After several weeks of enormous movement near the highest of the leader board things have settled down a little bit within the 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here's a take a look at the events that almost all impacted the standings:

September Aria High Rollers

The Aria Poker site hosted it’s 40th and 41st $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller events this past weekend. The Aria High Roller 40 drew a complete field of 21 entries to construct a prize pool of $504,000.

In the top Ali Fazeli emerged victorious, earning $292,320 and 420 POY points for the win. 2010 Card Player Player of the Year winner Tom Marchese finished third for $60,480 and 280 points.

The following day Marchese returned for the Aria High Roller 41 and did one better, finishing second for $181,430 and another 350 points.

He has cashed in eight of the 2016 high roller events on the Aria for greater than $1.4 million and 2,555 points, winning three titles along the way in which. Because of this he now sits in 28th place within the POY standings and is now a threat to make a run at becoming a two-time POY winner.

Another player to climb the rankings because of these events was Sam Soverel, who finished third within the second high roller event for $57,600 and 280 points. This was the high stakes cash game player’s sixth final table of the year. He has captured two titles this year, including taking down the 2016 World Series of Poker $1,000 pot-limit Omaha event for his first gold bracelet, the $1,85,317 first-place prize and 960 points.

With 3,420 points and $1,115,914 in year-to-date earnings Soverel now sits in 13th place at the POY leader board.

The winner within the Aria High Roller 41 was Jake Schindler. He took home $249,070 and 420 points for popping out on top. With 2,453 points and $1,310,366 in earnings to this point this year Schindler has climbed to 35th place within the standings.

2016 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of Cards

A total of 359 entries were made within the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of Cards $1,650 CAD no-limit hold’em event, building a prize pool of $522,345 CAD to simply surpass the event’s $400,000 CAD guarantee.

In the top Canadian native Brady Hinnegan defeated Thomas Larivee Magni heads-up to secure the title and the first-place prize of $110,000 CAD ($83,530 USD) and 600 POY points.

This was Hinnegan’s first ever POY-qualified score. His largest prior live tournament cash came when he finished 171st within the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 main event for $12,500.

The 600 points he earned on this event moved him right into a tie for 612th place within the overall standings.

Here is a glance on the current top 20 within the POY standings:

Rank	Player	POY Points	Earnings
1	Fedor Holz	6,758	$15,988,834
2	David Peters	4,891	$4,914,445
3	Connor Drinan	4,512	$3,196,592
4	Justin Bonomo	4,470	$2,420,823
5	Chance Kornuth	4,374	$2,092,345
6	Ari Engel	4,369	$1,615,365
7	Tony Dunst	3,740	$1,125,803
8	Joseph Mckeehen	3,738	$2,972,270
9	Nick Petrangelo	3,711	$1,923,678
10	Paul Volpe	3,671	$932,213
11	Dan Smith	3,629	$4,402,105
12	Bryn Kenney	3,579	$3,711,932
13	Sam Soverel	3,420	$1,115,914
14	Steve O’Dwyer	3,409	$3,368,708
15	Cary Katz	3,370	$2,014,073
16	Andjelko Andrejevic	3,332	$1,329,682
17	Anthony Gregg	3,223	$1,775,529
18	Ivan Luca	3,070	$1,375,565
19	Adrien Allain	3,000	$1,005,700
20	Koray Aldemir	2,944	$2,555,935

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