Eric Yanovsky Poker Profile: Career, Results and Earnings
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Inducted 2014
Eric Yanovsky has developed from a promising tournament player into a regular presence in major live and high-stakes poker events. His résumé includes a $261,920 victory in a 6,480-entry tournament at the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open, deep World Series of Poker runs, a WSOP Paradise final table and a runner-up finish in the 2026 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event.
By the summer of 2026, Yanovsky had demonstrated that his results were not limited to one breakthrough tournament. He finished 10th in a $50,000 WSOP High Roller for $146,295 before earning another $159,040 by reaching heads-up play in a 936-entry WSOP Circuit Main Event.
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Who Is Eric Yanovsky?
Eric Yanovsky is an American tournament poker player whose recorded live results date to 2022. The Hendon Mob profile for Eric Yanovsky lists his residence as Brooklyn, New York, and identifies the United States as his nationality.
No verified public information establishes a birth date, and biographical details about Yanovsky outside poker remain limited. His tournament record, however, documents a rapid progression from regional WSOP Circuit final tables to major live events and high-stakes competition.
No-Limit Hold’em accounts for most of Yanovsky’s biggest scores, although he has also competed in Pot-Limit Omaha events. His results span large-field tournaments, high rollers, WSOP and WSOP Circuit events, WPT festival tournaments and WSOP Paradise.
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Eric Yanovsky’s Early Poker Results
Yanovsky began accumulating recorded live results in 2022 and quickly reached a significant WSOP Circuit final table.
At the 2022 WSOP Circuit stop at Harrah’s Pompano Beach, he finished fourth in the $1,700 Main Event for $67,399. The tournament drew 726 entries, giving Yanovsky an early deep run in a large Circuit Main Event field.
His national-level profile grew during the 2023 World Series of Poker. Yanovsky reached the final stages of the $10,000 Secret Bounty event, ultimately finishing eighth for $73,756. The event attracted 568 entries and placed him deep in a field filled with established tournament professionals.
Those results established a foundation for the much larger scores that followed in 2024.
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The 2024 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Breakthrough
Yanovsky’s defining live victory came in November 2024 at the Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open in Hollywood, Florida.
Event 1 was a $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em tournament with eight starting flights and a $2 million guarantee. The event ultimately attracted 6,480 entries and generated a $2,138,400 prize pool.
Yanovsky advanced from Day 1 on a single entry and began Day 2 60th in chips among the 650 returning players. He continued climbing through the field, reaching Day 3 fourth in chips among the final 26 players.
By the final table, Yanovsky had moved into the chip lead. He briefly lost the lead but regained control and ultimately defeated Omar Morillo heads-up to win the tournament outright for $261,920.
The official Seminole Hard Rock tournament recap confirms both the 6,480-entry field and Yanovsky’s $261,920 championship prize.
That score remains his largest recorded live tournament cash as of August 23, 2026.
Earlier in 2024, Yanovsky had also finished second in a $5,000 Deep Stack event during the Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $101,729. Taken together, the two six-figure Florida results transformed his live tournament résumé during the year.
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Major Poker Accomplishments
Yanovsky’s most significant verified live results through August 23, 2026 include:
First place in the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open $400 Deep Stack for $261,920
Second place in the 2026 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas $1,700 Main Event for $159,040
Eighth place in the 2025 WSOP Paradise GGMillion$ Single Day Turbo for $157,300
10th place in the 2026 WSOP $50,000 High Roller for $146,295
Second place in a 2024 Lucky Hearts Poker Open $5,000 Deep Stack event for $101,729
Eighth place in the 2023 WSOP $10,000 Secret Bounty for $73,756
Fourth place in the 2022 WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Pompano Beach Main Event for $67,399
These results show a player capable of competing in very different tournament environments, from a $400 event with more than 6,000 entries to $25,000 and $50,000 high-stakes tournaments.
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How Much Has Eric Yanovsky Won in Poker?
Poker earnings databases can update at different times, making the date and source important when discussing a currently active player.
