2015 Card Player Player of the Year -- Rainer Kempe Joins Top 20Michael Wang, Darryl Fish and Mike Leah Also Made Moves This Week |
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As the final month of year approaches the Card Player Player of the Year race is entering it’s home stretch. Here is a look at the many tournaments that made the biggest impact on the POY standings over the action-packed past seven days:
WPT Montreal Main Event
The 2015 partypoker.net World Poker Tour Montreal no-limit hold’em main event attracted a solid field of 697 entries, each posting the CAD $3,850 buy-in to build a total prize pool of $1,772,694. In the end the grand prize went to Jared Mahoney, who was awarded $354,001 and 1,260 Player of the Year points for his win.
Runner-up Darryll Fish earned $237,767 and 1,050 POY points for his second-place finish. This was Fish’s ninth final table finish of 2015, including a win in the World Series of Poker Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club main event in February. With 3,126 total POY points and year-to-date earnings of $649,872 Fish has climbed into 21st place in the overall Player of the Year standings.
Fish was not the only player to make a big move in the rankings this week with a deep run in this event. Germany’s Rainer Kempe finished third for $153,078 and 840 points. This was his seventh final table of the year, bringing his point total to 3,720 and his year-to-date earnings to $920,555. As a result he now occupies the 12th-place spot on the POY leader board.
Borgata Fall Poker Open Prelims
The 2015 Borgata Fall Poker Open is a 19-event tournament series running from Nov. 10th through the 25th. The centerpiece of the whole affair is a $1 million guaranteed $2,700 buy-in main event running from Nov. 22 – 25, but plenty of the preliminary tournaments have made their impact felt in the POY race.
Michael Wang topped a field of 113 entries in the $100,000 guaranteed $1,090 buy-in six-max no-limit hold’em event.
For the win he was awarded $32,884 and 240 points and his second title of the year, having won a $5,000 no-limit hold’em six-max event at the World Series of Poker this summer. With 3,158 points and year-to-date earnings of $806,474 Wang has climbed into 19th place in the POY standings.
Mike Leah took down the $100,000 guaranteed $560 buy-in event, outlasting the field of 194 to win his first title of the year at his fifth final table.
For the win he scored $27,182 and 168 POY points. His biggest score of the year was a runner-up finish in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event, for which he earned $701,350 and 1,750 points. With 2,698 points and $901,968 in earnings so far in 2015 he now sits in 33rd place in the rankings.
Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings:
| Rank | Player | POY Points | Earnings |
| 1 | Anthony Zinno | 6,632 | $3,442,769 |
| 2 | Joe Kuether | 5,658 | $1,986,272 |
| 3 | Nick Petrangelo | 5,526 | $2,347,061 |
| 4 | Byron Kaverman | 5,342 | $3,008,957 |
| 5 | Benjamin Zamani | 4,561 | $1,095,924 |
| 6 | Jason Mercier | 4,294 | $1,896,195 |
| 7 | Mario Javier Lopez | 3,898 | $1,204,412 |
| 8 | Steve O’Dwyer | 3,890 | $3,733,359 |
| 9 | Mustapha Kanit | 3,860 | $2,259,859 |
| 10 | Joseph Mckeehen | 3,748 | $7,774,650 |
| 11 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | 3,723 | $3,646,914 |
| 12 | Rainer Kempe | 3,720 | $920,555 |
| 13 | Kevin MacPhee | 3,710 | $1,795,306 |
| 14 | Taylor Paur | 3,564 | $1,719,944 |
| 15 | Ivan Luca | 3,493 | $1,508,323 |
| 16 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | 3,396 | $1,045,372 |
| 17 | Jack Salter | 3,331 | $784,954 |
| 18 | Paul Volpe | 3,275 | $1,003,036 |
| 19 | Michael Wang | 3,158 | $806,474 |
| 20 | Erik Seidel | 3,130 | $4,912,079 |
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