Last Updated on October 5, 2026 by Bala Kumar
There have been 10 Poker Masters Purple Jacket winners through 2025, with two separate champions in the 2020 online editions. No player has won the Purple Jacket more than once through 2025. The most recent champion is David Coleman, who took the 2025 jacket. The 2026 champion will be crowned at the PGT Poker Masters in Las Vegas, which runs from October 12 to 23, 2026.
| Fact | Answer |
| Jackets awarded (2017–2025) | 10 (including two online editions in 2020) |
| Players with more than one jacket (through 2025) | None |
| Countries represented | 7 |
| Most jackets by country | United States (4) |
| Highest series earnings by a champion | $2,733,000, Steffen Sontheimer (2017) |
| Closest race | 1 point, Eelis Pärssinen (2020 Online PLO Series) |
| Reigning champion | David Coleman (USA), 2025 |
| 2026 champion decided | After Event #10, the $50K finale, on October 23, 2026 |
What is the Purple Jacket?
The Purple Jacket is poker’s answer to the green jacket at golf’s Masters. Instead of going to the winner of one tournament, it goes to the player with the best overall performance across the entire Poker Masters series. That’s why the Purple Jacket poker title is so prized: it rewards consistency across a week or two of high-stakes events, not one lucky run.
Complete Poker Masters Purple Jacket winners list (2017–2026)
Here is the full Poker Masters winners list, with each champion’s series stats.
| Year | Series | Events | Purple Jacket winner | Country | Wins | Final tables | Cashes | Series earnings | Points | Runner-up (points) |
| 2026 | Poker Masters (Oct 12–23) | 10 | To be decided | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | Poker Masters | 10 | David Coleman | USA | 1 | 2 | 3 | $657,700 | 492 | Alex Foxen (429) |
| 2024 | Poker Masters | 8 | James Collopy | USA | 0 | 4 | 4 | $521,600 | 522 | Isaac Haxton (458) |
| 2023 | Poker Masters | 10 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 1 | 4 | 4 | $1,109,000 | 688 | Vladas Tamasauskas (506) |
| 2022 | Poker Masters | 10 | Sean Winter | USA | 1 | 2 | 2 | $777,000 | 466 | Jason Koon (449) |
| 2021 | Poker Masters | 12 | Michael Addamo | Australia | 2 | 2 | 2 | $1,840,000 | 808 | Nick Petrangelo (402) |
| 2020 | Online PLO Series | 16 | Eelis Pärssinen | Finland | 1 | 6 | 6 | $735,359 | 625 | Andras Nemeth (624) |
| 2020 | Online | 30 | Alexandros Kolonias | Greece | 2 | 5 | 11 | $1,266,296 | 1,191 | Artur Martirosian (1,048) |
| 2019 | Poker Masters | 10 | Sam Soverel | USA | 2 | 7 | 7 | $1,396,800 | 1,160 | Kahle Burns (630) |
| 2018 | Poker Masters | 7 | Ali Imsirovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 3 | 3 | $1,288,600 | 660 | David Peters (650) |
| 2017 | Poker Masters | 5 | Steffen Sontheimer | Germany | 2 | 5 | 4 | $2,733,000 | — (decided on earnings) | Bryn Kenney |
Points systems changed over time, so points aren’t directly comparable between years.
Every Poker Masters champion, year by year
2025 – David Coleman (USA). Coleman won the opening $1 million Showcase and then finished runner-up in the $25,000 finale. Those results were enough to hold off Alex Foxen by 63 points.
2024 – James Collopy (USA). The only champion to win the jacket without winning a single event. Four straight final tables earned him 522 points, ahead of Isaac Haxton.
2023 – Stephen Chidwick (United Kingdom). Chidwick won Event #8 and made three more final tables, including second place in the $50,000 finale. He’s the only British winner so far.
2022 – Sean Winter (USA). Winter cashed only twice, but one was a win in Event #9. He edged Jason Koon by just 17 points in one of the tightest live races.
2021 – Michael Addamo (Australia). The most dominant finish of the modern era. Addamo won the last two events, including the $50,000 finale, and doubled the points of runner-up Nick Petrangelo.
2020 Online PLO Series – Eelis Pärssinen (Finland). In an all Pot-Limit Omaha online series, Pärssinen won by a single point over Andras Nemeth, the closest race in Poker Masters history.
2020 Online – Alexandros Kolonias (Greece). With live poker shut down by the pandemic, the series moved online with 30 events. Kolonias cashed 11 times, the most by any champion.
2019 – Sam Soverel (USA). Soverel made seven final tables in ten events and won the $50,000 Main Event, finishing with almost twice the points of runner-up Kahle Burns.
2018 – Ali Imsirovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The first champion under the points system. Two wins and three final tables gave him a 10-point edge over David Peters, who won that year’s $100,000 Main Event.
2017 – Steffen Sontheimer (Germany). The first Purple Jacket winner. Sontheimer won two events, including the $100,000 Main Event, and earned $2,733,000, still the record for a champion.
