World's Best Poker Players

Rank	Player	Location	POY Points	Titles	Final Tables	POY Winnings
1951	Cenk Nigbolu	CYP	560	0	1	$93,300
1952	Gloria Vallejo	COL	560	0	1	$56,471
1953	Christopher Brammer	Southhampton, GBR	560	0	2	$104,279
1954	Charles Kelley	Jacksonville, FL, USA	560	0	1	$68,739
1955	Luis Yepez	USA	560	0	3	$97,083
1956	David Vinayagamoorthy	Drammen, NOR	560	0	3	$104,553
1957	Dmitry Lineburg	ISR	560	0	1	$51,638
1958	Raoul Refos	NLD	560	0	2	$76,368
1959	Kerry Welsh	Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA	560	0	1	$63,577
1960	Takumasa Uemura	JPN	560	0	1	$65,115
1961	Spencer Winding	Birgantine, NJ, USA	560	0	1	$67,730
1962	Scott Numoto	Campbell, USA	560	0	1	$66,950
1963	David Kahan	BEL	560	0	1	$50,272
1964	Christopher Dotson	Jersey City, NJ, USA	560	0	1	$29,522
1965	Philippe Sarouphim	LBN	560	0	1	$65,100
1966	Daiki Shingae	JPN	560	0	1	$72,937
1967	Urmo Velvelt	EST	560	0	1	$54,230
1968	Curtis Mann	GBR	560	0	1	$62,103
1969	Pawel Krol	POL	560	0	1	$57,251
1970	Stuart Rutter	GBR	560	1	2	$100,770
1971	Xing Wei	San Francisco, CA, USA	560	0	1	$78,030
1972	Martin Ilavsky	SVK	560	0	1	$88,224
1973	Ben Frisch	USA	560	0	1	$60,621
1974	Mishel Anunu	AUS	560	0	1	$35,187
1975	Martin Lourido	URY	560	0	1	$71,200
1976	Bruno Mota	BRA	560	0	1	$42,665
1977	Mickael Perez	FRA	560	0	1	$54,500
1978	Matthew Osorio	CAN	560	0	1	$46,518
1979	Artem Suhak	UKR	560	0	1	$50,517
1980	Pascal Dabrion	FRA	558	0	4	$70,003
1981	Tom Dwan	Edison, NJ, USA	558	0	3	$440,000
1982	Anton Wigg	SWE	558	0	2	$235,006
1983	Frank Weigel	Odessa, FL, USA	558	1	2	$68,330
1984	Nikita Kalinin	RUS	556	0	2	$156,036
1985	Joseph Henry	Neptune, NJ, USA	556	0	3	$57,019
1986	John Skrovan	Granger, TX, USA	555	1	2	$50,627
1987	Philip Chiu	HKG	555	0	2	$782,000
1988	Miguel Degollado	Ulysses, KS, USA	555	0	5	$49,283
1989	Elias Harala	FIN	555	1	2	$417,738
1990	Timothy Garles	USA	554	0	5	$63,915
1991	Galen Hall	San Francisco, CA, USA	553	1	2	$174,698
1992	Kevin Kelly	MN, USA	552	0	3	$49,567
1993	Angelo Marrone	ITA	552	0	2	$118,941
1994	John Lanese	Bedford, OH, USA	552	0	2	$62,823
1995	Ming Chen	CHN	552	0	3	$85,999
1996	Fintan Hand	IRL	552	1	2	$78,543
1997	Zachary Hench	Wyoming, MI, USA	552	2	3	$90,230
1998	Dann Turner	USA	551	0	3	$86,577
1999	Michael Genova	CA, USA	550	0	2	$54,395
2000	Christie Yau	USA	550	0	1	$176,885