2014 CarbonPoker Card Player Player of the Year Update -- Madsen and Elias Make MovesA Look At The Biggest Poker Tournament Results Of The Week |
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After a late-summer frenzy things have settled down a bit in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. There were still plenty of POY points and big payouts to be awarded this week though. Here is a look at what went over the past seven days:
Heartland Poker Tour Commerce Main Event
A total of 583 $1,650 entries were made in the 2014 Heartland Poker Tour main event at the Commerce Casino. As a result the total prize pool for the event climbed to $845,350. Just five months after winning the HPT California State Poker Championship main event at the very same casino, Jeff Madsen returned to the final table looking for his second HPT title at the Commerce.
Madsen was not able to come out on top this time, finishing in eighth place for $21,300 and 140 Player of the Year points. This was his fifth final-table finish of the year, with the aforementioned win and another that came in a $1,000 prelim at the World Poker Tour Championship at the Borgata in April. As a result of his continued success throughout the year Madsen now sits in 43rd place in the overall POY rankings, with 2,012 points and year-to-date earnings of $360,827.
While Madsen fell short, Jonathan Chen went on to take the title, the $159,780 first-place prize and 840 POY points for the win.
World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open
The 2014 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event featured a $3 million guaranteed prize pool this year, but when a total of 1,226 entries were made the total prize pool ballooned to $3,924,426. The sizable turn out mean that this year’s champion would win the fourth largest WPT event in history in terms of field size.
Just a day shy of a week after the first hand was dealt in this event a winner was indeed decided. That winner was none other than Darren Elias, who had finished in fifth place in this very same event in 2011. This time around he survived to heads-up play against Kane Kalas, who had knocked out each of the other four opponents at the six-handed final table and held a 2-to-1 chip advantage.
There was plenty of play left, however, with Elias still sitting behind roughly 50 big blinds. Elias, who had more than $3.7 in million in live and online tournament winnings prior to this event, was able to demonstrate why he is a highly respected pro on the tournament circuit when he started to use his experience to turn around the chip counts. Thirty hands into heads-up play he had overtaken the lead, and shortly after he emerged victorious. For the win Elias secured his first WPT title, the $843,744 first-place prize and 1,440 POY points. This was his third final table of the year, moving him into 79th place in the rankings with 1,584 points and $864,134 in year-to-date earnings.
Kalas took home $500,364 for his runner-up showing.
Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings:
| Rank | Player | POY Points | Earnings |
| 1 | Daniel Colman | 4,770 | $20,980,768 |
| 2 | Mustapha Kanit | 4,514 | $1,234,776 |
| 3 | Mike Leah | 4,174 | $1,512,026 |
| 4 | Jake Schindler | 3,700 | $2,156,184 |
| 5 | Ami Barer | 3,580 | $1,930,121 |
| 6 | Dylan Wilkerson | 3,316 | $1,076,307 |
| 7 | Dominik Panka | 3,315 | $1,840,936 |
| 8 | Mike McDonald | 3,312 | $4,357,089 |
| 9 | Dan Smith | 3,270 | $2,671,809 |
| 10 | Keven Stammen | 3,262 | $1,655,439 |
| 11 | Jason Mercier | 3,106 | $2,778,584 |
| 12 | Doug Polk | 3,010 | $3,503,603 |
| 13 | Joseph Mckeehen | 2,924 | $1,193,232 |
| 14 | Brandon Shack-Harris | 2,890 | $1,405,740 |
| 15 | Kevin Eyster | 2,874 | $899,019 |
| 16 | Joe Kuether | 2,636 | $762,856 |
| 17 | Davidi Kitai | 2,588 | $1,377,077 |
| 18 | Mukul Pahuja | 2,514 | $1,060,582 |
| 19 | Isaac Baron | 2,500 | $1,508,968 |
| 20 | Sorel Mizzi | 2,495 | $1,151,301 |
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