As of August 23, 2026, Hendon Mob’s visible results page lists Yanovsky with $1,366,557 in recorded live tournament earnings and a career-best cash of $261,920. However, its visible result history currently stops before his July 24, 2026 runner-up finish at Horseshoe Las Vegas.
The official WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas results confirm that Yanovsky earned another $159,040 for finishing second in that Main Event. Combining that official payout with Hendon Mob’s currently indexed total places his documented live earnings at at least $1,525,597 as of August 23, 2026, before accounting for any other results not yet incorporated into the database.
Because Yanovsky remains an active tournament player and database records can lag behind completed events, his career total should be treated as a changing statistic rather than a permanent figure.
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Eric Yanovsky’s WSOP Record
Yanovsky has accumulated several important World Series of Poker results, but he has not yet won a WSOP bracelet.
As of August 23, 2026, the official WSOP profile for Eric Yanovsky lists:
Zero WSOP bracelets
Zero WSOP Circuit rings
Three WSOP-family final tables
22 WSOP-family cashes
$808,952 in WSOP-family tournament earnings
The WSOP earnings figure covers results tracked within WSOP properties and should not be confused with Yanovsky’s complete live tournament earnings across all tours and casinos.
One of his most notable WSOP performances came at the 2023 series, when he finished eighth in the $10,000 Secret Bounty event.
His high-stakes WSOP résumé expanded substantially in 2026.
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Yanovsky’s 2026 $50,000 WSOP High Roller Run
At the 2026 World Series of Poker, Yanovsky made a deep run in Event #90, the $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em tournament.
He reached the final 10 players and finished 10th for $146,295, narrowly missing the official eight-player final table. PokerNews coverage of the $50,000 High Roller shows that the event eventually produced a final table featuring several prominent high-stakes professionals, with Jamie Dwan ultimately winning the tournament.
For Yanovsky, the result was significant because it demonstrated his ability to contend in one of the largest buy-in bracelet events on the WSOP schedule.
It also came during a summer in which he continued playing a mixture of No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha events.
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Runner-Up in the 2026 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event
Yanovsky followed his WSOP High Roller performance with another major result later in July.
The $1,700 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event attracted 936 entries and generated a $1,298,780 prize pool. Yanovsky reached heads-up play against Matthew Blagg and finished runner-up for $159,040.
Blagg earned $238,470 and the Circuit ring, meaning Yanovsky’s second-place finish did not add a ring to his record.
The result nevertheless became Yanovsky’s second-largest verified live cash and gave him two scores of more than $140,000 within a matter of weeks.
It also reinforced his continued progression in WSOP competition: from a fourth-place Circuit Main Event finish in 2022 to a major WSOP final-table run in 2023, a $50,000 High Roller deep run in 2026 and finally a heads-up appearance for a Circuit Main Event title.
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WSOP Paradise and High-Stakes Results
Yanovsky has also built a notable record at WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas.
In December 2025, he finished eighth in the $26,000 GGMillion$ Single Day Turbo. The tournament attracted 287 entries and generated more than $7 million in prize money. Yanovsky collected $157,300, according to the official WSOP Paradise results.
That result came during the same WSOP Paradise festival in which he also cashed the $25,000 Super Main Event.
His appearances in tournaments at the $25,000 and $50,000 levels are an important part of his recent career development. Yanovsky’s résumé is no longer built primarily around lower- and mid-stakes large-field events; he has increasingly tested himself against high-stakes fields while continuing to play traditional tournament series.
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Does Eric Yanovsky Have a WPT or EPT Title?
No WPT Main Tour championship or European Poker Tour title has been verified for Yanovsky as of August 23, 2026.
He has played tournaments held during World Poker Tour festivals, including events at Seminole Hard Rock, but winning a side event during a WPT-branded festival is not the same as winning an official WPT Main Tour championship.
His 2024 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open victory should therefore be described as a major festival tournament win rather than a WPT title.
