Who were the 100 best tournament poker players of all-time?

And now BARGE has grabbed that one too. 2+2 falling way behind. We need just 2 more entries to make this a reality.
Here's another random entry. Who would like this one? Quick before BARGE takes this one too!

1 Christopher Viox
2 Mickey Appleman
3 Veselin Karakitukov
4 George Lind
5 Randy Ohel
6 Mickey Appleman
7 Jason Mercier
8 Kathy Liebert
9 Wai Kin Yong
10 Daniel Idema
11 Daniel Chi Tang
12 Sean Troha
13 Eric Brooks
14 David Oppenheim
15 Nikolay Fal
16 Frank Kassela
17 Tommy Chen
18 William Alex Foxen
19 Qiang Wang
20 Kianoush Abolfathi
21 Tyler Smith
22 Scott Abrams
23 Matt Grapenthien
24 Steve Billirakis
25 Matthew Ashton
26 Maxx Coleman
27 Paul Clark
28 Spencer Champlin
29 Wai Kin Yong
30 Joseph McKeehen
31 Brian Rast
32 Ted Lawson
33 John Guth
34 Don Holt
35 Daniel Negreanu
36 John Hennigan
37 George Danzer
38 Edward Chun Ho Yam
39 Barry Shulman
40 Tony Lin
41 Steven Sim
42 Nick Schulman
43 Vladimir Schemelev
44 Freddie Ellis
45 Johnny Chan
46 Daniel Negreanu
47 Robert Baldwin
48 Jason Mercier
49 Edward Chun Ho Yam
50 Wai Kin Yong
51 Xiao Wu
52 Carlos Mortensen
53 Ronald Keijzer
54 Ted Lawson
55 Tyler Brown
56 Marty Sigel
57 Thomas Chung
58 Denis Ethier
59 Maxx Coleman
60 Ray Rumler
61 Josias Santos
62 Stephen Chidwick
63 Dmitry Kuzmin
64 Barry Greenstein
65 Burt Boutin
66 Todd Brunson
67 John Hennigan
68 George Danzer
69 Phil Ivey
70 Per Hildebrand
71 Alan Engel
72 DJ MacKinnon
73 Mikhail Rudoy
74 John Hennigan
75 Ronald Keijzer
76 Michael Drummond
77 Danny Chang
78 Cliff Josephy
79 Daniel Idema
80 Daniel Negreanu
81 Jerry Wong
82 James Wheatley
83 Carlos Loving
84 Bjorn Li
85 Eric Buchman
86 Jason Mercier
87 Matthew Graham
88 James Dempsey
89 Todd Brunson
90 Yueqi Zhu
91 John Juanda
92 Cary Katz
93 Ray Rumler
94 Nick Pupillo
95 Rui Cao
96 Robert Yong
97 John Hennigan
98 Jeremy Ausmus
99 Jordan Spurlin
100 Daniel Heimiller

More entries came in overnight so we now have 11.
Everyone can now start working on their entries and I'll start working on the official rules.

the rules, let me know if there is anything that isn't clear

POOL TO SEE WHO THE TOP 100 LIVE TOURNAMENT POKER PLAYERS IN HISTORY WERE

We will determine which poker games have had at least 100 players cash.
We will create a Top 100 for each game type.
The list will be the top 100 cashes for that game.
The least popular game (by # of cashers) will all get 1 point.
Every other game will get (1 point) + (nbr of Top 100 lists less popular than them).
NLH will get maximum points.
Additional points:
1 additional point for the number of times any player shows up more than once on the same list.
1 additional point if the player had to travel intercontinentally to make the list
There will be 1 additional top 100: all games with less than 100 cashers will form an "other" Top 100.
We then add all points from all the lists to form a POKER Top 100.
In the case of ties, cash amount will break the tie.

