Lisandro Locks the 2009 WSOP Player of the Year Award E-mail
Jeffrey LisandroTriple bracelet winner Jeffrey Lisandro has clinched the 2009 WSOP Player of the Year honors after his only challenger to the title, Ville Wahlbeck, was eliminated from the WSOP Main event during Day 3’s second level of play. It’s the second run at the award for Lisandro, who beat Tom Schneider for the 2007 Player of the Year title. That race went to Schneider with the battle between the two coming down to a few placements in a couple of the final preliminaries.

This year, Lisandro’s three preliminary-event wins gave him a considerable point advantage entering the Main Event. Lisandro began the Main Event with 355 points, leaving only Wahlbeck (342 points) with a chance of overtaking him.

Here were the PoY points standings entering the Main Event, with a maximum of 100 points available for any individual WSOP tournament:

Jeffrey Lisandro -- 355
Ville Wahlbeck -- 320
Phil Ivey -- 242
Vitaly Lunkin -- 240
Greg Mueller -- 240
Brock Parker -- 227
James Van Alstyne -- 220
Matthew Hawrilenko -- 205
Daniel Negreanu -- 195
Roland de Wolfe -- 195

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