World's Best Poker Players
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2017 POY Leader Boards - World
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1701 (12678) | Zhen Lin | NZL | 20 | 0 | 1 | $4,243 |
| 1702 (12674) | Renato Marques | Contagem, BRA | 20 | 0 | 1 | $2,970 |
| 1703 (12668) | Shahram Nazemzade | IRN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $1,730 |
| 1704 (12680) | Keng Lon Cheong | MAC | 20 | 0 | 1 | $2,171 |
| 1705 (12675) | Lau Alan | HKG | 20 | 0 | 1 | $3,796 |
| 1706 (12676) | Man Ku | MAC | 20 | 0 | 1 | $1,612 |
| 1707 (12673) | Sebastien Rahal | MAR | 20 | 0 | 1 | $2,441 |
| 1708 (12677) | Bobbe Suri | IND | 20 | 0 | 1 | $1,554 |
| 1709 (12670) | Aberivaldo Rocha | BRA | 20 | 0 | 1 | $685 |
| 1710 (12679) | Shiyuan Zheng | CHN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $2,302 |
| 1711 (12672) | Benjamin Connolly | Melbourne, AUS | 20 | 0 | 1 | $900 |
| 1712 (12671) | Satoshi Ikeda | JPN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $4,083 |
| 1713 (12669) | Chunguang Zhang | CHN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $1,820 |
| 1714 (12667) | Zhimin Wang | CHN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $2,809 |
| 1715 (12666) | Zhang Lei | CHN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $3,654 |
| 1716 (12665) | Matthew Aquino | Ichikawa, JPN | 20 | 0 | 1 | $1,720 |
| 1717 (12777) | Anson Wong | CHN | 19 | 0 | 1 | $3,458 |
| 1718 (12782) | Yesica Curti | ARG | 19 | 0 | 1 | $2,860 |
| 1719 (12785) | Wenlin Wang | CHN | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,677 |
| 1720 (12787) | Yeo Sum | PHL | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,397 |
| 1721 (12783) | Enrique Uskaer | ARG | 19 | 0 | 1 | $5,038 |
| 1722 (12781) | Yukihiro Kuroda | JPN | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,901 |
| 1723 (12774) | Alexander Astudillo | AUS | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,926 |
| 1724 (12779) | Wu Kong | CHN | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,209 |
| 1725 (12786) | Parham Gilvaee Askari | IRN | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,755 |
| 1726 (12775) | Sinan Aydogan | AUS | 19 | 0 | 1 | $2,539 |
| 1727 (12772) | Marco Monteiro Guimaraes | BRA | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,120 |
| 1728 (12776) | Anita Le | Melbourne, AUS | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,545 |
| 1729 (12784) | Farhad Moaajerani | Melbourne, AUS | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,080 |
| 1730 (12778) | Dan Lavi | ISR | 19 | 0 | 1 | $1,306 |
| 1731 (12773) | Tomohiro Kato | JPN | 19 | 0 | 1 | $4,138 |
| 1732 (12780) | Dean Francis | AUS | 19 | 0 | 1 | $964 |
| 1733 (12867) | Xiaodong Luo | CHN | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,716 |
| 1734 (12865) | Shinichiro Sato | JPN | 18 | 0 | 1 | $2,140 |
| 1735 (12876) | Norberto Becker | BRA | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,368 |
| 1736 (12872) | Romit Advani | IND | 18 | 0 | 0 | $10,276 |
| 1737 (12873) | Takuya Suzuki | JPN | 18 | 0 | 0 | $10,222 |
| 1738 (12878) | Kyung Min Lee | KOR | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,612 |
| 1739 (12871) | Kamal Atoui | MAR | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,220 |
| 1740 (12875) | Li Yang Hsu | ZAF | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,930 |
| 1741 (12870) | Kayoko Fujita | JPN | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,890 |
| 1742 (12868) | Luis Simoes | BRA | 18 | 0 | 1 | $669 |
| 1743 (12874) | Ming Wei | CHN | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,430 |
| 1744 (12877) | Chia Yu Hsu | CHN | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,798 |
| 1745 (12866) | Feng Shen | CHN | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,854 |
| 1746 (12869) | Tung Nguyen | Melbourne, AUS | 18 | 0 | 1 | $1,530 |
| 1747 (12947) | Jeronimo Abalos | Buenos Aires, ARG | 17 | 0 | 1 | $990 |
| 1748 (12945) | Yanda Thyronne Soh | SGP | 17 | 0 | 1 | $1,170 |
| 1749 (12946) | Yi Feng Cheng | CHN | 17 | 0 | 1 | $1,567 |
| 1750 (12939) | Jeffery Kat | MAC | 17 | 0 | 1 | $761 |