2025 WSOP POY Update: Yosef Fox Leads After Two Mystery Bounty Runs

The World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Participant of the Yr (POY) race is heating up as Wisconsin’s Yosef Fox leads the best way with 1,446.60 factors after consecutive Thriller Bounty runs.

Yosef, who’s the daddy of bracelet winner Jorden Fox, began the summer season off by ending eighty fifth in Occasion #1: $1,000 Thriller Tens of millions, however his true run-good got here in Occasion #11: $10,000 Thriller Bounty as he not solely shipped the occasion for a bracelet and $729,333 but additionally pulled the $250,000 bounty that remained elusive your entire event.

The present standings, which have been up to date Friday, June 9, don’t think about Benny Glaser’s second bracelet victory of the summer season in Occasion #15: $1,500 Blended: Pot-Restrict Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher, which, as soon as factored, will give Glaser a further 1,064 factors that will carry him to 2,035.35 and put him far in entrance.

WSOP POY Present Standings

*These standings don’t embody Benny Glaser’s second bracelet victory on June 5.

Ruben, Furth & Martirosian in Prime Ten

Whereas Fox occupies the highest spot, three-time Bracelet winner Brad Ruben is shut behind with 1,316.47 factors after taking down Occasion #12: $1,500 No Restrict 2-7 Single Draw Lowball 7-Handed for $130,080. Earlier than that, he completed thirty second in Occasion #8: $1,500 Blended Video games: Sellers Alternative 6-Handed for $4,363.

Additionally within the prime 5 are Michael Wilklow, who took down the Thriller Tens of millions for $1 million, Occasion #9: $10,000 Restrict Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship 8-Handed winner Ryan Bambrick and Caleb Furth, who took down Occasion #5: $5,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha for $620,696 as he denied third-place finisher and established poker villain Martin Kabrhel.

Rounding out the highest ten are Antonio Galiana (Occasion #92: $5,000 8-Handed No-Restrict Maintain’em – $582,008), David Shmuel (Occasion #4: $1,500 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher – $205,333), Kenneth Kim (Occasion #10: $600 No-Restrict Maintain’em Deepstack – $318,842), Artur Martirosian (Occasion #7: $25,000 Heads Up Championship – $500,000), and Shant Marashlian.

It is nonetheless early within the sequence, that means there’s loads of time for a leaderboard shake-up or deep runs by POY traditional suspects like Shaun Deeb and Daniel Negreanu, who has already had a second-place end in Occasion #9: $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship for $313,615.

PokerNews will proceed following the WSOP POY race because the sequence rolls on. Take a look at PokerNews’ stay reporting of WSOP occasions within the meantime.

Connor Richards is an Editor & Stay Reporter for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 2 International Poker Awards for his writing.