Charlie Carrel Net Worth 2026: $8M-$12M, Triton Title & Epiphany77

Charlie Carrel is an English high-stakes poker player who turned a £10 online deposit into one of the most watched careers of the last decade. His tracked live tournament earnings stand at $9,614,814 across 72 cashes, per The Hendon Mob, topped by a seven-figure win at Triton London in 2019.

Known online as Epiphany77, he won the 2017 SCOOP Main Event for $1.2 million and built a $50 bankroll to $10,000 on stream. He has not entered a United States event since 2017, and in February 2026 he explained why: an airport arrest that left him barred from the country.

The result is a career in two halves: five seasons on the high-roller circuit that produced nearly all of that total, then seven years in which he has cashed for less than $50,000 live and built a bigger audience than he ever had on the felt.

Charlie Carrel’s net worth is an estimated $8 million to $12 million in 2026. The anchor is the $10 million profit figure he has published himself, not his $9.6 million in gross live cashes, because he funded his career from a £10 deposit rather than from outside money.

He has never published a net worth, and no public record of debt or a liquidity problem exists for him. His own number is a January 2023 post saying he turned $50 into $9 million in five years, $7 million from live tournaments and as much as $2 million online.

His channel now puts the figure at over $10 million. Those are his totals for money won, not a statement of what he holds today.

What is Charlie Carrel’s net worth?

Our working range of $8 million to $12 million sits either side of the $10 million he says he made from the game. Living costs over eight years of reduced live play pull the floor below it; coaching sales, the CoinPoker deal and YouTube income push the ceiling above it.

Most high rollers keep a thin slice of what they cash, because their buy-ins come from backers or a bankroll built elsewhere. In January 2026 Stephen Chidwick put his own career profit at $5 million to $10 million on $76 million in cashes.

Carrel’s record is the opposite shape. Eight titles from 72 cashes, two of them for over $1.2 million, and a bankroll that began at £10 mean his $7 million live profit figure is credible rather than inflated.

The figure was questioned in replies when he posted it, but nothing on the public record contradicts it: no debt, no staking dispute, no distressed sale. The $8 million floor allows for the heavy early spending he has described and six lean live years since 2019.

Why do Charlie Carrel net worth estimates vary?

The two sites that rank for his net worth publish $4 million and $6 million with no method, a wrong birthday and a sponsor he has never had. Card Player lists $10,223,185 in recorded earnings, but that adds online results to his live total and is gross, not wealth.

Nobody outside his circle knows the real figure, so this profile works from his own number and the public record rather than from the content farms. The how poker staking and backing deals work guide explains why gross cashes alone mislead.

How much has Charlie Carrel won playing poker?

His live tournament earnings total $9,614,814 across 72 cashes, per The Hendon Mob, which ranks him 217th on the all-time money list and 12th among players from England. His best-ever position on that list was 93rd, reached during his 2019 run.

The England list is led by fellow English high roller Stephen Chidwick, and Carrel’s position on it has slipped through six years without a six-figure live cash.

None of those figures is profit. They are gross payouts before the buy-ins he paid in events he did not cash, before any staking arrangement, and before the travel that a 2015 to 2019 high-roller schedule demands.

Charles Francis Carrel was born on 7 November 1993 in St Brelade on the island of Jersey. His family moved to London when he was seven, and he still lives in the capital.

He has spoken openly about selling drugs as a teenager before poker gave him a way out, and he credits his early results partly to a period of heavy drug use. Those accounts come from his own podcast and video appearances, and this profile reports them as he told them.

From a £10 deposit to seven figures

Carrel deposited £10, about $15, into PokerStars and played as Epiphany77. He moved from sit-and-gos to cash games and then to tournaments, and by his own account had run that deposit past £3 million by April 2017.

A Sunday Million win provided the first big score, and he has said he spent a chunk of it taking friends to Amsterdam. The first live result that mattered came on 27 November 2014, when he won the GUKPT London Grand Final £2,000 Main Event for £108,625.

He was 21. Six months later he had a million-euro live title, and the online grinder became a fixture on the European high-roller circuit.

Carrel’s live record is concentrated into five seasons. Between 2015 and 2019 he cashed for $9.39 million; everything before and since adds up to less than $250,000.

That shape is deliberate. He stepped back from the circuit in 2018, returned for one more big summer in 2019, and has played only a handful of live events since.

The 2015 EPT Grand Final breakthrough

On 6 May 2015 he beat a 215-player field in the €25,000 High Roller at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo for €1,114,000. He had cashed for €183,800 in Malta two months earlier, and 2015 closed with $1,509,380 in live cashes.

The 2016 season brought three more titles: the €10,000 High Roller at EPT Dublin, the €5,000 8-Max at the Grand Final, and the €5,000 High Roller at WPT Prague. Two runner-up finishes, in Prague and Amsterdam, took his 2016 earnings to $2.12 million.

