The 2024 poker year is now in the rearview mirror and we’ve put together a complete summary with the winners of the most important live circuits and the winners of the Global Poker Index and The Hendon Mob rankings. Welcome to the 2024 Live Poker Year in Review.
2024 GPI POY Rankings
2024 GPI Player of the Year Top 10
The player who claimed the GPI Player of the Year ranking was David Coleman, who achieved 48 cashes, 28 final tables, 10 podium finishes and 6 titles, with earnings of $5.2M. He placed fifth in the EPT Barcelona Main Event for $440K, sixth in the Triton Main Event at WSOP Paradise for $890K, and won one of the WPT Alpha8s at the Wynn for $730K.
This is how the Top 10 of POY 2024 looked:
- David Coleman (USA) – 4,383 points
- Jesse Lonis (USA) – 4,374
- Adrián Mateos (Spain) – 4,312
- Tony Lin (China) – 4,074
- Michael Watson (Canada) – 4,026
- Punnat Punsri (Thailand) – 3,942
- Alex Foxen (USA) – 3,878
- Artur Martirosyan (Russia) – 3,764
- Stephen Chidwick (England) – 3,752
- Dylan Weisman (USA) – 3,729
Complete ranking here.
2024 GPI Female Player of the Year Top 10
Among women in poker, Cherish Andrews stood out the most on the circuit, finishing at the top of the Player of the Year ranking. During 2024, she made 37 cashes, 9 final tables and 3 titles, with earnings of $829K. She had finished third in this ranking last year and this year she was able to finish first by beating runner-up Kristen Foxen.
These were the most outstanding female poker players of the year:
- Cherish Andrews (USA) – 3,115 points
- Kristen Foxen (Canada) – 2,916
- Victoria Livschitz (USA) – 2,649
- Rania Nasreddine (USA) – 2,541
- Maria Konnikova (USA) – 2,266
- Jessica Vierling (Germany) – 2,212
- Min Zhang (China) – 2,040
- Angela Jordison (USA) – 1,984
- Meng Ling “Candy” Lin (Taiwan) – 1,967
- Nadya Magnus (USA) – 1,951
Complete ranking here.
2024 GPI Mid Major Player of the Year
The GPI Mid Major Player of the Year ranking went to Han Feng, who made 60 cashes, 18 final tables and 5 titles, earning $917K. He won two Champions Club Fall Poker Open titles in Houston, two WSOP Circuit rings and a Moneymaker Poker Tour win in Houston.
This is how the Top 10 of the ranking was:
- Han Feng (USA) – 3,014 points
- Cherish Andrews (USA) – 2,845
- Luis Yepez (Venezuela) – 2,603
- Steve Yea (South Korea) – 2,597
- Hugues Girard (France) – 2,566
- Michael Liang (USA) – 2,557
- Michael Estes (USA) – 2,531
- Xixiang Luo (China) – 2,518
- Kully Sidhu (United Kingdom) – 2,462
- Dale Roesel (USA) – 2,432
Complete ranking here.
2024 The Hendon Mob Rankings
2024 Money List
The player with the highest tournament poker earnings in 2024 was Spaniard Adrian Mateos with $13.1M. He had the best year of his career with 35 cashes, 21 final tables and 3 titles, of which two were in Triton Poker tournaments.
These were the most successful players in 2024:
- Adrián Mateos (Spain) – $13.1M
- Patrik Antonius (Finland) – $12.4M
- Alejandro Lococo (Argentina) – $12.2M
- Alex Foxen (USA) – $11.5M
- Jonathan Tamayo (USA) – $10.2M
- Daniel Dvoress (Canada) – $10.2M
- Benjamin Heath (England) – $9.7M
- Benjamin Tollerene (USA) – $9.3M
- Seth Davies (USA) – $9.1M
- Roman Hrabec (Czech Republic) – $9.1M
You can see the complete ranking at this link.
Adrián Mateos / Photo: Triton Poker
2024 Number of Cashes
For the third consecutive year, Pedro Palacio of the United States was the player who earned the most cashes during the year with an impressive mark of 202. He surpassed the 184 cashes he earned last year.
