Martin Kabrhel Net Worth 2026 – Career Earnings, Age & Poker Bio

Martin Kabrhel is the Czech Republic’s all-time leading live tournament earner with $19 million in tracked cashes, five WSOP bracelets, and six Circuit rings. He is one of poker’s most polarising figures, known for high roller results and a table presence that has drawn penalties, legal threats, and card-marking accusations.

His net worth is estimated at $5–10 million, though the figure is not publicly confirmed. The $19 million figure covers live tournament payouts tracked by Hendon Mob and does not account for buy-ins, taxes, staking arrangements, or private income from his business ventures in data analytics and esports.

This profile covers Kabrhel’s verified earnings, all five bracelets, the 2023 card-marking controversy, his speech play strategy, and his business interests in Ematiq and Entropiq. It is part of the poker players directory and career profiles and is updated regularly as new results come in.

Martin Kabrhel’s net worth is estimated at $5–10 million, though the figure has never been publicly confirmed. No credible source has published a verified number, and Kabrhel himself has never disclosed one.

What is on the public record is $19,028,044 in live tournament cashes across 205 results tracked by Hendon Mob’s live poker results database. That number represents gross payouts before buy-ins, taxes, travel, and any staking splits are deducted.

How much is Martin Kabrhel worth?

The short answer is that nobody outside Kabrhel’s inner circle knows the exact figure. Our estimate of $5–10 million is based on the following reasoning.

His tracked live earnings of $19 million place him at #1 on the Czech all-time money list (out of 6,237 players), but gross payouts are not profit. At a roughly 20% cash rate, his 205 cashes imply approximately 1,000 lifetime tournament entries.

With an average buy-in across his mix of $10,000–$15,000 (ranging from $600 Circuit events to $250K Super High Rollers), that is $10–15 million in buy-ins alone before taxes, travel, and staking splits.

Kabrhel runs two businesses: Ematiq, a data-analytics and algorithmic trading firm founded around 2018, and Entropiq, a Czech esports organisation he launched in January 2020. Neither company publishes revenue or valuation data, but both represent additional income streams beyond poker.

Celebrity biography sites that estimate poker players’ net worth do not disclose their methodology. We do not repeat those figures here.

What are Martin Kabrhel’s verified career earnings?

Two primary sources track Kabrhel’s tournament record. The figures differ because they cover different event sets.

The gap between the two totals comes from non-WSOP events: EPT, Triton Poker, partypoker MILLIONS, BSOP, and other European circuit stops that Hendon Mob captures but WSOP.com does not.

His single largest live cash was €2,624,340 (approximately $2,990,088 at the time) for winning the 2018 WSOPE €100,000 King’s Super High Roller in Rozvadov. That result alone accounts for roughly 16% of his lifetime tracked total.

Online earnings and cash game results are entirely private. Kabrhel is known to play high-stakes PLO cash in European casinos, but those sessions are not tracked by any public database.

Kabrhel’s $19,028,044 in tracked live cashes spans 205 results across European and American circuits. His tournament record breaks into three tiers: WSOP bracelet wins, $100K+ super high roller runs, and a steady volume of mid-stakes European results.

The data below is verified through his official WSOP.com player profile for bracelet and Circuit events, and Hendon Mob for non-WSOP results.

How many WSOP bracelets does Martin Kabrhel have?

Kabrhel has won five WSOP bracelets between 2017 and 2025. Three came at WSOP Europe in Rozvadov, one at the main summer series in Las Vegas, and one more at WSOPE 2025 in Rozvadov.

Bracelet #2, the 2018 €100K King’s Super High Roller, remains his career-defining win. The €2,624,340 payout (approximately $2,990,088 at the time) was the largest single prize ever won by a Czech player.

Bracelet #4 was significant for a different reason. The $1,000 Mini Main Event attracted 18,947 entries, one of the largest live poker tournament fields ever assembled. Kabrhel navigated that field to become the first Czech player to win a WSOP bracelet on American soil.

WSOP Circuit rings

Kabrhel also holds six WSOP Circuit rings. The first five were all won at King’s Casino in Rozvadov between November 2016 and March 2019, including the €1,700 WSOPC Main Event in March 2019 (€200,350).

