Player of the Year will be determined in the last WSOPE 2019 tournament
The race for "Player of the Year" title will soon be finished. This year Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb and Robert Campbell are closest to the victory. The last two weeks, everyone from this top three was able to be in the first place and the leaders were changed alternated.
Only one tournament left in the schedule of WSOPE 2019 – it is Colossus. In this tournament you can get the necessary points.
At the moment, Daniel Negreanu is in the first place of the rating. In order to keep the leadership, he needs to finish Colossus tournament better than his opponents. It will be interesting to watch how the poker players will cope with this task, since this tournament always collects a lot of players.
Theoretically, even Phillip Hui and Daniel Zack, who are in the 4th and 5th places, can win. But in order to do this, they should win the event. One of them will get about 1 000 points for his rating.
Top 5 of "Player of the Year" rating
- Daniel Negreanu – 3 971 points
- Robert Campbell – 3 857 points
- Shaun Deeb – 3 710 points
- Phillip Hui – 3 186 points
- Daniel Zack – 3 126 points
Last year, the Colossus event collected about 2 992 entries. If the amount of entries is approximately the same this year, then the distribution of POY points will be as follows:
| Place | Number of points |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 045 |
| 2 | 522 |
| 3 | 470 |
| 4 | 418 |
| 5 | 392 |
| 6 | 366 |
| 7 | 313 |
| 8 | 287 |
| 9 | 261 |
| Next 20% | 209 |
| Next 30% | 104 |
| Next 50% | 32 |
