One of the areas that top poker players can compare their results is in the all time live tournament winnings list. It is compiled by a few poker informational sites. While it is hard to compare different large tournament wins against each other, the totals serve as a long term results comparison, much like the ongoing all time WSOP bracelets competition that Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey and others compete with each other.
In the top 20 list of all time tournament winnings there were three big movers. The largest move by far had to be the Main Event winner, Jonathan Duhamel who vaulted from 9897th place to 15th place with his $8.9 win. The second largest jump was Michael Mizrachi who won the $50k HORSE WSOP championship, final tabled two other smaller $10k events as well as the prestigious 5th place finish in the Main Event to push his winnings up $4 million and from 26th place to 7th. John Juanda also had a strong WSOP pushing up his winnings by $1.6 million to go from 11th to 5th on the all time list.
The Top 20 with totals and changes in ranking and money won past 6 months:
1st Phil Ivey $ 13,847,275 No Change
2nd Daniel Negreanu $ 13,080,190 No Change
3rd Jamie Gold $ 12,231,105 No Change
4th Phil Hellmuth Jr $ 11,445,926 No Change
5th John Juanda $ 11,372,546 Moved Up $ +1,641,664
6th Erik Seidel $ 11,341,524 Moved Down $ +70,844
7th Michael Mizrachi $ 11,135,086 Moved Up $ +4,017,043
8th Joe Hachem $ 10,962,046 Moved Down $ +101,178
9th Allen Cunningham $ 10,945,147 Moved Down $ +539,079
10th Peter Eastgate $ 10,904,211 Moved Down
11th Erik Seidel $ 10,355,013 Moved Down $ +166,400
12th Men Nguyen $ 10,174,608 Moved Up $ +840,862
13th Carlos Mortensen $ 9,919,192 Moved Down $ +247,580
14th T.J. Cloutier $ 9,835,075 Moved Down $ +47,876
15th Jonathan Duhamel $ 9,045,870 Moved Up $ +8,987,310
16th Joe Cada $ 8,626,099 Moved Down
17th Johnny Chan $ 8,515,550 Moved Down $ +214,959
18th Jerry Yang $ 8,382,796 Moved Down $ +44,403
19th Chris Ferguson $ 8,281,926 Moved Down $ +249,027
20th David Pham $ 8,208,258 Moved Down $ +6,551
