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2014 CarbonPoker Card Player Player of the Year Update -- Cheong, Sandling and De Fenza Win

A Look At The Biggest Poker Tournament Results Of The Week

by Erik Fast  |  Published: Apr 16, 2014

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Things are really heating up in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at the events that most influenced the overall standings over the past week:

2014 Bellagio $25,000 High Roller V

Joseph Cheong

The Bellagio Poker Room has played host to a series of $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller events throughout 2014. The most recent running of the event attracted a total of 24 entries, building a prize pool of $591,000.

In the end the last player standing was none other than Joseph Cheong, who earned $295,500 and 420 POY points for the win. Cheong is apparently specializing in these high buy-in, small field events at Bellagio this year, as he has already finished runner-up twice in these $25,000 events.

All told he has cashed for $512,299 so far this year and earned a total of 1,120 POY points, enough to move him into 39th place in the overall standings.

World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee

Jason Sandling

A total of 665 entries were made in the 2014 World Series of Poker Circuit $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina, building a total prize pool of $997,500.

Jason Sandling emerged victorious, earning $204,487 and 840 POY points. This is his lone POY-qualified score so far in 2014, but it alone is enough to move him into 72nd place in the POY rankings.

Runner-up William O’Neal took home $126,533 and 700 points at his second WSOP Circuit final table of the year. He had previously finished third in a $580 prelim at the WSOP Circuit Tunica and now sits in 71st place in the overall standings, just ahead of Sandling.

Italian Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event

Alessio de Fenza

A total of 1,124 entries were made in the €770 ($1,064 USD) Italian Poker Tour SanRemo main event, the early highlight at the 2014 European Poker Tour Sanremo festival. The lion’s share of the $1,087,672 prize pool ended up going to Italian local Alessandro De Fenza, who earned €105,600 ($145,728 USD) and 960 POY points for the win.

De Fenza is a SuperNova Elite on PokerStars, meaning that he has a ton of experience playing online, but had very little in the way of live tournament results to speak of prior to this win.

The EPT Sanremo €4,900 no-limit hold’em main event got underway earlier this week, with 556 players already registered and players still able to enter going into the start of day 2 on Wednesday, so that is sure to be a huge tournament in terms of awarding both payouts and POY points.

Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings:

Rank Player POY Points Earnings
1 Dominik Panka 3,315 $1,840,936
2 Mike McDonald 3,200 $4,322,895
3 Dylan Wilkerson 2,520 $934,575
4 Eugene Katchalov 2,480 $725,061
5 Mustapha Kanit 2,394 $756,016
6 James Carroll 2,372 $1,324,754
7 Sorel Mizzi 2,170 $1,045,207
8 Chris Moorman 2,100 $1,015,460
8 Ami Barer 2,100 $1,432,800
10 Oleksii Khoroshenin 1,864 $801,740
11 Sotirios Koutoupas 1,848 $866,592
12 Glenn Lafaye 1,750 $662,840
13 Keven Stammen 1,612 $260,129
13 Nipun Java 1,612 $341,740
15 Isaac Baron 1,600 $1,207,599
16 James Calderaro 1,590 $404,867
17 Jake Schindler 1,588 $1,224,504
18 Jonathan Gaviao 1,540 $314,379
19 Anthony Ghamrawi 1,520 $615,514
20 Anthony Merulla 1,440 $842,379
 
 
Tags: Poker Tournaments,   POY,   2014 Player of the Year,   CarbonPoker,   Joseph Cheong,   WSOP Circuit,   EPT,   IPT
 
 
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