Global Poker Index: Another Week on Top for Fedor Holz, David Peters Moves Up

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 Nov. 16, 2016.

2016 GPI Player of the Year

There are just six weeks left in the 2016 Global Poker Index Player of the Year race, and Fedor Holz continues to maintain a healthy lead over the chase pack to preserve his place at the top. He’s led the list for 23 weeks now, having been there almost since it was first shared by the GPI back in early June.

David Peters inched up a couple of spots this week to become the nearest challenger to Holz at No. 2 thanks to his big win in the HK$250,000 High Roller at the 2016 Asia Pacific Championship of Poker in Macau last week. Peters topped a 71-entry field to earn a first prize of HK$4,885,200, worth nearly $630K USD.

Aside from the two-spot upward move of Peters, the rest of the top 10 all remained unchanged. Looking down the list a bit, Dorian Alejandro Rios Pavon jumped from No. 43 to No. 27 after a third-place showing in the 2016 PPC Poker Tour Aruba World Championship.

GPI 300 Top 10

There was a lot of small shuffling up and down the overall top 10 this week, although again Holz …

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