Who has the biggest bankroll?

[Sundevils21]

Of the players who played in the WSOP TOC, who has the biggest bankroll?(ie, who would $2 million help the most?)
maybe this is too personal of a question and maybe I'm out of line asking it. Im just not sure.
Greg Raymer
Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu
Chip Reese
Annie Duke
Johny Chan
TJ Cloutier
Phil Hellmuth
Doyle Brunson
Howard Lederer

Annie if you want to respond that would be great. Maybe its a common knowledge type of thing. Or maybe I'm digging too deep.

[twankerr]

ivey is rumored to have made 10-20 mil in side games lsat year? however, i believe some of the older players have larger stashes

[Aceshigh7]

I think Doyle and Chip would have to have the largest bankrolls.

I think Johnny Chan would be slightly under those two.

[West]

Wild guess from biggest bankroll to lowest:

Chip Reese
Phil Ivey
Johnny Chan
Doyle Brunson
Daniel Negreanu
Howard Lederer
Annie Duke
Phil Hellmuth
T.J. Cloutier
Greg Raymer

[kmvenne]

Hellmuth is so hard to gauge, just for all his new worth on his books, cell game, movie, poker nights, etc. However I'd guess he has been a losing poker player over the last two years. Cloutier probably has more then Howard and Annie, too, and I'd speculate Annie more then Howard.

[West]

It occurs to me that I could be selling Greg short, but I know he sold shares of himself for the series, I just didn't really read any of the threads where he said exactly how much he got to keep (if he did say that exactly).

Yeah, 2 mil will do a lot for your bankroll..or 1.6 mil or whatever

[Tyler Durden]

In the Jackpot Jay article it says that Greg got to keep 1.7 million after taxes.

[CrisBrown]

Hi West,

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It occurs to me that I could be selling Greg short, but I know he sold shares of himself for the series, I just didn't really read any of the threads where he said exactly how much he got to keep (if he did say that exactly).

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Actually, Greg solicited some backers about 18 months ago (as I recall), during a rough patch where he needed some investment cash to keep playing cash games at the stakes he customarily played. He'd made the money back before the WSOP, but the backer contract extended through this year's WSOP so they were entitled to their shares regardless. And as a honorable gentleman, of course he made no attempt to weasel out of the contract, but instead simply paid them as he had promised. From what I've read, he netted around $1.7M from his WSOP win.

Cris

[West]

It's real nice that we won't be reading about any Fossilman lawsuits like we might if he was the type to try and weasel out of something like that. It's great to see a guy who represents the game so well. I only wish that Phil Hellmuth could control himself better, considering all the success he's had. I understand he had to be big time frustrated at the end of that tournament tonight, but of course the whining started early on....it doesn't matter who he plays against. It does make for television though.

[KillerWombat]

I would strongly suspect you are selling Howard short, he's won over $3.0 million in purses from tournaments in the last 3 years that I know of from reading Cardplayer as well and I'm by no means sure that is all of it. Frankly I'd be amazed if he isn't a winning side game player as well. His tournament schedule seems to mostly include the major WPT events and those held in Vegas/LA so I think his outlays are far less than strictly a tournament specialist like TJ or Phil.

KillerWombat