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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
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| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Foxen | Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA | 7,109 | 5 | 12 | $4,229,256 |
| 2 | Brandon Wilson | Chicago, IL, USA | 6,835 | 3 | 18 | $6,311,668 |
| 3 | Eelis Parssinen | FIN | 6,081 | 3 | 9 | $5,833,024 |
| 4 | Danny Tang | HKG | 5,796 | 1 | 11 | $6,918,562 |
| 5 | Jesse Lonis | Little Falls, NY, USA | 5,669 | 1 | 12 | $3,302,787 |
| 6 | Daniel Rezaei | Leibnitz, AUT | 5,576 | 1 | 8 | $5,097,432 |
| 7 | Nick Schulman | Manhattan, NY, USA | 5,281 | 2 | 11 | $1,580,847 |
| 8 | Punnat Punsri | Bangkok, THA | 5,054 | 2 | 15 | $4,989,353 |
| 9 | Kristen Foxen | St. Catherines, CAN | 5,017 | 2 | 8 | $5,206,733 |
| 10 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Riga, LVA | 4,928 | 3 | 10 | $7,350,676 |
| 11 | Daniel Dvoress | Mississauga, ON, CAN | 4,551 | 6 | 10 | $6,313,714 |
| 12 | Justin Liberto | Fallston, MD, USA | 4,503 | 2 | 7 | $1,373,554 |
| 13 | Artur Martirosian | Voronezh, RUS | 4,475 | 3 | 11 | $5,642,870 |
| 14 | Ren Lin | Augusta, GA, USA | 4,424 | 3 | 9 | $2,379,335 |
| 15 | Fahredin Mustafov | BGR | 4,420 | 2 | 5 | $1,614,773 |
| 16 | Bryn Kenney | Long Beach, NY, USA | 4,385 | 0 | 7 | $8,967,695 |
| 17 | Klemens Roiter | AUT | 4,323 | 0 | 10 | $4,759,208 |
| 18 | Jon Ander Vallinas | ESP | 4,264 | 0 | 5 | $2,563,392 |
| 19 | Quan Zhou | Harbin, CHN | 3,920 | 1 | 7 | $2,851,000 |
| 20 | Chino Rheem | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 3,907 | 1 | 9 | $1,037,020 |
| 21 | Christopher Nguyen | AUT | 3,886 | 2 | 5 | $5,442,886 |
| 22 | Joshua Reichard | Beloit, WI, USA | 3,884 | 2 | 6 | $1,175,624 |
| 23 | Sean Winter | Jacksonville, FL, USA | 3,883 | 1 | 9 | $4,139,483 |
| 24 | Matthias Eibinger | Graz, AUT | 3,868 | 3 | 9 | $6,510,575 |
| 25 | Maurice Hawkins | Plantation, FL, USA | 3,792 | 4 | 14 | $860,212 |
| 26 | Myles Mullaly | USA | 3,745 | 1 | 6 | $1,012,373 |
| 26 | Shaun Deeb | Troy, NY, USA | 3,745 | 2 | 10 | $819,837 |
| 28 | Adrian Mateos | Madrid, ESP | 3,569 | 4 | 13 | $6,242,627 |
| 29 | Julien Sitbon | FRA | 3,518 | 1 | 7 | $1,014,378 |
| 29 | Martin Zamani | Boca Raton, FL, USA | 3,518 | 1 | 5 | $977,130 |
| 31 | Alex Anton | FL, USA | 3,366 | 2 | 5 | $1,259,864 |
| 32 | Isaac Haxton | Syracuse, NY, USA | 3,346 | 0 | 8 | $2,682,893 |
| 33 | Calvin Anderson | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA | 3,320 | 2 | 4 | $1,296,724 |
| 34 | Alex Kulev | Dublin, IRL | 3,290 | 2 | 7 | $6,175,981 |
| 35 | Naoya Kihara | Tokyo, JPN | 3,222 | 2 | 6 | $1,441,431 |
| 36 | Michael Watson | Toronto, CAN | 3,214 | 2 | 11 | $3,456,884 |
| 37 | Mehdi Chaoui | MAR | 3,155 | 1 | 10 | $1,734,786 |
| 38 | Biao Ding | CHN | 3,149 | 0 | 8 | $2,407,790 |
| 39 | Jason Koon | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 3,126 | 0 | 11 | $4,635,875 |
| 40 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Curitiba, BRA | 3,100 | 3 | 6 | $5,131,292 |
| 41 | Aren Bezhanyan | ARM | 3,079 | 1 | 4 | $1,893,686 |
| 42 | Philip Sternheimer | London, GBR | 3,075 | 0 | 7 | $4,038,233 |
| 43 | Naseem Salem | Spring Valley, CA, USA | 3,060 | 1 | 2 | $1,316,314 |
| 44 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | LTU | 3,048 | 0 | 6 | $1,854,465 |
| 45 | Sergio Martinez Gonzalez | ESP | 3,045 | 0 | 4 | $1,678,169 |
| 46 | Sebastian Crema | CAN | 3,042 | 2 | 8 | $515,002 |
| 47 | Darren Rabinowitz | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 3,016 | 2 | 4 | $920,687 |
| 48 | Patrik Antonius | Helsinki, FIN | 2,992 | 0 | 9 | $3,063,500 |
| 49 | Christian Harder | Annapolis, MD, USA | 2,979 | 2 | 10 | $612,357 |
| 50 | Sean Rafael | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 2,936 | 2 | 11 | $2,190,720 |
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