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2026 POY Leader Boards - World
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| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (5) | Danny Tang | HKG | 4,746 | 1 | 10 | $6,773,197 |
| 2 (8) | Punnat Punsri | Bangkok, THA | 4,394 | 2 | 14 | $4,739,243 |
| 3 (13) | Quan Zhou | Harbin, CHN | 3,920 | 1 | 7 | $2,851,000 |
| 4 (22) | Mehdi Chaoui | MAR | 3,155 | 1 | 10 | $1,734,786 |
| 5 (31) | Kelvin Kerber | BRA | 2,760 | 0 | 5 | $2,428,128 |
| 6 (31) | Yuri Dzivielevski | Curitiba, BRA | 2,760 | 3 | 5 | $4,886,782 |
| 7 (37) | Biao Ding | CHN | 2,693 | 0 | 7 | $2,341,950 |
| 8 (42) | Kiat Lee | MYS | 2,597 | 1 | 8 | $4,642,262 |
| 9 (51) | Paul Phua | Miri, Sarawak, MYS | 2,422 | 1 | 4 | $4,385,000 |
| 10 (55) | Malcolm Trayner | AUS | 2,376 | 1 | 2 | $998,761 |
| 11 (60) | Weiran Pu | CHN | 2,310 | 1 | 3 | $253,227 |
| 12 (62) | Yinan Zhou | CHN | 2,303 | 1 | 4 | $692,538 |
| 13 (65) | Khoa Anh Ngo | VNM | 2,274 | 1 | 5 | $946,722 |
| 14 (71) | Ang Siang | MYS | 2,160 | 1 | 1 | $932,000 |
| 15 (73) | Sebastian Toro Henao | COL | 2,148 | 2 | 2 | $1,109,169 |
| 16 (74) | Akihiro Konishi | Tokyo, JPN | 2,140 | 0 | 2 | $1,402,000 |
| 17 (80) | Dean Blatt | AUS | 2,080 | 0 | 2 | $738,707 |
| 18 (91) | Alisson Piekazewicz | BRA | 1,970 | 2 | 4 | $1,508,174 |
| 19 (95) | Wenjie Zhao | CHN | 1,920 | 1 | 1 | $1,160,000 |
| 20 (100) | Giuseppe Iadisernia | VEN | 1,890 | 2 | 3 | $943,515 |
| 21 (103) | Elton Tsang | CHN | 1,884 | 0 | 3 | $3,457,000 |
| 22 (109) | Yang Wang | CHN | 1,824 | 1 | 1 | $595,388 |
| 23 (116) | Yang Zhang | Dalian, CHN | 1,784 | 1 | 3 | $519,370 |
| 24 (117) | Luis Sequeira | ARG | 1,780 | 0 | 3 | $298,481 |
| 25 (126) | Xiaosheng Zheng | CHN | 1,748 | 1 | 4 | $340,500 |
| 26 (127) | Ye Wang | CHN | 1,740 | 0 | 4 | $2,377,500 |
| 27 (129) | Ryuta Nakai | JPN | 1,720 | 1 | 5 | $654,750 |
| 28 (137) | Geoffrey Mooney | Melbourne, AUS | 1,650 | 1 | 3 | $1,003,923 |
| 29 (140) | Timur Margolin | Ramla, ISR | 1,638 | 1 | 4 | $336,406 |
| 30 (150) | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,592 | 1 | 5 | $822,825 |
| 31 (165) | Dejan Boskovic | AUS | 1,520 | 0 | 1 | $663,142 |
| 32 (168) | Naoya Kihara | Tokyo, JPN | 1,500 | 2 | 2 | $730,893 |
| 33 (174) | Chenxiang Miao | CHN | 1,490 | 0 | 2 | $348,170 |
| 34 (181) | Nguyen Dung | VNM | 1,440 | 1 | 1 | $586,000 |
| 35 (181) | Joseph Antar | Sydney, AUS | 1,440 | 1 | 1 | $347,332 |
| 36 (194) | Jieming Xu | CHN | 1,412 | 1 | 2 | $347,725 |
| 37 (196) | Zhihua Yang | CHN | 1,408 | 1 | 2 | $314,300 |
| 38 (207) | Elmer Kalaquian | PHL | 1,368 | 0 | 2 | $185,105 |
| 39 (221) | Peng Chen | CHN | 1,336 | 2 | 3 | $328,284 |
| 40 (226) | Santhosh Suvarna | Bangalore, IND | 1,326 | 1 | 1 | $1,922,870 |
| 41 (228) | Huu Nguyen | VNM | 1,320 | 0 | 5 | $486,788 |
| 42 (235) | James Obst | Adelaide, AUS | 1,290 | 0 | 2 | $292,926 |
| 43 (240) | Shota Nakanishi | JPN | 1,280 | 0 | 1 | $641,000 |
| 44 (248) | Jian Cai | CHN | 1,272 | 2 | 2 | $238,338 |
| 45 (268) | Yaniv Peretz | ISR | 1,212 | 0 | 4 | $226,938 |
| 46 (270) | Guofeng Wang | CHN | 1,207 | 1 | 5 | $208,511 |
| 47 (273) | Kartik Ved | IND | 1,200 | 0 | 2 | $411,817 |
| 48 (294) | Yosuke Miki | JPN | 1,184 | 0 | 3 | $1,098,398 |
| 49 (295) | Kunal Patni | IND | 1,176 | 1 | 2 | $254,540 |
| 50 (300) | Mike Takayama | PHL | 1,164 | 1 | 4 | $508,497 |
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