Basile’s success in poker has skyrocketed over the last few years. Christopher ‘Basile28’ BasileĬhristopher ‘Basile28’ Basile was third with 55,894.83 points. According to the Hendon Mob, Gifford has over $81,000 in total live tournament earnings. She took second prize at the $1,000 No Limit Hold ‘em High Roller at the Harrah’s Las Vegas Online Circuit last month, walking away with $30,515. Gifford emerged on the circuit in the early 2000s and started to see big wins from around 2014 – and the US player’s success has grown from strength to strength. The Chicago resident was also first runner-up last year and won the title in 2019. Krista ‘Pollux’ Giffordįormer Player of the Year winner, Krista ‘Pollux’ Gifford was the only woman on the leaderboard, taking second place.

Points towards the single-table, heads up, and satellite SNG tournaments, as well as restricted events such as women-only games are not included in the Player of the Year and therefore do not reward points. Online poker players earn points by playing all scheduled multi-table tournaments that award cash prizes.

The Player of the Year runs from January 1 until December 31 and is determined according to the number of points a player accumulates. Here, we’ll take a look at the other players who made up the top five in the leaderboard. Winning Player of the Year is quite the achievement, so anyone who makes the final leaderboard should be commended. While Holz enjoys his well-earned title and the media attention that comes with it, it’s easy to overlook the runners-up. The rest of the top 10 on the leaderboard was, in order, as follows: Mike ‘Mkspresident’ Shin, Thomas ‘Zebra_Debra’ Sabatino, Dan ‘Feel The Flow’’ Sindelar, Anthony ‘boom81boom’ Chin, and Jonathan ‘Art Vandelay’ Dokler. It took incredible skill and effort to do this, and he will no doubt adjust his sights to get his name on other listings, like alongside the WSOP Winners on the GGPoker Blog. Qinghai ‘011POKERDR’ Pan was fourth and YK ‘LuckySpewy’ Kwon. The Maryland professional player ended the season with an impressive 84,095 points, pushing Krista ‘Pollux’ Gifford into second place and Christopher ‘Basile28’ Basile into third. The poker world is raving about Mike ‘BrockLesnar’ Holz after he scooped the title of ’s 2021 Player of the Year.

Wsop winners by year