Given that the major poker tournaments are still to properly kick in this weekend, news may be a little bit light. Coming hard on the heels of the Easter weekend, this may not be the weekend where people are looking to do too much with their time. Still, Spring has sprung, it looks as though we finally have warm weather again and there is an air of optimism going about at the moment. You may have played a fair bit of poker in recent times but if you want to be in the list of the highest earning UK poker players, you have some work to do.
With the Government announcing a drop in the top rate of income tax from 50% to 45% there has never been a bigger incentive to start earning a huge pile of money. If you have poker skills, use them to your advantage and try and emulate these top players.
These are the top rankings for UK poker players with respect to poker earnings.
In fifth place is Andy Black who currently stands at having earned £2.8m in his poker career. Any may never have triumphed at a major event but given that he is a Buddhist monk, he is probably at peace with this fact. Perhaps the calm meditation and thoughtfulness he puts into his poker play helps him to rank highly.
Success at any time should be celebrated
In fourth place is Surinder Sunar who has £2.9m in poker earnings. It is fair to say that for most poker observers, Surinder will always be remembered for that glorious WPT Paris triumph back in 2004. It will be coming up to the 10th anniversary of the memorable win before too long but it is not as if that is all Surinder can fall back on. A runner-up spot in Irish Open of 2011 showed that Surinder never lost that cutting edge to take him deep into the final table.
Who is afraid of Roland De Wolfe? Probably quite a lot of poker players because Roland has managed to clock up £3.3m in poker earnings in his career. Roland spends more of his time playing high roller games with wealthy people to worry too much about tournaments and high profile poker games but with a lot of career success behind him, there is nothing left for De Wolfe to prove to the world.
In second place is Dave Ulliot who has bagged £3.7m from poker play. Dave is rightly regarded as one of the top poker players in the UK and comes across as a very likable character. That often doesn’t matter when it comes to playing poker, personality traits can be good and bad things but it is nice to see someone get success who you don’t hate!
In number one spot is Sam Trickett with more than £10.9m from poker earnings. Okay, $10m of that may have come in one fell swoop but that should be celebrated even more. It was on the 3rd of July in 2012 that Trickett grabbed second place at the Big One for One Drop WSOP event, a feat which catapulted him into top spot for the most successful UK poker players of all time. There have been plenty of other successes and hopefully Sam can triumph more in Australia in the next week or so but if you are aiming high, he remains the man to beat.