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.
2023 POY Leader Boards - Europe
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 (8508) | Terry Jordon | GBR | 117 | 0 | 1 | $19,613 |
| 2002 (8511) | Arturas Povilaitis | LTU | 116 | 0 | 2 | $13,824 |
| 2003 (8512) | David Carrasco | ESP | 116 | 1 | 2 | $7,711 |
| 2004 (8528) | Elmond Chiro | NLD | 115 | 0 | 1 | $11,285 |
| 2005 (8540) | Seref Anar | TUR | 115 | 1 | 1 | $10,347 |
| 2006 (8535) | Arne Olsen | NOR | 115 | 1 | 1 | $6,444 |
| 2007 (8549) | Michal Szelka | POL | 114 | 0 | 1 | $12,876 |
| 2008 (8556) | Kodor Issa | DEU | 114 | 0 | 1 | $12,112 |
| 2009 (8553) | Vladislav Doroshkov | RUS | 114 | 0 | 1 | $37,300 |
| 2010 (8573) | Radu Lita | ROU | 114 | 0 | 1 | $9,375 |
| 2011 (8589) | Viacheslav Fentisov | Moscow, RUS | 114 | 0 | 1 | $15,106 |
| 2012 (8568) | Chiara Knowle | AUT | 114 | 0 | 1 | $11,363 |
| 2013 (8581) | Renato Hysenbelli | ITA | 114 | 0 | 1 | $13,000 |
| 2014 (8554) | Stefan Bittger | DEU | 114 | 0 | 1 | $5,000 |
| 2015 (8557) | Fabian Niederreiter | DEU | 114 | 0 | 1 | $24,022 |
| 2016 (8550) | Steve Watts | England, GBR | 114 | 0 | 1 | $37,668 |
| 2017 (8654) | Mitsopoulos Kyriakos | GRC | 112 | 0 | 1 | $8,636 |
| 2018 (8626) | Marvin Haim | FRA | 112 | 0 | 1 | $10,005 |
| 2019 (8604) | Sebastian Geisler | DEU | 112 | 0 | 1 | $6,838 |
| 2020 (8615) | Guillaume Alfieri | FRA | 112 | 0 | 1 | $7,167 |
| 2021 (8706) | Vadzim Godzdanker | BLR | 112 | 0 | 1 | $8,963 |
| 2022 (8619) | Jokin Cendoya | ESP | 112 | 0 | 1 | $7,550 |
| 2023 (8683) | Roberto Rodriguez | ESP | 112 | 0 | 1 | $20,509 |
| 2024 (8703) | Andrii Derzhypilskyi | UKR | 112 | 0 | 1 | $23,112 |
| 2025 (8636) | Rosarie Roberts | IRL | 112 | 0 | 1 | $7,382 |
| 2026 (8645) | Luigi D'Alterio | ITA | 112 | 0 | 1 | $9,951 |
| 2027 (8663) | Andrii Onushko | UKR | 112 | 0 | 1 | $7,588 |
| 2028 (8680) | Stefan Leenen | NLD | 112 | 0 | 1 | $10,898 |
| 2029 (8623) | Vegard Melgalvis | NOR | 112 | 0 | 1 | $8,518 |
| 2030 (8670) | Gheorghe-Radu Fedorca | FRA | 112 | 0 | 1 | $8,904 |
| 2031 (8696) | Veronica Tuscano | ITA | 112 | 0 | 1 | $8,968 |
| 2032 (8649) | Bojan Knezevic | SVN | 112 | 0 | 1 | $10,107 |
| 2033 (8693) | Tamas Adamszky | HUN | 112 | 0 | 1 | $70,172 |
| 2034 (8646) | Mark Teltscher | London, GBR | 112 | 0 | 1 | $24,075 |
| 2035 (8622) | Michael Schmitz | DEU | 112 | 0 | 1 | $9,031 |
| 2036 (8632) | Damian Rapanowicz | POL | 112 | 0 | 1 | $18,272 |
| 2037 (8688) | Valeriy Fokin | RUS | 112 | 0 | 1 | $9,440 |
| 2038 (8756) | Ilyaz Dosikov | RUS | 110 | 0 | 1 | $7,800 |
| 2039 (8727) | Agustin Moralo Minguez | ESP | 110 | 0 | 1 | $9,177 |
| 2040 (8765) | Antonino Venneri | ITA | 110 | 0 | 1 | $49,032 |
| 2041 (8760) | Eric Adjedj | FRA | 110 | 0 | 1 | $10,008 |
| 2042 (8730) | Paul Newey | Dorset, GBR | 110 | 0 | 2 | $25,812 |
| 2043 (8749) | Daniel Wendorf | AUT | 110 | 0 | 1 | $52,169 |
| 2044 (8766) | Evgeniy Bukharkov | RUS | 110 | 0 | 1 | $16,848 |
| 2045 (8767) | Clayde Terlaan | NLD | 110 | 0 | 1 | $8,736 |
| 2046 (8761) | Arnoud Capellen | NLD | 110 | 0 | 1 | $8,421 |
| 2047 (8739) | Vito Branciforte | Kourtant, DEU | 110 | 0 | 1 | $48,947 |
| 2048 (8738) | Vincenzo Ruggiero | ITA | 110 | 0 | 1 | $21,987 |
| 2049 (8725) | Nicholas Marchington | Hornchurch, GBR | 110 | 0 | 1 | $10,930 |
| 2050 (8745) | Paul Hindmarch | GBR | 110 | 0 | 1 | $32,324 |
