Top 20 Money Winners

Here's a list of the top twenty tournament money winners for the year 2005. There is still a week and a half left so there could be some last minute upsets, but here are where they stand as of today. In parenthesis are the number of cashes they had in tournaments. Phil Ivey really hadn't been playing in that many events until this year since he does so well in the biggest cash game in the world which he plays in on an almost daily basis. He recently was the first player to post a $10 million buy-in for a six-handed, winner-take-all ( $60 million!!) tournament that will be played and televised later this year!

1. Joe Hachem $7,527,103(3)
2. Steven Dannenmann $4,350,000(2)
3. Tuan Le $2,856,150(1)
4. Michael Mizrachi $2,656,004(20)
5. John Barch $2,528,085(4)
6. Mike Gracz $2,190,827(8)
7. Aaron Kanter $2,048,034(4)
8. Mike Matusow $2,009,225(3)
9. Andrew Black $1,850,478(8)
10. Gavin Smith $1,793,070(15)
11. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson $1,783,303(13)
12. Phil Ivey $1,728,508(7)
13. Paul Maxfield $1,726,108(3)
14. Minh Ly $1,677,566(17)
15. Al "T" Ardebili $1,576,474(8)
16. Hieu "Tony" Ma $1,557,968(16)
17. Scott "Magic" Lazar $1,504,334(4)
18. John Stolzmann $1,480,219(2)
19. Rob Hollink $1,449,630(11)
20. Men "The Master" Nguyen $1,386,976(44)