Jake Schindler
Jake Schindler is an American professional poker player known for high stakes tournament results, a 2022 World Series of Poker bracelet and the 2018 Card Player Player of the Year award. His biggest recorded live cash was 3.600.000 $ for second place in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl. He won the Super High Roller Bowl Europe five years later for 3.200.000 $.
The Hendon Mob listed 36.817.581 $ in recorded live tournament earnings in September 2026. Schindler’s career includes victories at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, partypoker MILLIONS Barcelona, the Five Diamond World Poker Classic and the WSOP.
His story also includes a significant controversy. In September 2022, the PokerGO Tour announced an indefinite suspension of Schindler and Ali Imsirovic from its events. Reporting connected the decision with allegations of cheating, but the tour’s brief public statement did not specify findings or disclose evidence. The suspension is an important part of an accurate account of his career; it should not be presented as a court judgment.
Born in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania
Jacob Carl Schindler was born on September 25, 1989, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, according to published player biographies. He grew up in the Philadelphia area and later became one of the most successful tournament players associated with Pennsylvania.
Public accounts of his early life are limited. His documented poker results offer a clearer starting point than speculative stories about his childhood. He began appearing in live tournament records around 2009, during a period when online poker gave young players a way to study and compete at high volume.
Schindler played online under the screen name “CaLLitARUSH.” The name became familiar in online tournaments before his largest live victories made him a regular presence at high roller final tables.
Early Online Results and WSOP Circuit Win
Schindler’s early record contains results at comparatively modest buy-ins. In 2012, he won a six-handed no-limit hold’em event at the WSOP Circuit stop at Palm Beach Kennel Club, earning 24.736 $ and a Circuit ring.
A Circuit ring and a WSOP bracelet are separate awards. The 2012 victory was an early live title; his first bracelet did not arrive until 2022.
Online, he also won a World Championship of Online Poker event in 2013 under his CaLLitARUSH identity. That result helped establish his reputation in a field where players could meet many strong opponents far more frequently than the live calendar allowed.
His transition to larger live tournaments was rapid. Within a few years, a player who had won a Circuit event for five figures was competing for seven-figure payouts against established professionals.
The 2014 PCA High Roller Breakthrough
Schindler won the 25.000 $ High Roller at the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. The event attracted 247 entries, and he defeated 2012 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Merson heads-up after the pair agreed a deal. Schindler received 1.192.624 $.
It was his first major live tournament prize. The field’s size was substantial for a high buy-in event, and the final stage included experienced players. The result moved Schindler from promising online and regional competitor to a recognised contender on the international circuit.
One large win can be influenced by short-term variance. Schindler’s following years are what gave the PCA victory broader meaning: he kept reaching final tables as the buy-ins and the level of opposition rose.
Runner Up in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl
The 2017 Super High Roller Bowl in Las Vegas charged a 300.000 $ buy-in and attracted 56 entries. Schindler reached heads-up play against Christoph Vogelsang, finished second and earned 3.600.000 $.
That remains his largest single recorded live tournament cash as of September 2026. It also illustrates why headline tournament winnings can be misleading: the event required a six-figure entry fee, and a database payout does not reveal any swaps, backing arrangements, taxes or other costs.
The runner-up finish placed him at the centre of one of poker’s most expensive tournament stages. He had not won the trophy, but his ability to reach that final confrontation confirmed his standing among high roller specialists.
A Record Setting 2018 Season
Schindler had his most prolific year in 2018. He made 31 Card Player Player of the Year qualifying final tables, won six qualifying titles and accumulated 8.731.019 $ in qualifying tournament cashes. The volume of results earned him the 2018 Player of the Year award.
The 31 final tables mattered as much as any one trophy. The high roller calendar requires repeated travel, rapid adjustment to familiar opponents and resilience after expensive losses. Schindler produced deep runs across the year rather than relying on a single exceptional tournament.
The award describes performance under Card Player’s scoring criteria. It is not a universal ranking of every poker discipline or an accounting of net profit, but it records an unusually consistent live tournament season.
The partypoker MILLIONS Barcelona Super High Roller
In April 2018, Schindler won the 100.000 € Super High Roller at the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final in Barcelona. He defeated Stephen Chidwick heads-up and collected 1.750.000 €, recorded by the Hendon Mob as approximately 2.151.754 $ at the applicable conversion.
The win came against a small field with a high concentration of established players. In these events, a participant often knows the tendencies of many opponents, while the large buy-in makes each elimination consequential.
Barcelona also demonstrates a common issue when comparing career cashes: the prize was awarded in euros, while the Hendon Mob’s lifetime total is shown in US dollars. Exact dollar equivalents depend on the database’s conversion for that result.
Other Major Victories in 2018
Schindler won the 25.500 $ High Roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in August 2018, collecting 800.758 $ after topping 123 entries. The victory contributed substantially to his Player of the Year campaign.
At the end of the year, he won a 100.000 $ Five Diamond World Poker Classic Super High Roller at Bellagio for 1.332.000 $. The festival was associated with the World Poker Tour, but this side-event title was not a WPT Main Tour championship. His record should not be described as a WPT main-event title on the strength of this result.
