World's Best Poker Players
CardPlayer.com offers comprehensive poker rankings. Our Player of the Year race has ranked tournament poker player success for more than a decade and we now rank casino and online tournament data. For more in-depth poker statistics checkout The Poker Leaderboards.
2005 POY Leader Boards - Europe
| Jump to | Page 1 of 4 | Next |
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (9) | Max Pescatori | Milan, ITA | 3,381 | 1 | 15 | $410,109 |
| 2 (20) | John Gale | Bushey Heath, GBR | 2,951 | 1 | 3 | $1,368,480 |
| 3 (36) | Harry Demetriou | London, GBR | 2,320 | 0 | 3 | $406,005 |
| 4 (37) | Raul Paez | Barcelona, ESP | 2,316 | 2 | 7 | $285,207 |
| 5 (50) | Lars Bonding | Aarhas, DNK | 2,088 | 1 | 2 | $517,495 |
| 6 (55) | Davood Mehrmand | Frankfurt, DEU | 1,996 | 0 | 5 | $348,110 |
| 7 (57) | Johan Storakers | Stockholm, SWE | 1,951 | 0 | 7 | $389,755 |
| 8 (58) | Rehne Pedersen | Aalborg, DNK | 1,920 | 1 | 1 | $2,078,185 |
| 9 (67) | Paul Maxfield | Stoke-On-Trent, GBR | 1,832 | 0 | 2 | $1,718,470 |
| 10 (68) | Juha Helppi | Littoinen, FIN | 1,824 | 0 | 3 | $540,153 |
| 11 (82) | Patrik Antonius | Helsinki, FIN | 1,696 | 0 | 1 | $1,086,470 |
| 12 (112) | Jan Sorensen | Odense, DNK | 1,484 | 1 | 2 | $431,215 |
| 13 (113) | Ken Lennaard | Stockholm, SWE | 1,477 | 1 | 3 | $363,340 |
| 14 (143) | Gus Hansen | Copenhagen, DNK | 1,328 | 0 | 1 | $340,690 |
| 15 (159) | Andy Black | Dublin, IRL | 1,232 | 0 | 2 | $1,788,475 |
| 16 (161) | Jan Sjavik | Oslo, NOR | 1,224 | 1 | 2 | $207,264 |
| 17 (164) | Cheung Tai Law | Middlesbrook, GBR | 1,200 | 0 | 1 | $311,555 |
| 18 (175) | Willie Tann | Bovingdon, GBR | 1,184 | 1 | 2 | $263,335 |
| 19 (198) | Marcel Luske | Amsterdam, NLD | 1,088 | 1 | 3 | $317,136 |
| 20 (220) | Eduard Scharf | Cologne, DEU | 1,028 | 0 | 3 | $173,927 |
| 21 (226) | Tobias Persson | Malmo, SWE | 1,020 | 0 | 1 | $154,351 |
| 22 (239) | Mark Boudewijn | Gouda, NLD | 960 | 1 | 1 | $222,570 |
| 23 (241) | Lawrence Gosney | Leeds, GBR | 960 | 1 | 1 | $483,195 |
| 24 (240) | Mikael Westerlund | Gothenburg, SWE | 960 | 0 | 1 | $306,000 |
| 25 (264) | Jeffrey Lisandro | Sydney, AUS | 936 | 1 | 2 | $571,965 |
| 26 (279) | Alan Smurfit | Dublin, IRL | 910 | 0 | 4 | $100,030 |
| 27 (314) | Cicurel Didier | FRA | 832 | 0 | 2 | $167,687 |
| 28 (326) | Kirill Gerasimov | Moscow, RUS | 800 | 0 | 1 | $108,775 |
| 29 (327) | Jarl Lindholt | Aarhus, DNK | 800 | 0 | 1 | $258,000 |
| 30 (353) | Roland de Wolfe | London, GBR | 768 | 1 | 1 | $600,898 |
| 31 (366) | Carlos Mortensen | Madrid, ESP | 755 | 0 | 2 | $104,174 |
| 32 (375) | Martin Vallo | Copenhagen, DNK | 740 | 0 | 1 | $109,519 |
| 33 (390) | Jac Arama | London, GBR | 724 | 0 | 2 | $82,706 |
| 34 (393) | David Ulliott | Hull, GBR | 720 | 0 | 2 | $279,430 |
| 35 (392) | Mark Teltscher | London, GBR | 720 | 1 | 1 | $374,965 |
| 36 (423) | Joseph Grech | London, GBR | 690 | 0 | 1 | $244,070 |
| 37 (424) | Benjamin Roberts | London, GBR | 690 | 0 | 1 | $143,555 |
| 38 (436) | Jeff Duvall | Surrey, GBR | 674 | 0 | 1 | $97,170 |
| 39 (437) | Iwan Jones | Cardiff, GBR | 672 | 1 | 1 | $750,000 |
| 40 (443) | Karl Limbert | Kent, GBR | 656 | 0 | 2 | $67,526 |
| 41 (450) | Mel Judah | London, GBR | 643 | 1 | 3 | $75,313 |
| 42 (472) | Antony Lellouche | Paris, FRA | 624 | 0 | 1 | $76,765 |
| 43 (477) | Peter Costa | Leicester, GBR | 617 | 0 | 2 | $177,011 |
| 44 (481) | Chris Bjorin | London, GBR | 612 | 0 | 4 | $73,792 |
| 45 (509) | Bruno Fitoussi | Paris, FRA | 580 | 0 | 1 | $70,275 |
| 46 (531) | Mikael Thuritz | Stockholm, SWE | 560 | 0 | 1 | $400,000 |
| 47 (555) | Haim Kakoun | Paris, FRA | 528 | 0 | 1 | $105,280 |
| 48 (556) | Anatole Parthes | Paris, FRA | 528 | 0 | 1 | $46,975 |
| 49 (575) | Fabrice Soulier | Avignon, FRA | 516 | 0 | 2 | $126,100 |
| 50 (579) | Ram Vaswani | Hendon, GBR | 514 | 0 | 1 | $121,230 |
| Jump to | Page 1 of 4 | Next |