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Global Poker Index: Fedor Holz Still Tops Live Rankings While Winning Seven Figures Online
- Updated: September 15, 2016
Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player’s results over six half-year periods. For a look at the entire list, visit the official GPI website. Here’s a look at the rankings as of September 14, 2016.
2016 GPI Player of the Year
With the much of the poker world focused on the ongoing World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars — at least the tournament-playing part of it — it was another quiet week as far as the Global Poker Index was concerned without many live tournament results affecting the rankings.
In the 2016 GPI Player of the Year race, the top 10 spots remained unchanged with Fedor Holz spending a 14th week at No. 1 while busying himself chopping the $102,000 buy-in WCOOP Super High Roller and collecting yet another seven-figure cash.
In fact you have to look all of the way down to the bottom of the top 40 to see any movement at all in the GPI POY race. Jack Salter moved up from No. 61 to No. 37 this week after recently finishing third of 1,145 in a HK$12,000 no-limit hold’em event in the Macau Poker Cup.
GPI 300 Top 10
Not much new to report from the top of the overall GPI rankings, either, as Holz stays on top — also for a 14th-straight week — and the top 10 remains largely unchanged.
The only difference from a week ago is Adrian Mateos nudging up a spot to No. 10, taking the place that had been …
