Biggest Poker Winners 2016
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Antonio Esfandiari beat Sam Trickett heads-up to win the biggest prize in poker history at the World Series of Poker on Tuesday. Esfandiari outlasted a field of 48 players to take down a record-setting $18.3 million first-place prize in the $1 million buy-in tournament. Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn: 2016’s Biggest Online Poker Winner Since entering the world of high stakes online poker in 2011, Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn has had an incredible career that’s seen him win almost $9 million in profits. Poker's Biggest Money Winners In 2016 Dec 27, 2016. In poker the object of the game is simple: win money! Who did that the best in 2016? With only a few days remaining before 2017, here is a look.
With 2016 drawing to a close, the live poker tournament circuit continued to have a positive impact on the industry as a whole, as it stimulated interest in the game and its personalities from the USA to Europe and Asia. Here is a closer look at the top poker players that made their mark on the live tournament scene this year.
1: Fedor Holz ($16,484,153)
Fedor Holz had a truly remarkable year, having cashed in at 24 seperate tournaments, and winning an incredible six of them. Furthermore, five of those were high-roller events which resulted in six-figure scores for the 23 year-old German. Counted amongst Holz’s wins in 2016 was taking down the WPT National Philippines $200,000 Super High Roller for $3,463,500, and capturing a gold bracelet at the WSOP $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP for $4,981,775.
2: Elton Tsang ($12,248,912)
Going into 2016, China’s Elton Tsang had $504,078 in live career earnings, but in October the player went shooting to number 2 on this year’s money list after winning the €1 Million Big One for ONE DROP event for €11,111,111 ($12,248,912).
3: Qui Nguyen ($8,005,310)
Once upon a time, each year’s WSOP Main Event champion was almost guaranteed to finish top of the year’s tournament money list. Reflecting recent times, and the growth of high-roller events, the 2016 WSOP ME winner reached number 3 on our list after walking away with a top prize worth $8,005,310. Previous to his victory, Nguyen had just $52,986 in live career earnings.
4: David Peters ($7,271,414)
David Peters enjoyed by far his most successful year to date since his first tournament cash back in 2006, having won a total of $7,271,415 in 2016. The US pro’s long list of successes over the past 12 months includes in January finishing runner-up at the $200k Triton Super High Roller event for $2,309,000, and in December booking a 3rd place finish at the €5,300 EPT Prague for €397,300 ($420,499).
5: Rainer Kempe ($6,627,501)
Rainer Kempe, the second German player on our list, enjoyed an impressive $6,627,501 year, although most of that amount was won after taking down the $300k Super High Roller Bowl for a cool $5 million payday. The event was held at the Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, and the very next month Kempe did likewise at the casino’s $50k Aria Super High Roller 10 to add a further $531,245 to his year’s earnings.
A look at all the major stories from this past weekend on PokerStars.
* Stardust167 wins the Sunday Million
* Vlad 'dariepoker' Darie wins the Warm-Up
and...
*Dzmitry Urbanovich wins the EPT Dublin Main Event
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There's no doubting that the main news this past weekend was that of Dzmitry Urbanovich, who won the EPT Dublin Main Event late Saturday night. But we'll get to that in just a moment. First a short recap on everything that happened online over the weekend.
That account starts with Sunday Million winner stardust167, who picked up a first prize of $179,120 in a deal free final table a few hours ago. As Kristin Bihr wrote in her report, the final was a 'murderer's row of online poker success stories', not least in stardust167's heads up opponent Nicolau 'nicofellow' Villa-Lobos, the 2013 SCOOP 'Medium' Main Event winner. But then what line up would you expect in the biggest weekly online tournament?
Over in the Warm-Up Romanian player Vlad 'dariepoker' Darie took the $71,406 first prize after a heads-up deal with runner up Ben 'bennybunny18' Richardson from Australia, who, as David Aydt wrote in his report, had his attempt at a remarkable comeback cut short.
Check the results in full below.
PokerStars Sunday Million results (2-21-2016)
Players: 5,778
Prize pool: $1,155.600.00
Places paid: 855
1. stardust167 (Ireland) $179,120.79
2. Nicolau 'nicofellow' Villa-Lobos (Brazil) $132,894.00
3. KumariOy (Russia) $93,603.60
4. feldegani.ps (Brazil) $64,886.94
5. capodelon (Switzerland) $48,535.20
6. IMDaBuster (Australia) $36,979.20
7. DEdgge (Israel) $25,423.20
8. Gordinho90 (Brazil) $14,445.00
9. Patrick 'pmahoney22' Mahoney (Mexico) $9,013.68
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Results (02-21-16)
Entrants: 2,417
Prize pool: $483,400.00
Places paid: 360
1. Vlad 'dariepoker' Darie (Romania) $71,406.54*
2. Ben 'bennybunny18' Richardson (Australia) $62,336.17*
3. 1_conor_b_1 (Netherlands) $41,089.00
4. Mogelwette (Germany) $28,278.90
5. masterc50 (Poland) $21,511.30
6. zzwwzzwwzz (China) $16,677.30
7. majkl1812 (Czech Republic) $11,843.30
8. tig wired (Canada) $7,009.30
9. Goudvis_90 (Netherlands) $4,108.90
* denotes a two-way deal
Here's a look at this week's big winners.
| EVENT | WINNER | COUNTRY | PRIZE MONEY |
|---|---|---|---|
| $215 Sunday Million | stardust167 | Ireland | $179,120.79 |
| $215 Sunday Warm-Up | dariepoker | Romania | $71,406.54 |
| $215 Sunday Supersonic [6-Max] | M.nosbocaJ | United Kingdom | $46,220.40 |
| $109+R Sunday Rebuy | TMoney0209 | Canada | $39,935.70 |
| $215 Sunday 2nd Chance | earlgrey23 | Canada | $35,136.00 |
| $109 Sunday Kickoff | oceanemm | Mongolia | $29,104.65 |
| $11 Sunday Storm | atis84 | Hungary | $28,000.00 |
| $22 Sunday Mini-Million | daybreaker87 | United Kingdom | $26,177.97 |
| $320 Saturday Super-Knockout | Keiruja | United Kingdom | $25,872.44 |
| $162 Sunday 6-Max | hello_totti | Russian Federation | $21,195.18 |
You'll find the complete list of major results on PokerStars here for the weekend of February 20-21, 2016.
Now is the perfect opportunity to get a PokerStars account. Open your account here. Few people who have watched Dzmitry Urbanovich play had any doubts that when he reached the Main Event final table with the chip lead in Dublin that he was the absolute favourite. We thought it. BetStars thought it. Then Urbanovich himself proved it.
It was no easy ride for the 20 year old Pole (twenty!), who found himself the short stack with four players left. But despite a table appearance which rests some between ambivalence and irritation, he demonstrated a prowess that had surprised no one, least not after a past year spent winning almost everything, including those four titles at EPT11 Malta last year.
For poker fans it was a final table to remember. For we reporters watching court side it was one of those enjoyable treats. Read Howard Swains' full report of the final table, along with everything else from the Dublin festival.
Biggest Poker Winners 2016 List
That's all for now. Congratulations to all of this weekend's winners, whether online or in Dublin. As always you can keep in touch with us on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.