These were the players with the highest number of cashes in 2024:
- Pedro Palacio (USA): 202
- Dany Blackburn (USA): 112
- Conrad Co (USA): 110
- Kwang Kim (USA): 108
- Scott Molosky (USA): 103
- Justin Arnwine (USA): 103
- Rory Lucero (USA): 101
- Ed Tamura (USA): 101
- Jeremy Becker (USA): 101
- David Erquiaga (Philippines): 99
You can see the complete ranking at this link.
2024 Flag Hunter
Canadian Dominick French broke a poker record by cashing in 48 countries during 2024 and topped the Flag Hunter ranking. These were the countries where Dominick achieved cashes in 2024: Canada, United States, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belgium, Portugal, France, Slovenia, Mauritius, South Africa, Netherlands, Madagascar, Germany, Philippines, Taiwan, Estonia, Cyprus, Switzerland, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Denmark, Georgia, Latvia, North Macedonia, Norway, Croatia, Armenia, Finland, Italy, Wales, Andorra, Spain, Aland Islands, Vietnam, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Sweden, Scotland, Malta and Poland.
These were the 10 players who achieved the highest number of flags in 2024:
- Dominick French (Canada): 48
- Maureen Bloechlinger (Switzerland): 18
- Fabian Bartuschk (Germany): 17
- Yuri Ishida (Japan): 14
- Niko Koop (Germany): 14
- Andrew Leathem (Scotland): 14
- Simon Bouaksa (France): 13
- Ilija Savevski (North Macedonia): 12
- Patrick Delkof (Germany): 12
- Frederic Delval (France): 12
You can see the complete ranking at this link.
Dominick French / Photo: LAPT
2024 World Poker Tour
The 2024 season of the World Poker Tour had 12 stops on its main circuit and passed through four countries: the United States, Canada, Australia and Cambodia. The WPT Voyage was also played aboard a cruise ship that toured the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. The popular WPT Prime circuit had 14 stops during 2024 and visited the following countries: United States, France, Netherlands, Slovakia, Australia, Canada, Italy, Taiwan, Cyprus, Liechtenstein and England.
The 2024 WPT World Championship
For the third consecutive year, the WPT Grand Final was played at the luxurious Wynn in Las Vegas. This year saw a big innovation: the first edition of the ClubWPT Gold Gold Invitational, which was the freeroll with the largest freeroll guarantee in history ($5M). A total of 1,457 players who won their entry via Golden Passports took part in the tournament. The champion was Chase Bricker, who took home $1M without investing any money.
The 2024 WPT World Championship had 2,392 $10K entries and awarded $23,4M in prize money to the top 299 players. Among the finalists was legend Chris Moorman, who finished fourth for the second consecutive year and earned $1.1M. The champion was Scott Stewart, who earned the largest prize of his career: $2.5M.
These were the winners of the festival’s marquee events:
| Event | Buy-In | Entries | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
| WPT Prime Championship | $1,100 | 9,670 | $9,379,900 | Zachary Vankeuren | $1,162,350 |
| ClubWPT Gold Freeroll | – | 1,457 | $5,000,000 | Chase Bricker | $1,000,000 |
| Ladies Championship | $1,100 | 485 | $470,450 | Tirza Sanders | $90,432 |
| Seniors High Roller | $10,000 | 127 | $1,206,500 | Charles Lehr | $331,787 |
| WPT Alpha8 | $25,800 | 111 | $2,775,000 | Mark Egbert | $684,684 |
| Pot Limit Omaha | $10,500 | 84 | $840,000 | James Collopy | $209,628 |
| NLH 8-Max | $10,100 | 105 | $1,050,000 | James Collopy | $298,147 |
| Mystery Bounty | $1,600 | 1,740 | $1,635,600 | Mounim Kaddouri | $237,165 |
| WPT World Championship | $10,400 | 2,392 | $23,441,600 | Scott Stewart | $2,563,900 |
Scott Stewart / Photo: WPT.com
2024 WPT Player of the Year
The WPT Player of the Year ranking played out as follows:
- Yunkyu Song – 2,275 points
- Dylan Smith – 2,025
- Eric Afriat – 1,750
- Landon Tice – 1,700
- Zak VanKeuren – 1,550
- Dan Stavila – 1,525
- Josh Reichard – 1,425
- Travis Endersby – 1,400
- Michael Wang – 1,200
- Jim Casement – 1,200
2024 World Series of Poker
The 2024 edition of the WSOP in Las Vegas featured 99 events and among the winners were Calvin Anderson, Chance Kornuth, Scott Seiver, Dario Sammartino, Yuri Dzivielevski, John Racener, Sergio Aido, Nick Schulman, Daniel Sepiol, Robert Mizrachi, John Hennigan and two legends: Daniel Negreanu (his 7th bracelet) and Phil Ivey (he reached 11 bracelets).
