The first month is formally in the books for the 2021 Card Player Player of the Year race, with a quantity of massive occasions wrapping up in latest weeks as the worldwide stay poker match circuit continues its return after being shut down for a lot of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a have a look at the gamers who made the largest strikes in the 2021 POY standings, that are sponsored by Global Poker.
1st Place – Ilyas Muradi (1,620 factors)
Ilyas Muradi received a seat into the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion by way of a $400 buy-in satellite tv for pc, after which navigated his approach by means of a discipline of 1,573 complete entries to earn the $809,515 prime prize and his first main match title.
Muradi was additionally awarded 1,620 POY factors as the champion of this occasion. This win alone was sufficient to catapult him into first place in the 2021 POY race standings. This occasion featured a $1,000,000 assure, which was greater than quintupled in consequence of the big turnout for the occasion.
As a consequence of the large quantity of gamers this occasion attracted, a number of of the prime finishers on this match earned sufficient POY factors to seek out themselves amongst the prime 20 in the general rankings for the time being. Runner-up Robel Andemichael at the moment sits in second place on the leaderboard with 1,350 POY factors and $529,690 in year-to-date earnings, whereas third-place finisher Ronnie Bardah climbed to fifth place in the race with 1,080 factors and $392,430 received up to now in 2021.
Francis Margaglione now sits in tenth place in the POY race in consequence of his fourth-place end on this occasion, whereas Jesse Lonis moved into sixteenth place after ending fifth on this big match.
third Place – Fernando Rodriguez-Vazquez (1,248 factors)
Fernando Rodriguez-Vazquez has began the new yr off on the proper foot, making 4 ultimate tables and securing three titles throughout the month of January. The Newark, Delaware resident wasted no time in making his first deep run, putting fifth in a $1,100 buy-in New Year’s Day Deep Stack Tournament at Seminole Hard Rock Casino Tampa to earn $10,450 and 140 POY factors.
Just every week later he navigated his approach by means of a 308-entry discipline in a $500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion at the 2021 One Eyed Jacks Winter Open sequence, chopping heads as much as safe $27,500 and 220 extra factors as the champion of the occasion. Another seven days after that win, Rodriguez-Vazquez outlasted an enormous discipline of 3,004 entries in the $600 buy-in kickoff occasion at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open pageant at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood to earn $205,000 and one other 600 factors.
Rodriguez-Vazquez rounded out his unbelievable run by taking down a $1,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em six-max occasion at bestbet Jacksonville’s 2021 Winter Open sequence, incomes one other $27,411 and 288 factors after overcoming the discipline of 141 entries. With 1,248 complete factors and $270,361 in year-to-date earnings, Rodriguez-Vazquez has surged up the standings, touchdown in third place on the leaderboard for the second.
4th Place – Scott Stewart (1,120 factors)
A complete of 510 entries had been made in the 2021 Winter Open $2,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion at bestbet Jacksonville, constructing an enormous prize pool of $918,000 that was paid out amongst the prime 64 finishers. The lion’s share of that cash was in the end awarded to Scott Stewart, who earned $177,817 as the champion. The five-time World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring winner from Lakewood, California now has greater than $2.4 million in profession match earnings to his title.
In addition to the title and the cash, Stewart was additionally awarded 840 POY factors. This was his second POY-qualified rating of the new yr, having completed sixth in a $1,100 buy-in occasion at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $21,350 and 280 factors in January. With these two scores, Stewart now sits in fourth place in the general 2021 POY rankings.
sixth Place – James Carroll (960 factors)
James Carroll overcame a discipline of 1,009 complete entries in the 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion. The two-time World Poker Tour predominant occasion champion was awarded $180,850 and 960 POY factors for the win, and at the moment occupies the sixth-place spot on the POY leaderboard in consequence.
This was Carroll’s twenty ninth recorded match title, and it introduced him inside putting distance of $5 million in profession earnings. This was the fifth-largest rating on his resume, along with his two largest being for his WPT predominant occasion wins earned in the 2014 Bay 101 Shooting Star (a $1,256,550 prime prize) and the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown (a $715,175 prime prize).
