Bryn Kenney

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Bryn Kenney
Bryn Kenney (2015)
Bryn Kenney (2015)
  Personal information  
Date of birth November 1, 1986
place of birth United StatesUnited States Long Beach
Nickname BrynKenney
place of residence United StatesUnited States new York
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 20,563,324
Total prize money $ 56,403,502
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 41
Best main event 28th ( 2010 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 7th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 7th
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: August 8, 2020

Bryn J. Kenney (born November 1, 1986 in Long Beach , New York ) is a professional American poker player .

Kenney is considered one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned almost $ 56.5 million in live tournaments playing poker , making him the most successful poker player in terms of tournament prize money. He won the most prize money of all players at the PokerStars Championship , the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the Triton Super High Roller Series . Kenney won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker in 2014, the main event of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in 2019 and numerous super high roller events, including two titles each on the European Poker Tour and the Triton Super High Roller Series . In August 2019, he won the Triton Million for Charity, the highest prize money ever paid out in a poker tournament of more than 20.5 million US dollars.

Kenney was at the top of the poker world rankings for 14 weeks in a row from August 23 to November 29, 2017 . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , he was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Education and family

Kenney graduated from high school in his hometown in 2004 . He lives in New York . His younger brother Tyler (* 1989) also earns his living as a poker player. Kenney was dating the poker player Ana Marquez .

Poker career

On-line

Kenney plays online on the PokerStars platform under the nickname BrynKenney . He won in 2010 and 2014 each have a title at the Spring Championship of Online Poker and finished in 2013 and 2017 each have a second place at the World Championship of Online Poker . But these four results earned him prize money of just under 1.3 million  US dollars a.

live

Career

2007-2013: beginnings

Kenney has participated in prestigious live tournaments since 2007 . At the end of October 2007, Kenney cashed in at the championship event of the North American Poker Championships as part of the World Poker Tour in Niagara Falls and finished 31st out of 504 players for around 35,000  Canadian dollars . In June 2008 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and placed in the money at a tournament in the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the 2010 WSOP , Kenney earned more than $ 400,000 in four cash placements, with his biggest win coming in 28th in the main event . In early 2011, he reached the final table at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) super high roller event in the Bahamas and finished the tournament in third place for his highest cash prize to date of $ 643,000.

Overall, Kenney had tournament revenue of just under 3.5 million US dollars by the end of 2013.

2014–2018: Successful super high roller
Kenney at WPT Alpha8 Florida (2015)

At the 2014 World Series of Poker , Kenney made it to three final tables and won a mixed 10-game tournament . To do this, he prevailed against 444 other players and received a bracelet and a prize of over 150,000 US dollars. From mid-December 2014 to mid-January 2015, Kenney earned more than $ 1.5 million in one month by hitting two final tables in Las Vegas and one final table and eleventh place at the PCA in the Bahamas at high roller events . At the 2015 WSOP , he narrowly missed winning his second bracelet and ended up in second place in an event for almost $ 300,000 in prize money. At the beginning of 2016, Kenney won the PCA's super high roller tournament, in which he had already finished third the previous year. For this he defeated a field of 57 players and secured his highest prize money to date of over 1.6 million US dollars. In early June 2016 , he made the final table at the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and finished the tournament in sixth place for $ 800,000. In November 2016, Kenney took second place in the Triton Super High Roller Series Main Event in the Philippines for around $ 1.4 million in prize money. From April to November 2016 he also played as team manager of the New York Rounders alongside his brother in the Global Poker League , but missed the playoffs with his team. At the end of April 2017, Bryn Kenney won the Super High Roller of the PokerStars Championship in Monte-Carlo and received a prize of just under 1.8 million  euros . In mid-September 2017, he also prevailed at the third event of the Poker Masters at the Aria Resort & Casino and received prize money of 960,000 US dollars. With income of over one million US dollars from the five events of the Poker Masters , Kenney finished second behind Steffen Sontheimer in the race for the Purple Jacket ™ . Overall, Kenney earned more than $ 8.5 million from tournament poker in 2017, more than any other player. He also led the ranking of the GPI Player of the Year for a long time and was only relegated to second place by Adrián Mateos in mid-December 2017 . For this he received the GPI American Player of the Year award at the American Poker Awards in Los Angeles at the end of February 2018 . In March 2018, Kenney took fifth place at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau for the equivalent of almost 1.5 million US dollars in prize money. In mid-April 2018 he finished fifth in the € 100k Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions in Barcelona for 340,000 euros. At the 2018 WSOP , Kenney finished fifth in the first high roller event for just under $ 650,000.

Overall, Kenney had tournament revenue of more than $ 25 million by the end of 2018.

