Who are Top 5 richest gamers in the world?

Gaming has become a profession for many, gone are the days when people use to think gaming a waste of time. Now you can earn huge amount of fame and money if you have great gaming skills. Nowadays you listen stories of many teens becoming millionaires by just playing their favourite games. What can be a better occupation than this?

This year on The Shanghai Major, a popular game, Dota 2 had a price pool of $3,000,000 which is indeed a great amount of money. So today I am going to share world’s 5 most richest gamers who have dominated the gaming world and have tons of sponsors backing them and their gaming spirit.

5) Lee “NaDa” Yun-Yeol

Let us start with the South Korean star, Lee Nada Yun Yeol. He is one of the most famous StarCraft players. He signed a contract in 2007 for $690,000 which boosted his income and assets. He also has a successful gaming career, he earned $302,000 in nine years of his career.

4) Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag

Matt is famous Call of Duty professional, he is the co-owner and captain of the Optic gaming team. He is also an athlete for e-Sports. He is on 115th spot in terms of his career earnings, but in 2014 people were able to know his net earnings through a New York Times article.

He get most of his earnings from his 1.5 million Youtube subscribers. He also get good amount of income from his daily live-streaming gaming sessions. He made $700,000 from his Youtube channel and live-streaming alone in 2014.

3) Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel

Johnathan known as “Fatal1ty” is on third spot in my list. He is an American gamer, entrepreneur and a millionaire. He is one of the most rich and prominent professional gamers in the history of gaming.

He is famous for many first person shooter games like Unreal tournament, Quake III and Painkiller. He retired in 2006, in his career he got 4 player of the year awards and twelve championships.

2) Team Newbee

They are a Chinese team which consists of 5 players. They won Dota 2 tournament in 2014 and got all the attention. That victory helped them to earn the highest prize-pool in the history of e-Sports. They earned 5,000,000 dollars as a team and each player earned about $1 million for his self.

1) Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez

Carlos is a Spanish gamer, known for playing Spanish League of Legends. He also played World of Warcraft. He is famous for his personality — his fans often call him David Beckham of electronic Sports. He told Daily Dot in an interview in 2013 that he earn from €600,000 to€700,000 yearly.