World's Best Poker Players
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2008 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Rasmus Nielsen | DNK | 2,840 | 0 | 3 | $830,198 |
| 52 | Marty Smyth | Belfast, IRL | 2,820 | 2 | 2 | $1,859,549 |
| 53 | Hafiz Khan | Stockton, CA, USA | 2,816 | 0 | 4 | $1,208,926 |
| 54 | Dennis Phillips | St Louis, MO, USA | 2,800 | 0 | 1 | $4,517,773 |
| 55 | Alexander Kostritsyn | Moscow, RUS | 2,746 | 1 | 2 | $1,739,983 |
| 56 | Osmin Dardon | West Covina, CA, USA | 2,730 | 0 | 3 | $762,724 |
| 57 | Gus Hansen | Copenhagen, DNK | 2,657 | 0 | 2 | $1,841,132 |
| 58 | Neil Channing | London, GBR | 2,640 | 1 | 2 | $1,345,968 |
| 59 | Hevad Khan | Hummelstown, PA, USA | 2,616 | 2 | 3 | $1,175,777 |
| 60 | Chris Ferguson | Pacific Palisades, CA, USA | 2,609 | 1 | 4 | $1,219,619 |
| 61 | David Tran | El Monte, CA, USA | 2,563 | 0 | 2 | $949,655 |
| 62 | Dan Heimiller | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 2,560 | 0 | 2 | $663,195 |
| 63 | Andy Bloch | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,548 | 0 | 3 | $1,039,081 |
| 64 | Glen Chorny | Waterloo, ON, USA | 2,520 | 1 | 1 | $3,258,462 |
| 65 | Steve Merrifield | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,518 | 0 | 5 | $595,055 |
| 66 | Max Pescatori | Milan, ITA | 2,492 | 2 | 7 | $454,940 |
| 67 | Farzad Rouhani | Gaithersburg, MD, USA | 2,484 | 1 | 3 | $504,255 |
| 68 | Matt Graham | River Ridge, LA, USA | 2,454 | 3 | 3 | $667,429 |
| 69 | Kwinsee Tran | Garden Grove, CA, USA | 2,450 | 2 | 10 | $206,454 |
| 70 | Lee Watkinson | Cheney, WA, USA | 2,439 | 1 | 6 | $625,429 |
| 71 | Vanessa Selbst | Montclair, NJ, USA | 2,422 | 2 | 3 | $451,221 |
| 72 | Allen Cunningham | Ventura, CA, USA | 2,416 | 1 | 3 | $602,509 |
| 73 | liberace | 2,400 | 0 | 1 | $1,375,249 | |
| 74 | Alain Roy | FRA | 2,400 | 1 | 1 | $1,400,199 |
| 75 | Glen Witmer | Waterloo, Ontario, CAN | 2,400 | 1 | 1 | $1,224,852 |
| 76 | Matt Culberson | Hattiesburg, MS, USA | 2,395 | 5 | 12 | $235,631 |
| 77 | John Roveto | Duluth, GA, USA | 2,383 | 0 | 3 | $1,041,781 |
| 78 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | Mukilteo, WA, USA | 2,368 | 1 | 3 | $621,572 |
| 79 | Eric Haber | Syosset, NY, USA | 2,320 | 1 | 4 | $510,266 |
| 80 | Gavin Smith | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,300 | 0 | 2 | $672,964 |
| 81 | Jason Gray | London, GBR | 2,274 | 0 | 2 | $570,442 |
| 82 | Soheil Shamseddin | Houston, TX, USA | 2,274 | 2 | 7 | $366,022 |
| 83 | Ralph Perry | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,270 | 0 | 6 | $610,009 |
| 84 | Blair Hinkle | Kansas City, MO, USA | 2,265 | 1 | 3 | $773,013 |
| 85 | Ted Forrest | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,257 | 0 | 3 | $445,992 |
| 86 | Peter Jetten | Toronto, ONT, CAN | 2,224 | 0 | 2 | $859,790 |
| 87 | Paul Smith | Poway, CA, USA | 2,202 | 1 | 3 | $542,215 |
| 88 | Mike Matusow | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,194 | 1 | 4 | $991,866 |
| 89 | Daniel Negreanu | Las Vegas, NV, CAN | 2,187 | 1 | 3 | $889,941 |
| 90 | Michael Schulze | DEU | 2,160 | 1 | 1 | $952,760 |
| 91 | Olav Sachsen | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,155 | 0 | 5 | $319,303 |
| 92 | Benjamin Fineman | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,144 | 1 | 4 | $375,221 |
| 93 | Scotty Nguyen | Henderson, NV, USA | 2,114 | 1 | 5 | $2,319,037 |
| 94 | Marco Johnson | Walnut Creek, CA, USA | 2,102 | 0 | 4 | $740,323 |
| 95 | Ylon Schwartz | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 2,100 | 0 | 1 | $3,774,974 |
| 96 | Matthew Glantz | Lafayette Hill, PA, USA | 2,092 | 0 | 3 | $821,579 |
| 97 | Paul Lieu | Aurora, IL, USA | 2,088 | 1 | 4 | $288,520 |
| 98 | Andreas Gulunay | Gutersloh, DEU | 2,000 | 0 | 1 | $782,180 |
| 99 | Denes Kalo | Budapest, HUN | 2,000 | 0 | 1 | $1,864,116 |
| 100 | Fintan Gavin | IRL | 2,000 | 0 | 1 | $1,116,720 |