Poker Masters Purple Jacket records
| Record | Holder | Figure |
| Highest series earnings | Steffen Sontheimer (2017) | $2,733,000 |
| Most final tables in one series | Sam Soverel (2019) | 7 |
| Most cashes in one series | Alexandros Kolonias (2020 Online) | 11 |
| Most points in a live series | Sam Soverel (2019) | 1,160 |
| Biggest winning margin | Sam Soverel (2019) | 530 points |
| Closest race | Eelis Pärssinen (2020 Online PLO) | 1 point |
| Champion with no event wins | James Collopy (2024) | 0 wins, 4 final tables |
| Fewest cashes by a champion | Michael Addamo (2021), Sean Winter (2022) | 2 |
Winning margins: how close the races have been
| Year | Champion | Points | Runner-up | Margin |
| 2025 | David Coleman | 492 | Alex Foxen (429) | 63 |
| 2024 | James Collopy | 522 | Isaac Haxton (458) | 64 |
| 2023 | Stephen Chidwick | 688 | Vladas Tamasauskas (506) | 182 |
| 2022 | Sean Winter | 466 | Jason Koon (449) | 17 |
| 2021 | Michael Addamo | 808 | Nick Petrangelo (402) | 406 |
| 2020 PLO | Eelis Pärssinen | 625 | Andras Nemeth (624) | 1 |
| 2020 Online | Alexandros Kolonias | 1,191 | Artur Martirosian (1,048) | 143 |
| 2019 | Sam Soverel | 1,160 | Kahle Burns (630) | 530 |
| 2018 | Ali Imsirovic | 660 | David Peters (650) | 10 |
Five of the nine points-based races were decided by 64 points or fewer, which shows how much a single deep run can swing the jacket.
Purple Jacket winners by country
| Country | Jackets | Winners |
| United States | 4 | Sam Soverel, Sean Winter, James Collopy, David Coleman |
| Germany | 1 | Steffen Sontheimer |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | Ali Imsirovic |
| Greece | 1 | Alexandros Kolonias |
| Finland | 1 | Eelis Pärssinen |
| Australia | 1 | Michael Addamo |
| United Kingdom | 1 | Stephen Chidwick |
American players have won three of the last four jackets, making the US the most successful country among Purple Jacket winners.
What the history tells us
Looking back across the Poker Masters history, a few patterns stand out among the Poker Masters champions.
Consistency beats a single win. Collopy won in 2024 without an event title, and Coleman (2025) and Chidwick (2023) both clinched the jacket while finishing second in the finale. Steady cashes across the series matter as much as one trophy.
Winning the finale isn’t required, but it helps. Only three champions also won the series’ biggest event: Sontheimer (2017), Soverel (2019) and Addamo (2021).
Series earnings reflect the schedule. Recent champions have generally posted lower series earnings than the earliest winners, reflecting changes in event count and buy-in levels. The top event dropped from $100,000 in 2017–2018 to $25,000 in 2024–2025.
Nobody has repeated. Through 2025, no player has won the Purple Jacket more than once. If defending champion David Coleman wins in 2026, he’ll be the first two-time winner; anyone else becomes the 11th different champion.
How the Purple Jacket winner is decided
| Period | How the jacket was awarded | Extra prize |
| 2017 | Most total earnings in the series | — |
| 2018 – 2020 | Points system based on the High Roller of the Year scoring | — |
| 2021 – 2023 | PokerGO Tour (PGT) points | $50,000 championship bonus |
| 2024 | PGT points | $25,000 PGT Passport and a PGT Gold Pass |
| 2026 | PGT points; at least two cashes required | $25,000 PGT Passport (for PGT-owned events only) |
2026 Purple Jacket Race: Latest Standings
Poker Masters 2026 runs October 12 – 23 at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. The jacket goes to the player with the most PGT points across all ten events, and players need at least two cashes to be eligible. For the full schedule, buy-ins, structures and how to watch, see our PGT Poker Masters guide.
| Rank | Player | Cashes | Wins | Earnings | PGT points |
| 1 | To be updated | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | To be updated | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | To be updated | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | To be updated | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | To be updated | — | — | — | — |
Standings update log
Update the table above and add a line here at each checkpoint, so readers and search engines can see the page is current.
| Checkpoint | Planned date | Status |
| After Event #1 | Oct 13 | Pending |
| After Event #3 | Oct 15 | Pending |
| After Event #5 | Oct 17 | Pending |
| After Event #6 | Oct 19 | Pending |
| After Event #8 | Oct 21 | Pending |
| After Event #9 | Oct 22 | Pending |
| After the $50K finale: 2026 champion crowned | Oct 23 | Pending |
Contenders to watch: defending champion David Coleman would become the first two-time winner, and recent runners-up Alex Foxen (2025) and Isaac Haxton (2024) are natural names to follow.
FAQs
Who won the 2025 Poker Masters Purple Jacket?
David Coleman of the USA won the 2025 Purple Jacket with 492 points, ahead of Alex Foxen on 429.
Who was the first Poker Masters Purple Jacket winner?
Steffen Sontheimer of Germany won the first Purple Jacket in 2017, when it was awarded for the most total earnings in the series.
Has anyone won the Purple Jacket twice?
No. Through 2025, no player has won the Purple Jacket more than once.
Which country has won the most Purple Jackets?
The United States, with four: Sam Soverel (2019), Sean Winter (2022), James Collopy (2024) and David Coleman (2025).
Can you win the Purple Jacket without winning an event?
Yes. James Collopy won the 2024 jacket with four final tables and no event wins.
When will the 2026 Purple Jacket winner be decided?
After Event #10, the $50K finale, which ends on October 23, 2026, at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.
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