Frederico Pereira
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Scotty Nguyen won the WSOP Main Event on a buy-in he couldn't afford himself. Five bracelets and $12.7M later, the real figure is harder to confirm.
Three WSOP bracelets, 272 recorded cashes, and a pledge to donate his net winnings to charity. What Greenstein kept is a genuinely open question.
Two GPI POY titles in a row, $54M in earnings, buy-ins up to $500K. Foxen's headline number is easy to find, but what he actually kept is a different question.
Norway's first WSOP champion won $10 million on a $1,050 satellite, weeks after losing $1M in crypto. What he collected, and when, is a different story.
McKeehen's 2015 WSOP Main Event win remains one of the most dominant in history, but $7.6M from one tournament tells only part of his financial story.
In 2023, Weinman took home the largest first-place payout in WSOP Main Event history. That figure and what he kept are what we're here to find out.