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Global Poker Index: 20 Weeks on Top for Holz; EPT Malta Winners Gain Ground
- Updated: October 27, 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 Oct. 26, 2016.
2016 GPI Player of the Year
The start of the European Poker Tour Malta festival last week might have encouraged expectations of changes at the top of the 2016 Player of the Year rankings, but so far that has yet to be the case. The top 10 all stayed the same from the last update, with Fedor Holz having reached 20 straight weeks at No. 1.
Dietrich Fast very nearly made it onto this list thanks to his victory in the festival-opening EPT Malta €10,300 Single Re-Entry event. Fast topped a 60-entry field to earn a €174,600 first prize, and also earned enough GPI POY points to move up 10 spots to No. 11.
GPI 300 Top 10
The overall GPI rankings were similarly steady where Holz also enjoys a 20th-straight week at No. 1 since taking over the lead in early June. Three players — Steve O’Dwyer, Connor Drinan, and Anthony Zinno — each moved up a spot on this week’s list after Byron Kaverman dropped from No. 4 to No. 7.
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