Bryn Kenney’s longstanding stranglehold atop the all-time event poker earnings checklist may quickly be in jeopardy.
The New York excessive curler has topped the Hendon Mob charts for a lot of the previous six years. However two crushers look like on monitor to doubtlessly catch up inside the subsequent 12 months or so.
Because it stands, Kenney has $78,739,828 in profession cashes, with a excessive rating of $20,563,324, the biggest money in event poker historical past, a second-place end within the $1,000,000 buy-in Triton Million for Charity occasion in 2019. Aaron Zang received the event however obtained much less after a chop had been agreed to earlier than heads-up play started.
Who Might Catch Poker’s Prime Earner?
Daniel Negreanu, who beforehand surpassed the file held by Erik Seidel, misplaced his all-time cashes result in Justin Bonomo in 2018. Kenney and Bonomo would commute for the lead a number of occasions over the next few years.
The race died off significantly in recent times, nonetheless, as Bonomo discontinued the event grind. He hasn’t competed in any stay occasions since he confronted disqualification for carrying pro-Palestine apparel within the 2024 World Sequence of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) Tremendous Principal Occasion final December.
Bonomo is caught on $65.6 million in profession cashes, $13 million behind the chief. He is light to fifth place, and it does not seem that he is taken with making an attempt to get again within the race. However the identical cannot be stated for Stephen Chidwick and Jason Koon, each of whom are able to present Kenney a sweat quickly.
Kenney had two last desk appearances in excessive curler occasions on the 2025 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), which helped him strategy $80 million in cashes. However he is on tempo to complete 2025 along with his lowest total event output since 2022. That has opened the window for Chidwick, who now has $73,713,729 in cashes, to creep to inside $5 million of the lead.
Chidwick, a Poker Corridor of Fame lock for years, has already cracked the $10 million mark in 2025, the primary time since 2019. He is cashed for practically $5 million greater than Kenney this 12 months, and in doing so has made the race attention-grabbing. Yet one more 12 months at this tempo and he’ll transfer into the lead.
After which there’s Koon, a PokerStars ambassador who can also be slowly however certainly closing in on Kenney. Koon, like Chidwick, has executed it with consistency 12 months after 12 months, versus Kenney selecting up some huge scores which have catapulted him to the highest.
Koon was not even within the dialog to change into the all-time chief 4 years in the past. He trailed Kenney and Bonomo in December 2021 by about $22 million. However, with $68,959,006 in cashes as of Oct. 2025, he is a couple of dollars underneath $10 million off the lead.
Not way back, it appeared that Kenney ought to solely be involved with Bonomo catching his file. And when Bonomo started to cut back his event schedule, it appeared as if his lead would possibly by no means face any competitors. However Chidwick and Koon are beginning to make a run, and Mikita Badziakouski ($65,707,194) is a pair tremendous excessive curler wins away from becoming a member of the race.
Kenney will not maintain that lead for eternity, even when Koon and Chidwick do not catch him. At some point, a event operator will host a $10 million buy-in occasion, and a few random participant will take it down for $100 million to change into the all-time chief. For now, the race is beginning to get juicy, however Kenney may make it lopsided once more with a pair extra of his patented monster scores within the coming 12 months.