The data:
Data comes from Hendon Mob.
I will keep entering data until at least the end of 2025.
I will include all WSOP, EPT, APT, WPT, Aussie Millions, Triton, PokerGo and any other series that might have a top 100 cash.
The following tournaments don't qualify:
1) restricted (unless by sex or age)
2) freerolls
3) satellites
4) team events
5) probably some others I can't think of right now
For mixed games the game type will be a)# of games in the mix b)limit type c)hi/lo type
Games with different names are still the same game if play is the same (example: sviten special and drawmaha are the same)
Different types that don't affect the actual play are NOT different games (example: turbo or double stack)

Money to charity:
Every correct player selection creates money for charity.
It's $10 X the ranking ($10 for #1 up to $1000 for #100)
The owner of the entry gets to pick which international charity the money should go to.
Check our currently running pool (Poker Pool 2025) for international charities.
UNICEF has been disqualified as a qualifying charity (I sent them some money last year and they're wasting it by sending me endless junk mail).
Or nominate any additional international charity.

Updates will be put on a blog for all to see.

Hi xander & rickroll,

Most of the BARGE entries were the random picks so how long will you need to get your entries together?
We'll set the "end of entry" date to match how long you need to get your lists ready.

You tell me a date/time and I'll get something in by then, even if it's midnight tonight.

Quality of the list will improve slightly if I have more time than that though

i'll just do a randomized thing, i don't even know 10 live tourney players let alone 100

Even if you only know 10 players, one of them has got to better than Jonathan Depa for Player #1.
Here's your list:

1 Jonathan Depa
2 Reza Payvar
3 Tom McEvoy
4 Phil Hellmuth Jr
5 Sarge Ferris
6 Jonathan Bowers
7 Adam Friedman
8 Garik Tamasyan
9 Eric Baldwin
10 Liangyu Li
11 Melville Lewis
12 Nani Dollison
13 Roger Moore
14 Terrence Chan
15 Jennifer Harman
16 Isaac Haxton
17 Daniel Strelitz
18 Bertrand Grospellier
19 Guang Lu
20 Alexander Kostritsyn
21 Ethan Cahn
22 Matt Matros
23 Nathan Gamble
24 Peter Brownstein
25 Ryan Hughes
26 Todd Witteles
27 Dan Shak
28 Chad Brown
29 Adam Roberts
30 Bertrand Grospellier
31 Garik Tamasyan
32 Jan Chen
33 Liangyu Li
34 Michael Mizrachi
35 Paul Sokoloff
36 Thor Hansen
37 Winfred Yu
38 Jennifer Harman
39 Brendan Taylor
40 Robert Turner
41 Daniel Perkusic
42 Charles Wight
43 Felipe Tavares Ramos
44 Howard Andrew
45 Eli Balas
46 John Laudon
47 Lee Watkinson
48 Matthew Gallin
49 Mike Gorodinsky
50 Pakinai Lisawad
51 Andrew Brown
52 Tam Hang
53 Jonathan Krela
54 Daniel Zack
55 Huckleberry Seed
56 Daniel Lowery
57 Bertrand Grospellier
58 George Alexander
59 Jared Bleznick
60 Konstantin Puchkov
61 Antanas Guoga
62 Ram Vaswani
63 Sean Dempsey
64 Timothy Miles
65 Wu Chiayun
66 Dan Shak
67 Max Pescatori
68 Juha Helppi
69 Jun Wang
70 Liangyu Li
71 Kianoush Abolfathi
72 Matt Glantz
73 Arash Ghaneian
74 Paul Sokoloff
75 Roger Teska
76 Andres Korn
77 David ODB Baker
78 Peter Jetten
79 Ken Aldridge
80 Cory Zeidman
81 Felipe Tavares Ramos
82 Duane Tomko
83 Eric Brooks
84 Kenny Hsiung
85 Matthew Gonzales
86 Mike Majerus
87 Per Hildebrand
88 Jim Bechtel
89 Sean Dempsey
90 Tam Hang
91 Veselin Karakitukov
92 Barry Greenstein
93 Jonathan Cohen
94 Huckleberry Seed
95 Daniel Heimiller
96 DJ MacKinnon
97 Freddie Legaspi
98 Calen McNeil
99 Joey Weissman
100 Jun Wang

How about we start next weekend so you have til Friday midnight (Las Vegas time) to come up with a list.

That means that entries will be open til Friday midnight as well.

We are now up to 15 entries,
plus 3 more who are working on theirs,
plus 1 more who is still confused!

Entries/revisions close at the end of the day Friday.