His sixth ring came in March 2026 at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas: a $600 NLH Monster Stack with 587 entries, paying $52,420. That was his first Circuit win outside the Czech Republic.

Key non-bracelet results

Beyond the bracelets and rings, Kabrhel has built a strong record in super high roller fields across multiple tours.

The two $250K Super High Roller results stand out. Kabrhel’s 2023 third-place finish for $2,279,038 came during the same event where Andrew Robl accused him of marking cards, a controversy covered in detail later in this profile.

Did Martin Kabrhel win the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year?

No. Shaun Deeb’s WSOP Player of the Year win in 2025 gave Deeb his second POY title with 4,194.10 points. Benny Glaser finished second at 4,153.66 points.

Kabrhel finished in the top four of the 2025 POY race. WSOP.com did not publish numerical rankings beyond Deeb, and third-party sources disagree on whether Kabrhel placed third or fourth. We address this conflict in the Sources and Methodology section below.

His two bracelets and deep runs across the 2025 summer and WSOPE schedule made the POY contention possible. He is the first Czech player to finish in the top four of the race. Our full list of WSOP Main Event champions puts his record in wider context.

Martin Kabrhel was born on 17 November 1982 in Litomyšl, a small town in the Pardubice region of eastern Bohemia. He moved to Prague for university, enrolling in mathematics at Charles University, one of central Europe’s oldest institutions.

The mathematical training shaped his approach to poker from the start. Kabrhel has described his game as rooted in probability and algorithmic thinking, skills he later applied to his data-analytics company Ematiq and the esports organisation Entropiq (both covered in detail in the Business Ventures section below).

Where is Martin Kabrhel from?

Kabrhel is from Litomyšl in the Czech Republic. He studied in Prague and now resides in Vienna, Austria, according to his Hendon Mob profile.

Some sources still list Prague as his residence. The distinction matters mainly for tax jurisdiction, which is relevant to the net worth question covered earlier in this profile.

His first recorded live tournament cash came in 2009 at the European Poker Championship in Baden, Austria, where he finished first for €190,320. He was in his mid-twenties at the time.

That result marked the beginning of a 17-year tournament career that would take him from the European circuit to the WSOP $250K Super High Roller and eventually to five bracelets. The full timeline is broken down in the next section.

Kabrhel’s 17-year tournament career falls into four distinct phases. The specific results and prize figures are covered in the Career Earnings section above. This section focuses on the strategic arc: how each phase built on the last.

How old is Martin Kabrhel?

Martin Kabrhel is 43 years old. He was born on 17 November 1982 in Litomyšl, Czech Republic.

He turned professional in his mid-twenties and won his first bracelet at 34. His most productive period came between ages 41 and 43, when he won three of his five bracelets.

2009 to 2015: European circuit and early high rollers

Kabrhel’s first tracked cash was a win at the 2009 European Poker Championship in Baden, Austria. A year later he won the EPT Deauville €20K High Roller for €250,000.

These early results established him on the European circuit, but he remained a regional name. His total earnings through 2015 were modest by super high roller standards, and he had no WSOP cashes of note during this stretch.

The maths background was already visible in his approach. Players who encountered him in this period noted a GTO-influenced baseline combined with an aggressive verbal style that would later become his defining trait.

2016 to 2019: King of Rozvadov

King’s Casino in Rozvadov became Kabrhel’s home venue when the WSOP Circuit and WSOP Europe expanded their European footprint there. Between November 2016 and March 2019, he won five Circuit rings and two bracelets at the same casino.

The €100K King’s Super High Roller bracelet in October 2018 was the breakthrough. Beating David Peters heads-up for €2,624,340 put Kabrhel into a different tier of the game and onto the radar of the global super high roller circuit.

By the end of this phase he had six Circuit rings and two bracelets, all won within 30 minutes of Prague. The home-field advantage was obvious, but the results were legitimate: the fields included top super high roller regulars.

Our profile covering Jason Koon’s Triton Poker dominance gives a sense of the level Kabrhel was up against at King’s.