Since 2019: Jump to number 1 on the All Time Money List

In early February 2019, Kenney won the main event of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne and received prize money of almost 1.3 million Australian dollars due to a deal with two other players  . Two weeks later he also prevailed at the seventh event of the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino and secured a prize of 450,000 US dollars. At the beginning of March 2019, Kenney took fourth place at the third event of the Triton Series in Jeju-do, South Korea , which was paid for around 500,000 US dollars. Three days later, he finished runner-up in the series' main event and received more than $ 3 million in prize money from a deal with Timothy Adams . In May 2019, Kenney won two Triton Series tournaments in Budva , Montenegro , within three days , earning him more than $ 4 million in prize money. Early August 2019 he reached the Triton Million for Charity in London , which has a buy-in of one million pounds world most expensive poker tournament, the final table . There he finished second after losing heads-up to Aaron Zang , but due to a deal he received the highest prize money ever paid out in a poker tournament of the equivalent of more than 20.5 million US dollars. With this, Kenney took the lead in the All Time Money List , which he has held since then.

Kenney's live tournament revenue in 2019 was over $ 30 million, making it by far the most prize money of any poker player. With this sum, he set a new record for tournament income within one year and already exceeded the previous record of 25.4 million US dollars that Justin Bonomo won in 2018 in August .

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2007 00.071,387 -
2008 00.083,497 -
2009 00.066,386 -
2010 00.569.009 -
2011 01,195,492 1
2012 00.487,657 1
2013 00.845.141 1
2014 01,281,367 2
2015 02,099,904 1
2016 05,207,847 3
2017 08,501,897 5
2018 05,269,289 2
2019 30,321,412 5
2020 00.399.221 -
total 56,403,502 21st

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Bryn Kenney in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 9, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ PokerStars Championship All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 20, 2017.
  5. ↑ Atlantis Resort & Casino (Paradise Island) All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ Triton Rankings on triton-series.com, accessed on August 7, 2019 (English).
  7. ↑ Aaron Zang Wins Triton Million - A Helping Hand for Charity (£ 13,779,491); Bryn Kenney Now First on All-Time Money List on pokernews.com August 4, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 27, 2019.
  9. ↑ Tyler Kenney in the Global Poker Index database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  10. ↑ The 15 Most Successful Poker Pairs in the World on pokerzeit.com on February 11, 2013, accessed on July 9, 2018.
  11. ↑ BrynKenney in the PocketFives database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  12. ↑ BrynKenney Poker Rankings on pokerstars at playerscope.com, accessed October 20, 2017.
  13. ↑ North American Poker Championships (C $ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  14. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  15. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 2, 2016.
  16. ↑ PCA - 2011 ($ 100,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016 (English).
  17. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 1,500 10-Game Mix (Event # 63)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  18. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 2, 2016.
  19. ↑ PCA - 2016 ($ 100,000 # 1 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller 8-Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  20. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl with 888poker ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  21. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series (HK $ 490,000 + 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 13, 2016.
  22. ↑ New York Rounders on the Global Poker League website, accessed June 2, 2016.
  23. ↑ PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino (€ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Eight Max (Event 15)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 30, 2017 (English).
  24. ↑ Poker Masters ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Event # 3) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 17, 2017.
  25. ↑ Steffen Sontheimer Claims The Poker Masters Purple Jacket ™ After Second Win of Series, Takes Down Event # 5 for $ 1,512,000 on pokernews.com on September 21, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017 (English).
  26. ↑ Bryn Kenney is 2017's Biggest Live Tournament Money Winner with $ 8.5M in Cashes on highstakesdb.com on December 31, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  27. ↑ Adrian Mateos wins the GPI 2017 Player of the Year rating on hochgepokert.com on December 22, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  28. ↑ Poker Awards: Polk gets nothing , Neeme wins double on pokerfirma.com on February 23, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2018.
  29. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl China (HK $ 2,000,000 + 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 22, 2018 (English).
  30. ↑ partypoker Millions Grand Final Barcelona (€ 100,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - € 100K Super High Roller # 6) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 12, 2018.
  31. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2018.
  32. ↑ 2019 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event # 11) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 5, 2019.
  33. ↑ 2019 US Poker Open ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - USPO # 07 25K NLH (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 21, 2019.
  34. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6-Handed Day 1 (Event # 3)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 5, 2019 (English).
  35. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 2,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju 2019 Main (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 9, 2019.
  36. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6-Handed (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 11, 2019.
  37. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Montenegro Main Event (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 11, 2019.
  38. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - London (£ 1,050,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Million for Charity (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 3, 2019.
  39. ↑ 2019 Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 8, 2019.
  40. ↑ Justin Bonomo's Poker Statistics in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kenney, Bryn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kenney, Bryn J. (full name); BrynKenney (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach , New York , United States