2014 CarbonPoker Card Player Player of the Year Update -- World Series of Poker Main Event Champion To Earn 3,300 Points

The World Series of Poker has come to an end, but as we prepare to enter the next phase in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker let’s take a look at how the largest tournament of the year, the WSOP main event, could effect the POY racing heading into the Fall.

World Series of Poker $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event

A total of 6,683 players posted the $10,000 buy-in this year, building a total prize pool of $62,820,200. As a result of a first-place prize guarantee the champ will walk away with $10 million this year, the second largest main-event payday in history.

But in addition to the money, the November Nine will also battling over the largest amount of Card Player Player of the Year points awarded in any single tournament this year. Here is a look at what will be at stake when the final table competitors return to play down to a champion on November 10th.

Given the current standings in the POY race, if the main event final table was held today the winner would at least climb to fifth place in the overall standings, even if they had no prior POY qualified scores this year. Despite the final table being primarily composed of professional poker players, none of them had put together many POY-qualified scores before making the November Nine in 2014. In fact, only two of the nine have any 2014 POY points to their name: Dan Sindelar, who placed third in a $550 buy-in $250,000 guaranteed event at the 2014 Wynn Classic, and Martin Jacobson, who has made three final tables this year including a win in a €2,150 no-limit hold’em prelim at the European Poker Tour Vienna.

Here is a look at the November Nine and their current POY standing for 2014:

The upside of all of this is that, as it currently stands, none of the November Nine could take the outright lead from Mustapha Kanit with a win in November without also making additional POY score. The Italian has 4,514 points for the moment.

Jacobson and Sindlear would both climb as high as second place with a win come November if the standings toward the top of the leaderboard remain the same. Regardless of who wins, the WSOP main event is definitely going to have a huge impact on the POY race in 2014.

Bellagio Cup X Main Event

A total of 175 players turned out for the 2014 Bellagio Cup X $10,300 no-limit hold’em main event, building a total prize pool of $1,697,500.

In the end the last player standing was Chance Kornuth, who earned $526,224 and 780 POY points for the win, This was his largest career score, bringing his lifetime live tournament earnings to over $1.7 million. Kornuth topped David Sands heads-up for the title. Sands announced that he was retiring from full-time poker grinding “to an extant” to take a job at a hedge fund earlier this year, but despite that fact has two final table finishes and $541,950 in year-to-date
earnings.

Sorel Mizzi placed fifth in the event, earning $106,094 and 325 points. This was the Canadian’s third final table of the year, moving him into 12th in the overall POY standings and bringing his year-to-date earnings to $1,151,301.

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

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