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Dan Zack has scooped the WSOP Player of the Year title for 2022, the young New Jersey pro bagging two bracelets and 16 cashes worth almost $1.5million en route to the prestigious honour...
Zack ensured a 23-year WSOP streak of a player winning at least two WSOP golds at the same series continued when he took down the $10k Omaha Hi/Lo Championship event, followed by the $10k Stud Hi/Lo bracelet, those two victories worth $775,000.
Adding two further final tables and 14 more cashes over the summer series doubled that amount, and brought Zack 4530.64 points in the leaderboard race, which at one early point in the series saw GGPoker cheat Jake Schindler in the lead.
Although there are a few events still to conclude, nobody in the chasing pack can catch Zack, with Daniel Weinman – who also notched up two bracelets wins this year – his closest contender on 4040.20.
In third spot currently is last year’s WSOP Main Event champ, Koray Aldemir, on 3275.02 points, while serial contender Shaun Deeb is in 4th spot and David Peters in 5th.
WSOP Player of the Year 2022 Top 10 standings
- Daniel Zack 4530.64
- Daniel Weinman 4040.20
- Koray Aldemir 3275.02
- Shaun Deeb 3197.65
- David Peters 2982.08
- Yueqi Zhu 2766.27
- Joao Vieira 2752.88
- Joao Simao Peres 2735.76
- Alex Foxen 2548.47
- Brain Rast 2520.06
Zack’s PoY win not only gets him a trophy and a banner at the next WSOP (though hopefully not in a back corridor to the toilets as happened to hugely unpopular 2017 winner Chris “Jesus” Ferguson’s) but also a 2023 Main Event seat worth $10k.
Previous WSOP Player of the Year Winners
- 2021 Josh Arieh
- 2019 Robert Campbell
- 2018 Shaun Deeb
- 2017 Chris Ferguson
- 2016 Jason Mercier
- 2015 Mike Gorodinsky
- 2014 George Danzer
- 2013 Daniel Negreanu
- 2012 Greg Merson
- 2011 Ben Lamb
- 2010 Frank Kassela
- 2009 Jeff Lisandro
- 2008 Erick Lindgren
- 2007 Tom Schneider
- 2006 Jeff Madsen
- 2005 Allen Cunningham
- 2004 Daniel Negreanu
