{"id":19980,"date":"2019-01-08T23:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=19980"},"modified":"2019-01-12T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T22:27:00","slug":"top-five-poker-players-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/top-five-poker-players-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Poker Players of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/justin_bonomo-winner-photo_large.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who suggests the poker craze has peaked hasn\u2019t spent much time reviewing the huge amount of tournament prize money being scooped up all over the world this year.<\/p>\n<p>The top five live poker winners of 2018 have bagged at least $8.8 million each, with the highest earner, Justin Bonomo pocketing a meaty $25.4 million. Of course, this doesn\u2019t account for the total number of tournament buy-ins they\u2019ve paid out, but a lot of this is pure, tasty profit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pokerfuse.com\/news\/live-and-online\/210304-top-five-poker-players-2018\/\">Read the full article on pokerfuse \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/pokerfuse\/~4\/ahXLtvOARB0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Anyone who suggests the poker craze has peaked hasn\u2019t spent much time reviewing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"vebbtech_seo_disable_yoast":false,"vebbtech_seo_hide_author":false,"vebbtech_seo_hide_date":false,"vebbtech_seo_hide_factchecker":false,"vebbtech_seo_fact_check_enabled":false,"vebbtech_seo_post_reviewer":0,"vebbtech_seo_post_review_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-category","8":"post_format-post-format-link"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top Five Poker Players of 2018 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/top-five-poker-players-of-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top Five Poker Players of 2018 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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