Wed, 09/28/2011 – 06:57 – PokerPages Staff

5. Robert Wang– Total Career Earnings of $213,114
Auckland based poker pro, Robert Wang has made over $200,000 at the poker tables, with his career highlight coming in the Aussie Millions of 2008. In the No Limit Hold ‘em tournament, Wang came second and scooped up $105,000.

4. Phillip Willcocks– Total Career Earnings of $370,035
Phillip Willcocks has only been playing serious poker since the end of 2008, and since then, he has amassed close to $400,000 at the tables. A total of seven cashes, with no first place finishes yet, Willcocks’ biggest win came at the PokerStars APPT Melbourne in July 2011, where he walked away with $218,000.

3. Graeme Putt– Total Career Earnings of $510,813
Nicknamed ‘Kiwi’, Graeme Putt has achieved 79 cashes and four first place finishes at the poker tables. Although none of Putts cashes have been above $50,000, he has earned over half a million dollars at the poker table.

2. Simon Watt – Total Career Earnings of $907,665
Simon Watt has 14 cashes, two first place finishes and a WSOP bracelet to his name. Arguably a highlight of any player’s career, Watt’s WSOP success came in 2010 in a No Limit Hold ‘em tournament.

1. Lee Nelson – Total Career Earnings of $2,552,161
By far the most successful Kiwi player of all time, Lee Nelson has earned more than the previous four men combined. Poker veteran Nelson has earned himself the nickname ‘Final Table’ for his dogged determination at the tables, and the fact that he usually winds up in the final throes of tournaments.

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.