2014 CarbonPoker Card Player Player of the Year Update -- Schindler, Anderson and Shack-Harris Join Top Twenty

The World Series of Poker just keeps on mixing things up in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at the events from the Rio that most influenced the overall standings over the past seven days:

WSOP Event 38 – $10,000 Stud Eight-or-Better Championship

George Danzer is having an incredible summer at the 2014 World Series of Poker. He began his run at the Rio with a fifth-place finish in the $10,000 triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship for $70,308, and then a week later going on to win his first gold bracelet in the $10,000 razz championship for another $294,792.

The following week he notched two more cashes, finishing 39th in the $2,500 Omaha / stud eight-or-better and ninth in the $10,000 six-max no-limit hold’em championship event. Just three days removed from that deep run he has done it again, this time emerging victorious in the $10,000 stud eight-or-better championship event, topping a field of 134 players to win his second gold bracelet and $352,696.

Hardware and money weren’t the only things being awarded at this final table. Danzer also earned 660 POY points for his victory, catapulting him into 23rdst place in the overall standings with his three titles and four total final tables garnering 1,967 points so far and year-to-date earnings of $762,693. Third-place finisher Calvin Anderson also made a big move in the POY race after being awarded the 440 points from this event. Anderson has made five final tables this year, with his one win coming in the $1,500 stud eight-or-better event just a few days ago. He now sits in 15th place in the rankings with 2,114 points and year-to-date earnings of $526,335.

WSOP Event 39 – $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em

The $3,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event at the 2014 World Series of Poker attracted 992 players, creating a total prize pool of $2,708,160. After four days of play, it was Chicago native Sean Dempsey who came out on top, earning his first career bracelet and the $548,460 first-place prize.

The 40-year-old doctor was at his second career WSOP final table, after finishing seventh in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event last year. Dempsey, who moved to Las Vegas ten years ago, now has $705,000 in lifetime tournament earnings.

Third-place finisher Jake Schindler earned $212,373 and 912 POY points for his deep run in this event. This was Schindler’s third final table of 2014, having won the $25,000 high roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January for $1,192,624 and 1,428 points and finished fifth in a $5,000 side event at the L.A. Poker Classic. As a result of these three scores Schindler has put together 2,500 POY points, moving him into eighth-place in the overall rankings. His year-to-date earnings exceed $1.4 million.

WSOP Event 43 – $1,500 Limit Hold’em

As a 21-year-old Daniel Kelly topped an elite field of 191 players in the 2010 World Series of Poker $25,000 six-max no-limit hold’em event to win his first gold bracelet and more than $1.3 million dollars. Now four years later he has once again emerged victorious at the WSOP, this time taking down the $1,500 limit hold’em to earn his second gold bracelet and $195,167. The mild-mannered poker pro, known online as “djk123”, now has over $3.1 million in live tournament earnings.

The Potomac, MD native topped a field of 657 entrants in this event, outlasting a tough final table that included the likes of five-time bracelet winners Jeffrey Lisandro (7th – $24,683) and David Chiu (6th – $32,338) and Brandon Shack-Harris (3rd – $78,335).

Kelly’s parents made it out to watch him play live for the first time, and were rewarded when he went on to take down the title, earning the hardware, the money and also 840 POY points. This was his fourth final table of the year, and as a result he now sits in 131st place in the overall standings. Third-place finisher Brandon Shack-Harris scored 560 POY points at his fourth final table of the year. Already this summer at the WSOP he won his first bracelet in a $1,000 pot-limit Omaha event and then came runner-up in the $10,000 razz championship. As a result of all of these big scores he has climbed into 18th place in the rankings with 2,040 points and year-to-date earnings of $467,765.

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

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