Ali Imsirovic Net Worth 2026: From a Record Season to a Suspended Career

Ali Imsirovic won a record 14 PokerGO Tour titles in 2021 and was suspended by the same tour nine months later. Born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and based in Vancouver, Washington, he holds $18.8 million in tracked live tournament earnings, 86th on the all-time money list.

The gross figure and the money kept are two different numbers. Buy-ins of $10,000 to $300,000, staking in both directions and a six-figure seizure by GGPoker, which he confirmed himself in 2023, all sit between the cashes and any net worth estimate.

Nothing in his record since his last high roller final table, at the 2022 WSOP, adds much to the total: two ejections and a handful of small cashes. The estimate on this page starts from what is documented and discounts the rest.

Ali Imsirovic’s net worth is estimated at $1 million to $3 million. The range is built from his tracked results and the costs set against them, and nobody outside his own circle knows the real figure.

Third-party pages put him far higher, and the gap between those figures and this one is the subject of this section. Gross cashes are not profit, and the four years since his last high roller result have produced $81,000 in cashes against a run of small buy-ins.

What is Ali Imsirovic’s net worth?

The estimate starts from $18.8 million in live cashes and $2.1 million in tracked online cashes, then takes away what he spent to earn them. His 34 PGT cashes in 2021 alone imply well over 100 entries at $10,000 to $50,000 a seat, several million dollars in buy-ins.

The components below are the ones that can be sourced. Everything else, from the size of his staking book to his tax position, is unknown and is treated as a reason for width in the range rather than a number.

Why do net worth estimates for Ali Imsirovic vary?

The figures that circulate online, between eight and twelve million dollars, take the Hendon Mob total at face value. None of them deducts the seizure, none accounts for the entries behind 226 recorded results and none reflects the four years since his high roller career stopped.

A tournament career at those stakes also carries swings that a gross total hides. A guide to how variance shapes a tournament career explains why a player can book $6 million in cashes in a year and still finish that year close to even after entries.

What we can verify: tracked live tournament earnings

The Hendon Mob lists $18,777,963 across 172 live cashes, with a best cash of $1,118,707 and 32 live titles. That total ranks 86th on the all-time money list and first among players from Bosnia and Herzegovina; his best ever position was 40th.

The same database records 54 online results worth $2,078,651, almost all of them from the 2020 pandemic series. The two totals are kept separate here because online results are tracked less completely and because the 2020 period is the one he later said included multi-accounting.

How much of his earnings did Ali Imsirovic keep?

Stephen Chidwick gave the best public benchmark in January 2026, putting his career profit at $5 million to $10 million on $76 million in cashes, roughly a 7% to 13% margin. Applied to Imsirovic’s live total, that gives $1.2 million to $2.5 million before tax and the online years.

His entry volume in 2021 and 2022 was unusually high even for the high roller circuit, which pushes him toward the lower end of that margin. Anyone wanting to test the arithmetic can run the numbers in an MTT variance calculator for a schedule of $10,000 to $50,000 buy-ins.

Almedin Imsirovic was born on 29 January 1995 in Zenica, an industrial city in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. His family left for the United States when he was three, in the years after the Bosnian War.

He lives in Vancouver, Washington, across the river from Portland, which The Hendon Mob lists as his residence.

He has gone by Ali since childhood, and the name on his tournament record is still Almedin; neither the family’s route to Washington nor his schooling before university has been reported.

From a $100 deposit to the high roller circuit

According to Wikipedia, citing a 2018 PokerGO interview, he won $1,500 in the first tournament he ever played, at 18, and deposited $100 online to start a bankroll. He had been playing online games underage from around 16, before the Black Friday shutdown of April 2011 closed the US sites.

He studied criminal justice at Washington State University and left a semester short of graduating. That is a steeper start than bankroll rules for tournament grinders would advise, and his early results show why: the first recorded live cash was $3,630 for 46th place in Punta Cana in November 2015.

2015 to 2017: the first cashes

The next two years were small buy-ins in Las Vegas, Florida and a short European trip. The table below is the whole live record before the breakout, taken from The Hendon Mob.

