Kevin Martin Poker Net Worth 2026: $1M-$2M, Big Brother Winner & GGPoker Streamer

Kevin Martin is the Canadian poker pro who won Big Brother Canada, then turned a Twitch channel into a decade of sponsorship deals. His net worth is estimated at $1M to $2M, built on poker results, reality TV prize money and streaming income.

The tracked numbers are modest next to his profile: $490,534 on The Hendon Mob and a single online score of $207,178. Known to viewers as KMart, he has represented PokerStars, partypoker and GGPoker in turn.

This profile separates verified results from estimates throughout. Below you will find quick facts, a net worth breakdown, his Big Brother Canada win, the sponsorship timeline, his live and online record, Game of Gold, Poker Wars and what he is doing in 2026.

Kevin Martin’s net worth is an estimate, not a disclosed figure. No biography site publishes a number with a stated method, so our range is built from the income streams that can be checked.

Four things feed it: tracked poker winnings, the Big Brother Canada prize, close to a decade of operator sponsorship and the income from a Twitch and YouTube audience he has been building since 2015.

What is Kevin Martin’s net worth?

Our working range is $1M to $2M. The lower end assumes ordinary tournament expenses, Canadian tax on sponsorship income and modest deal terms. The upper end assumes his GGPoker contract and content revenue are worth more than a typical streamer arrangement.

Two costs pull the other way. He stepped away from poker entirely for a year from September 2019, and in May 2026 he paid for Poker Wars himself, including a C$50,000 prize.

How much has Kevin Martin won playing poker?

Two databases track him and they disagree, for a good reason. The Hendon Mob lists $490,534 across 80 results. WSOP.com lists $653,775 across 132 cashes.

The gap is scope, not error. WSOP.com counts every WSOP-branded event hosted on GGPoker, including online Circuit events. The Hendon Mob covers live tournaments plus selected online bracelet series, and 23 of his 80 results there are online.

Neither total is profit. Both are gross payouts before buy-ins, and an online tournament grinder fires far more entries than he cashes.

His largest single score sits on only one of the two lists, which is why the totals cannot simply be added together.

Income beyond the tables

Most of what Martin earns never touches a results database. Only one of these four lines has a public figure attached.

Martin grew up in Alberta and trained in radio and television before poker. He worked the late shift as a DJ at a rock station in the south of the province.

He found poker in 2014 and started at low stakes in Calgary’s card rooms. He quit radio at 21 to play full time, and began streaming his online sessions on Twitch the following year.

How old is Kevin Martin?

Kevin Martin was born on 3 January 1993, making him 33 years old in 2026. He was 22 when he first walked into the Big Brother Canada house and 24 when he won it.

His first recorded live cash came on 30 November 2015: 10th in a DeepStacks Poker Tour event in Calgary for C$1,880. That same year he won the Hot $44 online with his Twitch audience watching.

Did Kevin Martin win Big Brother Canada?

Yes, at the second attempt. In season 3 in 2015 he hid his poker career from the house and finished ninth, a casualty of the show’s first triple eviction.

He returned for season 5 with everyone aware he was a sponsored pro. On 18 May 2017, after 69 days, the jury voted 9-0 for him over Karen Singbeil.

He won most of his competitions late, with no allies left in the house. He has said he prepared for the season the way he would for a major tournament, studying the statistics of earlier series.

Most of the famous faces who crossed into poker arrived with their fame already made. Martin went the other way: a working pro who became a household name in Canada through television.

Martin has held a sponsorship with each of the three largest online poker operators of his era. Very few players have done it, and he did it inside four and a half years.

Who sponsors Kevin Martin?

GGPoker. He announced the deal on 10 October 2020 as the lead signing of the GGSquad, a team of streamers built around the operator’s Twitch channel. He has represented the site ever since.

The signing ended a year out of the game. In September 2019 he had resigned from partypoker after about four months and announced he was retiring from poker and streaming altogether.