The Main Event was historic, as it had 10,112 players and became the largest edition of the tournament. The prize pool was $94M and was distributed among the top 1,517 players. The champion was Jonathan Tamayo, who took home a prize of $10M. Third place went to sweden’s Niklas Astedt, who has earned $50M from online tournaments.
The 2024 Main Event champion / Photo: Hayley Hochstetler
The WSOP had its European edition in Rozvadov with 15 events and the Main Event had 768 entries, with Italian Simone Andrian being the champion and earning $1.4M. The WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas was also played with 15 events and the Super Main Event $25K was won by Chinese Yinan Zhou, who collected $6M. Among the winners from the Bahamas was argentine Alejandro Lococo, who won the Triton Million $500K buy-in invitational and took home the seventh largest prize in the history of live poker: $12M.
WSOP Player of the Year
The standout player at the WSOP in Las Vegas was Scott Seiver, who made 17 cashes, 5 final tables, and 3 bracelets, earning $1.4M. He turns 40 this year and is a leading candidate for entry into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Here’s how the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year played out:
- Scott Seiver (USA): 4,413 points
- Michael Rocco (USA): 3,803
- Jeremy Ausmus (USA): 3,687
- John Racener (USA): 3,557
- Xixiang Luo (China): 3,480
- Chance Kornuth (USA): 3,379
- David Prociak (USA): 3,274
- Chris Hunichen (USA): 3,094
- Yuri Dzivielevski (Brazil): 3,033
- Phil Ivey (USA): 3,004
Image credit: Card Player Magazine
The player with the highest WSOP earnings during 2024 was Alejandro Lococo with $12.2M and the player with the highest cashes was Shaun Deeb with 22.
2024 European Poker Tour
The European Poker Tour had five stops in 2024 and these were the main event champions:
| Stage | Buy-In | Entries | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
| Paris | €5,300 | 1,747 | €8,385,600 | Barny Boatman (England) | €1,287,800 |
| Monte Carlo | €5,300 | 832 | €5,858,800 | Derk Van Luijk (Netherlands) | €1,000,000 |
| Barcelona | €5,300 | 1,975 | €9,587,750 | Stephen Song (USA) | €1,290,386 |
| Cyprus | $5,300 | 1,284 | $6,227,400 | Oliver Weis (Germany) | $1,030,000 |
| Prague | €5,300 | 1,458 | €7,071,300 | Pedro Marques (Portugal) | €963,450 |
Poker’s Other Big Winners in 2024
In addition to the WPT, EPT and the WSOP, several live circuits were played during 2024 and these were the winners of their respective rankings:
- PokerGO Tour: Jeremy Ausmus (USA)
- Mid-States Poker Tour: Umut Ozturk (USA)
- Irish Poker Tour: Hugh Smyth (Ireland)
- Latin American Poker Tour: Brent Adam Sheirbon (USA)
- Brazilian Series of Poker: Ricardo Nakamura (Brazil)
- Campeonato España de Poker: Omar Hernández González (Spain)
- Sixers Poker Series: Alexander Ryan Ellison (Spain)
- King Series of Poker: Daniel Noronha (Brazil)
- Circuito Argentino de Poker: Valentín Piergentile (Argentina)
- Circuito Nacional de Poker: Carlos Saenz Martínez (Spain)
We wish you all a great 2025 at and off the poker tables.
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