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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
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| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon Wilson | Chicago, IL, USA | 5,925 | 3 | 14 | $5,267,486 |
| 2 | Danny Tang | HKG | 4,746 | 1 | 10 | $6,773,197 |
| 3 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Riga, LVA | 4,640 | 2 | 8 | $7,184,321 |
| 4 | Daniel Dvoress | Mississauga, ON, CAN | 4,551 | 6 | 10 | $6,313,714 |
| 5 | Ren Lin | Augusta, GA, USA | 4,328 | 3 | 8 | $2,330,255 |
| 6 | Jon Ander Vallinas | ESP | 4,264 | 0 | 5 | $2,563,392 |
| 7 | Punnat Punsri | Bangkok, THA | 4,254 | 2 | 13 | $4,725,853 |
| 8 | Klemens Roiter | AUT | 4,203 | 0 | 9 | $4,649,263 |
| 9 | Quan Zhou | Harbin, CHN | 3,920 | 1 | 7 | $2,851,000 |
| 10 | Matthias Eibinger | Graz, AUT | 3,868 | 3 | 9 | $6,510,575 |
| 11 | Jesse Lonis | Little Falls, NY, USA | 3,689 | 1 | 8 | $2,840,042 |
| 12 | Alex Foxen | Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA | 3,679 | 4 | 7 | $2,694,635 |
| 13 | Christopher Nguyen | AUT | 3,386 | 2 | 4 | $4,746,665 |
| 14 | Isaac Haxton | Syracuse, NY, USA | 3,346 | 0 | 8 | $2,682,893 |
| 15 | Kristen Foxen | St. Catherines, CAN | 3,337 | 1 | 7 | $3,433,650 |
| 16 | Michael Watson | Toronto, CAN | 3,214 | 2 | 11 | $3,456,884 |
| 17 | Mehdi Chaoui | MAR | 3,155 | 1 | 10 | $1,734,786 |
| 18 | Aren Bezhanyan | ARM | 3,079 | 1 | 4 | $1,893,686 |
| 19 | Patrik Antonius | Helsinki, FIN | 2,992 | 0 | 9 | $3,063,500 |
| 20 | Daniel Rezaei | Leibnitz, AUT | 2,984 | 1 | 5 | $3,182,065 |
| 21 | Bernhard Binder | AUT | 2,928 | 2 | 4 | $3,032,531 |
| 22 | Jason Koon | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,876 | 0 | 10 | $3,663,500 |
| 23 | Bryn Kenney | Long Beach, NY, USA | 2,865 | 0 | 5 | $5,149,153 |
| 24 | Brock Wilson | Ardsley, NY, USA | 2,787 | 4 | 8 | $974,470 |
| 25 | Kelvin Kerber | BRA | 2,760 | 0 | 5 | $2,428,128 |
| 26 | Fahredin Mustafov | BGR | 2,670 | 2 | 4 | $953,840 |
| 27 | Benjamin Tollerene | Lubbock, TX, USA | 2,661 | 1 | 7 | $4,618,022 |
| 28 | Nick Schulman | Manhattan, NY, USA | 2,644 | 1 | 7 | $864,607 |
| 29 | David Mzareulov | Houston, TX, USA | 2,621 | 0 | 5 | $496,396 |
| 30 | Kiat Lee | MYS | 2,597 | 1 | 8 | $4,642,262 |
| 31 | Christian Harder | Annapolis, MD, USA | 2,579 | 2 | 8 | $542,141 |
| 32 | Chino Rheem | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 2,557 | 1 | 8 | $695,050 |
| 33 | Franco Tucci | CAN | 2,548 | 2 | 4 | $309,888 |
| 34 | Jeremy Becker | Tampa, FL, USA | 2,543 | 3 | 12 | $543,315 |
| 35 | Alex Kulev | Dublin, IRL | 2,490 | 2 | 6 | $4,849,444 |
| 36 | Paul Phua | Miri, Sarawak, MYS | 2,422 | 1 | 4 | $4,385,000 |
| 37 | Leon Sturm | DEU | 2,421 | 1 | 4 | $2,481,843 |
| 38 | Philip Sternheimer | London, GBR | 2,415 | 0 | 5 | $3,286,400 |
| 39 | Nicholas Seward | Washington, D.C., USA | 2,400 | 1 | 6 | $713,575 |
| 40 | Malcolm Trayner | AUS | 2,376 | 1 | 2 | $998,761 |
| 41 | Pedro Jorge | 2,328 | 3 | 7 | $466,048 | |
| 42 | Qinghai Pan | Irvine, CA, USA | 2,326 | 1 | 9 | $955,368 |
| 43 | Weiran Pu | CHN | 2,310 | 1 | 3 | $253,227 |
| 44 | David Coleman | Livingston, NJ, USA | 2,304 | 1 | 5 | $995,780 |
| 45 | Yinan Zhou | CHN | 2,303 | 1 | 4 | $692,538 |
| 46 | Maurice Hawkins | Plantation, FL, USA | 2,302 | 4 | 12 | $291,473 |
| 47 | Michael Wilklow | Minneapolis, MN, USA | 2,279 | 0 | 10 | $266,364 |
| 48 | Khoa Anh Ngo | VNM | 2,274 | 1 | 5 | $946,722 |
| 49 | Artur Martirosian | Voronezh, RUS | 2,247 | 2 | 9 | $2,879,151 |
| 50 | Allen Shen | CAN | 2,232 | 2 | 3 | $508,559 |
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