So he can have a spot on the list until the wave function collapses along with either his businesses or his haters. He claims to have made hundreds of millions at poker, but many dispute those claims. We don’t know how much of that money he’s actually allowed to use as one prevailing theory is that he is simply holding the money to keep it out of the hands of the S.E.C.Įven if that money was truly Dan’s, much of that seems to have been squandered on failed businesses and funding his extravagant lifestyle. He certainly inherited a large amount of money from his father. It’s hard to tell whether Dan Bilzerian should be near the top of this list, or absent from it entirely. Dan Bilzerian – $200 million Image source: Twitter Hart’s message is to make poker fun for amateur players and bring new players to the game. And as a partypoker global ambassador, he represents the poker platform in occasional endorsements. Rob Yong called him the highest-stakes amateur poker player in the world. Kevin continues to play regularly in high-stakes games in Las Vegas and Los Angeles when he’s not acting, producing, or writing. He is also a tolerable good poker player, a regular at charity poker tourneys, and has been patched up from time to time by PokerStars. Kevin Hart is, according to Forbes, the best paid comedian in the world. Kevin Hart – ~$200 million Image by WestConn source: Flickr This game alone justifies him a place in the poker firmament, and his billions of banking dollars put him at the top of this list. This high-stakes match had a book written about it, The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King by Michael Craig. Andy Beal outstrips any other contender by an alphabetical factor - his wealth is measured in B’s, not M’s.īeal is a mathematician (with a conjecture named after him), a banker (owner of Beal Bank), and was the whale in a heads-up challenge that makes Polk/Negreanu look like a penny-ante kaffeeklatsch game.īetween 20, Beal played a group of top players known as The Corporation at limits that ranged from $30k/$60k to $100k/$200k.ĭuring this time he won what might be the largest hand on public record.

Andy Beal – $12.2 billion Image source: Twitter

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