Bryn Kenney Crosses $90 Million in Live Tournament Earnings

American poker pro Bryn Kenney has crossed a major milestone in his career: with his victory in the $100,000 King’s Charity No Limit Hold’em Super High Roller for $1.667 million, his lifetime tournament cashes have crossed $90 million. 

With this, he extended his lead over Stephen Chidwick of the United Kingdom on the Hendon all-time money list. Kenney’s tally now stands at $90.761 million to be exact, comfortably ahead — by over $10 million — of Chidwick’s $79.029 million. Evidently, this also means that Kenney is the first player in poker history to reach the $90 million mark; and he is rapidly approaching $100 million.

With his most recent victory, he also claimed a tournament title in a tournament series he has never done so before, the K Poker Cup — a new series based in South Korea and launched in 2025.

Bryn Kenney Defeats Jesse Lonis After Heads-Up Deal

Kenney entered a field of 49 players (22 of whom rebought, pushing the prize pool to $6.674 million) in the $100K King’s Charity NLHE Super High Roller at the Les A Casino in Jeju, South Korea on Wednesday, 29 July. Despite the small field, it was a three-day event due to its slow structure. 

Kenney got to the final table along with online poker legend Tom “durrrr” Dwan. However, Dwan had to settle for 6th place for $350,000. Meanwhile, Kenney faced 2-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Jesse Lonis heads-up for the title.

As Lonis announced on X, the last two players standing agreed to a heads-up deal before the final showdown. Therefore, while Kenney ended up emerging victorious from the duel, he did not win much more money than his heads-up opponent: Kenney got $1.667 million, as we wrote above, while Lonis got himself $1.587 million.

In the final hand, Kenney got dealt in with a 2.5-to-1 chiplead. Lonis moved all-in with ♣K♠2, which Kenney called with ♥J♥10. A 10 on board without any help for his opponent brought him the title.

The initial reporting showed Bryn Kenney cashing for $1.954 million with his victory. However, with the heads-up deal taken into account, the Hendon Mob recorded his latest win as ‘just’ a $1.667 million cash.

The Recent History of the Hendon All-Time Money List

Bryn Kenney first overtook Justin Bonomo at the top of the Hendon all-time money list in August 2019. He did so with the largest live tournament cash in poker history — a record that still stands today — in the £1,050,000 Triton Million NLHE Super High Roller in London, UK.

He also struck a heads-up deal back then, thus his eventual second-place finish earned him a bigger piece of the prize pool, £16,890,509 ($20,563,324).

Kenney and Bonomo went back and forth in occupying the top spot on the all-time money list, but Kenney has not relinquished it since his last overtake in August 2023. Then, he had $65 million in live tournament cashes, which has now ballooned up to over $90 million. Meanwhile, Bonomo has been “stuck” on $65.6 million since the end of 2024 due to a big dip in his volume; and has slid down to 6th place on the all-time money list.

Bonomo originally took Daniel Negreanu’s spot on top of the list in July 2018. Negreanu became #1 in July 2014, overtaking Antonio Esfandiari. Both Bonomo and Negreanu jumped to the top with a big cash in the $1 million WSOP One Drop high roller: Negreanu with a runner-up finish for $8.3 million in 2014, and Bonomo with a victory for $10 million four years later.