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2017 POY Leader Boards - World

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Rank Player Location POY Points Titles Final Tables POY Winnings
1 (41) Pete Chen Sijhih City, TWN 3,052 0 11 $757,075
2 (52) Jonathan Karamalikis Adelaide, AUS 2,812 0 5 $1,166,062
3 (68) Shurane Vijayaram Melbourne, AUS 2,600 1 3 $1,243,829
4 (72) Alan King Lun Lau HKG 2,493 3 6 $1,197,663
5 (83) Adrian Attenborough Melbourne, AUS 2,320 2 5 $746,257
6 (85) Maria Lampropulos Buenos Aires, ARG 2,290 1 4 $1,330,130
7 (94) Albert Daher LBN 2,216 1 6 $838,472
8 (95) Danny Tang HKG 2,215 2 8 $739,339
9 (98) Martin Kozlov Melbourne, AUS 2,195 1 3 $909,099
10 (108) Andres Korn Buenos Aires, ARG 2,148 2 4 $684,014
11 (109) Anson Tsang HKG 2,137 0 6 $590,842
12 (127) Alex Lynskey Brisbane, AUS 1,986 0 3 $500,695
13 (138) Michael Addamo Melbourne, AUS 1,910 1 4 $433,667
14 (142) Rob Wazwaz Brooklyn Park, MN, USA 1,866 1 5 $273,399
15 (158) Ivan Luca Buenos Aires, ARG 1,792 0 7 $1,102,265
16 (186) Terry Tianyuan Tang CHN 1,624 1 3 $360,011
17 (189) Joseph Rojas Caracas, VEN 1,620 1 1 $690,469
18 (209) James Chen Taichung, TWN 1,503 1 5 $1,276,327
19 (219) Michael Kanaan AUS 1,460 1 2 $359,075
20 (223) Marcelo Drumm BRA 1,450 1 12 $149,444
21 (250) Yang Zhang Dalian, CHN 1,374 0 9 $249,265
22 (253) John Tech PHL 1,368 1 1 $603,655
23 (254) Dean Blatt AUS 1,364 0 5 $165,779
24 (255) Quan Zhou Harbin, CHN 1,364 2 6 $910,782
25 (260) Hun Wei Lee AUS 1,360 1 4 $459,118
26 (273) James Obst Adelaide, AUS 1,326 1 3 $377,672
27 (276) Felipe Ramos BRA 1,321 0 4 $409,990
28 (280) Pedro Cairat ARG 1,320 1 1 $509,970
29 (290) Brian Kaufman URY 1,300 0 2 $557,642
30 (291) Yuanhang Zhong CHN 1,296 1 5 $209,568
31 (303) Celina Lin AUS 1,264 0 6 $181,664
32 (309) Diego Rio ARG 1,260 1 1 $538,606
33 (332) Bobby Zhang AUS 1,216 1 6 $130,130
34 (366) Farid Jattin Barranquilla, COL 1,176 2 3 $277,243
35 (372) Daniel Laidlaw AUS 1,156 0 2 $228,215
36 (379) Kahle Burns Geelong, AUS 1,144 0 3 $1,754,272
37 (389) Bernardo Dias BRA 1,140 0 1 $308,166
38 (387) Jeffrey Rossiter Melbourne, AUS 1,140 0 1 $334,400
39 (388) Mike Takayama PHL 1,140 1 2 $143,530
40 (398) Andre Akkari Sao Paolo, BRA 1,126 0 3 $412,902
41 (422) Asi Moshe Tel Aviv, ISR 1,090 0 2 $213,524
42 (424) Bridges Roe Melbourne, AUS 1,089 1 3 $135,011
43 (426) Sparrow Cheung CHN 1,082 1 12 $193,225
44 (441) Robert Raymond AUS 1,080 1 1 $243,831
45 (454) Helio Neves Neto Salvador, BRA 1,054 1 6 $116,562
46 (462) Bruno Mota BRA 1,050 0 1 $171,956
47 (468) Sixiao Li CHN 1,044 1 4 $331,059
48 (479) Jose Barbero Buenes Aires, ARG 1,016 0 6 $308,987
49 (495) Yaniv Peretz ISR 996 0 2 $209,223
50 (496) Raj Ramakrishnan AUS 995 2 7 $115,161
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