Three seasons of grinding produced a handful of mid-size results, the best a fourth place in the WSOP Circuit Nevada Main Event for $83,959 in November 2017. Most of the rest were small cashes in $300 to $1,600 events.

Fifteen cashes and a $237,521 year in 2017 were enough to move up. By January 2018 he was winning a $10,150 event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $160,050, and by April the Borgata Spring Poker Open Main Event for $246,066.

Between September 2018 and April 2022, Imsirovic was among the most prolific winners on the high roller circuit. The run covers 29 of his 32 live titles, a Poker Masters series win, two U.S. Poker Open titles and the inaugural PokerGO Tour Player of the Year award.

2018: the Poker Masters Purple Jacket

The breakout came at the 2018 Poker Masters at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. He finished eighth in the opening $10,000 event, then won the $25,000 Event #5 for $462,000 and the $50,000 Event #6 for $799,000 on consecutive days.

That gave him $1,288,600 for the series and 660 points, ten clear of David Peters, who won the $100,000 Main Event. At 23 he held the Purple Jacket awarded to the series’ best overall performer.

He closed 2018 with a seventh-place finish in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl for $540,000 and third in a $50,000 partypoker event in the Bahamas for $400,000.

What is Ali Imsirovic’s biggest win?

His biggest cash is $1,118,707 for second place in the £250,000 Super High Roller Bowl London in September 2019, where Cary Katz beat him heads-up. His biggest win is the $799,000 Poker Masters title.

Next on the list is $695,355 for the $25,500 high roller at the WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open in November 2021, the win that sealed his record season.

The 2019 season also brought his first U.S. Poker Open title ($442,500), a WSOP Circuit ring in a $2,200 high roller and a $600,000 win in the $50,000 Bellagio High Roller at the WPT Five Diamond. The ten largest live cashes are below.

2021: a record 14 PGT titles

The PokerGO Tour launched in 2021 as a points race across every $10,000-plus event, and Imsirovic ran away with its first season. PGT credits him with 14 wins, 34 cashes and $6,028,321 in prize money, for 4,364 points and a margin of nearly 1,300 over Michael Addamo in second.

The season was built on Aria and Venetian high rollers rather than one big score; his largest 2021 cash was the $695,355 Florida win that delivered the 14th title. His closest rival for most of the year was fellow 2021 PGT contender Sean Perry, who finished third.

Twenty-three of the 34 cashes were six-figure scores. The title carried a $200,000 bonus, and the Global Poker Index named him its 2021 Player of the Year at the Global Poker Awards in February 2022. The month-by-month record of the season is below.

2022: six more titles before the accusations

The following season started the same way. He won the $25,000 Venetian High Roller #4 in January for $270,000, PokerGO Cup Event #7 in February for $365,500, then Aria and Wynn high rollers between late February and April, taking his PGT title count to 20.

On 5 April he led the 2022 PGT leaderboard with 1,445 points. Five days later in Cyprus he finished second to 11-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey in the $50,000 Super High Roller Series PLO for $416,000.

After the April accusations he still played the WSOP. Fourth place in the $100,000 High Roller Bounty for $350,158 was his last high roller final table, and he finished 229th in the Main Event for $46,800.

Does Ali Imsirovic have a WSOP bracelet?

No. The Hendon Mob’s rows show 19 live cashes in WSOP bracelet events worth $1,324,660 and five open-event final tables, the best a runner-up finish to Brian Green in the 2019 $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty for $213,644.

The five final tables are below. Since July 2024 he has not cashed in a bracelet event.

The 2019 runner-up finish to Green is the closest he has come to a bracelet.

Imsirovic’s online record is concentrated in one period: the 2020 pandemic boom, when the live circuit shut and the high roller field moved to GGPoker and partypoker. It is also the period in which he later admitted multi-accounting, so the results below are dated and left to stand.