Competitors with track records matching Stephen Chidwick’s high roller results were regulars at King’s during this stretch. Rozvadov may have been home turf, but the opposition was world-class.

2022 to 2023: $250K Super High Roller runs

Kabrhel moved into the ultra-nosebleed tier in 2022, entering the WSOP’s $250,000 Super High Roller for the first time. He finished sixth for approximately $760,000.

He returned in 2023 and finished third for $2,279,038. That tournament became the flashpoint for the card-marking controversy covered later in this profile, when Andrew Robl publicly accused Kabrhel of bending card corners during play.

The controversy overshadowed the result, but the money confirmed Kabrhel could compete at the highest buy-in level. He had climbed the global all-time money list, and our profile of Bryn Kenney’s earnings and controversy shows the calibre of company he was now keeping.

His trajectory paralleled players who built massive totals through consistent super high roller volume. Our coverage of Alex Foxen’s bracelet and GPI record shows a similar path to the top of the all-time money list.

2024 to 2025: the bracelet surge

In the space of 14 months, Kabrhel won three more bracelets. The €50K Diamond High Roller at WSOPE 2024 in Rozvadov came first. Then two in 2025: the $1,000 Mini Main Event in Las Vegas (his first American bracelet) and the €10K PLO Mystery Bounty at WSOPE Rozvadov.

He also finished third in the WSOP Paradise $125K Triton NLH event for $1,367,000 and won the BSOP $30K Super High Roller in São Paulo for $395,798. The combined output across 2024 and 2025 pushed his career total past $19 million.

The 2025 summer series alone put him in contention for Player of the Year, a position that would have been unthinkable during his European-only phase a decade earlier.

2026 and beyond

Kabrhel’s 2026 season is covered in the Latest News section below. The key headline: a sixth Circuit ring in March 2026 in Las Vegas, his first won on American soil.

He enters the 2026 WSOP as a five-bracelet holder and a known quantity in every super high roller field. Whether the speech play and controversies follow him to the table is a separate question.

Kabrhel’s playing style sits at the intersection of mathematics and psychology. His foundation is GTO-influenced, built on the probability training from his mathematics degree. But what defines him at the table is everything on top of that: relentless speech play, physical posturing, and deliberate time management.

The combination makes him one of the most discussed players in modern poker for reasons that have nothing to do with his cards.

What is Martin Kabrhel’s “speech play” strategy?

Kabrhel uses continuous table talk as a strategic weapon. He asks opponents direct questions during hands, comments on board texture, stands up and hovers over the table, and takes extended time before acting. The goal is to disrupt focus and provoke emotional mistakes.

The approach has drawn comparisons to Will Kassouf’s speech play and controversies at the 2016 WSOP Main Event. Both players treat verbal pressure as a legitimate edge rather than a social nicety.

There are key differences. Kassouf’s style was built around catchphrases and sustained monologues. Kabrhel’s version is more targeted: he asks specific questions designed to narrow opponents’ ranges, then uses their responses (or silence) to inform his decisions.

Aaron Mermelstein, a WSOP bracelet winner who has played extensively against Kabrhel, has described the approach as calculated rather than chaotic. Mermelstein noted that Kabrhel’s verbal pressure serves a genuine information-gathering purpose, even when it looks like pure provocation from the rail.

Critics disagree. Many opponents and commentators view the tactics as angle-shooting: technically within the rules but designed to exploit the grey area between strategy and unsportsmanlike conduct.

Kabrhel’s most recognisable verbal tic is the phrase “not like that”, often delivered after an opponent makes a play he considers suboptimal. The catchphrase has become a meme in poker communities and a shorthand for his abrasive table persona.

The 10-second shot clock penalty

In May 2025, during WSOP Event #5 (the $5,000 PLO), Kabrhel received an unprecedented penalty from tournament officials: a mandatory 10-second shot clock on every decision for the rest of the event. The penalty was a direct response to his extreme tanking, which had slowed the table to a crawl.

We covered the incident in detail: Kabrhel’s first controversy of the 2025 WSOP. It was the first known instance of the WSOP imposing a per-player shot clock as a disciplinary measure rather than a blanket table rule.

