International Poker Rankings ranks Daniel Negreanu as the best player in the World in Championships events (also called 'main events'). The Championship event is the event that has the biggest buy-in in a series of events, i.e.: The WSOP main event, LA Poker Classic 10k WPT event, etc. Our unique algorithm is used to determine the best players in every possible field of tournament poker. Here is the list of the Top-25 players in Championships events with the accumulated points since 1970:


Rank Name IPR Points
1 Daniel Negreanu 8899.56
2 John Juanda 7829.83
3 T. J. Cloutier 7543.73
4 Phil Hellmuth Jr 7005.35
5 Phil Ivey 6622.56
6 Scotty Nguyen 6316.22
7 Dan Harrington 6167.83
8 Erik Seidel 6164.03
9 Chris Ferguson 5958.07
10 Michael Mizrachi 5626.11
11 Erick Lindgren 5507.58
12 William Forrest 5480.27
13 Kathy Liebert 5466.88
14 Allen Cunningham 5450.62
15 Alan Goehring 5133.16
16 Gus Hansen 5025.64
17 Juan Carlos Mortensen 4916.27
18 Men Nguyen 4816.33
19 Gavin Smith 4757.44
20 Humberto Brenes 4666.34
21 Mike Matusow 4652.78
22 David Williams 4509.72
23 Barry Greenstein 4445.29
24 Doyle Brunson 4444.22
25 Justin Cuong Van Tran 4424.50

For more information, visit the International Poker Rankings website at: www.iprdata.com , click on International Poker Rankings and then on Ranking/specialists

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