Which Poker Players Have Won the Most at ARIA in Las Vegas?

The PokerGO Studio at ARIA is the venue that is the most popular with players, and comes equipped with its own TV Studio for live streaming on PokerGO, but who has won the most money at the legendary location? We’ve taken a look back and found the ten most successful tournament poker players ever to play at ARIA over the years. Two of the most prolific winners in history at ARIA are only in the lowest places on the top 10 all-time money list at the venue.

10. Sam Soverel

It seems like every tournament that is held inside the PokerGO Studio features Sam Soverel and the American is 10^th on our list, with just under $6.9m in lifetime earnings inside the world-famous purpose-built poker studio and cardroom.

Soverel’s record at the ARIA includes the two biggest-ever wins of his career, the $1 million he took home at the $100,000-entry ARIA Super High Roller and the $680,000 he scored after taking down Event #10 of the 2019 Poker Masters. Soverel’s wins were massive in the development of his career and the same can be said of #9 on the list.

9. Jason Koon

The most successful ever Triton Poker Series player with 10 wins, Koon has also won big at the ARIA, with $7,185,400 of his winnings coming at ARIA. Over the course of his spectacular career, Koon has won $58 million, putting him in fourth place on the All-Time Money List behind only Bryn Kenney and Justin Bonomo and the $2.1 million he banked for coming third in the Super High Roller Bowl IV in Las Vegas in 2018 was a massive result along the way.

8. David Peters

David Peters (‘D. Peters’ to his friends) has even more than Koon at the ARIA. His winnings of $7.33 million amount to over 15% of his lifetime earnings in the game, and the biggest of those results was a fifth-place finish in the 2015 Super High Roller Bowl for $1.5m. Also winning $1,387,200 in the PGT ARIA High Roller Series in 2021, Peters’ record at the purple felt is an enviable one.

7. Sean Winter

Sean Winter has won $7.7 million at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA, and the fourth-biggest score of his career is the $1,008,000 he banked in the Super High Roller Bowl. Strangely, despite a quarter of his career earnings coming at ARIA, Winters has won the most he ever earned in one event when he took home $2,430,000 in Nassau at the partypoker-hosted Super High Roller Championships in The Bahamas.

Winter is also capable of some astonishing bluffs like this one with ace-high:

6. Alex Foxen

In sixth place on our list, Alex Foxen’s record at ARIA is superb, with $8.2 million in winnings coming at the world-famous venue. His top score? The $2.1 million he banked in coming second at the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl. Foxen may have taken home that seven-figure score, but a lot of his other big wins have come elsewhere, meaning his record in Las Vegas’ finest poker room represents his consistency more than it does a one-off big win – all the more impressive in our opinion.

5. Nick Petrangelo

In fifth place on the list, Nick Petrangelo has an incredible $9.42 million in lifetime winnings at ARIA. With over $38 million in tournament warning s in his poker career, Petrangelo’s record in ARIA high rollers is frankly ridiculous. Three of his top six results have come there, with the Super High Roller Bowl VII in 2022 earning him $2 million for coming second, the 2021ARIA High Roller victory giving him $1,468,800 and the 2022 Stairway to Millions Event #8 booking him a win worth just over a million dollars too.

4. Isaac Haxton

In fourth, Isaac Haxton has earned just less than $50 million in his glittering career and $9,456,100 of it came from tournaments at the ARIA. The biggest two victories of Haxton’s career both arrived at the PokerGO felt, with his victory in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl V giving him an astonishing $3,672,000 and his win in the same $300,000-entry tournament series five years later providing him with a $2.76 million score. The first title came partly by way of an early bluff against Phil ‘The Poker Brat’ Hellmuth.

3. Justin Bonomo

In third place on the all-time ARIA list is Justin Bonomo, who has over $9.6 million in winnings at the venue. While his biggest win came for $10 million in the WSOP Big One for One Drop, he won $5 million when he took down the fourth Super High Roller Bowl in Las Vegas in 2018, a year which became known as the ‘Year of Bonomo’.

2. Stephen Chidwick

Second on the list is Stephen Chidwick as the only two non-Americans top the list. England’s finest, Stephen Chidwick has $10.3 million in lifetime winnings at the venue, with his top score in Vegas the massive $1,512,000 he won when coming third to Bonomo in 2018. Chidwick’s major successes have mostly come on the Triton Poker Series in terms of big wins, but he became the Poker Masters champion in 2023, donning the Purple Jacket and earning an immortal place in the location’s glorious Las Vegas history.

1. Daniel Negreanu

Top of the list is Kid Poker himself, Daniel Negreanu. The Canadian has just under $11 million in winnings at ARIA, including millions in the High Stakes Duel format. His biggest win at the venue, however, was the $3.3 million he banked when winning the 2022 Super High Roller Bowl, which captured poker fans’ imagination and earned him a place in poker history and was the biggest win of his poker career.

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