David Peters Net Worth 2026: 5 WSOP Bracelets & $50.9M in Live Cashes

David Peters has cashed for more than $50.9 million in live tournaments without ever being the most talked-about player at his table. The Toledo, Ohio native sits inside the top 15 of the all-time money list with five WSOP bracelets and the 2016 GPI Player of the Year title.

His record has never been the loud part of his story. The nickname “The Silent Assassin” stuck because he collects seven-figure scores, 13 of them, without courting a camera.

Then came April 2026, when a $23,000 unpaid balance to a fellow professional put the gap between gross cashes and real wealth on public display. Three months later he won his fifth bracelet for a seven-figure prize, which is the whole tension of this profile in one summer.

David Peters’s net worth is estimated at under $2 million, and the public record points to a figure at or below zero. That sits a long way from his $50.9 million in gross live cashes, and the gap between the two is the subject of this section.

Nobody outside his circle knows the real figure. What follows uses the only first-hand profit number a comparable player has ever given, then the evidence from 2025 and 2026 about where Peters stands.

What is David Peters’s net worth?

Start with the only benchmark that exists. In January 2026 Stephen Chidwick, second on the all-time money list with $76 million in cashes, said his entire career profit was somewhere between $5 million and $10 million, a margin of 5% to 13%.

Apply that to Peters’s $50,948,795 and the career profit comes to $2.5 million to $6.6 million before tax. After US federal tax and 20 years of living on the circuit, the retained figure is well under $2 million even at the generous end.

Then set that against 2025 and 2026. A player who pleaded low liquidity before a $50,000 stake had even lost, missed four agreed settlement points and could not find $23,000 in April 2026 is not holding seven figures he can reach, and may owe more than he owns.

Why do David Peters net worth estimates vary?

Affiliate and database sites publish figures between $15 million and $30 million, and one of them carries two conflicting ranges on the same domain. A general listicle goes further and prints his gross earnings as his net worth, which is a category error.

None of them uses a margin from a real player or mentions the 2026 record. Every published figure, ours included, is an inference from the Hendon Mob total; ours is the only one that starts from a sourced profit margin.

How much has David Peters won in live tournaments?

The Hendon Mob lists $50,948,795 across 432 live cashes, with a best result of $2,699,752. That puts him 13th on the all-time money list, 8th among Americans and first among players from Ohio.

The list is led by Justin Bonomo at the top of the money list. Between 2021 and 2023 Peters swapped top-six places with the owner of Stephen Chidwick’s matching high roller record, and his own best all-time rank was 4th.

Gross payouts are not profit. Every one of those cashes came after a buy-in, and the biggest came after several. Five factors decide where he really sits inside the range:

Peters was born on 16 April 1987 in Toledo, Ohio, a city with no casino poker while he was growing up. He found the game on television and taught himself online, starting with freerolls.

He has said the 2003 Main Event, the Chris Moneymaker win that started it for a whole generation, is why he started. His first freeroll cash was $600, and the online years that followed built the bankroll for a live career.

That live career opened on 2 December 2006 with a 7th-place finish in a $5,000 event in Barcelona for $56,549. The first win came on 25 April 2008 at the WSOP Circuit stop at Caesars Palace, a $1,060 event worth $86,908 and his first Circuit ring.

The 2008 summer added the Heartland Poker Tour Mount Pleasant Main Event for $130,178 and a $63,295 win at the Festa al Lago Classic. By July 2010 he had a WSOP runner-up finish worth $350,803 and a 136th in the Main Event, still his best there.

Black Friday in April 2011 closed the American online game he had grown up in. He had already moved his volume live: WPT Championship final tables in 2011 and 2013, the Bellagio Cup IX title in July 2013 and 4th in that year’s Card Player Player of the Year race.

The Malta win in March 2015 was his first title in Europe and, at €597,000, his largest score to that point. Four months later he cashed his first million.

The 2015 Super High Roller Bowl was the turning point. He finished 5th in the $500,000 event on 2 July 2015 for $1,505,000, the first of 13 seven-figure cashes.

Six months later came the biggest. At the $200,000 Triton Super High Roller Series event in Manila in January 2016 he finished runner-up for a career-best $2.7 million after a heads-up deal, a figure no later result has beaten.

What is David Peters’s biggest cash?

The Manila runner-up finish for $2,699,752 remains his largest single payout. His biggest outright win is $1,238,000 for the $100,000 U.S. Poker Open Main Event in February 2019, with the $1,166,810 WSOP high roller bounty bracelet of 2022 close behind.

Three more sit just under the table: $1,104,000 for the Fall Madness $100,000 High Roller in 2018, $1,038,269 for 5th in the 2019 Triton Jeju Main Event and $1,001,391 for the 2026 bracelet. Together the thirteen come to $17,789,932, or 34.9% of the career total.

