2004 Poker Champion of the Year

John Juanda has the slightest of leads over Daniel Negreanu in second place. Howard Lederer has lost his lead, slipping into a distant third.

Rules and Point Structure

WPT & WSOP EVENTS ONLY

General Point System
1st Place Finish	200
2nd Place Finish	160
3rd Place Finish	120
4th Place Finish	100
5th Place Finish	80
6th Place Finish	70
7th Place Finish	60
8th Place Finish	50
9th Place Finish	40

Exceptions

Points for placers at the WSOP $10,000 main event will be multipled by 3 Points
10K = 2x, WPT championship = 2.5
For placers at events with buy-ins of $5,000 - $9,999 will be multipled by 1.5

Champion of the Year Archive

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Rank	Name	Score	# of Finishes
1	Daniel Negreanu	1960	9
2	John Juanda	1790	10
3	Barry Greenstein	1400	6
4	Howard Lederer	1380	7
5	Allen Cunningham	1340	9
6	Hasan Habib	1210	5
7	Lee Watkinson	1110	4
8	Ted Forrest	980	5
9	Scotty Nguyen	950	6
10	Erik Seidel	920	5
11	David Williams	900	2
12	Freddy Deeb	800	3
12	Josh Arieh	800	2
14	Paul Phillips	780	5
14	John D'Agostino	780	4
16	Martin Deknijff	770	2
17	David Pham	760	3
18	Joe Awada	740	4
19	TJ Cloutier	730	5
20	Scott Fischman	720	4
	Minh Nguyen	690	5
	Chau Giang	680	5
	Young Phan	650	6
	Hoyt Corkins	620	3
	Antonio Esfandiari	600	2
	Phil Ivey	600	2
	Greg Raymer	600	1
	Hung La	580	4
	Chris Tsiprailisdis	580	4
	Ram Vaswani	570	4
	Randy Jensen	560	2
	John Cernuto	550	5
	Robert Williamson	550	3
	Erick Lindgren	550	3
	Jeff Rine	520	4
	Bill Gazes	520	3
	Tony Cousineau	500	4
	Layne Flack	500	3
	Eli Elezra	500	2
	Men Nguyen	490	4
	JC Tran	480	4
	Annie Duke	480	3
	Huck Seed	470	3
	Jeffrey Lisandro	460	3
	Kathy Liebert	460	3
	Chris Ferguson	450	3
	Phi Nguyen	440	3
	Jim Meehan	440	3
	Tom Franklin	440	3
	Stan Goldstein	420	2
	Chris Hinchcliffe	420	2
	Dan Harrington	420	1
	Charlie Shoten	400	3
	Steve Zolotow	400	3
	John Esposito	400	2
	Gus Hansen	400	1
	Matt Matros	400	1
	Ben Affleck	400	1
	Andy Miller	400	1
	Juan Carlos Mortenson	400	1
	Tuan Lee	400	1
	David Chiu	380	3
	Gabriel Thaler	370	2
	Amir Vahedi	360	3
	O'Neil Longson	360	2
	Gavin Griffin	360	2
	Vinny Vinh	360	1
	Glenn Hughes	360	1
	Thang Pham	360	1
	Temp Hutter	360	1
	Thor Hansen	350	3
	Richard Grijalva	350	1
	Blair Rodman	340	3
	Mike Wattel	340	3
	Billy Baxter	340	2
	Joe Bartholdi	320	2
	Raymond Davis	320	2
	Todd Brunson	320	2
	Jimmy Tran	320	2
	Dean Schultz	320	2
	J.C. Tran	320	2
	Joe Cassidy	320	2
	James Tippin	320	1
	Mike Keohan	320	1
	Chuck Pacheco	320	1
	Gabe Kaplan	320	1
	Jose Guzman	320	1
	Humberto Brenes	320	1
	Luis Pires	310	2
	Kiril Gerasimov	300	2
	Peter Costa	300	2
	Terry Fleischer	300	2
	Michael Kinney	300	1
	Russel Rosenblum	300	1
	Thomas Keller	300	1
	Brett Jungblut	300	1
	John Hennigan	300	1
	Ted Lawson	300	1
	Al Krux	300	1
	Doyle Brunson	300	1
	Joe Beevers	300	1
	Eskimo Clark	290	2
	Tom Lee	290	2
	Lee Markholt	280	3
	Rick Fuller	280	2
	Michael Salem	280	2
	Carl Frommer	280	2
	David Levi	280	2
	Gioi Luong	280	2
	Chip Reese	280	1
	Michael Benedetto	280	1
	Dan Alspatch	280	1
	Ken James	280	1
	Bradley Berman	280	1
	Jim McManus	270	2
	Paul Clarke	270	1
	Noli Francisco	270	1
	Marcel Luske	270	1
	An Tran	270	1
	Jesse Jones	270	1
	Marlon Santos	260	2
	Tony Bloom	260	2
	Eli Balas	260	2
	Ivo Donev	260	2
	Robert Goldfarb	260	2
	Robert Perry	260	2
	Steve Brecher	250	1
	Chip Jett	240	3
	Gerry Drehobl	240	2
	Harry Knopp	240	1
