CPTV Video Spotlight -- POY Race Leader Anthony Zinno Wins First WSOP BraceletA VIdeo Interview With The Current Player of the Year Race Leader After His Biggest Score of 2015 |
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2015 has been an incredible year on the tournament circuit, with several players putting together performances worthy of the Card Player Player of the Year award. There can be only one winner though, and as the end of the year rapidly approaches the player in pole position is Anthony Zinno.
The 34-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island has made eleven final tables and won five POY qualified titles this year, more than any other player on the circuit. Among his wins are two World Poker Tour main event titles, including the massive WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event. The biggest score of his year and career, though, came this summer at the World Series of Poker.
Zinno topped an elite field of 175 players to win his first WSOP gold bracelet in the $25,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha high roller event and the first-place prize of $1,122,196.
With that win he took a gigantic lead in the POY race, with 6,488 total points earned by the start of July. To put those numbers in perspective, the last three Player of the Year winners had year-end point totals of 5,498 (Dan Colman), 5,140 (Daniel Negreanu) and 5,100 (Greg Merson) and Zinno had managed to outdo their point totals by the start of July.
Card Player TV interviewed Zinno just after he was awarded his bracelet to learn more about his huge win. Check out the video below:
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