How did David Peters win the 2016 Player of the Year?

The year opened with the Manila score, a runner-up finish in the A$250,000 Aussie Millions Challenge for $629,614 and a first bracelet in July. By autumn he had added the Asia Championship of Poker High Roller in Macau for $629,868 and two Aria titles for $511,970 and $293,232.

None of it was enough on its own, because Fedor Holz’s record 2016 heater had led the Global Poker Index race for most of the year. Peters passed him in the final fortnight with a 3rd-place finish in the EPT Prague Main Event on 13 December for $420,498.

Summed from his Hendon Mob rows, the year produced 28 cashes, five wins and $7,955,397. Card Player gave him its Player of the Year award for the same season, and in early 2017 he reached No. 1 in the Global Poker Index overall rankings for the first time.

Two years later he went past $10 million in a single calendar year. Summed from rows, 2018 produced 36 cashes, seven titles and $10,785,012, with four results above a million.

2018: the biggest year by money

The wins included the Triton Jeju HK$500,000 6-Max for $1,118,484, Poker Masters Event #7 for $1,150,000 and the Fall Madness High Roller for $1,104,000. The near misses were larger still: $1,848,008 in the WSOP Europe €100,000 Super High Roller and $1,420,000 for 3rd at the Caribbean Poker Party.

The 2018 total is more than a fifth of his career figure. No other year comes close.

Two U.S. Poker Open championships

The U.S. Poker Open has been his signature series. In 2019 he entered the final event, the $100,000 Main Event, needing a win to overtake Sean Winter for the series title, and took it for $1,238,000.

In 2021 he did it again after a year and a half away from live poker. Three titles in five days, one of them in the short deck format he conquered in 2021, brought $832,950 and 646 series points and made him the first two-time USPO champion.

That run left him 9th on the first PokerGO Tour leaderboard with three titles and $4,461,670 in qualifying cashes. The high roller results kept coming: $820,000 for 5th in the $250,000 Super High Roller Bowl Europe and $1,387,200 as runner-up in the $200,000 Aria High Roller, both in 2021.

2023 to 2026

April 2023 brought the $50,000 Super High Roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown for $328,527, settled by a heads-up deal. The player across the table is covered in Alex Foxen as Seminole 2023 runner-up, a profile that mirrors this one in buy-in profile and volume.

The 2024 PokerGO Cup produced two titles in a week: Event #1 for $141,525 and Event #7 for $315,000 after Kristen Foxen’s heads-up loss to Peters. He finished runner-up to Jonathan Little in the series race despite being the only double winner.

In 2025 he won the €25,000 event at EPT Monte-Carlo for $464,112, finished 3rd twice at Triton Montenegro for $552,000 and $398,000, and took 6th in the WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller for $826,348. Summed from rows, the year produced 26 cashes and $3,462,074.

Peters owns five WSOP bracelets, four Circuit rings, 269 cashes and 57 final tables across WSOP-branded events, per WSOP.com. The first bracelet took eight years of trying from his first WSOP cash in June 2008.

By the summer of 2016 he was the most prominent name on the best players still without a WSOP bracelet. Event #56, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, ended that on 3 July 2016 for $412,557.

Bracelets two and three came online during the pandemic years. The $10,000 Heads-Up Championship on GGPoker in August 2020 paid $360,480, and the $7,777 Lucky 7’s High Roller on WSOP.com in July 2021 paid $283,940.

The $100,000 High Roller Bounty

The fourth bracelet, in the first open event of the 2022 series, was the big one. The $100,000 High Roller Bounty split each entry into $75,000 for the prize pool and $25,000 for bounties, which is why The Hendon Mob lists it as a $75,000 event.

Peters won it on 31 May 2022 for $1,166,810 and collected 11 of the 46 bounties on offer, the kind of haul that bounty tournament strategy for knockout formats is built to produce.

After the win he said his sights for the rest of the summer were set on the WSOP Player of the Year standings. It ended with five more cashes and no second bracelet.

Event #94 and the fifth bracelet

The 2026 summer had produced six cashes and nothing deep when the $10,000 6-Handed Championship, the last championship event of the series, began. Four players came back for an unscheduled Day 4 on 11 July.

Peters closed it out in 75 minutes for $1,001,391, his 13th seven-figure cash and the bracelet that took him into the five-time winners’ club. Six-max final tables move fast, and the Day 4 account reads like a lesson in MTT final table strategy from nine to one.

The win closed a series covered in full in the full WSOP 2026 recap and POY race. It also put him back in contention for a seat in the PokerGO Tour’s season-ending championship.

Peters plays a pressure game built on volume and position. He enters more high roller events than almost anyone, plays them tight-aggressive through the early levels and spends the late stages applying the most pressure the stacks allow.

Four things define the record:

What is David Peters’s playing style?

