World's Best Poker Players

Rank	Player	Location	POY Points	Titles	Final Tables	POY Winnings
1901	Adam Geyer	Austin, TX, USA	270	0	2	$42,160
1902	Joe Ward	USA	270	0	1	$65,502
1903	Stephen Bartlett	Livonia, MI, USA	270	0	1	$65,813
1904	Matthew Seer	USA	270	0	1	$43,730
1905	Casey Parker	Las Vegas, NV, USA	270	1	2	$34,054
1906	Paul Dasilva	Escalon, CA, USA	270	0	1	$69,192
1907	Samuel Choae	Las Vegas, NV, USA	270	0	1	$49,050
1908	Roger Lamia	USA	270	0	1	$43,587
1909	Steven Hensley	Mishawaka, IN, USA	270	0	1	$68,173
1910	Paul Ravesi	South Austrailia, AUS	270	0	1	$51,729
1911	John Apostolidis	AUS	270	0	1	$49,618
1912	Thang Minh Truong	AUS	270	0	1	$71,600
1913	Edison Minh Phuc Nguyen	AUS	270	1	2	$42,000
1914	Orjan Skommo	Trondheim, NOR	268	0	1	$44,399
1915	Jean-Philippe Piquette	Repentigny, Quebec, CAN	268	0	3	$41,466
1916	MICHAEL COMAR	Manalapan, NJ, USA	268	1	2	$28,027
1917	Robert McVeigh	Huntington Beach, CA, USA	268	0	2	$141,467
1918	Leandro Csome	ARG	268	1	2	$85,594
1919	Steven McKoy	Birmingham, AL, USA	267	1	2	$24,991
1920	Brock Parker	Silver Spring, MD, USA	266	0	2	$35,266
1921	Pratyush Buddiga	Colorado Springs, CO, USA	265	0	2	$821,758
1922	Evan Parkes		264	0	1	$25,550
1923	Hyunshik Hun		264	0	1	$38,500
1924	Phillippe Vert	FRA	264	1	2	$61,054
1925	Florian Kossler	DEU	264	1	1	$60,731
1926	Ilya Ryabtsev	RUS	264	1	1	$66,389
1927	Jyri Merivirta	FIN	264	0	1	$47,182
1928	Ashton Griffin	Lake Worth, FL, USA	264	0	1	$36,000
1929	John Matson	Hope Valley, RI, USA	264	1	2	$23,865
1930	Feming Chan	Cranbury, NJ, USA	264	1	1	$37,240
1931	Ross Gottlieb	Columbus, OH, USA	264	1	1	$34,000
1932	JOSEPH PALMA	Bensalem, PA, USA	264	2	2	$30,148
1933	Vince Salvatore	Newport Beach, CA, USA	264	1	1	$25,305
1934	Reginald Roberts	Ozark, MO, USA	264	1	1	$52,237
1935	Marc Wilson	CAN	264	1	1	$40,392
1936	Chris Louviere	Bangs, TX, USA	264	1	1	$54,225
1937	Titan Leard	San Clemente, CA, USA	264	1	1	$15,170
1938	Rick Salomon	Los Angeles, CA, USA	264	0	2	$32,833
1939	Jayakrishnan Nair	Redmond, WA, USA	262	2	3	$30,520
1940	Grzegorz Wyraz	AUT	260	0	2	$56,079
1941	Fedor Holz	Vienna, DEU	260	0	1	$45,894
1942	Hugo Lemaire	Sceaux, FRA	260	0	1	$28,930
1943	Oleksander Gnatenko	Donetsk, UKR	260	0	1	$47,953
1944	Fraser Swidler	CAN	260	0	1	$28,440
1945	Jason Mullen	Statellite Beach, FL, USA	260	0	1	$26,864
1946	Jon Turner	Las Vegas, NV, USA	260	1	2	$75,542
1947	Hector Marquez	Norwalk, CA, USA	260	0	2	$17,149
1948	Matthew Moore	Lake Forest, IL, USA	260	0	1	$29,640
1949	Larry Wells	Anahuac, TX, USA	260	0	1	$67,153
1950	Christopher Day	Naples, FL, USA	260	0	1	$41,082