2017: the Bahamas, Las Vegas and the One Drop

January 2017 produced his second seven-figure cash, $1,191,900 for second in the $100,000 Super High Roller at the PokerStars Championship Bahamas. That summer he played his only full WSOP, taking third in the $10,000 Heads-Up Championship and 88th of 7,221 in the Main Event.

He finished ninth in the €111,111 High Roller for One Drop at WSOP Europe for €295,131. By the end of 2017 his live total had passed $6 million, and he had not turned 24.

What is Charlie Carrel’s biggest win?

His biggest win is the £50,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed event at the 2019 Triton Super High Roller Series London, worth £1,321,000, or $1,601,853 at the Hendon Mob rate. Triton’s own results page lists it as $1,611,620 at its conversion; this profile uses the Hendon Mob figure throughout.

The event drew 109 entries, and the final put him against Jason Koon’s record run of Triton titles in the making: heads-up play ran into a second day before Carrel closed it out with queen-deuce.

Three weeks later he finished second in the €25,000 event at EPT Barcelona for €481,640, and his 2019 earnings closed at $3,110,138, his best year.

Does Charlie Carrel have a WSOP bracelet?

No. WSOP.com lists zero bracelets and zero Circuit rings against his name. His eight live WSOP cashes are all from 2015 and 2017, and the best of them is third place in the 2017 $10,000 Heads-Up Championship for $112,379.

The 88th-place Main Event run in 2017 is his last live appearance in the United States. He has one WSOP Online cash since, 372nd in the 2020 $5,000 Main Event on GGPoker for $16,274.

Four of the eight are EPT side-event titles; he has never won an EPT Main Event and has two Main Event cashes, both at Barcelona. The 2020 WPT Online win for $600,250 sits outside this table because The Hendon Mob keeps online results out of his live total.

Game of Gold and the step back

His last major televised appearance was GGPoker’s Game of Gold in Seoul, where he finished eighth in November 2023. The cast included Game of Gold castmate Olga Iermolcheva, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Koon and Fedor Holz, and the series was broadcast on GGPoker’s YouTube channel.

Since then his live record shows one cash: 64th in the BPS 200 London in February 2025 for £600. He has not recorded a live result in 2026.

Carrel’s reputation was built online, and his biggest single online score came on 23 May 2017 when he won the SCOOP $10,300 Main Event for $1,200,899 from a 693-entry field. Card Player records the win alongside a 2016 WCOOP title in the $215 rebuy No-Limit Hold’em event.

Those two results, plus the Sunday Million, are the named online wins that can be put against a date and a figure. The rest of his online profit is his own account and is treated as such above.

Did Charlie Carrel finish the $50 to $10,000 bankroll challenge?

Yes. In August 2018, shortly after saying he was stepping away from poker, he deposited $50 on PokerStars and began streaming 2NL Zoom with a $10,000 target. His channel lists the challenge as complete, and the run doubled as a public lesson in when to move up stakes in poker.

He has said he ran a 20-buy-in rule, moving up with 20 buy-ins for the next level and dropping down at 17, the discipline set out in our poker bankroll management rules and tables guide.

The challenge took years to finish rather than weeks, which is the honest version of a story most players quit. The reasons why most poker bankroll challenges fail apply to him too: variance, low volume at the bottom stakes, and the temptation to jump levels early.

The $200,000 NL500 Zoom bet

In February 2021 he offered to wager $200,000 that he could beat the $500 Zoom pool after two years away. We covered the NL500 Zoom bet he offered in 2021 at the time, along with the doubts it drew.

The scepticism had a basis. Fast-fold pools at that level are among the toughest games online, and the fast-fold poker strategy for Zoom pools guide covers why the format strips out most of the live-tournament edges he was known for. No public result of the wager was ever recorded.

CoinPoker and the cash game pivot

Since 2023 he has been a CoinPoker ambassador, playing and streaming the site’s high-stakes cash games under the screen name Iambluff. His own site describes him as a cash game player and coach first, and the format is covered in our no-limit hold’em cash game strategy guide.

He competed in CoinPoker’s Cash Game World Championship series in early 2026. No public leaderboard records his result, so this profile does not state one.

Carrel is an exploitative player who talks at the table, stares down opponents and makes decisions from reads rather than from a solver output. His own coaching pitch is that other coaches teach what to think and he teaches how, and that framing runs through his public hand breakdowns.

The style has limits in formats where opponents give nothing away, which is one reason his online cash results are harder to assess than his live tournament record.

Is Charlie Carrel a GTO player?

No, and he says so loudly. He has argued for years that solver-only play loses money against weak fields. That puts him at odds with most of the current high-stakes population, who treat how GTO solvers are studied and applied as the baseline rather than the enemy.

His case is that a balanced strategy leaves money on the table against opponents who are not balanced themselves. Against elite regulars the argument weakens, which is the standard critique of his results in the toughest online pools.

The Andy Stacks hand

The clearest illustration of his style is the opening hand of a Game of Gold sit-and-go against cash game specialist Andy Stacks. Carrel played a small pocket pair into a three-bet from queens and won with a river bluff that coach Jonathan Little later broke down.

