Parker Talbot is best known in the poker world for his exploits online with more than $3.4 million in online tournament cashes. Talbot also has over $2.2 million in live earnings as of March 2025.
His popularity soared with his popular Twitch stream under the handle “tonkaaaaP”. He is a former PokerStars Ambassador having joined in June 2016. He left the site in the summer of 2020.
Parker Talbot Biography
Born in Ontario, Canada, Talbot became interested in poker at a young age of 13 after watching the World Poker Tour on television with his parents. He played against his dad for many years before he first played in a casino on his 18th birthday.
Talbot immediately lost the $100 he had before his father gave him another $100 as a present. From there, he never looked back.
The origins of his popular “tonkaaaa” and “tonkaaaaP” online screennames came about thanks to his hockey coach calling him a Tonka truck and the nickname sticking.
PokerStars Team Pro Parker Talbot on Educating His Community and Missing Live Poker
Online Achievements
Talbot has numerous large online tournament cashes including a Super Tuesday victory in 2014 for $101,000.
In 2019, Talbot chopped the PokerStars Sunday Million for $124,114
Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot WCOOP Titles
Since his first WCOOP victory in 2020, where he won WCOOP-58-H: $530 NLHE for $51,168, Talbot has amassed nine WCOOP titles in total including five in 2024 alone.
| Year | Event | Field | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | WCOOP 58-H: $530 NLHE 8-Max | 842 | $51,168 |
| 2021 | WCOOP 75-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max | 91 | $108,730 |
| 2022 | WCOOP TT-02-H: $1,050 8-Game (6-max) | 55 | $21,092 |
| 2023 | WCOOP 15-H: $10,300 Super Tuesday High Roller] | 79 | $213,229 |
| 2024 | WCOOP $1,050 World Championship of HORSE | 88 | $21,904 |
| 2024 | WCOOP 32-H: $1,050 NLHE | 441 | $72,803 |
| 2024 | WCOOP 61-H: $10,300 8 Game | 23 | $101,966 |
| 2024 | WCOOP 85-M: $215 FL 2-7 Triple Draw | 158 | $6,392 |
| 2024 | WCOOP $1,050 World Championship of Badugi | 45 | $18,803 |
Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot SCOOP Titles
Talbot has also won three SCOOP titles, including two in 2025.
| Year | Event | Field | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | SCOOP 113-H: $530 Sunday Kickoff | 844 | $422,000 |
| 2025 | SCOOP 68-H: $530 FLHE | 47 | $9,028 |
| 2025 | SCOOP 102-H: $530 FL Badugi | 32 | $6,702 |
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Live Achievements
Talbot has recorded nearly $800,000 in live tournament cashes as of 2022. In August 2016, Talbot recorded a seventh-place finish in the EPT Barcelona €25,500 No Limit Hold’em - Single Re-Entry 8 Handed event for €160,080 ($180,909).
In 2018, he finished sixth in the EPT Prague Main Event for €179,360.
Talbot secured his first major live title in March 2024 when he took down an Irish Open High Roller for $145,590. A month prior, he finished runner-up in an FPS High Roller at EPT Paris for a career-best $360,193.
