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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1501 | Aleix Marin | DNK | 495 | 1 | 3 | $38,200 |
| 1502 | Grant Yarbrough | Santa Ana, CA, USA | 494 | 0 | 3 | $34,859 |
| 1502 | Martin Zobel | DEU | 494 | 1 | 3 | $70,670 |
| 1504 | Joe Firova | Laredo, TX, USA | 493 | 0 | 7 | $33,018 |
| 1504 | Vera Dong | San Francisco, CA, USA | 493 | 0 | 3 | $47,499 |
| 1506 | Valentin Imperatore | FRA | 492 | 2 | 2 | $40,285 |
| 1506 | Nick Yunis | CHL | 492 | 0 | 3 | $72,222 |
| 1506 | Michael Guzzardi | Melbourne, AUS | 492 | 0 | 3 | $26,570 |
| 1506 | Cosmin-Ionut Nica | ROU | 492 | 1 | 2 | $96,682 |
| 1510 | Luigi Macaluso | 491 | 0 | 2 | $50,143 | |
| 1511 | Charlie Dawson | Owensboro, KY, USA | 490 | 1 | 5 | $43,096 |
| 1511 | Wantao Tang | GBR | 490 | 1 | 2 | $64,781 |
| 1513 | Kao Saechao | Damascus, OR, USA | 489 | 1 | 4 | $88,045 |
| 1514 | Soysal Ozkan | AUT | 488 | 1 | 2 | $101,696 |
| 1514 | Emmanuel Mckenzie | Houston, TX, USA | 488 | 0 | 3 | $58,880 |
| 1514 | Sean Tan | SGP | 488 | 0 | 4 | $39,553 |
| 1514 | Nejat Erman | TUR | 488 | 0 | 3 | $13,700 |
| 1514 | Rindra Norodom | KHM | 488 | 1 | 4 | $54,750 |
| 1514 | In Ho Song | PRK | 488 | 1 | 2 | $48,951 |
| 1520 | Hieu Luu | Riverside, CA, USA | 486 | 0 | 1 | $81,785 |
| 1520 | Ankit Ahuja | Santa Ana, CA, USA | 486 | 0 | 3 | $107,842 |
| 1520 | Dustin Harrelson | Columbia, LA, USA | 486 | 0 | 1 | $108,979 |
| 1520 | Jose Wong | Brick, NJ, USA | 486 | 1 | 4 | $80,346 |
| 1520 | Ahman Baalbaki | CAN | 486 | 2 | 3 | $40,756 |
| 1525 | Davide Raschella | ITA | 485 | 0 | 2 | $87,154 |
| 1525 | Jesse Yaginuma | Silver Spring, MD, USA | 485 | 0 | 3 | $51,557 |
| 1525 | Javier Fernandez | ESP | 485 | 0 | 2 | $72,016 |
| 1528 | Jeffrey Copeland | St. Louis, MO, USA | 484 | 0 | 2 | $39,083 |
| 1528 | Adem Agoudjil | FRA | 484 | 0 | 2 | $86,300 |
| 1528 | Tahar Said | FRA | 484 | 1 | 2 | $57,527 |
| 1528 | Marius Oprea | ROU | 484 | 0 | 2 | $54,258 |
| 1528 | Martin Nielsen | DNK | 484 | 0 | 3 | $53,406 |
| 1528 | Dorian Alejandro Rios Pavon | VEN | 484 | 1 | 3 | $51,940 |
| 1528 | Yurii Senchylo | Kyiv, UKR | 484 | 0 | 2 | $93,727 |
| 1535 | John Gillis | USA | 483 | 0 | 3 | $61,010 |
| 1536 | Tan Le | GBR | 482 | 1 | 2 | $59,889 |
| 1537 | Eric Chung | CAN | 480 | 0 | 1 | $14,287 |
| 1537 | Ryan Albert | Austin, TX, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $49,149 |
| 1537 | Jose Garcia | El Paso, TX, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $88,007 |
| 1537 | Richard Kellett | GBR | 480 | 0 | 2 | $96,585 |
| 1537 | Adria Comas Roura | EST | 480 | 0 | 1 | $3,383 |
| 1537 | Maksim Tatarintsev | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $85,069 |
| 1537 | Randall Emmett | Beverly Hills, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $141,300 |
| 1537 | Peisen Ma | PAN | 480 | 1 | 1 | $100,000 |
| 1537 | Jeremy Slonski | CT, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $42,905 |
| 1537 | Richard Lee | San Diego, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $48,384 |
| 1537 | Autumn Hayes | Latham, NY, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $88,986 |
| 1537 | Bart Timmer | NLD | 480 | 1 | 1 | $70,022 |
| 1537 | Yuanxi Chen | SGP | 480 | 1 | 1 | $138,321 |
| 1537 | Javier Colomar | ESP | 480 | 0 | 2 | $39,598 |