My entry is in. We now have 16.

Last day to get your entries in.
Entries close at midnight (Las Vegas time) tonight.

thanks xander
your inbasket was full so I could not send this as a message
I've add #37 to #100 as random picks
and I changed Billy Baldwin to Bobby Baldwin (I assume that's who you wanted)

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3 Michael Mizrachi xander biscuits
4 Adam Friedman xander biscuits
5 John Monette xander biscuits
6 Phil Ivey xander biscuits
7 Eric Seidel xander biscuits
8 Phil Hellmuth Jr xander biscuits
9 Benny Glasser xander biscuits
10 Doyle Brunson xander biscuits
11 John Hennigan xander biscuits
12 Barry Greenstein xander biscuits
13 Jason Mercier xander biscuits
14 Chris Ferguson xander biscuits
15 Shaun Deeb xander biscuits
16 Todd Brunson xander biscuits
17 David Bach xander biscuits
18 Ted Forrest xander biscuits
19 Nick Schulman xander biscuits
20 Jeremy Ausmus xander biscuits
21 Huck Seed xander biscuits
22 Johnny Chan xander biscuits
23 Billy Baxter xander biscuits
24 Brandon Shack Harris xander biscuits
25 Jeff Lisandro xander biscuits
26 George Danzer xander biscuits
27 Matt Glantz xander biscuits
28 Roland Israelashvilli xander biscuits
29 Scotty Nguyen xander biscuits
30 Adrian Mateos xander biscuits
31 Mike Matusow xander biscuits
32 David Williams xander biscuits
33 Jason Koon xander biscuits
34 Stephen Chidwick xander biscuits
35 Amarillo Slim xander biscuits
36 Bobby Baldwin xander biscuits
37 David Levi xander biscuits
38 Nipun Java xander biscuits
39 Qi Luo xander biscuits
40 Eli Balas xander biscuits
41 Jeremy Ausmus xander biscuits
42 Isaac Haxton xander biscuits
43 Damjan Radanov xander biscuits
44 Adam Friedman xander biscuits
45 Eric Rodawig xander biscuits
46 Nick Schulman xander biscuits
47 Seymour Leibowitz xander biscuits
48 Adam Owen xander biscuits
49 Robert Turner xander biscuits
50 Richard Ashby xander biscuits
51 Dzmitry Urbanovich xander biscuits
52 Larry St Jean xander biscuits
53 Paulo Villena Gini xander biscuits
54 Antanas Guoga xander biscuits
55 Marius Skoglund Torbergsen xander biscuits
56 Ronnie Bardah xander biscuits
57 Jason Steinhorn xander biscuits
58 Samuel Stein xander biscuits
59 Scott Clements xander biscuits
60 David Rheem xander biscuits
61 James Obst xander biscuits
62 Max Pescatori xander biscuits
63 Todd Brunson xander biscuits
64 Benny Glaser xander biscuits
65 Frank Mariani xander biscuits
66 O'Neil Longson xander biscuits
67 David ODB Baker xander biscuits
68 Edwin Wyde xander biscuits
69 Philip King Chung Wang xander biscuits
70 Alexander Lakhov xander biscuits
71 Cary Katz xander biscuits
72 Yeu Wei Hsiang xander biscuits
73 Todd Witteles xander biscuits
74 Kenny Hsiung xander biscuits
75 Daniel Perkusic xander biscuits
76 Phil Ivey xander biscuits
77 Scotty Nguyen xander biscuits
78 Jonathan Cohen xander biscuits
79 John Edward Monnette xander biscuits
80 Jean Gaspard xander biscuits
81 Steve Hohn xander biscuits
82 William Baxter xander biscuits
83 Jon Turner xander biscuits
84 Brian Hastings xander biscuits
85 Men Nguyen xander biscuits
86 Sam Greenwood xander biscuits
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88 Jeff Madsen xander biscuits
89 Dan Shak xander biscuits
90 Matthew Smith xander biscuits
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96 James Chen xander biscuits
97 Alexander Kravchenko xander biscuits
98 Eugene Katchalov xander biscuits
99 John Anthony Cernuto xander biscuits
100 Jonathan Krela xander biscuits

Thank you. That was who I was going for.