Carroll has an opportunity to turn into a three-time WPT champion in the close to future, as he’s amongst the ultimate six gamers at the 2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic ultimate desk which has been delayed since the begin of the COVID-19 outbreak. Carroll will enter the ultimate desk in third chip place when it’s in the end rescheduled sooner or later this yr.
seventh Place – Sung Joo Hyun (912 factors)
Sung Joo Hyun got here out on prime in the 2021 World Poker Tour DeepStacks $1,600 buy-in no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion held at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas. The South Korean defeated a discipline of 812 complete entries to earn the title and the prime prize of $208,335, the largest rating of his profession.
Hyun had earned his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet simply over half of a yr earlier, defeating a discipline of 2,307 entries in a $500 buy-in WSOP Online occasion to earn $161,898. He now has profession match earnings of $699,320.
Hyun was awarded 912 POY factors as the champion of this occasion. This win alone was sufficient to catapult him into seventh place on the POY leaderboard.
ninth Place – Nicholas Pupillo (818 factors)
Nicholas Pupillo made a trio of ultimate tables in the span of simply 5 days, from Jan. 15-20. Each of his deep runs passed off at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open pageant in Southern Florida. He began out by successful a $400 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. occasion, defeating a discipline of 102 entries to earn $9,570 and 96 POY factors. Just 4 days after that victory, he positioned seventh in a $400 buy-in Omaha eight-or-better/ seven-card stud eight-or-better occasion, including one other $1,165 and 22 factors.
The very subsequent day, Pupillo completed as the runner-up in a $1,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion, including one other $67,735 and 700 factors to his 2021 totals. Pupillo now sits in ninth place in the general standings, with 818 factors and $78,470 in year-to-date earnings.
Pupillo had a breakout yr on the stay match circuit in 2019, successful two titles and making 15 POY-qualified final-table appearances to complete sixteenth in that yr’s ultimate POY race standings. He’s off to a very good begin in an effort to surpass that career-best end in 2021.
Here is a have a look at the present prime 20 in the 2021 POY race standings:
Rank | Player | POY Points | 2021 Titles | 2021 Final Tables | Year-to-Date Earnings |
1 | Ilyas Muradi | 1,620 | 1 | 1 | $809,515 |
2 | Robel Andemichael | 1,350 | 0 | 1 | $529,690 |
3 | Fernando Rodriguez-Vazquez | 1,248 | 3 | 4 | $270,361 |
4 | Scott Stewart | 1,120 | 1 | 2 | $199,167 |
5 | Ronnie Bardah | 1,080 | 0 | 1 | $392,430 |
6 | James Carroll | 960 | 1 | 1 | $180,850 |
7 | Sung Joo Hyun | 912 | 1 | 1 | $208,335 |
8 | Chad Eveslage | 840 | 1 | 1 | $101,572 |
9 | Nicholas Pupillo | 818 | 1 | 3 | $78,470 |
10 | Francis Margaglione | 810 | 0 | 1 | $293,510 |
11 | William Chao | 800 | 0 | 1 | $135,277 |
12 | Roman Shainiuk | 760 | 0 | 1 | $144,480 |
13 | Chad Bjorkman | 720 | 1 | 1 | $101,450 |
14 | Matt Mauldin | 700 | 0 | 1 | $118,422 |
15 | Daniel Swartz | 684 | 1 | 2 | $71,324 |
16 | Jesse Lonis | 675 | 0 | 1 | $223,895 |
17 | Daniel Jones | 640 | 0 | 1 | $84,171 |
18 | Wayne Harmon | 608 | 0 | 1 | $93,280 |
19 | Cory Nordstrand | 600 | 0 | 1 | $62,339 |
20 | David Berman | 560 | 0 | 1 | $49,885 |
20 | Kenneth Stacy | 560 | 0 | 1 | $87,394 |
Click right here to take a look at the full standings in the 2021 Player of the Year race.