Another week is within the books for the 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here's a have a look at the events that made the biggest impact at the POY standings over the last seven days.

Aria High Rollers

Two $25,000 no-limit hold’em high roller events happened last week on the Aria Poker site in Las Vegas. Although there have been two tournaments there has been just one champion: Byron Kaverman. He took down both tournaments to win over half one million dollars combined.

The first tournament drew a field of 27 entries to create a prize pool of $648,000. In that event Kaverman made a chop deal that saw him lock up the title and the highest payout of $226,227. Kaverman also scored 420 Player of the year points for the win.

Andrew Lichtenberger, who won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet this summer, finished runner-up for $187,557 and 350 points. This was his fifth final table finish of the year and it was enough to transport him into 23rd place within the overall POY rankings with 2,500 points and $1,047,243 in year-to-date earnings.

The very next day the second one $25,000 high roller event was held, attracting 23 entries to construct a $552,000 prize pool. The lion’s share of that went to Kaverman again he came out on top to secure his second title in as many days, the highest prize of $276,000 and another 420 POY points.

Kaverman now has four final table finishes in 2016. With $855,754 in year-to-date earnings and 1,540 total points he currently sits in 86th place within the POY standings.

Jake Schindler place third in both events, cashing for a combined $265,176. His two big scores also earned him 560 POY points. With $1,028,586 in earnings in 2016, six final tables and 1,753 points he now sits in 68th place at the leader board.

Incredibly all six of Schindler’s POY-qualified final table finishes this year have are available high roller events at Aria, including his lone title of the year which came back in April. He topped a field of twenty-two entries in that tournament to win $264,000.

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

Rank	Player	POY Points	Earnings
1	Fedor Holz	5,738	$14,517,350
2	Justin Bonomo	4,470	$2,420,823
3	David Peters	4,331	$4,791,478
4	Tony Dunst	3,740	$1,125,803
5	Joseph Mckeehen	3,738	$2,972,270
6	Chance Kornuth	3,730	$1,954,541
7	Paul Volpe	3,671	$932,213
8	Dan Smith	3,629	$4,402,105
9	Cary Katz	3,320	$2,010,521
10	Ari Engel	3,302	$1,229,491
11	Anthony Gregg	3,223	$1,775,529
12	Sam Soverel	3,140	$1,058,314
13	Andjelko Andrejevic	3,072	$1,214,747
14	Adrien Allain	3,000	$1,005,700
15	Bryn Kenney	2,979	$3,655,974
16	Dominik Nitsche	2,893	$1,288,735
17	Igor Kurganov	2,889	$1,735,145
18	Brandon Shack-Harris	2,880	$1,045,730
19	Michael Gathy	2,830	$846,827
20	Aaron Mermelstein	2,580	$502,505

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