Global Poker Index: Fedor Holz Keeps Lead; Erik Seidel Joins Top 5

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. 30, 2016.

2016 GPI Player of the Year

There is just a month to go in the 2016 Global Poker Index Player of the Year race, and for a 25th week in a row Fedor Holz remains the man to catch as he continues to enjoy a largish, 300-point lead over nearest challenger David Peters.

These are the same 10 players atop the leaderboard who appeared in the last update, with only Ari Engel inching up a spot to No. 7 after picking up cashes in Punta Cana at the partypoker.net World Poker Tour Caribbean Main Event won by Niall Farrell (where Engel took 22nd) as well as the 2016 Rock N Roll Poker Open RRPO Championship in Hollywood, Florida (where Engel finished ninth).

Speaking of Niall Farrell, he jumped from No. 48 to No. 18 on the POY leaderboard thanks to his big WPT Caribbean win.

GPI 300 Top 10

Fedor continues his strangle-Holz atop the overall rankings as well where he likewise remains the top-ranked tournament player in the world for a 25th-straight week.

By the way, that’s the longest streak in the top spot ever in the history of the GPI (going …

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