Jose de Sousa has regained the lead in the Players Championship Order of Merit after 27 events were concluded with PDC Super Series 7 this past week.
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De Sousa led before to have his lead taken by Peter Wright but he went from £56,500 to £62,500 in the latest events to lead 'Snakebite' who is currently on £60,250.
Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price went down from 2nd and 4th respectively to 3rd and 5th after not playing in Barnsley during this last week.
Michael Smith added another title and sits in 4th ahead of Price with Brendan Dolan also gaining up to 6th, alongside Dimitri van den Bergh (7th) and Ryan Searle (8th).
While Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode are both on the verge of falling out of the top 10 as a result.
Further down, Kevin Doets and Gordon Mathers currently inhabit the final two spots inside the Players Championship Order of Merit.
The likes of Simon Whitlock, Scott Waites, Max Hopp, Jelle Klaasen and recent semi-finalist, Florian Hempel are among the players sitting just outside with only one more set of tournaments.
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Players Championship Order of Merit after PDC Super Series 7
1 Jose de Sousa £62,500
2 Peter Wright £60,250
3 Jonny Clayton £56,500
4 Michael Smith £55,750
5 Gerwyn Price £48,000
6 Brendan Dolan £45,250
7 Dimitri Van den Bergh £44,250
8 Ryan Searle £43,750
8 Joe Cullen £43,750
10 Dirk van Duijvenbode £42,750
11 Rob Cross £37,750
12 Callan Rydz £35,750
13 Ross Smith £34,500
14 Michael van Gerwen £34,250
15 Luke Humphries £33,250
16 Gabriel Clemens £32,750
17 Damon Heta £32,500
18 James Wade £29,750
19 Stephen Bunting £26,750
20 Danny Noppert £25,750
21 Chris Dobey £25,500
22 Vincent van der Voort £25,250
23 Martin Schindler £24,500
24 Dave Chisnall £24,000
25 Raymond van Barneveld £23,500
26 Mervyn King £22,750
27 Nathan Aspinall £22,500
28 Krzysztof Ratajski £22,250
29 Scott Mitchell £22,000
30 Ryan Joyce £21,750
31 Adrian Lewis £21,500
32 Daryl Gurney £21,250
33 Martijn Kleermaker £19,750
34 Maik Kuivenhoven £17,750
34 Darius Labanauskas £17,750
36 Luke Woodhouse £17,500
37 Kim Huybrechts £16,750
37 Ian White £16,750
37 Alan Soutar £16,750
40 Jeff Smith £16,500
41 Jamie Hughes £16,250
42 Rowby-John Rodriguez £16,000
43 Ritchie Edhouse £15,750
44 Gary Anderson £15,000
45 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £14,500
45 Ron Meulenkamp £14,500
47 Ricky Evans £14,000
47 Steve Beaton £14,000
47 Steve Lennon £14,000
50 Ryan Meikle £13,250
51 Chas Barstow £13,000
52 Madars Razma £12,750
53 Jermaine Wattimena £12,500
54 Mensur Suljovic £12,250
55 Jason Heaver £12,000
56 Devon Petersen £11,500
57 William O'Connor £11,000
57 Krzysztof Kciuk £11,000
57 William Borland £11,000
57 Andy Boulton £11,000
57 Jason Lowe £11,000
62 Lewis Williams £10,750
63 Kevin Doets £10,500
63 Gordon Mathers £10,500
65 Keane Barry £10,250
65 Niels Zonneveld £10,250
65 Ted Evetts £10,250
65 Simon Whitlock £10,250
69 Mickey Mansell £9,750
69 Alan Tabern £9,750
71 Scott Waites £9,500
71 Joe Murnan £9,500
71 Boris Krcmar £9,500
71 Eddie Lovely £9,500
75 Steve Brown £9,250
76 Karel Sedlacek £9,000
76 Mike De Decker £9,000
76 Jelle Klaasen £9,000
76 Max Hopp £9,000
76 Adam Hunt £9,000
81 Keegan Brown £8,750
82 Florian Hempel £8,500
82 Ciaran Teehan £8,500
82 John Henderson £8,500
82 Aaron Beeney £8,500
82 Robert Thornton £8,500
87 Andy Hamilton £8,000
87 Geert De Vos £8,000
87 Josh Payne £8,000
87 Luc Peters £8,000
87 Martin Lukeman £8,000
92 Matthew Edgar £7,500
93 Kai Fan Leung £7,000
93 Bradley Brooks £7,000
95 Danny Baggish £6,500
95 Nick Kenny £6,500
95 Andrew Gilding £6,500
95 Jon Worsley £6,500
95 Boris Koltsov £6,500
95 Jesus Noguera £6,500
101 Jeffrey De Zwaan £6,000
101 Martin Thomas £6,000
101 Peter Jacques £6,000
101 Geert Nentjes £6,000
101 Berry van Peer £6,000
101 Zoran Lerchbacher £6,000
101 James Wilson £6,000
108 Steve West £5,500
108 Jack Main £5,500
108 Martin Atkins £5,500
111 Glen Durrant £5,250
112 Ryan Murray £5,000
112 Darren Webster £5,000
114 John Michael £4,750
115 Jim McEwan £4,500
115 Jose Justicia £4,500
115 Justin Pipe £4,500
115 Kirk Shepherd £4,500
119 Lisa Ashton £4,000
119 Michael Rasztovits £4,000
119 John Brown £4,000
122 Brett Claydon £3,500
122 Derk Telnekes £3,500
122 David Evans £3,500
125 Wayne Jones £3,000
125 Gary Blades £3,000
125 Christian Kist £3,000
125 Gino Vos £3,000
129 Gavin Carlin £2,500
129 Kevin McDine £2,500
129 Sean Fisher £2,500
129 Lukas Wenig £2,500
129 Peter Hudson £2,500
129 Jake Jones £2,500
135 Adam Gawlas £2,000
135 Ryan De Vreede £2,000
135 Benito van de Pas £2,000
135 Vincent Van der Meer £2,000
139 Michael Unterbuchner £1,500
139 Harald Leitinger £1,500
139 Steffen Siepmann £1,500
142 Shane McGuirk £1,000
142 Lorenzo Pronk £1,000
142 Robert Marijanovic £1,000
142 Pero Ljubic £1,000
142 Mike Warburton £1,000
147 Carl Wilkinson £500
147 Daniel Larsson £500
147 Davy Proosten £500
147 Patrick van den Boogaard £500
147 Scott Williams £500
147 Michal Smejda £500
147 Sebastian Bialecki £500
147 Mark McGeeney £500
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