The 2010 World Series of Poker main event is about to get underway and Easy Poker Club have been looking at the WSOP top 10 money-makers of all time. We find that in the top position is the 2006 World Series of Poker winner, Jamie Gold, who walked off with a whopping $12, 068,751 in what was the peak year for the main event before online poker prohibition in the States came into effect later that year, making it more difficult for players to access Internet poker rooms via their credit cards.  Additionally, after Jamie Gold, online players in America found it more difficult to qualify as there were fewer rooms and more restrictions.

However, WSOP winners since 2006 still keep knocking on Gold’s door.  All three of the remaining top 4 players have won more at the World Series of Poker than Gold’s predecessor, Australia’s Joe Hachem. We see that Phil Hellmuth, Jr.,  may be the current World Series of Poker bracelet record holder but he still just barely cracks the top 10 at number 10. Seven of the top 10 are Americans.  Russia, England and Australia are also represented within the top 10. We will just have to keep on playing to break into that top ten spot!