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2025 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 | Vladimir Heinich | FRA | 1,034 | 1 | 4 | $145,153 |
| 1002 | Rodney Colson | Excelsior, MN, USA | 1,032 | 1 | 5 | $133,253 |
| 1003 | Gaku Fujita | JPN | 1,032 | 1 | 5 | $163,475 |
| 1004 | Rahul Sharma | Mississauga, ON, CAN | 1,029 | 0 | 6 | $16,118 |
| 1005 | Jimin Lee | KOR | 1,029 | 0 | 4 | $108,080 |
| 1006 | Haiyang Yang | CHN | 1,029 | 0 | 4 | $160,050 |
| 1007 | Ted Spivack | Folkestone, GBR | 1,029 | 4 | 9 | $119,031 |
| 1008 | Ashraf Chehata | St. Augustine, FL, USA | 1,028 | 1 | 2 | $175,185 |
| 1009 | Matthew Wakeman | Sydney, AUS | 1,028 | 1 | 5 | $561,575 |
| 1010 | Josh Prager | Yuba City, CA, USA | 1,027 | 0 | 3 | $138,485 |
| 1011 | Dan Stavila | MDA | 1,027 | 1 | 5 | $197,173 |
| 1012 | Alexander Orlov | RUS | 1,026 | 0 | 11 | $91,155 |
| 1013 | John Kurfman | Baylis, IL, USA | 1,026 | 1 | 4 | $106,211 |
| 1014 | Jordyn Miller | Highland, CA, USA | 1,025 | 0 | 4 | $176,224 |
| 1015 | Stephen Kehoe | IRL | 1,025 | 0 | 3 | $146,567 |
| 1016 | Thai Ha | Factoryville, PA, USA | 1,024 | 0 | 3 | $182,238 |
| 1017 | Lin Hao | CHN | 1,024 | 2 | 7 | $89,765 |
| 1018 | Ashish Gupta | AUS | 1,024 | 0 | 2 | $617,268 |
| 1019 | Harrison Dobin | W. Long Branch, NJ, USA | 1,024 | 2 | 3 | $143,792 |
| 1020 | Maksim Pisarenko | RUS | 1,023 | 1 | 3 | $764,919 |
| 1021 | Joseph Molitor | Secane, PA, USA | 1,022 | 0 | 4 | $121,177 |
| 1022 | Ruslan Nasirov | RUS | 1,022 | 0 | 6 | $176,538 |
| 1023 | Tal Avivi | ISR | 1,020 | 1 | 3 | $184,153 |
| 1024 | Sosia Jiang | HKG | 1,020 | 0 | 1 | $1,381,000 |
| 1025 | Peter Brown | Gilbert, AZ, USA | 1,020 | 1 | 2 | $89,278 |
| 1026 | Patrick Truong | Pflugerville, TX, USA | 1,018 | 2 | 6 | $269,435 |
| 1027 | Adam Friedman | Gahanna, OH, USA | 1,016 | 1 | 3 | $244,462 |
| 1028 | Federico Quevedo | San Costa, CRI | 1,016 | 0 | 2 | $186,914 |
| 1029 | Victor Li | CAN | 1,016 | 0 | 2 | $181,054 |
| 1030 | Thibaut Fixari | AUS | 1,016 | 1 | 5 | $104,912 |
| 1031 | Flavius Vlasiu | ROU | 1,016 | 1 | 2 | $113,225 |
| 1032 | Alexander Lakhov | RUS | 1,015 | 0 | 6 | $135,417 |
| 1033 | Francis Obadun | 1,012 | 1 | 3 | $266,649 | |
| 1034 | Jordan Meltzer | USA | 1,010 | 0 | 2 | $205,415 |
| 1035 | Honghao Zhang | Atlanta, GA, USA | 1,010 | 0 | 2 | $356,386 |
| 1036 | Adam Swan | Irvine, CA, USA | 1,009 | 0 | 3 | $201,142 |
| 1037 | Joe Hindry | GBR | 1,008 | 1 | 2 | $239,690 |
| 1038 | Cooper Feltham | AUS | 1,008 | 0 | 4 | $374,290 |
| 1039 | Xuan Liu | Missisauga, CAN | 1,008 | 1 | 1 | $860,000 |
| 1040 | Jay Chaudhary | MN, USA | 1,007 | 0 | 3 | $150,990 |
| 1041 | Daniel Lowery | Peter Pender, AR, USA | 1,006 | 2 | 13 | $120,716 |
| 1042 | Jessie Bryant | Conway, AR, USA | 1,006 | 2 | 4 | $169,244 |
| 1043 | Le Zhou | CHN | 1,006 | 0 | 4 | $153,427 |
| 1044 | Johnny Yu | CAN | 1,004 | 1 | 5 | $82,538 |
| 1045 | Mariusz Golinski | 1,004 | 0 | 2 | $313,741 | |
| 1046 | Niko Koop | Vienna, AUT | 1,002 | 0 | 7 | $127,839 |
| 1047 | Nadav Bitton | CAN | 1,002 | 0 | 3 | $162,306 |
| 1048 | Chi Truong | Carinlea, AUS | 1,000 | 1 | 2 | $122,759 |
| 1049 | Valentyn Shabelnyk | Kiev, UKR | 1,000 | 0 | 2 | $132,545 |
| 1050 | Lin Wei | CHN | 1,000 | 0 | 2 | $1,221,000 |