Thu, 07/21/2011 – 22:46 – PokerPages Staff

5. Donnacha O’Dea – Career Earnings of $1,249,442
This talented Dubliner has racked up 33 cashes in a career spanning almost thirty years. Donnacha O’Dea’s career highlight will undoubtedly be his victory at the Poker Million in 2004, where he walked off with over half a million dollars.

4. Fintan Gavin – Career Earnings of $1,286,289
Fintan Gavin has won two tournaments, and cashed 12 times so far in his career. Gavin’s biggest prize to date has been a cool $1,123,884 for a second place in the PokerStars Barcelona Open in 2008.  

3. Padraig Parkinson – Career Earnings of $1,407,822
Padraig Parkinson, another Dubliner, has achieved one first place finish in his career so far. The player who lists his hobbies as “sports betting from the couch and drinking in the pub” achieved his highest cash finish in the WSOP Main Event in 1999, where his third place netted Parkinson almost half a million dollars.

2. Martin Smyth – Career Earnings of $3,635,006
Martin Smyth has taken a little over 10 years to become the second most successful Irish poker player of all time. Of his five career first places, three of them have carried six figure prize pots, and Smyth’s biggest win so far was the $1 million for winning the Ladbrokes Poker Million VII final in 2008. This came after a second placed finish in the same event the previous year.

1. Andy Black – Career Earnings of $4,102,861
Originally from Belfast, Andy Black now calls Dublin his home. Whilst studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Black became involved in the notorious poker school based at the university. Andy Black’s highest cash prize was the $1,750,000 he received for coming fifth in the WSOP main event in 2005.

Tue, 04/19/2011 – 03:14 – PokerPages Staff

#5 Peter Eastgate, $11,326,226

Peter Eastgate was born in Denmark 1985, broke into the full time game in later years, quitting his economics course and quickly racking up millions online.  This allowed him into high stakes games where he excelled- and promptly started playing live, too.  He has won two main events in his short career and taken one WSOP bracelet.

#4 Erik Seidel, $11,530,256

Erik Seidel hails from Las Vegas and started out as a professional backgammon player.  A career stock market player, he quickly branched into poker and has not looked back since.

#3 Jamie Gold, $12,223,798

Jamie Gold from Mailbu, CA, is one of the game’s biggest winners.  Known for taking down the largest winnings ever at the 2006 WSOP tournament, Gold is an active and lively player at the table.

#2 Phil Ivey, $13,745,806

Phil Ivey is often known as the Tiger Woods of poker, although he himself says he does not deserve the comparison.  Phil is now 34, but won his first three WSOP bracelets at the tender age of 23.

#1 Daniel Negreanu, $14,140,104

Daniel is the poker player whose career earnings put him at the top of the all time list.  Starting out at the age of 21, Daniel took two first place finishes in the 1997 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods and has not looked back since.  Daniel also contributes heavily to PokerSchoolOnline, having written over 100 articles on the game.