From Run It Up to Best Streamer

He was part of the first wave of Twitch poker, alongside fellow Albertans Jaime and Matt Staples. In September 2016 the three moved to Montreal together to stream full time.

That scene revolved around Run It Up, and the Reno festival it spawned gave Martin some of his earliest live results. We covered Twitch pioneer Jason Somerville’s poker return when its founder came back to the game.

Recognition came on 3 March 2023, when he was named Best Streamer at the 4th Global Poker Awards in Las Vegas. He had been a beaten finalist in the same category a year earlier.

The awards have since stalled, and we explained why the 2026 Global Poker Awards were cancelled when the news broke. His Twitch channel, now called KmartPoker, has more than 140,000 followers.

YouTube has become the bigger platform for him. He is one of the poker streamers and content creators we profile who now treats Twitch as the live feed and YouTube as the archive.

He vlogs from Las Vegas during the series too, and features in our guide to where to watch the WSOP each summer.

Martin’s live record is mostly a regional one. The bulk of it was built in Calgary between 2018 and 2021, at buy-ins of C$1,600 or less.

He has no WSOP bracelets and no Circuit rings. WSOP.com credits him with five final tables from 132 cashes, most of them in online events.

What is Kevin Martin’s biggest poker win?

Live, it is $72,200 for 25th place in the WSOP Paradise Main Event on 9 December 2023. The $5,000 buy-in event drew 3,010 entries and a $15,050,000 prize pool, with $2,000,000 going to the German qualifier Stanislav Zegal.

Before that, his best was $48,210 as runner-up in the Run It Up Reno VII Main Event in October 2018. His biggest score of any kind came online and is covered in the next section.

All figures are US dollar conversions from The Hendon Mob. The Calgary prizes were paid in Canadian dollars, the largest being C$49,700 for the 2018 Summer Super Stack title.

Three of those nine results are second places. Our guide explains how ICM shapes final table decisions, and why the last pay jump matters most to a player whose best cashes sit in the low five figures.

Six live wins, five of them in Calgary

His only title outside Alberta was his first, at Run It Up Reno in 2016. Prizes are shown in the currency they were paid in.

One oddity sits lower down the list. In November 2016 he finished second in a $120 mixed chess and No-Limit Hold’em tournament at a PokerStars festival in New Jersey, for $523.

His latest live cash came in the largest tournament Canada has staged. The C$5,000 WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event at Playground drew 2,844 entries and a C$12,689,928 prize pool, and Martin finished 238th for C$11,000 on 3 September 2026.

Online tournaments are Martin’s day job, and almost all of that volume is untracked. The exception is anything carrying the WSOP name, which is how his best result is on the record at all.

In December 2021 he finished third in the $400 WSOP Circuit COLOSSUS on GGPoker for $207,178. He streamed every hand, and said afterwards that he had started Day 2 with 17 big blinds.

That one payout is worth 42% of everything The Hendon Mob has recorded for him since 2015. It is also nearly three times his best live cash.

A field of 9,624 is the purest form of tournament variance: a $400 entry, a four-figure min-cash for the top 1,000 and six-figure prizes for only the top five. You can test how rare that outcome is with our tournament variance calculator for MTTs.

Earlier online milestones

Smaller results mattered more at the time they landed, because each one arrived on stream and grew the channel.

Martin is the rare poker player with a reality television title already on his record. That made him an obvious pick when GGPoker and the Poker After Dark team filmed Game of Gold in 2023.

Sixteen players were drawn into four teams for a $456,000 first prize. Martin landed on Team Clubs with team captain and GGPoker star Daniel Negreanu, Michael Soyza and one of the most feared high rollers alive.

What happened to Kevin Martin on Game of Gold?

Team Clubs were the favourites and the first team eliminated. They finished bottom of the opening round of sit and gos, and all four players went home at the end of episode four.