Kabrhel finished in the money despite the restriction. The incident raised broader questions about whether poker’s existing rules are equipped to handle a player who treats time management as an exploitative tool.

Tournament director Matt Savage has spoken publicly about the challenge of policing speech play and tanking. Our coverage of Matt Savage on Kassouf and Kabrhel explores how the industry is wrestling with where to draw the line between strategy and disruption.

Kabrhel’s table behaviour has generated more off-table headlines than most five-bracelet winners accumulate in an entire career. The incidents range from a formal WSOP investigation into card-marking to social media tier lists and anonymous forum threads.

This section presents each incident with the available facts from both sides. Where allegations are unresolved, we state that clearly.

Did Martin Kabrhel cheat at the WSOP?

During the June 2023 WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller, Andrew Robl’s career and net worth page covers the incident from Robl’s perspective. At the time, Robl tweeted that he had seen Kabrhel mark cards in every tournament they had played together.

Five other professionals publicly backed Robl’s concerns. Phil Hellmuth’s WSOP bracelet record lends weight to his voice in the poker community, and he was joined by Dan Smith, Chance Kornuth, Brian Rast, and Vahan Martirosyan in stating or implying they had witnessed similar behaviour.

Justin Bonomo’s high roller tournament career profile notes his involvement in the dispute. Bonomo was among those named in the subsequent legal action filed by Kabrhel’s attorney, Daniel B. Ravicher.

We covered Robl’s original card-marking accusation against Kabrhel when it broke in June 2023. Kabrhel’s response came quickly: he denied the allegations and his attorney, Daniel B. Ravicher, issued legal threats and later a formal preservation demand against Robl and five others, including Bonomo, Kornuth, Smith, and PokerGO.

Kabrhel denied all allegations. In a tweet on 20 June 2023, he wrote that people could put “whatever stickers” on his behaviour but that the accusations were false. He has never publicly addressed the specific mechanics of the alleged marking.

The WSOP opened a formal investigation. It closed without a finding of wrongdoing against Kabrhel. Kabrhel finished third in the event for $2,279,038.

No lawsuit was filed in the approximately three years since Ravicher issued the preservation demand. The matter remains publicly unresolved: there is no formal finding of cheating, and no formal exoneration beyond the investigation’s closure.

The incident was widely discussed on Doug Polk’s podcast and poker career YouTube channel and across poker media. It remains the most searched topic associated with Kabrhel’s name.

Negreanu’s “worst company at the table” ranking

In August 2022, Daniel Negreanu published a tier-list ranking of poker players he least enjoyed sharing a table with. Kabrhel appeared in the top tier alongside Jake Schindler. Daniel Negreanu’s profile and career page covers his full history of public disputes.

The ranking was editorial content from Negreanu’s personal channel, not an official complaint or investigation. It predated the card-marking accusations by 10 months.

2025 collusion allegations on 2plus2

In mid-2025, an anonymous poster on the 2plus2 poker forum alleged that Kabrhel had colluded with a Czech player named Žižka during PLO cash games in Tallinn. The thread included hand histories as supporting evidence.

The hand histories were described by forum regulars as “far from conclusive.” No poker tour, casino, or regulatory body took action. Kabrhel did not publicly respond to the thread.

WSOPE 2026 Prague: ongoing conduct warnings

At the WSOPE 2026 in Prague (April 2026), Kabrhel received repeated warnings from floor staff for his table conduct. One incident involved a five-card deal error that occurred while Kabrhel was away from his seat.

David “ODB” Baker tweeted “Gonna be a long year” in reference to the disruptions. The Prague events followed the same pattern seen throughout Kabrhel’s career: conduct warnings without formal suspension or ban.

As of May 2026, Kabrhel has never been banned or suspended from any major poker tour. He remains eligible to play all WSOP, WPT, and EPT events.

Kabrhel’s income extends beyond tournament poker. He runs two businesses that draw on the same mathematical and analytical skill set he applies at the table. Neither company publishes financial data, which is why his net worth remains unconfirmed despite $19 million in tracked live cashes.

What is Ematiq?

