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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1537 | Liam Obrien | GBR | 480 | 1 | 1 | $56,520 |
| 1537 | Han Feng | Houston, TX, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $94,753 |
| 1537 | Jared Bancroft | AUS | 480 | 2 | 2 | $47,962 |
| 1537 | Ruslan Dykshteyn | Staten Island, NY, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $36,903 |
| 1537 | Adria Comas Roura | EST | 480 | 0 | 1 | $3,383 |
| 1537 | Thang Luen | SGP | 480 | 0 | 1 | $21,130 |
| 1537 | Chung-Tang Lin | USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $148,407 |
| 1537 | Peter Placey | Newport Beach, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $224,000 |
| 1537 | ABRAHIM ROBBIN | Grand Terrace | 480 | 1 | 1 | $45,179 |
| 1537 | Dwayne Heide | USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $80,944 |
| 1537 | Nicholas Major | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $102,603 |
| 1537 | Maksim Tatarintsev | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $85,069 |
| 1537 | Thang Tran | Bellflower, CA, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $85,210 |
| 1537 | Del Beiler | MO, USA | 480 | 0 | 2 | $56,650 |
| 1537 | Randall Emmett | Beverly Hills, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $141,300 |
| 1537 | Paul Covaciu | ROU | 480 | 1 | 1 | $122,558 |
| 1537 | Elio Berreby | FRA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $44,616 |
| 1537 | Peter Thao | CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $70,000 |
| 1537 | Peisen Ma | PAN | 480 | 1 | 1 | $100,000 |
| 1537 | Kenny Roy | Salem, NH, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $113,623 |
| 1537 | Illuminato Torrisi | ITA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $171,113 |
| 1537 | Fred Goldberg | Hollywood, FL, USA | 480 | 0 | 2 | $74,000 |
| 1537 | Christy Cranford | Glenpool, OK, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $64,890 |
| 1537 | Jeremy Slonski | CT, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $42,905 |
| 1537 | Jhoan Canon | COL | 480 | 1 | 1 | $105,706 |
| 1537 | Richard Lee | San Diego, CA, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $48,384 |
| 1537 | Ryan Hansen | Stamford, CT, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $78,430 |
| 1537 | Scott Carragher | Charlottetown, CAN | 480 | 0 | 1 | $26,015 |
| 1537 | Martin Kozlov | Melbourne, AUS | 480 | 0 | 1 | $63,266 |
| 1537 | Luke Norval | CAN | 480 | 0 | 1 | $77,651 |
| 1537 | Tianyi Ma | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 480 | 0 | 2 | $98,972 |
| 1537 | Julien Aznar | FRA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $43,708 |
| 1537 | Francois Billard | Rosemere, QC, CAN | 480 | 0 | 1 | $88,100 |
| 1537 | Arash Asadabadi | Watts Vale, MD, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $73,037 |
| 1537 | Christopher Mason | Lexington, KY, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $117,038 |
| 1537 | Sergey Isupov | RUS | 480 | 0 | 1 | $76,000 |
| 1537 | John Hall | Culpeper, VA, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $90,140 |
| 1537 | Cameron Sinclair | GBR | 480 | 0 | 1 | $44,948 |
| 1537 | Jose Cayetano | Woodbridge, VA, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $56,904 |
| 1537 | Rami Kakoraiev | Fresh Meadows, NY, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $56,806 |
| 1537 | Todd Dakake | Providence, RI, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $162,551 |
| 1537 | Hong Pham | 480 | 1 | 1 | $138,370 | |
| 1537 | Jules Ayoub | DEU | 480 | 1 | 1 | $58,397 |
| 1537 | Brant Jolly | Fayetteville, AR, USA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $95,000 |
| 1537 | Melih Ekmekcioglu | CYP | 480 | 0 | 1 | $74,000 |
| 1537 | Bart Timmer | NLD | 480 | 1 | 1 | $70,022 |
| 1537 | Giuseppe Stallo | ITA | 480 | 0 | 1 | $114,895 |
| 1537 | Alec Magdan | Warren, MI, USA | 480 | 1 | 1 | $75,601 |
| 1537 | Yuanxi Chen | SGP | 480 | 1 | 1 | $138,321 |
| 1537 | Javier Colomar | ESP | 480 | 0 | 2 | $39,598 |