World's Best Poker Players

Rank	Player	Location	POY Points	Titles	Final Tables	POY Winnings
1951	Kamran Munaf	USA	304	0	1	$54,769
1952	Harut Arutyunyan	CA, USA	304	0	1	$48,435
1953	Tom Le	USA	304	0	1	$42,541
1954	Zhiqiang Qian	CHN	304	1	2	$47,626
1955	David Man	HKG	304	0	1	$27,183
1956	Adam Hendrix	Anchorage, AK, USA	302	0	2	$20,157
1957	Joseph Couden	Coconut Creek, FL, USA	302	0	2	$27,790
1958	Luis Rodriaduez-Cruz		300	0	1	$53,768
1959	Andre Elstermann		300	0	1	$48,238
1960	Elvira Alieva		300	0	1	$55,605
1961	Dimitri Sukhorukov		300	0	1	$33,269
1962	Roy Al Rineh		300	0	1	$21,762
1963	Valeriy Chupin		300	0	1	$41,505
1964	Jamila Von Perger		300	0	1	$38,965
1965	Daniel Barriocanal	ESP	300	0	1	$70,007
1966	Ranno Sootla	Tallinn, EST	300	0	1	$32,656
1967	Jeffrey Brouwer	NLD	300	0	1	$26,972
1968	Vincent Verdickt	BEL	300	0	2	$28,935
1969	Irakli Papinashvili	GEO	300	0	1	$28,766
1970	Pierre Merlin	FRA	300	1	2	$39,444
1971	Olivier Rousse	FRA	300	0	2	$31,861
1972	Raul Paez	Barcelona, ESP	300	0	1	$38,040
1973	Marek Ohnisko	CZE	300	0	1	$263,962
1974	Gleb Kovtunov	UKR	300	0	1	$31,527
1975	Nguyen Le	GBR	300	0	1	$66,000
1976	Codrin Macovei	ITA	300	0	1	$15,471
1977	Jerome Brion	FRA	300	0	1	$98,706
1978	Bogdan Capitan	ROU	300	1	1	$169,574
1979	Daniel Novak	AUT	300	0	1	$57,743
1980	Ismet Oral	TUR	300	0	1	$28,672
1981	Cristian Egues	ESP	300	0	1	$108,858
1982	Igor Sharaskin	RUS	300	0	1	$28,844
1983	Anton Vinokurov	RUS	300	0	1	$26,587
1984	Tom Haney	GBR	300	0	1	$26,308
1985	Pavlin Karakikov	Staza Zagor, BGR	300	0	1	$29,270
1986	Jared Jaffee	Brooklyn, NY, USA	300	0	2	$102,577
1987	Timothy V. Kegel	Hollywood, Fl, USA	300	0	2	$34,738
1988	Wendy Freedman	San Francisco, CA, USA	300	1	1	$54,993
1989	Matt Zoorob	Las Vegas, NV, USA	300	0	1	$20,158
1990	Jordan Smith	Tool, TX, USA	300	0	2	$42,500
1991	Bruce Swart	Grass Lake, MI, USA	300	0	1	$26,951
1992	Peixin Liu	USA	300	1	1	$41,379
1993	Marvin Burkholder	Waterloo, NY, USA	300	0	1	$28,452
1994	Jacob Moore	Ft. Mitchell, KY, USA	300	0	1	$23,847
1995	Muneer Ahmed	Dassel, MN, USA	300	0	1	$22,528
1996	Ronald Piasetzki	CAN	300	0	1	$15,090
1997	Ryan Dersch	USA	300	0	1	$23,112
1998	FENG LI	Laurel, MD, USA	300	0	2	$18,552
1999	Lyle Vincent	USA	300	0	1	$107,370
2000	Adam Friedman	Gahanna, OH, USA	300	0	1	$24,699