Kings of Instagram: Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari tops in followers among poker pros

With nearly $40 million in prize money from live tournaments, Daniel Negreanu is the most successful poker player in history, and the forty-something Canadian is also tops among his card-playing peers on Instagram with nearly a quarter million followers.

Aside from Negreanu, Phil Ivey is the only other poker pro to breach the 100-thousand follower threshold on Instagram. Ivey leads a group of four Americans to make the top ten most popular players on the photo-sharing social media service.

The other birth countries represented by poker players in the top ten are Iran, Germany, France, Finland and Lebanon.

UPDATED January 27, 2024

A post shared by Joe Hachem (@josephhachemofficial) on Apr 18, 2018 at 6:38pm PDT

Joe Hachem
WSOP Final Tables: 6
Born March 11, 1966 🇱🇧 Lebanon
Instagram followers: 16.5 thousand

A post shared by Bryn Kenney (@brynkenney) on May 27, 2018 at 12:36pm PDT

Byrn Kenney
WSOP Final Tables: 7
Born November 1, 1986 🇺🇸 Long Beach, New York
Instagram followers: 24.2 thousand

A post shared by Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier (@elkypoker) on Apr 16, 2018 at 2:17pm PDT

Bertrand Grospellier
WSOP Final Tables: 6
Born February 8, 1981 🇫🇷 Melun, France
Instagram followers: 45.9 thousand

A post shared by Jason Mercier (@realjasonmercier) on Apr 28, 2018 at 8:20am PDT

Jason Mercier
WSOP Final Tables: 17
Born November 12, 1986 🇺🇸 Port Charlotte, Florida
Instagram followers: 46.9 thousand

A post shared by Patrik Antonius Official (@patrik_antonius_official) on Mar 20, 2018 at 5:22am PDT

Patrik Antonius
WSOP Final Tables: 3
Born December 13, 1980 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Finland
Instagram followers: 60 thousand

A post shared by Fedor Holz (@fedorholz) on Jun 5, 2018 at 12:13pm PDT

Fedor Holz
WSOP Final Tables: 3
Born July 25, 1993 🇩🇪 Saarbrücken, Germany
Instagram followers: 70.6 thousand

A post shared by Phil Hellmuth (@beingthegreatest) on Jun 13, 2018 at 5:45pm PDT

Phil Hellmuth
WSOP Final Tables: 57
Born July 16, 1964 🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin
Instagram followers: 79 thousand

A post shared by Antonio Esfandiari (@magicantonio) on Sep 5, 2017 at 11:13pm PDT

Antonio Esfandiari
WSOP Final Tables: 10
Born December 8, 1978 🇮🇷 Tehran, Iran
Instagram followers: 82.9 thousand

A post shared by Phil Ivey (@philivey) on Jan 31, 2015 at 6:58am PST

Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr.
WSOP Final Tables: 31
Born February 1, 1977 🇺🇸 Riverside, California
Instagram followers: 132.7 thousand

A post shared by Daniel Negreanu (@dnegspoker) on May 5, 2018 at 11:31am PDT

Daniel Negreanu
WSOP Final Tables: 39
Born July 26, 1974 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario
Instagram followers: 259.4 thousand