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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1351 | Anthony Kim | CA, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $146,232 |
| 1351 | Maduka Perera | AUS | 540 | 1 | 2 | $47,371 |
| 1351 | Maxwell Franklin | Rye, NY, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $75,988 |
| 1351 | Dimitrios Melissourgos | Gainesville, FL, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $136,820 |
| 1351 | Filippos Fragkopoulos | GRC | 540 | 0 | 1 | $146,039 |
| 1351 | Quanliang Gao | Milpitas, CA | 540 | 0 | 2 | $49,575 |
| 1351 | Ryan Wolfson | Westbury, NY, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $120,239 |
| 1351 | Eduard Fondos | ITA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $101,504 |
| 1351 | Theo Rebour | FRA | 540 | 1 | 1 | $218,524 |
| 1351 | Zhang Lei | CHN | 540 | 0 | 1 | $111,629 |
| 1351 | David Miscikowski | San Diego, CA, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $134,330 |
| 1351 | Donghai Huang | CHN | 540 | 1 | 1 | $150,800 |
| 1351 | Julio Trimmer | MEX | 540 | 0 | 1 | $111,414 |
| 1351 | Sung Kim | Austin, TX, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $98,526 |
| 1351 | Jared Woo | Atlanta, GA, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $83,033 |
| 1351 | Chengcai Pan | CHN | 540 | 0 | 1 | $110,000 |
| 1351 | Carlos Chu | CA, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $85,537 |
| 1351 | Deven Cannon | Modesto, CA, USA | 540 | 0 | 2 | $60,362 |
| 1351 | Arthur Demmerley | Derby, NY, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $76,557 |
| 1351 | Mihai Tabac | ROU | 540 | 0 | 1 | $54,165 |
| 1351 | Jack Corrigan | USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $209,044 |
| 1351 | Jeffery Rozier | Detroit, MI, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $77,251 |
| 1351 | Michael Plesa | CAN | 540 | 0 | 1 | $154,853 |
| 1351 | Duc Nguyen | Spring, TX, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $126,830 |
| 1351 | Eric Yanovsky | USA | 540 | 0 | 2 | $58,333 |
| 1351 | Barett Dziok | Boston, MA, USA | 540 | 1 | 1 | $185,850 |
| 1351 | Vladimir Perovic | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 540 | 0 | 1 | $46,762 |
| 1351 | David Docherty | SCO | 540 | 0 | 1 | $90,974 |
| 1351 | Weiping Gu | CHN | 540 | 0 | 1 | $82,610 |
| 1351 | Darko Percic | SVN | 540 | 0 | 1 | $48,300 |
| 1351 | Aaron La | CAN | 540 | 1 | 1 | $109,351 |
| 1382 | Jonah Labranche | USA | 538 | 0 | 2 | $121,230 |
| 1383 | Allan Dungo | CA, USA | 537 | 2 | 4 | $52,760 |
| 1384 | Daniel Daconti | NJ, USA | 536 | 0 | 3 | $44,682 |
| 1384 | Joe Brindle | GBR | 536 | 0 | 2 | $78,565 |
| 1384 | Benjamin Stiefel | DEU | 536 | 0 | 2 | $78,817 |
| 1384 | Sung Choi | Danville, GA | 536 | 0 | 1 | $64,972 |
| 1388 | Ramon Munoz | ESP | 534 | 1 | 2 | $78,629 |
| 1389 | William Berry | Norman, OK, USA | 533 | 1 | 3 | $51,818 |
| 1390 | Ryan Julius | Peoria, IL, USA | 532 | 0 | 2 | $69,669 |
| 1390 | Yaniv Soussan | CAN | 532 | 0 | 5 | $24,069 |
| 1390 | David Hu | NLD | 532 | 0 | 4 | $58,927 |
| 1390 | Brandon Harris | IRL | 532 | 1 | 2 | $117,105 |
| 1394 | Benjamin Thomas | USA | 530 | 0 | 2 | $50,264 |
| 1394 | Erik Bauer | 530 | 0 | 2 | $54,914 | |
| 1396 | Fabio Giamberardini | ITA | 529 | 0 | 3 | $47,357 |
| 1397 | Justin Harvell | Nashville, TN, USA | 528 | 1 | 1 | $141,126 |
| 1397 | Jon Bergeron | USA | 528 | 1 | 1 | $242,115 |
| 1397 | Qi Shen | Melbourne, AUS | 528 | 1 | 2 | $74,299 |
| 1397 | Melanie Pittard | Whitefish, MT, USA | 528 | 2 | 2 | $49,951 |
