Parker earned over $150,000 at the Borgata Winter Poker Open

Another week, another new crop of names making a splash in the 2012 BLUFF Player of the Year ranks.  While the top ten stayed in tact from last week’s rankings, the bottom half of the top twenty is populated with a number of new names, more than one of which you’ve heard before.

Oliver Speidel and Jonathan Duhamel are still comfortably out front of the field in the one and two spots on our list, and the rest of the top ten remains in tact, but the players in the 10-20 spot include six people who were not ranked this time last week.  The highest ranked of these new guys is Josh Mancuso, whose win in the $3,500 Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event earned him over $540,000 and the 12th spot in the ranks.  Brock Parker also final tabled that event, finishing seventh, and won a prelim event at Borgata.  Those two scores gives Parker enough points to rank at 16th this week.

Thanks to some housekeeping in our database, WPT Ireland Champion David Shallow and WSOPC Choctaw winner Abraham Araya entered the ranks this week as well.  Araya is sitting in 15th place, while Shallow just cracked the top twenty with 195 POY points, edging out Joseph Mckeehen by less than two points.

Other notables that dropped from the ranks include WSOPC LA winner Freddy Deeb, Joe Cada, Jason Koon, and the only female to crack the top twenty so far this year, Xuan Liu.

Results from EPT Deauville will inevitably shake up the ranks once again and WPT Venice and the WPT’s non-televised Main Event at the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida taking place this week, we might see some new names as high as the top five before February is over.  A win in Florida worked out well for Danny Shiff.  Thanks to his win in the Isle Casino’s Isle Classic in Pompano Beach, Florida, he is now ranked 13th.

Here are the latest top twenty in the 2012 BLUFF Player of the Year Race:

1. (-) Oliver Speidel – 529.45
2. (-) Jonathan Duhamel – 519.60
3. (-) John Dibella – 450.75
4. (-) Faraz Jaka – 327.50
5. (-) Phil Ivey – 308.65
6. (-) Kyle Julius – 299.25
7. (-) Leonid Bilokur – 288.00
8. (-) Ken Wong – 273.70
9. (-) Shawn Buchanan – 268.88
10. (-)Andrew Chen – 254.17
11. (-) Viktor Blom – 250.00
12. (NR) Joshua Mancuso – 243.80
13. (NR) Daniel Shiff – 226.63
14. (-2) John Dolan – 224.00
15. (NR) Abraham Araya – 209.00
16. (NR) Brock Parker – 208.52
17. (-4) Michael Telker – 206.64
18. (NR) Bruno Lopes – 204.00
19. (-5) Mile Krstanoski – 195.50
20. (NR) David Shallow – 195.00

Dropped from ranks: Joseph Mckeehen, Brendon Rubie, Xuan Liu, Freddy Deeb, Joe Cada, Jason Koon

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