Card Player POY Race

[UMTerp]

To the best I can tell, there are only four players still alive for this prestigious award - everyone's chasing Men Nguyen, and there are three others that are still alive in the WPT Bellagio that have a chance to catch him. John Gale, 19th in the current POY standings, is currently second in chips with about 190 players remaining, and needs a Top-2 finish to surpass Men. Michael Mizrachi and Maciek Gracz are currently 4th and 5th in the standings, respectively, both have a Top-20 chip count, and either would need a Top-5 finish to take home the 2005 honor. Should be an interesting suplot the next few days. Negreanu was so clutch in this tournament last year - could see a similar performance...

I think Mizrachi is going to take this down. He deserves it.

[Aceshigh7]

Just great, then we can listen to his annoying, obnoxious friends cheering him on at the final table.

[KenP]

Any of the top 15 could win it with a win in the 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif and poor finishes by the leaders.

I heard there's an Atlantic City tournament still to come where you can win POY points, so it's not technically over after the 5 diamond.

[UMTerp]

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Any of the top 15 could win it with a win in the 5 and poor finishes by the leaders.

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The guys I listed were the only ones left. Mizrachi's out now though.

John Gale's chipstack is no longer looking too healthy.