Are they doing a WSOP player of the year again this year?

[Nottom]

If so does anyone have a link to the current rankings?

[HamJam]

http://cardplayer.com/wsop_of_the_year/

[TomCollins]

This is based on Cardplayers ranking system, not Harrah's. It may not be accurate, but will give you a decent idea.

[Nottom]

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http://cardplayer.com/wsop_of_the_year/

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Yeah I found this, but like the other guy said this is using the Cardplayer ranking formula and what they used last year for the WSOP. The big difference being that you must reach the final table to recieve any points in this system, so 10th in a 250 person event gets points while the 11th place person in a 2500 person field gets nothing.

[Kevmath]

I did see some sort of POTY system and standings in one of Mike Paulle's blogs. Players earn points for making the money depending on how they finish.

EDIT: Here's a link to how the points are calculated: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2005/0...-year-race.htm

On the Pokernews link, it mentions that it includes the 5 WSOP Circuit 10k buyin events

Here's the standings as of June 16 from http://www.pokerpages.com/blog/index.php?itemid=531:

285 Freguson C 1
263 Violette C 2
252 Seidel E 3
248 Cunningham A 4
233 Fischman S 5
225 Demetriou H 6
218 Steinhorn J 7
200 Froelick E 8
200 Moncada E 8
200 Werthmann T 8
197 Harman J 11
187 Cossio D 12
180 Gracz M 13
170 Ma T 14
168 Hua C 15
168 Lee D 15
167 Esfandiari A 17
166 Traniello M 18
161 Ulliott D 19
160 Flack L 20
160 Poels P 20
158 Green M 22
158 Pham D 22
152 Ivey P 24
150 Galazan I 25
147 Friedman Pe 26
146 Tran A 27
145 Almalhi A 28
144 Law C 29
140 Josephy C 30
140 Lisandro J 30
140 Wiffelesw T 30
138 Brown C 33
134 Frangos N 34
134 Levi D 34
132 Deeb F 36
130 Drobushevich S 37
130 Mizrachi M 37
128 Kelsall A 39
128 Lukas J 39
127 Lieu L 41
126 Bechtel J 42
126 Machina M 42
126 Thompson C 45
122 Zolotow S 46
121 Perrault P 47
120 Arieh J 47
120 Chambers W 47
120 Hersh A 47
120 Hudak S 47
120 Tran H 4

Kevin...

[TheCroShow]

Daniel N said it best, the player of the year will be the guy/girl that finishes in 30th place the most.

[Nottom]

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Daniel N said it best, the player of the year will be the guy/girl that finishes in 30th place the most.

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He said that but its not really true. There are already multiple name pros with 2 final table appearances, there is no reason to think one of them won't get a 3rd or 4th. (In Daniel's defense he said that when the events had all been 800+ players ... many of the middle events have been 200-300 people)

And thanks for the links Kevmath.