The Most Famous British Poker Players of All Time

Britain has never been short of poker talent. From the Late Night Poker era on Channel 4 to today’s high-roller circuit, British players have collected bracelets, EPT trophies and some of the biggest prizes the game has ever paid out.

These are the standout names, and the results behind them. New to the game? Learn the poker rules first.

Stephen Chidwick

Chidwick is the highest-earning British player in history and sits second on poker’s all-time money list, with more than $79 million in live tournament cashes.

The pro from Deal, Kent won the $200,000 Short Deck event at Triton Jeju in September 2025 for $3.45 million, his biggest first-place prize.

His largest cash remains $5.37 million, for a fourth-place finish in the 2019 Triton Million for Charity in London. He also holds two WSOP bracelets.

Sam Trickett

A knee injury ended Trickett’s football ambitions and pushed him into plumbing, then poker. In 2012 he finished runner-up to Antonio Esfandiari in the $1 million-entry Big One for One Drop for $10,112,001.

That single result is roughly half of his $21.8 million career total and remains the largest tournament payday any British player has recorded.

Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott

Ulliott took poker from Hull’s back rooms to primetime. He won a WSOP bracelet in 1997, added a WPT title in 2003 by beating Phil Ivey heads-up, and finished with more than $6.2 million in tournament earnings.

He also won the first series of Late Night Poker, the show that turned British poker into television. Ulliott died in 2015 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame two years later.

Jake Cody

Cody completed poker’s Triple Crown as its youngest-ever winner, taking EPT Deauville and WPT London in 2010, then the $25,000 WSOP Heads-Up Championship in 2011.

He did it in one year, four months and 11 days, the fastest anyone has managed. Both records still stand. He ended a long major-title drought in 2025 with a $510,000 win at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

Coren Mitchell was the first player ever to win two EPT Main Events, taking London in 2006 for £500,000 and Sanremo in 2014 for €476,100.

The 2006 win also made her the first woman to win an EPT title. Liv Boeree – also British – belongs in the same conversation: she is still the only female player to hold both a WSOP bracelet and an EPT title.

The Next Generation

The names change, but the pattern doesn’t. Chidwick came up through online freerolls, Trickett through $10 sit-and-gos, and the next crop is already arriving on the same route.

Benny Glaser is the clearest proof: he won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship at the 2026 WSOP. It was his ninth career bracelet, the most any European player has ever won.

For a country of its size, Britain has spent two decades punching well above its weight in the field, and there’s little sign of that changing.