Top 10 richest Esports players

#2 Jesse 'Jerax' Vainikka - $6,469,000

Jesse 'Jerax' Vainikka was one of TI9's best performers

Jesse 'Jerax' Vainikka started his career in Heroes of Newerth, one of the original DotA's sequel adaptations. After completing his compulsory military service in his home country of Finland, he started playing DotA 2 professionally.

After jumping around in a few Finnish teams, Jerax finally found his breakthrough with a team called MVP.Hot6ix. He participated in his first TI with the team but finished dead last. He left the team and was picked up by Kuroky's 5Jungz team which went on to become Team Liquid. With Liquid, Jerax played at TI6 where they had a mediocre performance causing Jerax to leave the team for OG.

With OG, Jerax won two back to back Majors becoming the first player to play in 4 consecutive Major finals. But the team failed to make an impact at TI7. However, the team stuck together and went on to win TI8 and TI9 back to back creating yet more history. Throughout his career, he has been regarded as one of the best, if not the best position 4 support player of all time.

He has a huge lifetime earnings of $6,469,000. His highest individual earnings come from: His victory at TI9 ($3,124,036), 1st at TI8 ($2,246,831) and 1st at The Boston and Kiev Major ($200,000 each).

He is also the highest earning Finnish esports player of all time.