World's Best Poker Players
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2026 POY Leader Boards - World
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 (3319) | Joseph Khoury | LBN | 192 | 0 | 1 | $40,400 |
| 402 (3319) | Jun Wang | AUS | 192 | 0 | 1 | $28,473 |
| 403 (3407) | Conrad Coetzer | Johannesburg, ZAF | 190 | 0 | 1 | $27,110 |
| 404 (3407) | Haruto Murata | JPN | 190 | 0 | 1 | $25,330 |
| 405 (3407) | Jing Wang | CHN | 190 | 0 | 1 | $27,785 |
| 406 (3407) | Kaihua Huang | CHN | 190 | 0 | 1 | $20,292 |
| 407 (3407) | Alexander Sokolovsky | ISR | 190 | 0 | 1 | $32,752 |
| 408 (3407) | Jun Miao | Melbourne, AUS | 190 | 0 | 1 | $17,982 |
| 409 (3442) | Kei Tanaka | Tokyo, JPN | 189 | 0 | 1 | $80,438 |
| 410 (3470) | Yuya Asakawa | JPN | 182 | 1 | 1 | $26,327 |
| 411 (3501) | Gagandeep Malik | IND | 180 | 0 | 1 | $34,704 |
| 412 (3501) | Seiki Horita | Tokyo, JPN | 180 | 1 | 1 | $26,434 |
| 413 (3501) | Hogyun Kang | PRK | 180 | 0 | 1 | $45,515 |
| 414 (3501) | Anton Lu | AUS | 180 | 0 | 1 | $27,725 |
| 415 (3501) | Quan Dinh | AUS | 180 | 1 | 1 | $33,105 |
| 416 (3501) | Roni Tal | ISR | 180 | 0 | 1 | $26,787 |
| 417 (3501) | Kok Wei Teoh | MYS | 180 | 0 | 1 | $29,700 |
| 418 (3613) | Natanel Elidan | ISR | 175 | 0 | 1 | $8,416 |
| 419 (3613) | Jiaqi He | JPN | 175 | 0 | 1 | $17,134 |
| 420 (3613) | Lester Edoc | KOR | 175 | 0 | 1 | $85,041 |
| 421 (3650) | Dong Yan | CHN | 173 | 0 | 2 | $11,360 |
| 422 (3667) | Moshe Refaelowitz | ISR | 171 | 0 | 3 | $10,118 |
| 423 (3692) | Lai Foo | MYS | 168 | 0 | 1 | $25,313 |
| 424 (3692) | Shem Goltz | AUS | 168 | 1 | 1 | $10,826 |
| 425 (3692) | Dong Cheng | CHN | 168 | 0 | 1 | $100,000 |
| 426 (3692) | Nicholas Hore | AUS | 168 | 0 | 1 | $8,021 |
| 427 (3692) | Morgan Ma | Melbourne, AUS | 168 | 0 | 1 | $13,586 |
| 428 (3779) | Nick Yunis | CHL | 162 | 0 | 2 | $15,672 |
| 429 (3779) | Darragh Curtin | NZL | 162 | 0 | 1 | $12,548 |
| 430 (3789) | Joel Singam | MYS | 160 | 0 | 1 | $20,733 |
| 431 (3789) | Ghassan Yared | LBN | 160 | 0 | 2 | $18,300 |
| 432 (3789) | Min Soon Lim | SGP | 160 | 0 | 1 | $16,091 |
| 433 (3789) | Chee Teng | SGP | 160 | 0 | 1 | $20,743 |
| 434 (3789) | Julian Zambrano | COL | 160 | 0 | 1 | $12,194 |
| 435 (3789) | Seunghyuk Jung | KOR | 160 | 0 | 2 | $26,957 |
| 436 (3789) | Zhongcai Peng | CHN | 160 | 0 | 1 | $35,000 |
| 437 (3789) | Abdelouaheb Zizi | MAR | 160 | 0 | 1 | $18,925 |
| 438 (3789) | Mihai Barbu | Melbourne, AUS | 160 | 0 | 1 | $11,614 |
| 439 (3789) | Hoseong Ha | KOR | 160 | 0 | 1 | $21,109 |
| 440 (3789) | Sijie Ye | CHN | 160 | 0 | 1 | $5,590 |
| 441 (3931) | Paul O'Brien | AUS | 157 | 1 | 2 | $9,010 |
| 442 (3932) | Changliang Sun | CHN | 156 | 1 | 1 | $17,779 |
| 443 (3932) | Xueying Fang | AUS | 156 | 0 | 1 | $8,874 |
| 444 (3932) | Connor Walters | AUS | 156 | 0 | 1 | $10,304 |
| 445 (3965) | Natalia Rozova | NZL | 154 | 0 | 2 | $13,966 |
| 446 (3982) | Peng Sen Wu | TWN | 152 | 0 | 1 | $20,080 |
| 447 (3982) | Gao Zhang | CHN | 152 | 0 | 1 | $14,937 |
| 448 (3982) | Nathan Snow | AUS | 152 | 0 | 1 | $19,161 |
| 449 (4053) | Qing Gao | CHN | 151 | 0 | 2 | $11,643 |
| 450 (4058) | Lucas Rocha | BRA | 150 | 0 | 1 | $12,430 |