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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2315 | Safik Chawdury | St Augustine, FL, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $28,290 |
| 2315 | John Carothers | USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $34,960 |
| 2315 | Lance Kittrell | TX, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $40,398 |
| 2315 | Justin Donato | Pensacola, FL, USA | 350 | 0 | 2 | $40,469 |
| 2315 | Matthew Ernst | Crestwood, KY, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $46,447 |
| 2315 | Gregory Whiting | Philadelphia, PA, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $18,555 |
| 2315 | Tammy Ehrhart | Port Orange, FL, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $27,554 |
| 2315 | Brant Hale | Norman, OK, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $29,824 |
| 2315 | Cliff Josephy | Syosset, NY, USA | 350 | 0 | 1 | $105,178 |
| 2315 | Joseph Lam | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 350 | 0 | 2 | $25,254 |
| 2315 | Miray Badaoui | AUS | 350 | 0 | 1 | $18,421 |
| 2315 | Hugo Spangenberg | ARG | 350 | 0 | 1 | $31,340 |
| 2363 | David Avina | Murietta, CA, USA | 348 | 0 | 2 | $63,740 |
| 2363 | Paul Roy | USA | 348 | 0 | 2 | $80,100 |
| 2363 | Pascal Gregoire | CAN | 348 | 0 | 3 | $16,505 |
| 2366 | Manjunath Mulinti | Alviso, CA, USA | 347 | 0 | 2 | $49,344 |
| 2366 | Arsh Ladhani | Colleyville, TX, USA | 347 | 1 | 2 | $28,555 |
| 2366 | Seref Anar | TUR | 347 | 0 | 4 | $50,395 |
| 2366 | Steven Glasscock | USA | 347 | 0 | 5 | $22,400 |
| 2366 | Jerry Wong | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 347 | 1 | 2 | $78,570 |
| 2371 | Ali Abdulzahra | GBR | 346 | 0 | 2 | $59,238 |
| 2371 | John Fagg | Terre Haute, IN, USA | 346 | 0 | 2 | $23,823 |
| 2371 | Tsz Liu | Corvalis, OR, USA | 346 | 1 | 2 | $56,348 |
| 2371 | William Wolf | San Diego, CA, USA | 346 | 0 | 2 | $39,725 |
| 2371 | Raymond Humphrey | Maysville, NC, USA | 346 | 2 | 4 | $26,977 |
| 2376 | Heskey Selva | NLD | 345 | 1 | 4 | $68,192 |
| 2376 | Glenn Thompson | Buckley, WA, USA | 345 | 0 | 2 | $74,875 |
| 2376 | Andrew Scarf | AUS | 345 | 1 | 2 | $29,681 |
| 2379 | Vasilis Nikolas | SWE | 344 | 0 | 2 | $86,216 |
| 2379 | Jacob Witt | DNK | 344 | 0 | 2 | $20,114 |
| 2379 | Kimberly Stone | St Louis, MO, USA | 344 | 1 | 3 | $27,793 |
| 2379 | Yingzheng Shi | CHN | 344 | 0 | 2 | $34,109 |
| 2383 | Abbas Alikhani | CA, USA | 343 | 1 | 4 | $55,433 |
| 2384 | Christopher Marshall | San Diego, CA, USA | 342 | 0 | 4 | $37,633 |
| 2384 | Kyle Grupp | Clarence, NY, USA | 342 | 0 | 1 | $67,655 |
| 2384 | Phillip Hui | Tamarac, FL, USA | 342 | 0 | 6 | $32,340 |
| 2384 | Scott Eskenazi | Mercer Island, WA, USA | 342 | 0 | 2 | $55,018 |
| 2384 | Dekel Balas | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 342 | 0 | 2 | $33,176 |
| 2384 | Zehao Li | CHN | 342 | 0 | 1 | $46,886 |
| 2390 | Stephen Panourakis | Melbourne, AUS | 341 | 2 | 2 | $43,961 |
| 2391 | Alcides Gomez | Miami, FL, USA | 340 | 0 | 2 | $27,010 |
| 2391 | Joni Jouhkimainen | Helsinki, FIN | 340 | 0 | 2 | $210,808 |
| 2391 | Patrick Thurner | AUT | 340 | 0 | 2 | $38,155 |
| 2391 | Omar Diez | ESP | 340 | 0 | 1 | $8,000 |
| 2391 | Linus Loeliger | CHE | 340 | 0 | 1 | $263,000 |
| 2391 | David McGowan | Chicago, IL, USA | 340 | 0 | 2 | $112,635 |
| 2391 | Billy McBrayer | Duncanville, AL, USA | 340 | 0 | 3 | $59,788 |
| 2391 | Alex Ferrari | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 340 | 0 | 1 | $55,216 |
| 2391 | Cole Gauthier | CAN | 340 | 0 | 2 | $44,837 |
| 2391 | Kristopher Tong | Huntington Beach, CA, USA | 340 | 0 | 1 | $226,172 |