The deciding hand belonged to Hall of Famer and teammate Jason Koon, whose short-stack shove was called and beaten. Martin’s reaction from the rail became the clip of the week: “Can we win one all-in one time?”

He had spent the first episode in the green room praising the raw talent of Game of Gold breakout Olga Iermolcheva, who went on to outlast his whole team.

The season ended in victory for PokerGO broadcaster and player Maria Ho. In the same autumn Martin appeared on The Traitors Canada, where he was banished in episode six.

Poker Wars: his own format

In May 2026 he stopped waiting for a second season and built his own show. Poker Wars ran from 21 to 24 May on his YouTube and Twitch channels, produced in Calgary and paid for out of his own pocket.

Six contestants, including fellow Big Brother Canada winner Jon Pardy and poker creator Abby Merk, played live and online matches for power in a social game. Tournament player Haven Taylor beat streamer Jake Straus in a best-of-three heads-up final for the C$50,000.

Martin hosted and commentated. For the format that inspired it, we have every Game of Gold season one episode in one place.

What is Kevin Martin’s playing style?

Martin is a volume tournament player rather than a high roller. His schedule is built on low and mid-stakes online events, and he has never claimed to be a solver specialist.

Negreanu’s assessment during Game of Gold was that he plays a lot and works constantly on his game. His own pitch for Poker Wars was blunter: a game of personalities and table talk with no GTO required.

Poker from Zero: 500 hours for $500

His best known experiment began in late February 2024. He set his bankroll aside, pawned belongings for a starting stake and streamed his life 24 hours a day until he reached $5,000 or 500 hours.

We reported on how Kevin Martin launched Poker from Zero at the time. The clock won.

His verdict was blunter than most streamers manage. “We just take the L,” he said, before advising viewers not to try spinning up a roll from nothing and to look after their money.

It is the same conclusion we reached when we looked at why most poker bankroll challenges fail: the format rewards drama, not discipline.

The stream still worked as a business. His YouTube channel went from about 87,000 subscribers to 101,000 in its first two weeks. For the unglamorous alternative, see our bankroll management rules for tournament players.

Martin met Pilar “Pili” Nemer in the Big Brother Canada house in 2015, and their showmance outlasted the series. They later married, and announced their separation in September 2023.

He went on to date Gurleen Maan, the runner-up on his season of The Traitors Canada. The pair raced together on The Amazing Race Canada in 2024, won the first leg and went out in the semi-final leg, finishing fifth.

Where does Kevin Martin live?

His 2024 Amazing Race Canada biography gave Calgary as both hometown and current city, and Poker Wars was produced there. The Hendon Mob still lists Lethbridge, which may date from his radio years in southern Alberta.

He has not confirmed his current relationship status publicly. Away from poker he has named the gym and golf as his main interests.

Martin’s 2026 was split between producing and playing. Poker Wars in May was the biggest bet of his content career, a self-funded show aimed at reality television fans who have never watched a poker stream.

At the tables, August belonged to WSOP Online on GGPoker. He cashed six times in the series, with a best finish of ninth from 663 entries in an opening-day Kick-Off event for $5,156.

September took him to Playground for the first WSOP Super Circuit held in Canada. His Main Event cash on 3 September lifted his tracked live total to within $10,000 of the half-million mark.

He remains a GGPoker ambassador and a fixture in the site’s WSOP-branded series. Follow our latest poker news and tournament results for his next deep run.

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.

Martin’s range rests on tracked winnings, one disclosed television prize and a decade of undisclosed sponsorship and content income. No biography site offers a figure with a stated method.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings on this profile are sourced from The Hendon Mob and WSOP.com. We cite totals as gross payouts, not profit.

The two databases cover different events, so we report both and explain the gap. Figures quoted from contemporary reports, including the COLOSSUS payout, are labelled as such.

How we cover controversies

Where controversies exist, we report verified facts and clearly sourced claims without editorialising or assigning blame. Martin has no material controversies on the public record.