2016 Card Player Player of the Year Update -- Sam Soverel Climbs To 13thTom Marchese and Jake Schindler Also Moved Up The Leaderboard With High Roller Scores At Aria |
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After several weeks of huge movement near the top of the leader board things have settled down a bit in the 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here is a look at the events that most impacted the standings:
September Aria High Rollers
The Aria Poker Room hosted it’s 40th and 41st $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller events this past weekend. The Aria High Roller 40 drew a total field of 21 entries to build a prize pool of $504,000.
In the end Ali Fazeli emerged victorious, earning $292,320 and 420 POY points for the win. 2010 Card Player Player of the Year winner Tom Marchese finished third for $60,480 and 280 points.
The following day Marchese returned for the Aria High Roller 41 and did one better, finishing second for $181,430 and another 350 points.
He has cashed in eight of the 2016 high roller events at the Aria for more than $1.4 million and 2,555 points, winning three titles along the way. As a result he now sits in 28th place in the POY standings and is now a threat to make a run at becoming a two-time POY winner.
Another player to climb the rankings as a result of these events was Sam Soverel, who finished third in the second high roller event for $57,600 and 280 points. This was the high stakes cash game player’s sixth final table of the year. He has captured two titles this year, including taking down the 2016 World Series of Poker $1,000 pot-limit Omaha event for his first gold bracelet, the $1,85,317 first-place prize and 960 points.
With 3,420 points and $1,115,914 in year-to-date earnings Soverel now sits in 13th place on the POY leader board.
The winner in the Aria High Roller 41 was Jake Schindler. He took home $249,070 and 420 points for coming out on top. With 2,453 points and $1,310,366 in earnings so far this year Schindler has climbed to 35th place in the standings.
2016 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of Cards
A total of 359 entries were made in the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of Cards $1,650 CAD no-limit hold’em event, building a prize pool of $522,345 CAD to easily surpass the event’s $400,000 CAD guarantee.
In the end Canadian native Brady Hinnegan defeated Thomas Larivee Magni heads-up to secure the title and the first-place prize of $110,000 CAD ($83,530 USD) and 600 POY points.
This was Hinnegan’s first ever POY-qualified score. His largest prior live tournament cash came when he finished 171st in the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 main event for $12,500.
The 600 points he earned in this event moved him into a tie for 612th place in the overall standings.
Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings:
| Rank | Player | POY Points | Earnings |
| 1 | Fedor Holz | 6,758 | $15,988,834 |
| 2 | David Peters | 4,891 | $4,914,445 |
| 3 | Connor Drinan | 4,512 | $3,196,592 |
| 4 | Justin Bonomo | 4,470 | $2,420,823 |
| 5 | Chance Kornuth | 4,374 | $2,092,345 |
| 6 | Ari Engel | 4,369 | $1,615,365 |
| 7 | Tony Dunst | 3,740 | $1,125,803 |
| 8 | Joseph Mckeehen | 3,738 | $2,972,270 |
| 9 | Nick Petrangelo | 3,711 | $1,923,678 |
| 10 | Paul Volpe | 3,671 | $932,213 |
| 11 | Dan Smith | 3,629 | $4,402,105 |
| 12 | Bryn Kenney | 3,579 | $3,711,932 |
| 13 | Sam Soverel | 3,420 | $1,115,914 |
| 14 | Steve O’Dwyer | 3,409 | $3,368,708 |
| 15 | Cary Katz | 3,370 | $2,014,073 |
| 16 | Andjelko Andrejevic | 3,332 | $1,329,682 |
| 17 | Anthony Gregg | 3,223 | $1,775,529 |
| 18 | Ivan Luca | 3,070 | $1,375,565 |
| 19 | Adrien Allain | 3,000 | $1,005,700 |
| 20 | Koray Aldemir | 2,944 | $2,555,935 |
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