Chance Kornuth Net Worth 2026: $21.7M Won, 4 Bracelets & Chip Leader Coaching

Chance Kornuth owns four WSOP bracelets in four different formats, paid Phil Galfond close to $1 million in full, and built a coaching company that charged nothing until its students won. His live tournament cashes total $21,741,941, 69th on the all-time money list per The Hendon Mob.

His biggest score is the $1,351,000 for second place in the 2024 WSOP $50,000 High Roller. He won his first bracelet in Pot-Limit Omaha in 2010, his fourth in the 2024 Flip & Go, and took the 2022 WPT Choctaw Main Event in between.

This profile separates the verified record from the estimates. Every earnings figure carries its source and snapshot date, the net worth range states its basis, and the Galfond Challenge loss is counted rather than skipped.

Chance Kornuth’s net worth is estimated at $8 million to $12 million. The range starts from tracked live earnings, takes off buy-ins, staking splits and tax, and adds two private income lines: Chip Leader Coaching and his ACR Poker contract.

What is Chance Kornuth’s net worth?

The starting point is $21.7 million in gross live cashes. High roller fields are played on sold action, so a large share of the seven-figure scores went to backers, and United States tax took a further slice of what remained.

Against that sit the coaching company, which he has run since the mid-2010s, and the Team Americas Cardroom deal signed in May 2026. Neither figure is public, which is why the estimate is a range rather than a number.

The tax slice is easy to underrate. How much WSOP winners lose to tax runs through the $12.3 million that one Main Event final table gave up between them.

Why do estimates of Chance Kornuth’s net worth vary?

Published figures run from $10 million to over $15 million, and none of them separates gross payouts from money kept. Most are recycled from one another, and several were written when his live total was still under $15 million.

Comparing him with other profiles in the full poker players hub helps anchor the range. Alex Foxen’s estimate sits at $30M to $45M from $57M in cashes, and Martin Kabrhel’s at $5M to $10M from $19.4M.

Five factors keep the real number private:

The verifiable part is the Hendon Mob ledger: $21,741,941 from 277 cashes, snapshot 29 October 2026. That total ranks 33rd in the United States and second in Colorado, and it is gross prize money, not profit.

The 2023 and 2024 seasons account for $7.67 million, 35.3% of the total, and both were built on $25,000 to $500,000 buy-ins. A tournament variance calculator for downswings shows why a player at those stakes sells action rather than carrying the swings alone.

Kornuth was born in Denver, Colorado, on 24 June 1986, a date that comes from player databases rather than an official record. His older brother Adam introduced him to poker, and his first online hands were played on his father’s account.

He studied architectural engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and left one semester short of a degree in 2008 to play full time. By then he was earning serious money online as ChanceCU on PokerStars and Chances Cards on Full Tilt Poker.

The Full Tilt account was the big one. He won the 2010 Mini Series of Poker Main Event there for $102,600, and his online results passed $1.2 million that autumn, enough to rank him among the best online poker players of that era to move into live play.

His stated bankroll philosophy from those years runs against the textbook. He has said the shots he took were the reason the bigger scores came, and the rules of poker bankroll management explain what he was risking each time he moved up.

The first live breakthrough came in June 2010. The $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha bracelet event at the WSOP drew 460 entries, and Kornuth beat a final table that included Robert Mizrachi and Julian Gardner to win $508,090 at the age of 24.

It was only his second WSOP cash. Anyone new to the four-card game that made his name can start with the fundamentals of Pot-Limit Omaha strategy.

Kornuth’s live record includes 26 first-place finishes counted from Hendon Mob rows, a count that includes online bracelet, charity and series events. The table below lists the four WSOP bracelets, confirmed against WSOP.com on 29 October 2026.

How many WSOP bracelets does Chance Kornuth have?

Four, and no two in the same format. The 2010 win was Pot-Limit Omaha, the 2018 win came online in a $3,200 high roller under the BingShui account, and the 2021 bracelet was short deck.

The 2024 title was the $1,000 Flip & Go, a Crazy Pineapple flip followed by a turbo, won after a summer of near misses in the biggest high rollers. The 2021 short deck win carried a point to prove: he had finished fourth in the same event in 2019.

