashes which amount to $6,127,805. Also, he has 4 WSOPE cashes which amount to $123,163.

 

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