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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall

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Rank Player Location POY Points Titles Final Tables POY Winnings
1 Brandon Wilson Chicago, IL, USA 6,367 3 15 $5,608,391
2 Kristen Foxen St. Catherines, CAN 5,017 2 8 $5,206,733
3 Aleksejs Ponakovs Riga, LVA 4,784 2 9 $7,233,821
4 Danny Tang HKG 4,746 1 10 $6,773,197
5 Daniel Dvoress Mississauga, ON, CAN 4,551 6 10 $6,313,714
6 Punnat Punsri Bangkok, THA 4,394 2 14 $4,739,243
7 Ren Lin Augusta, GA, USA 4,388 3 9 $2,334,135
8 Alex Foxen Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA 4,329 4 9 $3,272,287
9 Jon Ander Vallinas ESP 4,264 0 5 $2,563,392
10 Klemens Roiter AUT 4,203 0 9 $4,649,263
11 Quan Zhou Harbin, CHN 3,920 1 7 $2,851,000
12 Christopher Nguyen AUT 3,886 2 5 $5,442,886
13 Nick Schulman Manhattan, NY, USA 3,881 2 9 $1,127,304
14 Matthias Eibinger Graz, AUT 3,868 3 9 $6,510,575
15 Jesse Lonis Little Falls, NY, USA 3,689 1 8 $2,840,042
16 Artur Martirosian Voronezh, RUS 3,675 3 10 $4,165,436
17 Isaac Haxton Syracuse, NY, USA 3,346 0 8 $2,682,893
18 Alex Kulev Dublin, IRL 3,290 2 7 $6,175,981
19 Michael Watson Toronto, CAN 3,214 2 11 $3,456,884
20 Justin Liberto Fallston, MD, USA 3,172 2 5 $1,094,277
21 Mehdi Chaoui MAR 3,155 1 10 $1,734,786
22 Aren Bezhanyan ARM 3,079 1 4 $1,893,686
23 Daniel Rezaei Leibnitz, AUT 3,011 1 5 $3,189,403
24 Patrik Antonius Helsinki, FIN 2,992 0 9 $3,063,500
25 Bernhard Binder AUT 2,928 2 4 $3,032,531
26 Jason Koon Las Vegas, NV, USA 2,876 0 10 $3,663,500
27 Bryn Kenney Long Beach, NY, USA 2,865 0 5 $5,149,153
28 Maurice Hawkins Plantation, FL, USA 2,802 4 13 $427,337
29 Brock Wilson Ardsley, NY, USA 2,787 4 8 $974,470
30 Kelvin Kerber BRA 2,760 0 5 $2,428,128
30 Yuri Dzivielevski Curitiba, BRA 2,760 3 5 $4,886,782
32 Anatoly Zlotnikov RUS 2,752 1 7 $2,276,445
33 Biao Ding CHN 2,693 0 7 $2,341,950
34 Fahredin Mustafov BGR 2,670 2 4 $953,840
35 Benjamin Tollerene Lubbock, TX, USA 2,661 1 7 $4,618,022
36 David Mzareulov Houston, TX, USA 2,621 0 5 $496,396
37 Kiat Lee MYS 2,597 1 8 $4,642,262
38 Christian Harder Annapolis, MD, USA 2,579 2 8 $542,141
39 Chino Rheem Los Angeles, CA, USA 2,557 1 8 $695,050
40 Franco Tucci CAN 2,548 2 4 $309,888
41 Jeremy Becker Tampa, FL, USA 2,543 3 12 $543,315
42 Aaron Gao Miami, FL, USA 2,518 0 6 $424,787
43 Nino Pansier NLD 2,476 1 5 $2,027,383
44 Andrew Hulme England, GBR 2,440 1 4 $361,814
45 Sean Winter Jacksonville, FL, USA 2,423 1 6 $1,893,553
46 Paul Phua Miri, Sarawak, MYS 2,422 1 4 $4,385,000
47 Leon Sturm DEU 2,421 1 4 $2,481,843
48 Philip Sternheimer London, GBR 2,415 0 5 $3,286,400
49 Nicholas Seward Washington, D.C., USA 2,400 1 6 $713,575
50 Allen Shen CAN 2,376 2 4 $523,418
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