Short deck strips the twos to fives from the pack and changes the hand rankings, and how short deck hold’em is played covers the 36-card format in full.

What is Chance Kornuth’s biggest poker win?

His biggest cash and his biggest win are different events. The cash is the $1,351,000 for second in the 2024 WSOP $50,000 High Roller; the biggest title is the 2016 Aussie Millions A$25,000 Challenge, worth $547,873.

The ten cashes above total $8.6 million, 39.6% of his career figure from under 4% of his cashes. Seven came at the WSOP between May 2022 and December 2024, the stretch that took him from under $12 million to over $20 million.

The 2023 summer alone produced $3.88 million, including his first seven-figure score, fifth in the $250,000 Super High Roller.

The 2016 season was the earlier peak. It brought the Aussie Millions title, the EPT Monte Carlo €10,000 High Roller for €351,108, the WPT bestbet $25,000 High Roller, and a run that sat second in the GPI Player of the Year race behind Fedor Holz for much of the autumn.

His only WPT title came at WPT Choctaw in May 2022, worth $486,600, at a final table that also included six-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen. It was his third WPT final table.

On the PokerGO Tour he won three Stairway to Millions titles in 2022 and finished second three times at the 2019 Poker Masters, ending third in the Purple Jacket race with $556,400 across the series.

Chip Leader Coaching is the company Kornuth founded in the mid-2010s to coach mid-stakes tournament players up to the high roller level. Its original model charged no fee: students paid a percentage of their winnings, and only once they won.

The company says that coaching-for-profit programme ran for four years and that its 120 players won more than $12 million between them. That is the company’s own figure, and it has not been independently audited.

What is Chip Leader Coaching?

Today it sells courses rather than contracts. The current line-up includes The Closer, a tournament curriculum, Chip Leader AI, an interactive trainer, Bracelet Hunter, aimed at the WSOP, and an application-only Inner Circle tier.

The coaching roster has included Nick Petrangelo, Joe McKeehen, Ryan Laplante and Ryan Leng, and is now co-led with Alex Foxen. Alex Foxen’s own career earnings of more than $57 million make him the highest earner on the staff.

Kornuth has described the ICM override, the point where chip equity and tournament equity pull in different directions, as the centre of the material. Ryan Leng and Ryan Jones both started as his students before joining the staff, and Leng won his first WSOP bracelet while on the staff.

In the autumn of 2020 Kornuth became the third opponent in Phil Galfond’s heads-up series. The terms were $100/$200 Pot-Limit Omaha across two tables, 35,000 hands, with Galfond laying $1,000,000 to Kornuth’s $250,000 on the result.

Did Chance Kornuth lose the Galfond Challenge?

Yes, but not before leading. Kornuth was ahead by as much as $344,500 in November 2020, then Galfond won most of the sessions that followed. With under 10,000 hands left and the deficit at $726,500, Kornuth conceded on 24 January 2021.

Galfond’s own summary was five months, 25,000 hands and about $730,000, and he said he had been unpleasantly surprised by how well Kornuth played. Kornuth said things had not gone his way down the stretch.

Not every booked opponent played. When JNandez pulled out of the Galfond Challenge the series carried on without him and Kornuth became its third completed match.

Away from the match, Kornuth’s cash game record is mostly televised. He played Poker Night in America in 2017 and the Poker After Dark PLOMG week that September, a $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha game with Galfond, Isaac Haxton, Daniel Cates, Brandon Adams and Josh Arieh.

Publicly tracked livestream databases record five-figure results per show for him across Live at the Bike, Poker at the Lodge and PokerStars broadcasts. Coverage is partial, and none of his private action appears anywhere.

Kornuth came up as a Pot-Limit Omaha player and still enters the $25,000 PLO high rollers every summer, but most of his career total comes from no-limit hold’em high rollers. The 2026 WSOP showed both: a $25K NLH final table and two $25K PLO cashes.

Is Chance Kornuth a GTO player?

