What player has made the biggest jump on poker’s all-time money list in 2025?

Tracking poker tournament results used to be up to the individuals concerned. If you wanted to know how a player was running, there was only one way to find out: ask them yourself. And then you’d have to decide how much of their answer to believe.

With the creation and growth of The Hendon Mob (THM) website, things changed significantly. The site is a treasure trove of information when it comes to poker tournament results from across the world, providing a valuable resource for researching opponents, viewing historical results, and tracking the progress of poker’s biggest winners.

While many feel the profiles, leaderboards and money lists of THM can be misleading — there is currently no way to track buy-ins that do not cash or multiple entries in a tournament — the site is by far the best resource we have for tournament results. And one of the most fascinating areas of the site is the all-time money list.

Bryn Kenney has held the number one spot on the list for the majority of the last six years and, at the time of writing, has over $78 million in recorded earnings. Justin Bonomo took the number one spot from Kenney a couple of times but he recently dropped down to fourth ($65.6M) after Stephen Chidwick (2nd, $68.1M) and Jason Koon (3rd, $66M) overtook him.

But who has made their way up the top 100 the furthest in the past six months?

Let’s take a closer look at the five fastest movers — can you guess who's top of the list?

5th biggest climber: Michael Mizrachi (38 places)

Coming off the 2025 World Series of Poker, there’s just one name on everyone’s lips. Mizrachi’s achievement in winning both the $50K Poker Players Championship and the $10K Main Event in the same year will go down in history as one of the greatest personal accomplishments in the game.

Mizrachi's feat will likely never be repeated.

Add to that the fact that his PPC win was his fourth, in perhaps the most prestigious event on the tournament calendar, and The Grinder’s place in poker’s list of all-time greats is assured. But where does he sit on the all-time money list?

His WSOP heroics have moved Mizrachi up to 32nd on the list, a rise of 38 places in the past six months, with lifetime tournament earnings of close to $29 million. His results during that time have all come at the WSOP: a dozen cashes, which include over $1.3M for winning the PPC and $10M for the Main Event, a career high.

His previous best score came with his final table run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, when he finished 5th for $2.3M.

4th biggest climber: Jesse Lonis (41 places)

Jesse Lonis’ tournament story began in 2018 with a $200 win and has been picking up steam ever since. A steady stream of cashes saw him register his first $1M+ score in 2023, with victory in the WSOP $50K PLO High Roller ($2.3M), but the past six months have seen Lonis seemingly take another big step forward.

Lonis has had a hugely successful 2025 so far.

The first half of 2025 saw the man from New York notch tournament wins at the Wynn ($173K and $410K), the PokerGO Tour ($308K), the European Poker Tour ($508K), the Triton Super High Roller Series ($619K and $3.4M) and the Aria High Roller Series ($278K).

And those are just the first-place finishes — Lonis has amassed well over $1M over the past six months in other tournament cashes.

He may not have had a particularly memorable WSOP, but his irresistible form has seen Lonis leap up the top 100 from 95 to 54 ($21.6M lifetime) in the past six months, the fourth biggest jump on our list.

3rd biggest climber: Biao Ding (43 places)

Recent years have seen Biao Ding record more tournament cashes outside his native China, and he’s enjoyed particular success at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju, Korea.

Biao Ding is a regular on the High Roller circuit.

It was there, in February and March of this year, that Ding went on a run of cashing tournaments more or less every other day for several weeks, including $807K for a final table run in a $150K NLH High Roller and $1.6M for runner-up in the $100K PLO Main Event.

Then he crossed the East China Sea to Taipei, winning an event at the Asian Poker Tour for another $307K, before another decent PLO result at Triton Montenegro.

The 2025 WSOP was then his most successful US series so far, with Ding picking up results in numerous High Roller and Super High Roller events, including the $50K PLO, where he ran to fourth for a payday of $713K.

The past six months have seen Ding crack the top 100 on the all-time money list, moving from 119 to 76 ($17.2M lifetime).

2nd biggest climber: Kiat Lee (46 places)

At number 4 on Malaysia’s all-time list, Kiat Lee currently sits only behind leader Paul Phua, Michael Soyza and Richard Yong, and with only $2K or so separating Lee and Yong, that order is likely to change.

Kiat Lee has worked his way up the stakes, from £25 tourneys in the north of England to $150K high rollers.

Lee has over $17M in career earnings, and the past six months have seen him collect two seven-figure prizes with another $2M or so in other tournament cashes. A trip to Triton Jeju in the spring resulted in three final tables, including a win in a $25K Short Deck event worth $264K, but it was his deep run in the $150K NLH — $1.3M for 5th — that gave him his biggest ever tournament payday.

That was until his next Triton adventure in Montenegro in May, where he cashed six times playing big-money buy-ins. A win in the $30K Turbo was worth $586K, but the best was yet to come. A third-place finish in the $100K Triton Main Event came with a payout of $1.8M, a new high score for the man from Malaysia.

Lee’s results at the WSOP were not spectacular, though he did take a trip up the Strip to the Wynn for the Summer Classic, where he came third in a mystery bounty event for $289K.

With recorded results everywhere from Macau to Melbourne and Monte Carlo to Montenegro, Lee seems likely to keep moving up his national rankings as well as the all-time money list, where he’s moved from 124 to 78 ($17.1M lifetime) in the last six months.

Biggest climber: Joao Vieira (56 places)

At one point this summer it looked like Joao Vieira was a serious contender for WSOP Player of the Year. The Portuguese number one played big events and played them well: 11th in the $10K O8 Championship, 4th in the $10K Razz Championship, 5th in the $50K Mix, and of course winner of the $100K High Roller for over $2.6M.

Joao Vieira has climbed the ranks of the top 100 faster than anyone in 2025.

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His last WSOP score came with a week still to go in June, however, and Vieira faded from contention as the series went on, eventually finishing in 7th place on the WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard.

But it’s on the all-time tournament leaderboard that Vieira has truly outperformed the competition in the past six months, moving from 133 to 57 ($21.3M lifetime). The rise has been driven by a career-best score of $4.6M, his prize for winning the $150K NLH event at Triton Jeju in March.

Another Triton Jeju final table, with another $878K, was followed by a six-figure score at EPT Monte Carlo, before Vieira’s seven WSOP cashes — four of which were worth over $100K.