Those wins bookended months of other final tables. They show how Schindler built a large recorded earnings total through many high buy-in opportunities rather than a single famous Main Event victory.
Winning the 2022 Super High Roller Bowl Europe
In April 2022, Schindler won the 250.000 $ Super High Roller Bowl Europe in Northern Cyprus. The field had 32 entries, and the first prize was 3.200.000 $. He defeated Paul Phua heads-up for the title.
The victory completed a striking pair of Super High Roller Bowl results: runner-up in Las Vegas in 2017 and champion in Europe in 2022. Across those two events alone, his recorded prizes totalled 6.800.000 $.
The high buy-ins and small fields make this a specialised record. Reaching the money requires surviving a lineup of professionals with deep experience in high stakes tournament decisions. Winning one of those events is among the most prominent titles in the high roller calendar.
The First WSOP Bracelet in 2022
Schindler won his first WSOP bracelet in June 2022 in Event 12, the 50.000 $ No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Eight-Handed. The tournament drew 101 entries. He defeated Brek Schutten heads-up and received 1.328.068 $.
The bracelet was a significant addition to a résumé already full of high roller wins. The WSOP had a different kind of public profile from many invitational or small-field events, and the result gave Schindler a formal championship in the game’s longest-running tournament series.
It was his only recorded WSOP bracelet as of September 2026. He later finished third in a 50.000 $ WSOP High Roller in 2023 for 957.491 $, demonstrating that the 2022 title was not his last major WSOP cash.
Selected Biggest Tournament Results
These selected results show Schindler’s largest and most significant recorded live performances. Euro prizes are kept in their original currency; the table is not a complete list of his cashes.
| Year | Tournament | Finish | Prize |
| 2017 | Super High Roller Bowl Las Vegas | 2nd | 3.600.000 $ |
| 2022 | Super High Roller Bowl Europe | 1st | 3.200.000 $ |
| 2018 | partypoker MILLIONS Barcelona 100.000 € Super High Roller | 1st | 1.750.000 € |
| 2018 | Five Diamond 100.000 $ Super High Roller | 1st | 1.332.000 $ |
| 2022 | WSOP 50.000 $ No-Limit Hold’em High Roller | 1st | 1.328.068 $ |
| 2014 | PCA 25.000 $ High Roller | 1st | 1.192.624 $ |
| 2023 | WSOP 50.000 $ No-Limit Hold’em High Roller | 3rd | 957.491 $ |
| 2018 | Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open 25.500 $ High Roller | 1st | 800.758 $ |
The 2017 second-place prize exceeded the amounts attached to several of his titles. Tournament cashes measure the size of a payout, not how much prestige or profit a particular result produced.
The PokerGO Tour Suspension and Allegations
In September 2022, the PokerGO Tour announced that Schindler and Ali Imsirovic were suspended indefinitely from tour play, effective immediately. The statement said the suspensions would last at least through the 2022 season and would then be reviewed.
The decision followed public allegations of cheating in poker. The PGT announcement invoked integrity and proper conduct but did not publicly set out a detailed case, identify specific hands or publish an adjudication of the allegations. It is therefore more precise to report the suspension and the context than to assert as fact that a particular act was proved.
The tour’s statement also did not establish a blanket ban across all poker tournaments. Schindler’s 2023 WSOP cashes appear in official records after the PGT decision. Whether or how the PGT later reviewed the suspension should not be assumed from the absence of a newer public announcement.
Any account focused solely on trophies would leave out a material event in his career. Equally, the results database and the PGT statement answer different questions: one records placements and prizes; the other records a tour’s disciplinary action.
Live Earnings and Net Worth
The Hendon Mob listed 36.817.581 $ in Schindler’s recorded live tournament earnings in September 2026, with a best live cash of 3.600.000 $. Minor differences of one dollar can occur between displays and ranking pages as results are converted or rounded.
The total is gross prize money, not net winnings. High roller entrants may pay 25.000 $, 100.000 $ or more per attempt, sometimes re-entering an event. Tournament databases do not provide a full ledger of entries, swaps, staking, travel, taxes or private arrangements.
For that reason, his precise lifetime poker profit and personal net worth cannot be verified from the public earnings total. Any confident net worth estimate based only on the Hendon Mob figure would overstate what the data shows.
Jake Schindler’s Place in High Stakes Poker
Schindler’s tournament record is substantial: a seven-figure PCA win, a record-setting 2018 Player of the Year season, two enormous Super High Roller Bowl cashes and a WSOP bracelet. His success came against high buy-in fields over many years.
The 2022 PGT suspension is also part of that record and continues to shape how his achievements are discussed. A fair profile presents the verified titles and earnings alongside the tour’s action, while keeping allegations distinct from proven findings.
Schindler’s results illustrate the scale and volatility of the modern high roller circuit. The prizes can be immense, the entry costs are equally serious and a player’s public database total tells only part of the financial story.
Career statistics checked in September 2026. Recorded live earnings represent gross tournament cashes and exclude unreported expenses, private arrangements and online results. Birth details are based on published biographies; the Hendon Mob profile itself is the source for tournament earnings.