WSOP High Roller Icons: Earnings, Best Cash and Bracelets

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By Mrinal Gujare
16 Dec 2025
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This article highlights four of the most successful players in WSOP high roller events—Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Fedor Holz, and Brian Rast. 

Explore their live earnings, standout tournament victories, and what defines their legacy in the highest level of the game.

In the realm of high-stakes poker, where buy-ins start at five figures and only the sharpest minds survive, a select group of players consistently dominate. 

These aren’t just bracelet chasers — they are architects of strategic brilliance and masters of deep-stack warfare. 

Here, we take a look at four poker pros who dominate the felts with their sheer brilliance. Players like Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Fedor Holz, and Brian Rast — whose careers have been defined by their dominance in WSOP high roller events and beyond.

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The 2022 WSOP Main Event Bracelet at Bally's Las Vegas,Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Caesars Entertainment)

Phil Ivey

  • Total Live Earnings: $48,598,824
  • Best Live Cash: $3,582,753
  • WSOP Bracelets: 11

Career-Defining Wins:
  • $250,000 Challenge – 2014 Aussie Millions for $3.58 Million
  • $250,000 Super High Roller – 2012 Aussie Millions for $2 Million

Legacy: Revered for his all-around game, Ivey’s performance in both mixed games and high rollers has earned him status as the game's ultimate tactician.

Daniel Negreanu

  • Total Live Earnings: $55,528,897
  • Best Live Cash: $8,288,001
  • WSOP Bracelets: 7

Career-Defining Wins:
  • 2nd place – 2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop ($1 Million buy-in)
  • 1st – $300K Super High Roller Bowl VII (2022) for $3.31 Million

Legacy: Negreanu's career blends technical prowess with adaptability, thriving across televised games, WSOP formats, and exclusive high roller fields.

Fedor Holz

  • Total Live Earnings: $49,244,698
  • Best Live Cash: $6,000,000
  • WSOP Bracelets: 2

Career-Defining Wins:
  • 2nd – 2018 WSOP Big One for One Drop for $6M
  • 1st – 2016 WSOP $111K One Drop High Roller for $4.98M

Legacy: Despite semi-retirement, Holz’s impact remains outsized. His mid-2010s run is one of the most dominant in modern poker history.

Brian Rast

  • Total Live Earnings: $27,790,186
  • Best Live Cash: $7,525,000
  • WSOP Bracelets: 6

Career-Defining Wins:
  • 1st – $500K Super High Roller Bowl (2015)
  • 3x Champion – $50K Poker Players Championship (2011, 2016, 2023)

Legacy: Equally feared in no-limit and mixed formats, Rast’s Poker Hall of Fame induction recognizes a career rooted in consistency at the highest levels.

WSOP: Champions of high stakes poker

Each of these four players has carved a legacy in high-stakes WSOP competition through poker mastery, consistent finishes, and landmark victories. 

Whether it’s Ivey’s precision, Negreanu’s longevity, Holz’s explosive rise, or Rast’s mixed-game supremacy — these names define the WSOP high roller era. 

As the WSOP 2025 approaches, their influence looms large over every six-figure buy-in on the schedule.

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