The 2020 online series

He won two Poker Masters Online events in April 2020, a $25,500 for $446,250 and a $10,300 six-max for $277,096, and finished second in the WPT Online Super High Roller the following month for $428,750. Those three results account for more than half of his $2,078,651 in tracked online cashes.

The $974,631 pot

In August 2020 Card Player reported that he had won the largest no-limit hold’em cash game pot in online poker history, $974,631, against Tan Xuan on GGPoker. The hand was played at nosebleed stakes during the same months as the pandemic tournament boom.

That pot placed him, for a few months, among the best online poker players of all time by results. By his own account his GGPoker account was closed later that year, which is covered in the allegations section, and no online result of his appears after March 2022.

Imsirovic built his results on volume rather than on one signature hand. In 2021 he made 27 final tables in Player of the Year-qualified events, a pace no other high roller matched, and the titles followed from being at the table that often.

Volume as the edge

Short-field high rollers reward players who show up every day, because the same 40 to 60 regulars cycle through and the field is rarely soft. His 2021 schedule put him at those tables more often than any rival, and his 34 PGT cashes led the tour.

The conversion rate is the striking figure. Fourteen wins from 34 cashes means 41% of the time he reached the money he also reached the trophy, and the 34 cashes averaged about $177,000 each.

Exploits against solver-based opponents

In his 2021 Player of the Year interview with Card Player, he said most players at the highest stakes focused on game theory and that his edge came from finding exploits against them. Whether that edge was earned is the question the next section covers.

The accusations that ended his high roller career arrived in April 2022, at the top of his second season as the tour’s leading player. They came from fellow pros rather than from any operator, and for more than a year he did not respond to them at all.

The April 2022 accusations

Alex Foxen’s April 2022 cheating accusations were the first in public. Foxen wrote that Imsirovic was “known as a cheater to almost all in the high roller community”, accused him of using real-time assistance and multiple accounts online, and alleged collusion with players he backed in live events.

Days later Martin Zamani accused Triton Main Event champion Bryn Kenney of running an online cheating stable, and the two stories merged into one. Jake Schindler, a close friend of Imsirovic, was named alongside him in the same accusations.

What is real-time assistance?

Real-time assistance, or RTA, means consulting a solver, chart or another person while a hand is live. Every site bans it, and the case against it is that a player with a solver open is no longer playing the game the rest of the table is playing.

RTA tools are openly marketed to online grinders. The three offences he was accused of are distinct, and only one of them was ever admitted.

The suspension that followed came before any of these was proven. The tour’s statement cited its standards of integrity and gave no finding.

The PokerGO Tour suspension

On 22 September 2022 the PokerGO Tour announced indefinite suspensions of Imsirovic and Schindler, running “through at least the 2022 PGT season, upon which time a review will take place”. Both were removed from the 2022 leaderboard and ruled out of the Poker Masters and the PGT Championship.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal noted that the allegations had not been proven and that neither player had commented. With the two of them gone, Stephen Chidwick took the 2022 PGT title with 3,412 points. No reinstatement has been announced since.

The GGPoker ban

In September 2020 GGPoker announced that it had permanently banned 40 accounts for real-time assistance, warned 40 more and confiscated $1.18 million from 13 of them. It named nobody, and the public link to Imsirovic came only when Foxen made it in 2022 and he confirmed it in 2023.

By his own account the ban cost him $320,000 left in his account, and he has said it was issued for both RTA and multi-accounting while disputing the first part. GGPoker has since named players in later cases, including a GGMillion$ title stripped for rule breaches.

A later case was handled in public as well, as the page on Ren Lin’s GGPoker ghosting suspension shows, which leaves the unnamed 2020 list as the exception.

Did Ali Imsirovic admit to cheating?

Yes, to one of the charges. In a 28-minute YouTube video on 25 June 2023, since removed, he said he had made “a really bad mistake” and multi-accounted in GGPoker tournaments for four to five months in 2020, then again for a short period after his first ban.

He denied using RTA, denied ghosting players he had backed and denied cheating in live events, calling the live claims ridiculous. He also said he had never cheated with Schindler.

