Sionow Wins 2019 Player of the Year Title

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - With his first career win in this year's Las Vegas Spectacular followed by a second place finish in the Las Vegas Extravaganza, Sionow jumped off to a fast start to this season with cashes in the first two events. His lead was nearly insurmountable going into the Main Event, with only Bigfus within striking distance. RowanB closed the gap in the Player of the Year race with a win in the final event of the season, but that still left him five points behind Sionow, the largest Sealy Cup margin of victory since Harv29's eight point win in 2015.

Sionow is the ninth different person the win the MPT Player of the Year award, joining JTinLV as the second player living outside of the Eastern Time Zone to win the award. Sionow is also the fifth out of the last six Las Vegas Spectacular winners to finish the year winning the points title. He is also only the third person to win Player of the Year award despite not playing in the Main Event, joining TSS777 (2007) and JTinLV (2017) as the only other players to do so.

Here are the complete "Sealy Cup" point standings for the 2019 season.
1. Sionow (32)
2. RowanB (27)
3. Bigfus (26)
4. Philly Special (18)
5. Amazon (18)
6. Harv29 (15)
7. JTinLV (11)
8. Sass (8)
9. Martin (6)
10. Bob Ackerman (5)
11. Judykq (4)
12. Dorianmac (3)
13. Skiteacher (3)
14. Grumpy (1)
15. Solotrombone (1)