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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2510 | Brian Green | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $38,000 |
| 2510 | Dimitrios Stampoultzis | CA, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $15,825 |
| 2510 | Hassan El Hakim | Sarasota, FL, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $44,700 |
| 2510 | Matthew Schiavi | Utica, NY, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $47,386 |
| 2510 | Phan Cheng | CA, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $42,130 |
| 2510 | Greg Ostrander | Rochester, NY, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $55,191 |
| 2510 | Richard Catellier | CAN | 320 | 0 | 2 | $37,526 |
| 2510 | Toan Tran | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $37,908 |
| 2510 | Brian Mahler | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $33,241 |
| 2510 | Lexy Gavin Mather | Stony Brook, NY, USA | 320 | 0 | 3 | $61,656 |
| 2510 | Andy Rogowski | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $43,312 |
| 2510 | Cody Pavlak | AZ, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $46,051 |
| 2510 | Darryl Dreyer | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $80,000 |
| 2510 | Igor Pinheiro | BLZ | 320 | 0 | 1 | $55,850 |
| 2510 | Rocky Paradise | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $41,688 |
| 2510 | Douglas Rogers | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $31,867 |
| 2510 | Andrew Korby | Milford, MI, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $29,790 |
| 2510 | Michael Hernandez | Katy, TX, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $40,700 |
| 2510 | Ravi Shankar | USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $49,160 |
| 2510 | Dane Cass | Boonville, NC, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $34,000 |
| 2510 | Ethan Ackerman | Corona Del Mar, CA, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $39,403 |
| 2510 | Mark Marcellus | Jacksonville, FL, USA | 320 | 0 | 1 | $30,568 |
| 2510 | Chanso Munn | Bloomfield Ridge, NB, CAN | 320 | 0 | 1 | $32,941 |
| 2510 | Ilias Sagias | Adelaide, AUS | 320 | 0 | 1 | $33,000 |
| 2510 | Luis Albarracin | COL | 320 | 0 | 1 | $72,645 |
| 2510 | Isaac Chze | MYS | 320 | 0 | 3 | $40,064 |
| 2510 | Luciano Piaggesi | ARG | 320 | 0 | 2 | $60,583 |
| 2510 | Josei Kamei | Melbourne, AUS | 320 | 0 | 1 | $71,250 |
| 2510 | Ruben Padilla | AUS | 320 | 0 | 1 | $36,658 |
| 2580 | Nikolai Mamut | GBR | 319 | 1 | 2 | $38,050 |
| 2581 | Mikhail Chykiliov | FL, USA | 318 | 1 | 3 | $31,100 |
| 2581 | Maroun Sily | LBN | 318 | 0 | 3 | $23,000 |
| 2583 | Vito Distefano | Chicago, IL, USA | 317 | 1 | 2 | $91,146 |
| 2584 | Khanthaly Vixaythong | Sioux City, IA, USA | 316 | 1 | 2 | $26,225 |
| 2584 | Junkai Kui | CHN | 316 | 1 | 2 | $29,121 |
| 2584 | Michael Nia | CA, USA | 316 | 0 | 3 | $49,376 |
| 2584 | Glenn Difurio | Prosper, TX, USA | 316 | 0 | 3 | $32,281 |
| 2588 | Patrick Eskandar | 315 | 1 | 3 | $25,650 | |
| 2588 | Matthew Riebel | Columbus, OH, USA | 315 | 0 | 1 | $42,885 |
| 2588 | Grzegorz Flak | POL | 315 | 0 | 3 | $38,517 |
| 2588 | Boris Kolev | Plovdiv, BGR | 315 | 0 | 1 | $160,000 |
| 2588 | Ivan Angelov | BGR | 315 | 0 | 1 | $39,569 |
| 2588 | Megan Chapman | FL, USA | 315 | 0 | 2 | $22,759 |
| 2594 | Francis Falardeau | Montreal, QC, CAN | 314 | 1 | 2 | $15,948 |
| 2594 | Marco Bognanni | ITA | 314 | 0 | 1 | $34,973 |
| 2594 | Christopher Engasser | Mastic, NY, USA | 314 | 0 | 2 | $34,872 |
| 2594 | Dylan Foster | Queensland, AUS | 314 | 0 | 3 | $73,519 |
| 2598 | Eric Martin | Lafayette, LA, USA | 313 | 1 | 2 | $37,909 |
| 2598 | Alessandro Predaroli | ITA | 313 | 0 | 1 | $49,108 |
| 2598 | Jeff Nowling | TX, USA | 313 | 0 | 2 | $27,658 |