2016 Card Player Player of the Year Race Update -- Joseph McKeehen Climbs To 12th Place

The World Series of Poker is now just a week away, and with it will likely come a major shakeup in the Card Player Player of the Year race standings. Although it was not as busy as the WSOP will be, this week did see a number of events wrap up that made an impact on the overall POY standings. Here is a look at the tournaments that most shook things up over the past seven days:

Parx Big Stax XVI $1,200 NLH

The Parx Big Stax XVI $1,200 buy-in no-limit hold’em event drew a field of 529 entries to create a $561,883 prize pool. In the end the tournament saw a heads-up deal made between Jason Deutsch and Bahbak Oboodi that essentially had them chop the remaining prize pool for $101,305 each, giving the win to Deutsch.

Reigning World Series of Poker main event champion Joseph McKeehen finished sixth in the event for $21,336 and 280 Player of the Year points. This was McKeehen’s sixth final table finish of 2016. He has cashed for $1,715,829 in live tournaments so far this year, including making a title run in the $25,000 high roller event at the 2016 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star festival.

He started the year off by finishing second in the $25,000 high roller at the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for over $1.2 million, the second largest score of his career behind the $7.6 million he won in last year’s main event.

As a result of his consistency in 2016 he has moved into 12th place in the overall standings with 2,127 points.

WSOP Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Main Event

David Hubbard topped a field of 785 entries to win the 2016 World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event. The tournament’s field saw a size increase of over 40 percent over last year’s turnout of 554 entries, building a total prize pool of $1,177,500.

For the win Hubbard was awarded his first WSOPC gold ring, the $235,500 first-place prize and 912 POY points. This was his first POY-qualified score of the year, but it was enough to move him into 113th place in the overall standings on its own.

Hubbard overcame a tough final table on his way to the title, defeating the likes of WSOP bracelet winner David Diaz (4th – $79,776) and WSOPC ring winners Blake Barousse (9th – $22,243) and David Slaughter (5th – $60,253).

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

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