The short answer is disciplined aggression. He has called live tournament variance crazy and treats it as a reason to play more rather than less, which is the logic set out in why variance dominates tournament poker.

His end-game record, from two USPO series titles decided on the last day to a fifth bracelet closed in 75 minutes, points to sound ICM and final table decision making. The two heads-up wins in one week at the 2024 PokerGO Cup say the same.

Short-handed formats suit that pressure game. Two of the five bracelets came in heads-up or 6-max events, and the 2018 Triton title was a 6-max too.

The preparation is the part nobody sees. He has said he puts in endless hours away from the table, and the results since the solver era began in 2015 track that claim; solver study and GTO fundamentals is where that work starts.

What he does not do is talk. In 2014 he described himself as not the most outspoken guy, someone who keeps to himself and has never tried to get airtime when the cameras are around, and nothing in the twelve years since has changed that.

Until April 2026 Peters had no public controversy on his record. That changed when Dylan Linde, a fellow high roller regular, published a thread on X on 21 April saying he regretted doing business with him.

The background was a staking arrangement of the kind explained in how poker staking deals actually work. In summer 2025 Peters had bought a piece of Linde’s $50,000 PLO High Roller at the WSOP; Linde won it for $2,146,414 and paid Peters in cash within days.

At Triton Jeju in September 2025 Peters bought pieces of Linde’s two main events, asked to settle after the series because his liquidity at the event was low, and lost the stake. That left $50,000 owed.

Linde closed the thread by saying he had since learned of other bad debts and bad business deals, which he did not itemise.

Peters replied on 22 April 2026. He took responsibility for what he called very poor communication and missed timelines, said he was working on settling the rest and wanted to regain the trust of the community.

What happened between David Peters and Dylan Linde?

Peters owed Linde the full stake on a losing share of Linde’s Triton Jeju action from September 2025. He missed four agreed settlement points, paid $27,000 in two instalments by 1 April 2026, said he could not cover the rest, then apologised and committed to paying in full.

A search on 29 October 2026 found no public confirmation that the balance had been paid. The full thread, his reply and the reaction to both are in how David Peters answered the Linde debt claim.

Peters lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has done so since the live circuit became his full-time job. He grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and still tops the Ohio all-time money list.

Where does David Peters live?

The Hendon Mob lists his residence as Las Vegas. The city is home to the PokerGO Studio at Aria, the WSOP and the Wynn and Bellagio high roller series, which between them account for a large share of his cashes.

He has a young son, and his partner was on the rail from the first hand of the 2026 Day 4 that delivered the bracelet. Beyond that he keeps his private life private, which fits a player who has never built a social media persona.

His page sits alongside every profile in the poker players hub, where the high roller regulars he shares tables with are covered to the same standard.

A frustrating 2026 summer ended with a seven-figure payday. Peters cashed six times at the WSOP without a deep run before the $10,000 6-Handed Championship on 11 July delivered bracelet number five and his 13th cash above a million.

The series carried him past the $50 million milestone on The Hendon Mob, and he kept playing. A 2nd place in the $5,000 High Roller at WSOP Circuit Las Vegas on 24 July for $71,624 followed a 2nd in the $2,200 High Roller four days earlier for $77,244.

Summed from Hendon Mob rows, 2026 stands at 16 cashes and $1,311,227 through 24 July. The leaderboard that matters next is the PokerGO Tour’s, where the Event #94 points put a seat in the season-ending championship within reach before the final qualifying events of the year.

The next verified update comes after WSOP Paradise in December and the PokerGO Tour finale in January, with every WSOP 2026 bracelet winner and payout as the reference for the summer that turned his year around. Follow the latest poker news and results for the rest of his season.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot accurately calculate any player’s net worth, but we aim to publish transparent, verifiable information.

How we handle ‘net worth’

Net worth estimates for poker players are never verified. Private game results, staking arrangements and undisclosed investments make any estimate fundamentally approximate. All figures are reported with full transparency regarding what is confirmed and what is not.

The estimate on this page is dated to the Hendon Mob snapshot of 29 October 2026 and built from the gross total, Stephen Chidwick’s self-reported profit margin, tax and the 2025 to 2026 record. It is deliberately low; nothing on the public record supports a higher figure.

How we report earnings

Live tournament earnings are verified by major poker databases such as The Hendon Mob. These figures reflect gross prize money, not profit after buy-ins, travel, staking splits or taxes.

The season totals and the 42-win count on this page are our own arithmetic from Hendon Mob rows and are labelled as such wherever they appear.

How we cover controversies

All sensitive topics are checked for accuracy. We rely on direct statements from named sources and avoid anonymous speculation. Where allegations are disputed, both sides are presented.

The Linde account rests on the two X threads of 21 and 22 April 2026 and on the figures both parties gave; nothing in it comes from anonymous sourcing.