He described the year of allegations as “hard on my family” and said he felt he had paid his dues, a line that drew a sceptical reaction across the poker community.

What is proven and what is denied

Set against the biggest cheating scandals in poker history, his case has one unusual feature: part of the proof came from the accused himself.

The distinction matters because the game treats the two offences differently. Justin Bonomo’s own multi-accounting past from 2006 did not stop him becoming one of the biggest winners in tournament history, while unproven live-cheating allegations can follow a player indefinitely.

The contrast with Mike Postle’s Stones Gambling Hall case is instructive: there, no admission and no finding of cheating ever came, and the dispute lives on. Here, the admitted part is settled by the player himself, and the rest rests on the word of his accusers against his denial.

Is Ali Imsirovic banned from poker?

There is no tour-wide ban, because no body exists to issue one. He is suspended indefinitely by the PokerGO Tour, locked out of GGPoker by his own account and has been refused or removed by individual venues, while WSOP, WPT and Venetian events accepted his entry through 2024.

Daniel Negreanu’s call for an indefinite ban in March 2023 described him as unrepentant, and in 2025 two operators acted on their own. He was disqualified on registering at Champions Club in Houston in February, the club’s president citing “the protection of our members”.

In May the RunGood Poker Series removed him from its Main Event at bestbet Jacksonville while he was chip leader at the dinner break. Neither decision was accompanied by published findings.

The table above is the whole public record of sanctions; no body has published a finding on the RTA, ghosting or live collusion claims.

Imsirovic has kept his private life out of view, before and after the scandal. No partner, marriage or children have been reported, and the one personal subject he has addressed in public is his family’s experience of the allegations.

Where is Ali Imsirovic from?

He was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, moved to the United States at the age of three and lives in Vancouver, Washington. The family left Bosnia in the years after the war; his tournament record carries the Bosnian flag, and he is usually described as Bosnian-American.

Family and life away from the table

In his 2023 statement he said the year since the accusations had been “hard on my family”. He gave no other detail, and this profile does not speculate beyond what he said.

His 2018 Purple Jacket interview, cited by Wikipedia, credited his family’s support for his career. No interview or statement since the June 2023 video is on record.

Two ejections in three months defined Imsirovic’s 2025. The first came at Champions Club in Houston in February, where he was disqualified on registering for the $1,500 Winter Poker Open Main Event.

On 1 May he was ejected from the RGPS Jacksonville Main Event at bestbet while holding the largest stack in the room at the dinner break. His only 2025 cash is $1,540 for 46th in a $400 event at the same venue in January.

The low-stakes return started with a single WSOP cash in 2023. In 2024 it widened to three Venetian cashes and two at the WSOP, including 14th in the $1,500 Closer for $26,360.

His most recent result is $8,250 for 30th in a $300 event at Winnin’ o’ the Green in Bell Gardens, California, on 5 April 2026.

The open question is the WSOP. GGPoker’s operator bought the series in August 2024, its integrity ambassador said in March 2025 that RTA offenders would be barred from live events, and no WSOP result of his appears after July 2024.

Any change to his PGT status would show up first in the latest poker news and results.

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’

We do not treat any net worth figure as fact. Third-party estimates are reported with their source and caveats, and where no methodology is disclosed, we say so.

Imsirovic’s range is built from his Hendon Mob totals, the PGT bonus and the one confirmed deduction, the $320,000 he says GGPoker seized. Staking in both directions and his buy-in volume are unverifiable and widen the range rather than narrow it.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings figures come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results. Databases that fold in online results publish higher totals, and we keep the two apart.

The live total is the Hendon Mob figure on 3 November 2026. Online cashes are counted from its results list and dated, and WSOP cashes and final tables are counted from the same rows.

How we cover controversies

We report what was alleged, what the player said in response and where the matter stands. We do not take sides.

Allegations are attributed to the people who made them and denials to Imsirovic. Only the multi-accounting, which he admitted himself, is stated as fact; the suspension and bans are reported from the bodies that issued them.