Global Poker Index: Frontrunner Fedor Holz Holds onto Player of the Year Lead

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. 23, 2016.

2016 GPI Player of the Year

No news is good news as far as Fedor Holz is concerned, as a relatively quiet week of tournament poker means he gets to enjoy a 24th-straight week atop the 2016 Global Poker Index Player of the Year leaderboard.

The entire top 10 stayed the same since the last update, with only Ari Engel adding a few POY points after cashing a couple of times in the recently completed partypoker.net WPT Montreal series including taking fourth in the C$10,400 High Roller event won by Pascal Lefrancois.

Looking down the POY leaderboard, Charlie Carrel jumped from No. 65 to No. 40 this week after cashing four times at the 2016 Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam, pushing his career tournament earnings close to $3 million.

GPI 300 Top 10

Holz remains at No. 1 in the overall rankings again (also for a 24th week in a row), with Nick Petrangelo still his nearest challenger in the No. 2 spot.

The rest of the overall top 10 stayed the same some moving up and down a spot or three, the exception being Dan Smith rejoining the list (going from No. 12 to No. 10) and Steve …

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