WSOP Overall Standings Todd Witteles #1

World Series of Poker Overall Standings

1 Todd Witteles Las Vegas, NV 2,080 2 $463,195
2 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $799,950
3 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,902 4 $1,006,935
4 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,808 3 $401,415
5 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
6 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
7 Andre Boyer Las Vegas, NV 1,440 1 $682,810
7 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $660,080

Are these standings different from the Toyota Points Leaderboard that Negreanu won last year?...I remember reading something on Cardplayer the other day that Cyndi Violette had taken over the Toyota WSOP Points lead and she is not even on this list.

I think Dirty B said it best in another thread:

Maybe he has played in like every event possible so they couldn't give him a higher ranking then someone who has never finished worst then 3rd in a WSOP event.

Yeah....no disrespect intended toward Druff...his accomplishments at this year's WSOP have been amazing. Just was curious how they came up with the numbers and if the Toyota Points system was the same, to see if he was looking at adding a new truck to his already hefty payday.

So then if Druff wants to win he has to sit the main event out

What about Seif as well?

He has won a tournament with over a 1000 entrants and won another...2 wins and who knows how he finished other than that why isn't he first...makes no sense. :?

All good for Dan but still wacky.

Ya I dont agree with it either but this really provides some incentive to enter the main event. A new truck would be sweet.

the ammount of the buy in matters as well if its 3k its worth more than 1k

http://www.cardplayer.com/wsop_of_the_year/

yup, he's #1!

I think the way they score it has alot to do with the # of people entered. 3 of Allen Cunningham's final tables were 5k entry events but only had 1 to 2 hundred people entered.

http://www.cardplayer.com/player_of_the_year/poycriteria.php

Will we see Todd entering some more Limit HE events to try and hold down the #1 spot in the WSOP player standings and perhaps even advance in the player of the year standings?

Well, according to the WSOP official site, besides todays NL 2-7 event the only tournament left is the main event. Although I thought before the whole thing started I saw some events listed for august, guess they cancelled them.

I admit that the system they use is unfair, but I didn't create it!

Without getting into details, the points system gives a disproportionate bias to middle-sized tournaments, while screwing the really big ones. It also gives fewer points than you'd expect for winning, as opposed to 2nd or 3rd place.

This means that two winners doesn't automatically put you ahead of a person with a 1st and 3rd in bigger events, and winning a giant event (like the WSOP) doesn't guarantee you WSOP of the Year status.

Basically, if the final 3 WSOP tables contain 27 unknowns (in the sense that they have few or no cardplayer points), then I will be the WSOP of the Year winner.

Not likely, but it could happen.

what'd be better is if in contained 25 unkowns, 1 dan druff and 1 neverwin.

What does this years POY get

Now I especially hope I win.

How many points will the lucky SOB that wins the main event get??????