Esfandiari was ranked number one for all-time tournament poker winnings, until Daniel Negreanu took this title by finishing 2nd in the "Big One For One Drop 2014".

[19] The same year at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, Esfandiari won his third bracelet in the €1,100 No Limit Hold'em event, defeating Remi Bollengier heads-up to earn €126,207.

[20] In the 2013 World Series of Poker, he placed fourth in the One Drop High Roller tournament, the successor to the Big One that he had won a year earlier, and earned $1,433,438.

[23] On January 10, 2016, Esfandiari was disqualified from the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $5,300 Main Event after apparently urinating in a bottle as a result of a prop bet with Bill Perkins.

[24] An "E" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Europe Esfandiari co-starred in the TV show I Bet You, on MOJO HD, with Phil Laak.

In 2012 Esfandiari appeared as an undercover officer in the movie Freelancers starring Robert De Niro and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

[26] In January 2014, Antonio Esfandiari began shooting a web reality series with Ultimate Poker: Strip Magic.

The series features Esfandiari performing street magic on the Las Vegas strip along with exclusive interviews.