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Eric Yanovsky’s Playing Style and Tournament Strengths
There is not enough authoritative published analysis to assign Yanovsky a definitive stylistic label such as tight-aggressive, loose-aggressive or exploitative.
His tournament record does reveal several objective strengths.
He has produced deep runs in enormous multi-flight fields, smaller high-stakes tournaments and WSOP Circuit Main Events. He has also recorded results in both No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha.
The 2024 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open provides one of the clearest examples of his ability to accumulate and protect a tournament stack. He began Day 2 well outside the chip leaders, climbed to fourth among the final 26 players and entered the final table as chip leader before winning outright.
His later high-roller results show that those accomplishments have translated into events with substantially larger buy-ins and stronger concentrations of experienced professional players.
Rather than defining Yanovsky by one fixed style, his results support describing him as an increasingly versatile tournament player whose strongest achievements have come in No-Limit Hold’em.
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Why Eric Yanovsky Matters in Tournament Poker
Yanovsky’s career is notable for the speed with which his results have progressed.
His recorded live résumé begins in 2022. Within roughly four years, he had moved from a WSOP Circuit Main Event final table to winning a 6,480-entry tournament, competing in $25,000 and $50,000 high rollers and reaching heads-up play in another Circuit Main Event.
The breadth of those results is particularly significant. His largest victory came in a low-buy-in tournament requiring him to survive thousands of entries, while some of his other largest scores have come in much smaller fields with dramatically higher buy-ins.
That combination makes his future results worth following even though he has not yet captured a WSOP bracelet, Circuit ring, WPT championship or EPT title.
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Eric Yanovsky’s Current Poker Status
Yanovsky remains an active tournament player.
His 2026 results include cashes at major live festivals, a 10th-place finish in the WSOP $50,000 High Roller and his July runner-up finish in the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event.
Those performances followed a productive 2025 that included an eighth-place finish in a WSOP Circuit Main Event in North Carolina and the $157,300 WSOP Paradise GGMillion$ result.
As of August 23, 2026, Yanovsky is still seeking his first WSOP bracelet and first WSOP Circuit ring. With more than $1.5 million in documented live earnings once his latest official result is included, his résumé has moved well beyond that of an occasional tournament finalist and established him as an active player capable of producing significant results across several levels of tournament poker.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much has Eric Yanovsky won in live poker?
As of August 23, 2026, Hendon Mob lists $1,366,557 in live earnings but has not yet incorporated Yanovsky’s official $159,040 runner-up result from the July 2026 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event into its visible result history. Combining the verified figures places his documented live earnings at at least $1,525,597, subject to future database updates.
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What is Eric Yanovsky’s biggest poker cash?
Yanovsky’s largest verified live tournament cash is $261,920. He earned it by winning the $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em opening event at the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open.
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Has Eric Yanovsky won a WSOP bracelet?
No. The official WSOP player database lists Eric Yanovsky with zero bracelets as of August 23, 2026.
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How many WSOP Circuit rings does Eric Yanovsky have?
The official WSOP database lists Yanovsky with zero Circuit rings as of August 23, 2026. He came close in July 2026 when he finished second to Matthew Blagg in the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event.
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Where is Eric Yanovsky from?
Hendon Mob identifies Yanovsky as an American player and lists his residence as Brooklyn, New York.
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When did Eric Yanovsky begin recording live poker results?
Hendon Mob records Yanovsky’s first live tournament results in 2022. That year included a fourth-place finish in the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Harrah’s Pompano Beach.
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What tournament did Eric Yanovsky win?
Yanovsky’s biggest verified tournament victory came in Event 1 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open. He defeated a field of 6,480 entries in the $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em event and earned $261,920.
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Is Eric Yanovsky still active in poker?
Yes. Yanovsky was actively competing in major tournaments during the summer of 2026, including the World Series of Poker and WSOP Circuit. His recent results include a $146,295 WSOP High Roller cash and a $159,040 Circuit Main Event runner-up finish.
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