Solver-informed rather than solver-bound. His coaching material is built around the ICM override, the moment a solver’s chip-equity line should be ignored because the payout structure says otherwise. What ICM means at a final table is the concept underneath that idea.

He has also said live tells still matter to him, and his 2019 WPT Gardens $5,000 PLO title and the 2019 short deck final table show a player comfortable outside hold’em.

Asked to name the five opponents he rates hardest after 15 years at the top, he included Phil Ivey and described facing him as a battle with a force of nature. The full list, with his reasons for each, is in the five opponents Kornuth rates hardest.

That puts Kornuth among the many pros who back Phil Ivey’s claim to GOAT status. The same list praised Alex Foxen for fusing solver strategy with exploitative play, which is the blend Kornuth teaches.

In June 2019 Kornuth publicly called out Joshua Beckley, the 2015 WSOP Main Event runner-up, over an unpaid $10,000 loan and warned other players off buying Beckley’s action. Beckley closed his Twitter account soon after.

The outing split opinion on whether private debts belong on a public feed. The full sequence, including the staking site that suspended Beckley’s account, is in how Kornuth outed Joshua Beckley online.

The Galfond concession drew its own debate. Some saw quitting with 9,600 hands left as the right business decision for a player who had sold action on a $1 million basis; others felt a challenge should run to the final hand. His own post was brief.

I’ve decided to concede the challenge. Congrats to @PhilGalfond on another #GalfondChallenge victory.
Chance Kornuth, on X, January 2021

The 2019 Poker Masters was the near-miss series: three runner-up finishes in ten events and third in the Purple Jacket standings behind Sam Soverel. He led the standings going into the back half of the schedule, then watched Soverel win the final event and the jacket with it.

Kornuth lives in Las Vegas with his wife and daughter. He has not published his wife’s name, and this profile does not either.

Who is Chance Kornuth’s wife?

In a 2023 interview for the 888Ride series he spoke about the pull between tournament trips and home, saying the family sometimes flies out to join him on longer stops. He also said he stopped drinking after his daughter was born, calling her arrival the reason he changed.

How old is Chance Kornuth?

Kornuth is 40 years old. The 24 June 1986 birth date comes from player databases rather than an official record, but it matches the age the WSOP published when he won in 2010 and the age reported at his 2021 bracelet.

His ACR Poker screen name, LawyerDad68, is the only nod to family life on his tournament record. He won the 2021 MSPT Venetian Main Event for $412,068 shortly after becoming a father, telling reporters he had been focusing on dad life.

Fourth place for C$600,000 in the biggest poker tournament ever held in Canada is the score of 2026 so far. The WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event drew 2,844 entries for a CA$12,689,928 pool, and Kornuth sat second in chips at the final table before falling to winner Mayukh Chakraborty.

The run included the hand that ended Daniel Negreanu’s tournament, ace-king against tens with Kornuth calling for an ace on the river and getting it. It came weeks after Daniel Negreanu’s eighth bracelet summer.

The 2026 WSOP produced four cashes for $351,273, led by sixth in the $25,000 6-Max High Roller, in a series covered in the full WSOP 2026 recap. It was his first summer as an ACR Poker team pro, signed in May alongside Alex Foxen and Chris Hunichen.

The week before Canada he reached the final table of both ACR Dual Venoms on the same night, seventh in the $12 million NLH and sixth in the $3 million PLO. He called it a disappointing day in a series he praised.

Results from the autumn high roller series follow in the latest poker news coverage.

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. Our range is built from the components we can see, with the basis stated, and we say which parts are private.

Kornuth’s $8M to $12M range rests on tracked live cashes less buy-ins, staking and tax. Coaching revenue and the ACR Poker contract are undisclosed, so they widen the range rather than narrow it.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings figures come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results only. Databases that fold in online results publish higher totals, and we say so rather than blending the two.

All figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, staking splits, taxes and expenses. The WSOP.com profile counters that mix WSOP, Circuit, WPT and PGT results are not reported here as WSOP figures.

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.

The Beckley outing is reported from Kornuth’s own posts and the staking site’s response; the Galfond concession from both players’ statements. Where a figure exists only in secondary reporting, we say so.