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2026 POY Leader Boards - World
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| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (3) | Danny Tang | HKG | 4,746 | 1 | 10 | $6,773,197 |
| 2 (8) | Punnat Punsri | Bangkok, THA | 4,254 | 2 | 13 | $4,725,853 |
| 3 (10) | Quan Zhou | Harbin, CHN | 3,920 | 1 | 7 | $2,851,000 |
| 4 (17) | Mehdi Chaoui | MAR | 3,155 | 1 | 10 | $1,734,786 |
| 5 (25) | Kelvin Kerber | BRA | 2,760 | 0 | 5 | $2,428,128 |
| 6 (30) | Kiat Lee | MYS | 2,597 | 1 | 8 | $4,642,262 |
| 7 (37) | Paul Phua | Miri, Sarawak, MYS | 2,422 | 1 | 4 | $4,385,000 |
| 8 (41) | Biao Ding | CHN | 2,393 | 0 | 6 | $1,940,504 |
| 9 (42) | Malcolm Trayner | AUS | 2,376 | 1 | 2 | $998,761 |
| 10 (46) | Weiran Pu | CHN | 2,310 | 1 | 3 | $253,227 |
| 11 (48) | Yinan Zhou | CHN | 2,303 | 1 | 4 | $692,538 |
| 12 (51) | Khoa Anh Ngo | VNM | 2,274 | 1 | 5 | $946,722 |
| 13 (58) | Ang Siang | MYS | 2,160 | 1 | 1 | $932,000 |
| 14 (61) | Akihiro Konishi | Tokyo, JPN | 2,140 | 0 | 2 | $1,402,000 |
| 15 (66) | Dean Blatt | AUS | 2,080 | 0 | 2 | $738,707 |
| 16 (75) | Alisson Piekazewicz | BRA | 1,970 | 2 | 4 | $1,508,174 |
| 17 (81) | Wenjie Zhao | CHN | 1,920 | 1 | 1 | $1,160,000 |
| 18 (85) | Giuseppe Iadisernia | VEN | 1,890 | 2 | 3 | $943,515 |
| 19 (87) | Elton Tsang | CHN | 1,884 | 0 | 3 | $3,457,000 |
| 20 (91) | Yang Wang | CHN | 1,824 | 1 | 1 | $595,388 |
| 21 (96) | Yang Zhang | Dalian, CHN | 1,784 | 1 | 3 | $519,370 |
| 22 (97) | Luis Sequeira | ARG | 1,780 | 0 | 3 | $298,481 |
| 23 (103) | Xiaosheng Zheng | CHN | 1,748 | 1 | 4 | $340,500 |
| 24 (104) | Ye Wang | CHN | 1,740 | 0 | 4 | $2,377,500 |
| 25 (110) | Geoffrey Mooney | Melbourne, AUS | 1,650 | 1 | 3 | $1,003,923 |
| 26 (113) | Timur Margolin | Ramla, ISR | 1,638 | 1 | 4 | $336,406 |
| 27 (127) | Yuri Dzivielevski | Curitiba, BRA | 1,560 | 2 | 4 | $2,045,350 |
| 28 (135) | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,520 | 1 | 5 | $747,825 |
| 29 (135) | Dejan Boskovic | AUS | 1,520 | 0 | 1 | $663,142 |
| 30 (139) | Ryuta Nakai | JPN | 1,504 | 0 | 4 | $611,036 |
| 31 (140) | Naoya Kihara | Tokyo, JPN | 1,500 | 2 | 2 | $730,893 |
| 32 (144) | Chenxiang Miao | CHN | 1,490 | 0 | 2 | $348,170 |
| 33 (150) | Nguyen Dung | VNM | 1,440 | 1 | 1 | $586,000 |
| 34 (150) | Joseph Antar | Sydney, AUS | 1,440 | 1 | 1 | $347,332 |
| 35 (159) | Jieming Xu | CHN | 1,412 | 1 | 2 | $347,725 |
| 36 (161) | Zhihua Yang | CHN | 1,408 | 1 | 2 | $314,300 |
| 37 (170) | Elmer Kalaquian | PHL | 1,368 | 0 | 2 | $185,105 |
| 38 (185) | Peng Chen | CHN | 1,336 | 2 | 3 | $328,284 |
| 39 (192) | Huu Nguyen | VNM | 1,320 | 0 | 5 | $486,788 |
| 40 (201) | James Obst | Adelaide, AUS | 1,290 | 0 | 2 | $292,926 |
| 41 (206) | Shota Nakanishi | JPN | 1,280 | 0 | 1 | $641,000 |
| 42 (214) | Jian Cai | CHN | 1,272 | 2 | 2 | $238,338 |
| 43 (232) | Kartik Ved | IND | 1,200 | 0 | 2 | $411,817 |
| 44 (248) | Kunal Patni | IND | 1,176 | 1 | 2 | $254,540 |
| 45 (252) | Mike Takayama | PHL | 1,164 | 1 | 4 | $508,497 |
| 46 (256) | Wang Yang | CHN | 1,144 | 0 | 2 | $407,800 |
| 47 (257) | Sheldon Mayer | AUS | 1,140 | 0 | 1 | $335,966 |
| 48 (261) | Xiaohu Liu | CHN | 1,120 | 0 | 1 | $234,432 |
| 49 (265) | Josh Mccully | Brisbane, AUS | 1,116 | 0 | 3 | $405,244 |
| 50 (267) | Siyu Ji | CHN | 1,106 | 1 | 2 | $173,041 |
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