What Is the Highest Stakes Poker Game Ever?

The highest stakes poker game ever played was in 2007 between Texas hold’em world champion and bracelet winner, Phil Ivey and Australian professional player, Andrew “AJ” Zdroik. The game was a $10,000 buy-in heads up tournament and each player started with just over $1 million in chips. At the end of the nine-hour long showdown, Ivey had won $2.8 million while Zdroik had taken home a cool $1.

9 million. The previous record for the highest stakes poker game was set in 2004 when Canadian professional player and world champion, Phil Hellmuth, won $2.4 million against American prodigy, Erik Seidel.

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