Pre-WSOP Poker Player of the Year update

As the World Series of Poker approaches the Player of the Year (POY) races are about to undergo a major shakeup if history is any indicator. Of course we will also be seeing the WSOP Player of the Year race kick-in to overdrive –currently Daniel Negreanu is atop the leader-board thanks to his WSOP APAC win.

Right now everyone is still looking up at Paul Volpe, but the POY race is about as tight as I’ve ever seen it, and with Negreanu’s incredible start to the year he has a chance at a clean sweep should he kill-it at the WSOP in Las Vegas, considering the Team PokerStars Pro is currently leading the WSOP POY leader-board, sits in 4^th place on the Bluff rankings, 2^nd place on the Cardplayer rankings, and 24^th on the Global Poker Index.

Here is a look at the current POY races:

Bluff Magazine 2013 Player of the Year leader-board (accurate as of 5/16/2013):

1. Paul Volpe – 638.22 points
2. Aaron Lim – 606.65 points
3. Steve Silverman – 534.46 points
4. Daniel Negreanu – 532.04 points
5. Steve O’Dwyer – 523.60 points
6. Ole Schemion – 518.40 points
7. Griffin Benger – 485.75 points
8. Vanessa Selbst – 473.28 points
9. Kevin Eyster – 465.45 points
10. Mike Watson — 453.20 points

Cardplayer Magazine 2013 Player of the Year leader-board (accurate as of 5/16/2013):

1. Paul Volpe — 3,530 points
2. Daniel Negreanu – 2,946 points
3. Steve O’Dwyer – 2,848 points
4. Dimitar Danchev — 2,340 points
5. Kevin Eyster – 2,280 points
6. Paul Klann — 2,100 points
7. Mervin Chan — 2,100 points
8. Joel Micka — 1,996 points
9. Michael Watson — 1,904 points
10. Daniel Shak — 1,880 points

Global Poker Index 2013 Player of the Year leader-board (accurate as of 5/16/2013):

1. Paul Volpe – 760.79 points
2. Ole Schemion – 535.26
3. Steven Silverman – 532.28 points
4. Michael Watson – 524.77 points
5. Scott Seiver – 524.13 points
6. Igor Kurganov – 522.96 points
7. Steve O’Dwyer – 498.86 points
8. Daniel Shak – 469.97 points
9. Christian Harder – 461.69 points
10. Micah Raskin – 451.75 points

All three ranking systems use a different criterion to determine the Player of the Year:

• Cardplayer Magazine focuses on a player’s results over the course of the entire calendar year.
• Bluff Magazine takes into account a player’s results from the previous calendar year (weighted at about 50% of the current year)
• The Global Poker Index uses a players top cashes from different quarters of the year only, all other results are discounted

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/player-of-the-year/%20

http://www.bluff.com/poker-player-of-the-year

http://www.globalpokerindex.com/player-of-the-year/