On the strength of his 3rd place finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event Ben Lamb has a very good chance of becoming the first player to ever win the World Series of Poker Player of the Year award and the Card Player Magazine Player of the Year award in the same year.
With the 2,400 points Lamb earned for his WSOP Main Event finish, he has now passed Chris Moorman for the Card Player POY lead with 6,036 points –although Moorman is not too far behind with 5,875. Lamb is also in 2nd place on the Bluff Magazine POY Leader-Board trailing Eugene Katchalov by a tally of 1,077.38 to 988.10.
Other big movers from the 2011 WSOP Main Event final table included Champion Pius Heinz, who vaulted into 12th place, runner-up Martin Staszkowho is now in 29th place, and 4th place finisher Matt Giannetti who moved up to 31st place with the help of his WSOP finish and his recent win at the WPT Malta.
Here is a look at the current top 10 in the race for the 2011 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Award:
Ben Lamb: 6,036 points
Chris Moorman: 5,875 points
Oleksii Kovalchuk: 5,380 points
Marvin Rettenmaier: 4,554 points
Sam Stein: 4,505 points
Elio Fox: 4,320 points
Galen Hall: 4,284 points
Sam Trickett: 4,096 points
Eugene Katchalov: 4,048 points
Matthew Waxman: 4,005 points
To take a look at the entire leader-board you can head over to CardPlayer.com
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