Online Poker — OPOY Update, Mar. 27, 2009

Thanks to recently discovered information, Card Player’s Online Player of the Year race has a new leader. You can click on the links to read about this week’s Sunday majors and the $1K Roundup.

After discovering that frtk on PokerStars and fyrtuk on Full Tilt are the same player, he has moved into the top spot on the leader board with 3,556 points. The anonymous frtk, from Hungary, has had quite an amazing year, winning event No. 22 of the FTOPS XI, the Sunday Warmup, and the Sunday Second Chance for a total of $815,177 in OPOY-qualifying events.

Until we discovered the true leader, Chris "Moorman1" Moorman held the top spot in the rankings after finally passing former top-spot resident Steve "gboro780" Gross. Moorman finished third in a $100 rebuy for $14,234 to move into second place overall.

Other than frtk, the hottest online player in the world last week was Shaun Deeb (pictured above right). Deeb went on an absolute tear, winning the $100,000 guarantee on PokerStars, the $100 rebuy on Full Tilt, and then the Nightly Hundred Grand. His five OPOY-qualifying cashes this week earned him a little under 1,000 points and vaulted him from unranked all the way to third place in the rankings.

Dropping three spots this week from leader to fourth place is Gross. It’s been three weeks since his last cash, which was a win in the $100 rebuy on Full Tilt for $38,038.

Even though he made two final tables on the week, Mohsin "chicagocards1" Charania still fell one spot to fifth place. Charania finished third in the Nightly Hundred Grand and then eighth in the $75,000 guarantee on Full Tilt.

Sixth and seventh place belong to Adam "Roothlus" Levy and Adam "csimmsux" Geyer, both of whom failed to earn any points this week.

Aditya "Intervention" Agarwal sits in eighth place after a small cash this week in the Absolute Poker $100,000 guarantee.

Ninth- and 10th-place residents Jonathan "xxjondxx" Delong and Dan "Wretchy" Martin each failed to cash in any OPOY qualifying events.

Scott "stpauli111" Hall and Joe "ender555" Ebanks both fell from the rankings this week and currently sit in 11th and 12th place overall.

Here is a look at the current top 10: