The $13 Million Dollar Men & the Race to Top the 2025 Money List

In a 12 months of dominant poker performances — from Benny Glaser successful three bracelets in a single summer season to Michael Mizrachi successful each the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Foremost Occasion and Poker Gamers Championship — three gamers stand out for the extremely profitable years on the event circuit.

Individuals Jesse Lonis and Seth Davies, in addition to Norway’s Kayhan Mokri, the current champion of the $250,000 Triton Invitational at WSOP Paradise, have every had eight-figure years of event poker.

Here is a have a look at how these three gamers have carried out in 2025.

Decisive Ultimate Push for Mokri?

For those who instructed Kayhan Mokri he would solely money ten occasions in 2025, he in all probability would not have minded.

And revel in it he has, with six wins totalling a whopping $13.1 million, and two of them account for over $11.5 million in winnings. His late push has seen him overtake Jesse Lonis — extra on him later — on the high of the 2025 Cash Listing.

“The Individuals – they’ve a lot out there for them!” he instructed PokerNews. “However I like to remain in Norway. It is nice to remain residence. I get to be with my household and my fiancé. That is why I benefit from the EPTs lots. I reside in Europe, take pleasure in touring Europe usually, so for these causes they’re tremendous handy.

Mokri has been an everyday on the European Poker Tour, highlighted by a run to sixth place within the European Poker Tour Barcelona Foremost Occasion in 2022 and Excessive Curler victories in Monte-Carlo, Barcelona and Cyprus.

“I benefit from the EPTs as a lot as any occasion. The Tritons are utterly particular, however I like EPTs. They’re nice. The employees are beautiful and clearly I have been very blessed on the EPTs.”

This 12 months he added two EPT spadies to his assortment, beginning with victory within the EPT Monte-Carlo €10,000 Thriller Bounty earlier than a return to the European Poker Tour in Barcelona noticed him take down the €50,000 EPT Tremendous Excessive Curler Second Likelihood.

Victories in Estonia and Slovakia earlier within the 12 months noticed him add but extra silverware to his trophy cupboard.

Folks had been beginning to take discover of his successful methods, taking residence over $3.8 million at Triton Jeju, successful a $150,000 event for the most important money of his profession.

However that may dwarf compared to his victory within the $250,000 Triton Invitational at WSOP Paradise, defeating Gabriel Andrade heads-up for $7,725,000.

“Getting invited to the Triton Invitational is among the biggest honours you could possibly get as a professional nowadays, particularly for a event participant,” says Mokri.

Lonis, the Foremost Occasion Maestro

By the numbers, it has been arduous to look previous Jesse Lonis this 12 months. Nearly a half-century of cashes, with 9 wins — when it comes to sheer consistency, he is one of the best event poker participant in 2025.

It is a signal of the participant, when a maiden WSOP Circuit ring barely options of their record of 2025 highlights — even when it was received whereas attending a rap battle again in February!

A Spring spent grinding the PokerGO Tour and on the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo preceded a maiden Triton title in Montenegro.

He took down the $100,000 Triton Montenegro Foremost Occasion for $3,446,298, telling PokerNews he was simply attempting to remain “humble, grounded and targeted.”

By his excessive requirements, Lonis had a quiet WSOP with only one six-figure money in a bracelet occasion, with a Thirty third-place end within the $50,000 Excessive Curler.

Nevertheless, away from Paris and the Horseshoe, he bagged two titles: a Wynn $25,000 Excessive Curler, and one other victory on the PokerGO Tour, successful a $15,000 event as a part of the ARIA Excessive Curler Sequence.

A visit to the Onyx Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence noticed a return to high-profile victories, defeating Phil Ivey en path to successful the $102,000 Onyx SHRS NLH Invitational for $1,745,625

The Fall noticed Lonis head to EPT Barcelona, ending third within the €100,000 EPT Tremendous Excessive Curler for $823,527 and file one other excessive profile on the Triton Poker Sequence. He completed third within the $100,000 Triton PLO Foremost Occasion in Jeju for $1,261,000 — the sixth seven-figure money of his profession.

Bracelet Headlines Marquee 12 months for Davies

Seth Davies’ 12 months could be break up nearly completely into three. The 12 months started with Davies hoping to eradicate his identify from the Greatest With no Triton Title record with the Triton Jeju pageant, earlier than a solitary money at EPT Monte-Carlo noticed him end third within the €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler for €931,900.

A return to the Triton fold was gorgeous, with Montenegro yielding a few of the finest outcomes of his poker profession. His victory in Occasion #6 netted him $1,490,741 and at last obtained the monkey off his again, with over $1 million and a Triton title added to his lengthy record of poker accolades. Davies known as it a “second he’ll always remember” due to the relationships he’d constructed with the whole Triton employees and event workforce.

This victory was instantly adopted by a runner-up end within the Triton Invitational for $4,190,000, and Davies closed out the pageant with one other runner-up end within the Quattro Bounty Turbo for $296,824.

And all of this earlier than the WSOP and one other first. This time, a primary bracelet for Davies within the largest buy-in occasion of the summer season. Davies took down the $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler for $4,752,551, after defeating Alex Foxen heads-up and topping a 63-player discipline.

Because the WSOP, Davies has had a quieter time of it. In current weeks, he is elevated his social media presence, protecting rating of his wins and losses for his followers to observe alongside. Nevertheless, he was candid on social media following what he known as a “stone bagel” within the Triton occasions on the WSOP Paradise.

“It was actually intense, very action-packed and sadly the motion did not go my approach”

“It isn’t precisely the journey we deliberate after we set out for the Bahamas per week in the past,” he stated. “I have been loopy fortunate this 12 months to have the 12 months I’ve had already, so I assume I used to be due for one thing like this. That is the way it goes generally; you have to take your lumps.”

The Triton schedule was a way more condensed model, owing to the truth that it abutted and overlapped with the remainder of the WSOP Paradise pageant, one thing Davies stated led to a way more increased demand of his hours than regular.

“It was actually intense, very action-packed and sadly the motion did not go my approach. I do not assume I performed superb this journey; I made a pair fairly obtrusive errors so undoubtedly would not give myself an A within the efficiency division, but it surely was a extremely demanding week.”

Nevertheless, Davies continues to be seeking to “pull a rabbit out of a hat” and is eyeing up some massive excessive rollers that stay within the WSOP Paradise schedule, and naturally the WSOP Tremendous Foremost Occasion.

“It is a gigantic $25,000 buy-in event, so perhaps we’ll run effectively in that. Then there’s one other massive $25,000 and the $50,000 PLO — I am actually wanting ahead to that. It will be enjoyable; it is a completely different animal.

“So perhaps we’ll escape with some money nonetheless, so in case you are sweating, perhaps we’ll pull a rabbit out of a hat and someway take slightly chunk out of those losses I’ve constructed up this week.”

Primarily based in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract reside reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.