5. Phil Ivey
Earnings: $23,354,887
Next up on our list of highest earning poker players in the world, we have American player Phil Ivey, the second most popular player.
Ivey has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets, and he’s recently been elected to the Poker Hall of Fame. He’s the youngest player to ever win ten bracelets, and also the player who has accumulated them the fastest, only taking him 14 years. Previously, the record was held by Phil Hellmuth on both accounts. Ivey was 38 when he earned his tenth bracelet, after 14 years, while Hellmuth was 42, after 17 years.
He has also managed to reach nine final tables on the World Poker Tour and he’s been named the poker player of the year twice by All In Magazine.
