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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 700 | Yuekai Liu | Irvine, CA | 869 | 1 | 4 | $171,848 |
| 702 | Matt Grapenthien | Madison, WI, USA | 864 | 1 | 2 | $416,890 |
| 702 | JP Rounce-Sue | AUS | 864 | 2 | 2 | $221,082 |
| 704 | Troy Sweet | AUS | 862 | 0 | 3 | $114,286 |
| 705 | Aaron Johnson | Red Wing, MN, USA | 860 | 1 | 2 | $114,043 |
| 705 | Joe McKeehen | Conshohocken, PA, USA | 860 | 1 | 3 | $242,157 |
| 705 | Jingfeng Zhu | CHN | 860 | 0 | 3 | $94,112 |
| 705 | Alexander Livingston | Halifax, NS, CAN | 860 | 0 | 2 | $130,866 |
| 705 | Wellington Guedes | 860 | 0 | 2 | $194,665 | |
| 705 | Todd Brunson | El Paso, TX, USA | 860 | 0 | 2 | $265,646 |
| 711 | Joseph Saltanovitz | Munster, IN, USA | 856 | 1 | 2 | $95,237 |
| 712 | Miroslav Alilovic | FRA | 855 | 0 | 2 | $314,834 |
| 713 | Justin Saliba | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 854 | 2 | 2 | $380,370 |
| 714 | Duane Fontenot | Geismar, LA, USA | 853 | 1 | 4 | $94,805 |
| 715 | Andrew Difeo | St Augustine, FL, USA | 852 | 1 | 3 | $112,997 |
| 715 | Trevor Reardon | Birmingham, GBR | 852 | 1 | 3 | $93,029 |
| 715 | Evan Sandberg | San Francisco, CA, USA | 852 | 2 | 4 | $113,153 |
| 718 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | TUR | 850 | 1 | 3 | $1,840,451 |
| 718 | James Carroll | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 850 | 0 | 3 | $238,159 |
| 720 | Duane Mitchell | USA | 849 | 0 | 2 | $198,200 |
| 721 | Jiaxu Chen | AUS | 843 | 1 | 4 | $103,472 |
| 722 | Andrew Brinkley | Atlanta, GA, USA | 842 | 0 | 3 | $124,046 |
| 723 | Matthew Costanzo | Miller Place, NY, USA | 840 | 0 | 1 | $360,930 |
| 723 | Sebastian Pauli | Dortmund, DEU | 840 | 1 | 1 | $135,564 |
| 723 | Albert Daher | LBN | 840 | 1 | 1 | $2,404,350 |
| 723 | Taylor Black | Santa Cruz, CA, USA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $98,623 |
| 723 | Joseph Foote | USA | 840 | 0 | 1 | $117,970 |
| 723 | Fedor Holz | Vienna, DEU | 840 | 1 | 1 | $1,208,811 |
| 723 | Antonin Hays | FRA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $121,410 |
| 723 | Terry Ketterer | SD, USA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $138,000 |
| 723 | Michelle Chin | USA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $161,313 |
| 723 | Deepa Shah | Phoenix, AZ, USA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $84,151 |
| 723 | Brett Goodall | ONT, CAN | 840 | 1 | 1 | $93,308 |
| 723 | Donovan Bates | Dumfries, VA, USA | 840 | 0 | 1 | $114,310 |
| 723 | Mathyeu Provost | CAN | 840 | 1 | 1 | $71,150 |
| 723 | Kevin Roche | PA, USA | 840 | 0 | 2 | $94,765 |
| 723 | David Lin | New York, NY, USA | 840 | 0 | 2 | $331,701 |
| 723 | Thomas Hall | Shrewsbury, GBR | 840 | 0 | 1 | $490,000 |
| 723 | Martins Adeniya | GBR | 840 | 0 | 3 | $232,950 |
| 723 | Igor Dursel | GBR | 840 | 1 | 1 | $84,930 |
| 723 | Taylor Atchison | USA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $159,276 |
| 723 | Liran Betito | ISR | 840 | 1 | 3 | $94,122 |
| 723 | Karanvir Singh | Sicklerville, NJ, USA | 840 | 1 | 7 | $93,915 |
| 723 | Giorgio Calligaris | MCO | 840 | 0 | 1 | $126,068 |
| 723 | Anthony Marques | CA, USA | 840 | 1 | 1 | $187,977 |
| 723 | Sooriya Rajeswaran | AUS | 840 | 1 | 1 | $71,337 |
| 723 | Ali Eslami | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 840 | 0 | 1 | $578,718 |
| 723 | Francisco Lopez Romero | 840 | 1 | 1 | $100,000 | |
| 749 | Daniel Pearlman | Pembroke Pines, FL, USA | 838 | 1 | 4 | $89,504 |
| 750 | Pedro Garcia | ESP | 837 | 0 | 4 | $134,800 |