2015 CarbonPoker Card Player Player of the Year Update — Anthony Zinno Takes The Lead

We have a new leader in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, is Marching forward. Here is a look at the events that made the largest impact over the past seven days, including the one that lead to a new occupant of the top slot on the leaderboard:

World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event

Anthony Zinno topped a field of 538 players to win the 2015 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event and $1,015,860. Zinno won the 2015 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic main event just three weeks earlier, making him only the third player in the tour’s history to win back-to-back_WPT_ main events, joining Marvin Rettenmaier and Darren Elias.

Zinno also won the WPT Borgata Poker Open main event in 2013, so this latest win also made him the third player to ever win three main events on the World Poker Tour, adding his name next to the likes of Gus Hansen and Carlos Mortensen.

With two huge WPT main event titles in 2015 Zinno has catapulted him into the lead in the Player of the Year race. He earned 2,100 POY points this week and 1,440 for his win in Niagara Falls, bringing his point total to 3,540. His year-to-date earnings have climbed to $1,268,280.

Zinno topped a tough final table that included the likes of Peter Neff (5th – $250,260), Chris Klodnicki (3rd – $451,090) and eventual runner-up Mike Leah (2nd – $701,350). Leah, who finished third in the 2014 Player of the Year race, earned 1,750 POY points for his runner-up showing, climbing into seventh place in the POY rankings as a result. Klodnicki also joined the top 20, with the 1,400 points he earned moving him into a tie for 15th place with Joel Douaglin and Dany Parlafes.

WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore

The World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event drew a field of 670 entrants, building a total prize pool of $985,500. The lion’s share of that was awarded to eventual Christopher Csik.

For the win he took home $206,020 and 840 Player of the Year points, which moved him into a tie for 48th place in the overall POY standings.

He defeated Faisal Siddiqui heads-up for the title after a 97-hand final showdown. Siddiqui earned $127,484 and 700 POY points for his runner-up showing, climbing to 80th place in the rankings as a result.

Roland Israelishvilli, who won the WSOP Circuit Atlantic City main event in 2010, finished 7th for $30,974.

Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings: