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

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

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

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

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:

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