2016 Card Player Player of the Year Race Update -- Igor Kurganov and Tony Dunst Join Top TenJan Bendik Also Into Top Twenty, Chance Kornuth Closes The Gap On Ari Engel |
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In the past week the European Poker Tour has ended it’s 12th season while the World Poker Tour kicked off it’s 15th. Both tour’s events had big impacts on the 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here is a look at the tournaments that helped to shape the POY leader board over the last seven days:
WPT Canadian Spring Championship
Seth Davies outlasted a field of 417 entries to win the 2016 PartyPoker World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship $3,500 CAD no-limit hold’em main event.
The 27-year-old poker pro hailing from Bend, OR dominated the six-handed final table, eliminating four of his five opponents en route to winning his first WPT title and the first-place prize of $226,893 CAD ($176,228 USD).
Davies also earned 1,080 Player of the Year points for the win, enough to move him into 67th place in the overall standings.
Sixth-place finisher Tony Dunst earned 360 points at his second major final table of the year. The 2016 Aussie Millions $10,000 main event runner up now has 2,260 total points and $739,922 in year-to-date earnings and has climbed into ninth place on the leader board as a result.
EPT Grand Final €2,150 Six-Max
As the European Poker Tour Grand Final wound down a €2,150 buy-in six-max no-limit hold’em event was held that attracted 132 entries. The smaller event might not have had the largest prize pool ($291,470 USD) but it did help make some changes to the top ten in the standings.
Chance Kornuth finished runner up for $49,630 and 220 points. This was his his sixth final table of the year and helped him close the distance between himself and current leader Ari Engel. He now sits only 144 points out from the top spot. With two titles and $1,608,105 in year-to-date earnings he is having quite the year already.
Igor Kurganov made his seventh final table of 2016 and finished fourth for $26,710 and 132 points. He moved into eighth place in the rankings as a result with 2,334 points and $1,499,145 in earnings so far this year.
EPT Grand Final Main Event
Jan Bendik has won the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 no-limit hold’em main event.
The 51-year-old defeated a record field of 1,098 entries, the largest in tournament’s 12-year history, to become the first ever Slovakian EPT champion and win the €961,800 ($1,097,077 USD) first-place prize.
Bendik also scored 1,920 POY points for the win. This was his first POY-qualified score of the year but it alone was enough to see him jump into 15th place in the standings.
Runner-up Adrien Allain earned €577,800 ($659,068 USD) as well as 1,600 points. This moved him into 31st place on the leader board.
Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings:
| Rank | Player | POY Points | Earnings |
| 1 | Ari Engel | 3,070 | $1,208,478 |
| 2 | Chance Kornuth | 2,926 | $1,608,105 |
| 3 | David Peters | 2,561 | $3,897,415 |
| 4 | Anthony Gregg | 2,546 | $983,175 |
| 5 | Dietrich Fast | 2,498 | $1,065,949 |
| 6 | Bryn Kenney | 2,474 | $2,758,431 |
| 7 | Steve O’Dwyer | 2,454 | $2,856,705 |
| 8 | Igor Kurganov | 2,334 | $1,499,145 |
| 9 | Tony Dunst | 2,260 | $739,922 |
| 10 | Bryan Piccioli | 2,216 | $740,345 |
| 11 | Sam Soverel | 2,180 | $872,997 |
| 12 | Ivan Luca | 2,166 | $1,125,277 |
| 13 | Stefan Schillhabel | 1,968 | $1,310,659 |
| 14 | Tom Marchese | 1,925 | $1,183,278 |
| 15 | Jan Bendik | 1,920 | $1,097,077 |
| 16 | Jason Wheeler | 1,896 | $475,431 |
| 17 | Joseph Mckeehen | 1,892 | $1,694,493 |
| 18 | Walter Treccarichi | 1,872 | $314,094 |
| 19 | Connor Drinan | 1,872 | $2,038,127 |
| 20 | Mike Leah | 1,848 | $279,651 |
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