Chance Kornuth – Net Worth: Bracelet Winner Who Built His Students into Champions!
Chance Kornuth holds four WSOP bracelets across four disciplines and runs one of poker's top training platforms. The database figure is only part of it.
Allen Cunningham Net Worth: A Tournament Pro You Might Be Underrating
Allen Cunningham has won five WSOP bracelets and nearly $12 million in recorded earnings. Here's his estimated net worth and why it's hard to pin down.
Stu Ungar – Net Worth: Three WSOP Main Event Titles and a Final Count of Zero!
Stu Ungar won the WSOP Main Event three times, matched by only one other player. His tournament record and his financial story couldn’t be further apart.
Ryan Riess - Net Worth: The Man Who Said No to Sponsors and Yes to $8.3M
Ryan Riess won $8.3M at his first WSOP Main Event. He told CNBC that staking and taxes cut that to roughly $2M. So, what is he actually worth today?
Pius Heinz – Net Worth: $8.7M, Tax-Free and a Champion Who Stepped Away
Pius Heinz won $8.7M in 2011, paid no tax on it, and then largely disappeared from poker. Fifteen years later, the net worth figure is anyone's guess.
Jason Koon – Net Worth: $72M in Earnings and a Real Figure Nobody Can Confirm!
Jason Koon ranks 3rd on poker's all-time money list with 12 Triton titles. He pays up to $250K for an entry. Still, the recorded total is not the full story.
Hossein Ensan – Net Worth: The $4.6M Tax Bill Behind the $10M Win
At 55, Hossein Ensan became the oldest WSOP champion since 1999. The real story begins with what Germany's gambling tax law does to the $10 million he won.
Scotty Nguyen – Net Worth: The Refugee Who Became the Prince of Poker
Scotty Nguyen won the WSOP Main Event on a buy-in he couldn't afford himself. Five bracelets and $12.7M later, the real figure is harder to confirm.
Barry Greenstein – Net Worth: $8.6M Recorded and a Charity Pledge That Changes the Calculation
Three WSOP bracelets, 272 recorded cashes, and a pledge to donate his net winnings to charity. What Greenstein kept is a genuinely open question.
Alex Foxen – Net Worth: $54M in Earnings, $500K a Shot to Get There
Two GPI POY titles in a row, $54M in earnings, buy-ins up to $500K. Foxen's headline number is easy to find, but what he actually kept is a different question.
Espen Jørstad – Net Worth: The $10M Prize He Waited Six Months to Collect
Norway's first WSOP champion won $10 million on a $1,050 satellite, weeks after losing $1M in crypto. What he collected, and when, is a different story.
Joe McKeehen – Net Worth: The Man Who Won $7.6M and Still Calls It a Job
McKeehen's 2015 WSOP Main Event win remains one of the most dominant in history, but $7.6M from one tournament tells only part of his financial story.
Daniel Weinman – Net Worth: Back at the Office Five Days After Winning $12.1 Million!
In 2023, Weinman took home the largest first-place payout in WSOP Main Event history. That figure and what he kept are what we're here to find out.
Ted Forrest – Net Worth: Three Bracelets in One Summer, But Not the Expected Financial Story!
Forrest won three WSOP bracelets from six tournaments in 1993. His biggest income later came from a poker site, not a poker table. And that is long gone.
Koray Aldemir – Net Worth: Two Bracelets, $23M in Earnings, and One Very Deliberate Tax Move!
Aldemir had $12M in earnings before the Main Event and added $8M more. The gross total is easy to find, but the net figure is the part worth examining.
