We all love them, follow them and want to be like them. They are the leading performers in major poker tournaments played across the globe. Poker players who make news with their huge winnings, players who perform consistently for long and maintain their position on world leaderboards and the champions who topple over many to claim the top spots. Know about them and their recent successes in the poker world through various leaderboards updated weekly on this page.
Global Poker Index
GPI (Global Poker Index) releases a list of top 300 Poker tournament players. To dwell this list of top Poker performers of the World, GPI maintains a Poker Index point system using a special formula. Through this leaderboard, GPI announces Player of the Year as well.
Here are the World’s Top 10 players in GPI Rankings:
Poker Players Stats*
| No. | Players | Country | Points |
| 1. | Andrian Mateos | UK | 3,425.04 |
| 2. | Bryn Kenney | US | 3,302.68 |
| 3. | Stephen Chidwick | Mexico | 3,247.43 |
| 4. | David Peters | Coasta Rica | 3,244.62 |
| 5. | Dan Smith | Canada | 3,235.92 |
| 6. | Alan Ari Engel | Canada | 3,206.87 |
| 7. | Fedor Holz | Austria | 3,172.03 |
| 8. | Jason Koon | Canada | 3,138.27 |
| 9. | Nick Petrangelo | US | 3,133.46 |
| 10. | Stefan Schillhabel | UK | 3,123.39 |
Data from Global Poker Index.
All Time Money List *
Poker tournaments have grown tremendously in terms of the prize pool in every part of the world. World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, European Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Asian Poker Tour are the series played across the year which fetches huge winnings for the poker players. In addition to the major tours, several casinos around the world organize poker tournaments which add to the tournament winnings of the players.
The top 10 players of the All-Time Money List tracked by Hendon Mob features poker pros with their lifetime poker winnings from tournaments.
| World All Time Money Top 10 | ||
| Position | Players | Winnings |
| 1. | Daniel Negreanu | $35,319,815 |
| 2. | Erik Seidel | $33,277,776 |
| 3. | Daniel Colman | $28,925,059 |
| 4. | Antonio Esfandiari | $27,614,380 |
| 5. | Fedor Holz | $26,701,373 |
| 6. | John Juanda | $23,873,342 |
| 7. | Phil Ivey | $23,856,033 |
| 8. | Scott Seiver | $23,075,728 |
| 9. | Phil Hellmuth Jr. | $22,110,980 |
| 10. | Sam Trickett | $20,790,658 |
*Data from Hendenmob