World's Best Poker Players
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2017 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 | Timothy Gundrum | Sammamish, WA, USA | 400 | 0 | 1 | $87,072 |
| 1852 | Pal Zagreda | USA | 400 | 0 | 1 | $61,394 |
| 1853 | Santiago Soriano | DOM | 400 | 0 | 1 | $50,025 |
| 1854 | Arthur Hahn | USA | 400 | 0 | 1 | $47,430 |
| 1855 | Daniel Murphy | Perth, AUS | 400 | 0 | 1 | $38,646 |
| 1856 | Amit Shory | Melbourne, AUS | 400 | 0 | 1 | $21,113 |
| 1857 | Sheldon Mayer | AUS | 400 | 0 | 1 | $53,900 |
| 1858 | Felipe Torres | BRA | 400 | 0 | 1 | $91,920 |
| 1859 | Mohamed Lahlou | MAR | 400 | 0 | 1 | $82,600 |
| 1860 | Tong Zhou | CHN | 400 | 0 | 1 | $114,075 |
| 1861 | Fernando Konishi | BRA | 400 | 0 | 1 | $145,607 |
| 1862 | Peter Chan | HKG | 400 | 0 | 1 | $890,370 |
| 1863 | Kazuma Fujiyama | JPN | 400 | 0 | 1 | $72,450 |
| 1864 | Juan Gomez Giraldo | COL | 400 | 0 | 1 | $61,900 |
| 1865 | Jose Arzamendia | PRY | 400 | 0 | 1 | $77,845 |
| 1866 | Sean Lannon | AUS | 400 | 0 | 1 | $78,061 |
| 1867 | John Holley III | Destin, FL, USA | 398 | 1 | 7 | $35,565 |
| 1868 | Neil Scott | Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA | 398 | 1 | 5 | $51,810 |
| 1869 | Edward Han | McLean, VA, USA | 398 | 1 | 7 | $42,789 |
| 1870 | Travis Gant | Mitchell, SD, USA | 398 | 1 | 2 | $38,482 |
| 1871 | John Esposito Jr. | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 398 | 0 | 3 | $61,779 |
| 1872 | Eric Rivkin | East Hampton, NY, USA | 397 | 1 | 4 | $64,650 |
| 1873 | Adam Dunkle | USA | 397 | 1 | 2 | $87,065 |
| 1874 | Stephan Porter | Cranston, RI, USA | 397 | 0 | 4 | $31,532 |
| 1875 | Bin Weng | Mineola, PA, USA | 397 | 0 | 3 | $46,805 |
| 1876 | Shinobu Tanaka | JPN | 397 | 0 | 4 | $48,139 |
| 1877 | Buck Ramsay | 396 | 1 | 2 | $65,654 | |
| 1878 | Anton Wigg | SWE | 396 | 1 | 1 | $111,719 |
| 1879 | Ville Haavisto | FIN | 396 | 0 | 2 | $50,515 |
| 1880 | Pim van Holsteyn | NLD | 396 | 0 | 2 | $48,331 |
| 1881 | Markus Grewe | DEU | 396 | 1 | 1 | $34,645 |
| 1882 | Andreas Ioakimides | St. Louis, MO, USA | 396 | 1 | 3 | $41,413 |
| 1883 | Sameer Aljanedi | Marina Del Ray, CA, USA | 396 | 0 | 3 | $46,832 |
| 1884 | Denny Tran | CA, USA | 396 | 1 | 2 | $45,720 |
| 1885 | Massoud Nooralian | Falls Chruch, VA, USA | 396 | 0 | 4 | $45,200 |
| 1886 | Joseph Brown | Sherman, TX, USA | 396 | 0 | 4 | $29,487 |
| 1887 | Greg Himmelbrand | Oakland Gardens, NY, USA | 396 | 0 | 2 | $122,318 |
| 1888 | Walter Blattler | Luzern, CHE | 395 | 0 | 2 | $37,621 |
| 1889 | James McKinnon | New York, NY, USA | 395 | 0 | 4 | $42,866 |
| 1890 | Rommel Santos | URY | 395 | 1 | 1 | $56,580 |
| 1891 | Alexander Orlov | RUS | 394 | 1 | 9 | $34,374 |
| 1892 | Victor Figueroa | Miami, Florida, USA | 394 | 0 | 1 | $125,533 |
| 1893 | Joseph Buonodono | Tampa, FL, USA | 394 | 0 | 2 | $25,961 |
| 1894 | Mehrdad Ghiasvand | West Hills, CA, USA | 394 | 0 | 2 | $29,432 |
| 1895 | Isaac Choi | San Francisco, CA, USA | 393 | 1 | 2 | $45,972 |
| 1896 | Aaron Johnson | Red Wing, MN, USA | 393 | 0 | 3 | $76,296 |
| 1897 | Mark Manesh | Jacksonville, FL, USA | 393 | 0 | 5 | $36,909 |
| 1898 | Sachin Bhargava | San Jose, CA, USA | 393 | 0 | 2 | $42,020 |
| 1899 | Florence Allera | FRA | 392 | 1 | 2 | $46,788 |
| 1900 | Nicola Benedetto | ITA | 392 | 1 | 2 | $49,507 |