By Sean Chaffin
While there were plenty of points on the line at the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble, not much has changed in the upper ranks of the Hublot Player of the Year Race.
Tony Tran earned 1,000 points for his win and moved into sixth place in the standings. At the top, Tony Ruberto (pictured) remains the leader with 1,800 points after his win of $344,755 at WPT Maryland in September and a fourth-place finish in August at Choctaw.
Hublot Season XVII WPT Player of the Year Top 10 (as of October 24, 2018)
1st: Tony Ruberto – 1,800 points
2nd: Erkut Yilmaz – 1,250 points
3rd: Simon Lam– 1,200 points
4th: Brady Holiman – 1,200 points
5th: Men Nguyen – 1,100 points
6th: Tony Tran – 1,050 points
7th: TK Miles – 1,000 points
8th: Jake Schindler – 1,000 points
9th: Viet Vo – 1,000 points
10th: Oleg Shnaider – 900 points
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Erkut Yilmaz remains in second with 1,250 points after his win at the Borgata and a 41st-place finish in Maryland. Just behind Yilmaz are WPT Gardens Poker Festival winner Simon Lam (1,200 points, $565,055) in third, and WPT Choctaw winner Brady Holiman (1,200 points, $469,185) in fourth.
Tran earned 50 points for placing 51st at the WPT Borgata Poker Open.
Men ‘The Master’ Nguyen sits in fifth place with 1,100 points after finishing third at the Gardens and 11th at Choctaw, and Tran follows him in sixth.
With 1,000 points, T.K. Miles follows him points (seventh), and closing out the Top 10 are Jake Schindler (eighth, 1,000 points), Viet Vo (ninth, 1,000 points), and Oleg Shnaider (10th, 900 points).
What Can You Win in the Hublot WPT Player of the Year Race?
As the official timekeeper and official watch of the World Poker Tour, Hublot is once again the presenting sponsor of the WPT Player of the Year award and will be awarding a custom Hublot timepiece to the winner of the Hublot WPT Player of the Year race. Additionally, the Season XVII winner will receive $15,000 in WPT tournament buy-in credits and complimentary accommodations at all WPT Main Tour events in Season XVIII.
Prizes have been added for the second- and third-place finishers in the race, too. The runner-up will receive $7,500 in WPT tournament buy-in credits and third place will receive $2,500 in WPT tournament buy-in credits. WPT tournament buy-in credits can be used in any global WPT event, including the WPT Main Tour, WPTDeepStacks, WPT500, and WPT Special Events.
WPT Montreal Is Next Stop on WPT Main Tour
Next up for the Main Tour is WPT Montreal in Quebec, Canada, at Playground Poker Club, running from October 28-November 4. The event is the first series as part of the WPT’s new four-year partnership with partypoker LIVE to co-coordinate tournaments in Canada and Europe. The event features a CAD $5,300 buy-in and CAD $5 million guaranteed prize pool.
Following that stop, the tour is back to Florida again in November, with the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open set for November 23-28. The $3,500 event features a $2 million guaranteed prize pool.
In December, the WPT heads to Las Vegas for the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio. That event features a $10,400 buy-in and runs from December 11-15.
Grab that calendar and make plans to join the WPT for these upcoming events.
Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer in Crandall, Texas, and host of the True Gambling Stories podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @PokerTraditions.
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