Ematiq is a data-analytics and algorithmic trading company that Kabrhel founded around 2018. The firm operates in the financial technology space, applying mathematical modelling to trading decisions.

Public information about Ematiq is limited. The company does not maintain an active public-facing website, and no revenue, valuation, or staffing figures have been published. What is known comes primarily from Wikidata entries and German Wikipedia, both of which identify Kabrhel as the founder.

The connection to poker is direct: the probability and pattern-recognition skills that underpin algorithmic trading are the same ones Kabrhel developed through his mathematics degree and 17 years of professional play.

What is Entropiq?

Entropiq is a Czech esports organisation that Kabrhel founded in January 2020. The brand fielded competitive rosters in CS:GO (later CS2), League of Legends, Valorant, and several other titles.

The CS2 roster was the highest-profile team. Entropiq competed in European qualifiers and HLTV-ranked events before benching the roster on 21 June 2024. The brand remains active in other titles as of 2026.

The role of Czech mathematician and entrepreneur Karel Janeček in Entropiq is disputed: German Wikipedia describes him as a co-founder, while Liquipedia and HLTV credit Kabrhel as the sole founder. No primary source has clarified whether Janeček’s involvement was as a co-founder, financial backer, or something else.

This distinction matters for the net worth question. If Janeček provided significant capital, Kabrhel’s equity stake may be smaller than it appears from the “founder” title alone.

Do Kabrhel’s businesses affect his poker career?

Not in any documented way. Kabrhel has continued to play a full tournament schedule across WSOP, WSOPE, Triton, and BSOP events while running both companies. There is no public evidence that either business has conflicted with his playing commitments.

The businesses do, however, change how his financial profile should be understood. A player with $19 million in tracked tournament cashes and two active companies is in a fundamentally different position from a player with the same cashes and no outside income.

As of May 2026, Kabrhel is an active tournament professional competing across WSOP, WSOPE, Triton Poker, and BSOP events. He has no publicly confirmed sponsorship deal with any poker room or brand.

His 2025 and early 2026 schedule was the most geographically diverse of his career. Results in Las Vegas, the Bahamas (WSOP Paradise), São Paulo (BSOP), and Rozvadov (WSOPE) show a player who has moved beyond the European circuit that defined his earlier years.

The sixth Circuit ring in March 2026, won at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas, was another American milestone. He enters the 2026 WSOP season as one of the most decorated active players in the field, with five bracelets and six rings.

In April 2026, social media personality Frankie C publicly challenged Kabrhel to a heads-up match. We covered the challenge: Frankie C challenges Martin Kabrhel heads-up. As of publication, Kabrhel has not publicly accepted.

The WSOP 2026 summer series begins on 26 May. With ESPN returning to broadcast the Main Event and Kabrhel’s table presence guaranteed to generate camera time, his conduct and results will be among the most-watched storylines of the summer.

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This profile was researched and written by the VIP-Grinders editorial team, drawing on primary sources and verified databases. All figures were last checked in May 2026.

How we handle “net worth”

Net worth figures for poker players are not a matter of public record. We do not repeat estimates from celebrity net worth sites because none disclose a credible methodology. Where we can verify a component (tracked tournament earnings, known business ventures), we report it. Where we cannot, we say so.

How we report earnings

Live tournament earnings in this profile are sourced from Hendon Mob and WSOP.com. Both are dynamic databases: a new cash can change the total between the time of writing and the time of reading. Where the two sources give different figures, we note both.

All earnings figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, taxes, travel, and staking splits. We state this explicitly because the difference between “gross payouts” and “take-home income” can be enormous.

How we cover controversies

We report what is documented: who said what, when, and what happened next. Where allegations are unresolved (such as the 2023 card-marking incident), we present both sides and state the current status. We do not issue editorial verdicts on disputed matters.

A note on the 2025 POY ranking

WSOP.com published Shaun Deeb as the 2025 Player of the Year winner but did not release numerical rankings beyond the top position. Third-party sources disagree on Kabrhel’s exact placement: one lists him third, another lists him fourth (with Michael Mizrachi third at 3,804.96 points). We use “finished in the top four” to reflect this conflict accurately.

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