The decision rested on sizing and fold frequency, which is the maths behind bluffing in poker in its purest form. Much of his later coaching content leans on tilt control and the poker mental game as heavily as on hand analysis.

Carrel has had three public disputes that reached beyond poker forums, and one legal problem that reshaped his career. None involves an accusation of cheating against him.

Why is Charlie Carrel banned from America?

In a February 2026 video titled “I Messed Up”, Carrel said he was arrested at a US airport in 2017, shortly after Donald Trump’s first inauguration, when a customs search found pills in his luggage. He was jailed in Clark County and has been refused entry since.

The story resurfaced in May 2026, a week before the series began, and we covered it alongside the pros missing the WSOP 2026 series for other reasons. Nine summers on, the ban remains in place by his own account.

He has been candid that he used drugs heavily in his early poker years and credits part of his early success to that period. This profile reports his words and adds no interpretation.

The feuds with Doug Polk

The longest-running dispute is with Lodge co-owner and vlogger Doug Polk. In April 2019 the two argued on Twitter over how child abusers should be treated; Carrel answered on YouTube and we reported the 2019 Twitter feud with Doug Polk as it ran.

The row flared again in May 2023 on a Twitter Spaces call with Will Jaffe and Matt Berkey, when Polk revisited a 2018 post. Polk later apologised publicly to Carrel as the Hustler Casino Live $1 million buy-in lineup was announced.

Who did Charlie Carrel accuse over $60,000?

On 11 February 2025 he posted on X that Shaun Johnston, director of the British Poker Series, owed him $60,000 from an arrangement in which Johnston supplied players to a private game Carrel ran. He said he was going public reluctantly and that the industry runs on reputation.

The claim is Carrel’s allegation. Johnston has not responded publicly in the reports we found, and no court record of the dispute exists.

Carrel lives in London, where he has been based since his family left Jersey. He has kept his relationships out of public view, and this profile does not speculate on them.

Away from the tables he runs three things: a coaching business, a charity and a YouTube channel that doubles as his public diary. He has described himself as a philanthropist on a mission, and the charity is the one part of that claim with a public record.

Thrive UK-Poverty Relief

He founded Thrive UK-Poverty Relief, registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under number 1194343. Its current programme builds houses for families in Bali at about $3,000 each, run on the ground by Anggie Wayan of the Rice for Bali project.

Seven houses were listed as finished in October 2026, each credited to Carrel and the charity, with three more collecting donations. Every project page shows what was raised and what was built, which is more transparency than most poker charity efforts offer.

Elite University and the lecture circuit

His coaching runs through Elite University, which he founded. The three courses on sale in October 2026 were Live Tells (Advanced) at $697, the Cash Game Masterclass at $227 and The Bankroll Challenge at $557, the last of them a hand-by-hand record of the $50 run.

In January 2025 he delivered a lecture at King’s College London titled “The 7 Life Lessons Found in High Stakes Poker”, which runs over two hours on his channel. It is the fullest public account of how he thinks about the game.

Carrel’s 2026 has been about disclosure rather than results. The February video on his arrest was the first time he had told the story in full, and the May coverage of his absence from the WSOP turned a nine-year mystery into a matter of record.

On the felt he has not recorded a live tournament cash since February 2025, and his volume is now online.

What does Charlie Carrel do now?

He plays and streams high-stakes cash on CoinPoker as its ambassador, sells courses through Elite University, funds houses in Bali through Thrive, and publishes investigations and strategy videos on YouTube, including a February 2025 video examining how good streamer Ethan “Rampage” Yau really is.

A return to the live circuit would mean Europe or Asia, since the US remains closed to him. His last four live cashes, all in London, show how far his volume has fallen since 2019.

The two results that would change this page are a public outcome to the BPS allegation and any change to his US entry status. Both are tracked, and you can follow net worth profiles of poker’s biggest names for his peers on the high-roller circuit.

Any new Hendon Mob row, CoinPoker roster change or ruling on the 2025 claim will be reflected here, with the latest poker news and results carrying the first report.

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 figures for poker players are inherently speculative. We publish a range rather than a single number, explain the inputs that inform it, and flag what cannot be verified.

For Carrel the anchor is the $10 million profit he has published himself, which fits a self-funded career with eight titles; the range takes off eight years of outgoings and adds coaching and sponsorship income. No public debt or liquidity record exists for him.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings on this profile are sourced from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live tournament cashes globally. We cite cash counts and earnings totals as gross payouts, not profit.

Where The Hendon Mob and another official source disagree, as with his 2017 Heads-Up prize and Triton’s conversion of the London win, we use the Hendon Mob figure. Online results are named only where a tournament operator’s own records confirm them.

How we cover controversies

Where controversies exist, we report verified facts and clearly sourced claims without editorialising or assigning blame.

The 2017 arrest and the 2025 BPS allegation are reported in Carrel’s own words, attributed to his video and his X account, and the other party’s position is stated where it is on record.