	Theo Jorgensen	240	1
	Can Kim Hua	240	1
	Adam Schoenfeld	240	1
	James Sousa	240	1
	Will Wilkinson	240	1
	Brent Carter	240	1
	Patty Gallagher	240	1
	Matt Dean	240	1
	Gavin Smith	240	1
	Peter Lawson	240	1
	Brandon Moran	240	1
	Cary Katz	240	1
	Tony Guoga	220	2
	Billy Duarte	220	2
	Peter Muller	210	1
	Nick Frangos	210	1
	Jais Bruno	210	1
	Grant Helling	210	1
	Jeff Slack	210	1
	Meng La	200	2
	Paul Maxfield	200	2
	Raja Kattamuri	200	1
	Dan Heimiller	200	1
	Eric Buchman	200	1
	Joe Bove	200	1
	Ted Leva	200	1
	Aaron Katz	200	1
	Carl Nessel	200	1
	Curtis Bibb	200	1
	James Vogl	200	1
	Tony Hartman	200	1
	Remco Schrijvers	200	1
	David Benyamine	200	1
	Tom Jacobs	200	1
	Cindy Violette	200	1
	Huong Doan	200	1
	Farzad Bonyadi	200	1
	Gary Gibbs	200	1
	Mike Sica	200	1
	Norm Ketchum	200	1
	Ty Nguyen	200	1
	John Phan	200	1
	Harry Demetriou	200	1
	Tim Phan	200	1
	KD Groves	200	1
	John Murphy	200	1
	David Lieberman	200	1
	John Aglialoro	200	1
	Gene Collins	200	1
	Sammy Arzion	200	1
	Tom Becnal	200	1
	Brandon Demes	200	1
	David Wiesbeger	200	1
	Brian Nadell	180	3
	Scott Epstein	180	2
	Greg Mascio	180	2
	Phil Hellmuth	180	2
	Judas Villanueva	180	2
	Judas Villanueva	180	2
	Dan Alspach	180	1
	Cuong Huynh	180	1
	Daniel Quach	180	1
	Harry Partridge	180	1
	Matt Lefkowitz	180	1
	Patrick Bruel	180	1
	Tom McCormick	180	1
	Chad Brown	180	1
	Cory Pockat	180	1
	Lorne Persons	180	1
	Richard Gardner-Brown	180	1
	Shwan Rice	180	1
	Joe Awata	180	1
	Joe Beavers	180	1
	Pete Kaufman	180	1
	Steven Shkolnik	180	1
	John Cover	180	1
	Sam Batshon	180	1
	Tommy Polk	180	1
	Kevin Song	180	1
	Ron Graham	180	1
	Millie Shiu	180	1
	Susan Pritchett	180	1
	Corey Zeidman	180	1
	Gary Bush	180	1
	Dutch Boyd	180	1
	Trung Ly	180	1
	Carl McKelvey	180	1
	John Kabbaj	180	1
	Avi Freeman	180	1
	Mattias Andersson	180	1
	Robert Roter	180	1
	Seymour Guiberson	180	1
	Allen Patatanyan	180	1
	R Williamson	180	1
	Harry Thomas Jr.	180	1
	Steve Weiss	180	1
	Ronald Maset	180	1
	Wayne Haynes	180	1
	Mark Wilds	180	1
	Jason Strochak	180	1
	Jeff Freedman	180	1
	Ken Seagle	180	1
	Nghi Tran	180	1
	Clifford Spiro	180	1
	Frank Sinopoli	160	2
	Brian Haveson	160	2
	John Bonetti	160	1
	Reoben Rafaeloff	160	1
	George Barlett	160	1
	James Grimes	160	1
	Kenny Chanthamala	160	1
	Rich Case	160	1
	Robert Heller	160	1
	David Pincus	160	1
	Leon Wheeler	160	1
	Kent Washington	160	1
	Gene Timberlake	160	1
	Peter Nichols	160	1
	Alan Boston	160	1
	Ben Tang	160	1
	Brock Parker	160	1
	Tracy Phan	160	1
	Bobby Slagle	160	1
	Roland Deslippe	160	1
	Archie Karas	160	1
	Martin Shafer	160	1
	David Plastik	160	1
	Adrian Hanauer	160	1
	Guy Cicconi	160	1
	Dustin Sitar	160	1
	Jimmy Cha	160	1
	Ronnie Kevin	160	1
	Phillip Luong	160	1
	Craig Hartman	160	1
	Carl Talent	160	1
	Vr Martin	160	1
	Kieu Duong	160	1
	Chris McCormack	160	1
	Phillip Marmorstein	150	2
	Alan Smurfit	150	1
	Marty Zabib	150	1
	Jan Sjavik	150	1
	Steve Ford	140	2
	Mark Dickstein	140	2
	Mark Dickstein	140	2
	Anthony Costa	140	1
	Douglas Farmer	140	1
	Flan Pilkington	140	1
	Jack Rose	140	1
	Ken Flanton	140	1
	Tommy Fischer	140	1
	Andres Dassopoulos	140	1
	Bill Bruce	140	1
	Binh Do	140	1
	Loi Tran	140	1
	Peter Brownstein	140	1
	Tuan Nguyen	140	1
	Dave Colclough	140	1
	John Hoang	140	1
	Chris Tsiprailidis	140	1
	Paul Sherr	140	1
	Theodore Park	140	1
	Ray Bonavida	140	1
	Karina Jett	140	1
	Donnie Oswald	140	1
	Abel Castellano	140	1
	Aki Wellstone	140	1
	Alan Kelleher	140	1
	Fred Sigur	140