Steve McLean

Ten wins across all events he has entered, 162 knockouts, $6,657 in career prize money — and on the shelf, the one this league values most. Steve McLean won the 2022 Tournament of Champions: nine players at that table, every one of them there on the strength of something they had already won, and Mac beat all of them for $445 in prize money.

That capped the best run of his career. He had won the October closer three months earlier, #10 — his first Eight Deuce win, and still his biggest regular-season payday at $460 — then opened 2022 by winning #11 in January. Back-to-back tournaments across the turn of a season, and the ToC to finish the year.

The single most destructive night belongs to November 2015, Canterberry #76. Nineteen players sat down and Mac knocked out ten of them — more than half the field busted by one man. Only one player in the history of this league has ever managed more in a single tournament.

September 2024, #39: fifteen runners, six knockouts, and a tournament that would not end. Five hours and thirty-three minutes — at that moment the longest this league had ever played, and he was the last one sitting.

He has 5 Eight Deuce wins, third-most of anybody, and sits tied for sixth all-time in regular-season wins. He has reached heads-up 21 times, tied for fifth-most in league history, and carries 11 runner-up finishes alongside the ten wins — a player who is at that final table constantly.

Most recently: April 2026, #54, fifteen runners, four knockouts, $405 for first. Fifteen years in and still closing them out.