Global Poker Index: Here Comes Holz! Fedor Moves Up, Challenging O’Dwyer’s Lead

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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 May 5, 2016.

GPI 300 Top 10

The 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final is moving toward its last couple of days, meaning results from the many preliminary events in the two-week long festival in Monte Carlo have had some effect on the overall GPI rankings.

Not too much has changed at the very top, where Steve O’Dwyer has managed to remain at No. 1 for a 17th-straight week despite not adding any points so far at the European Poker Tour’s final Season 12 stop. O’Dwyer did cash by finishing ninth in the €50,000 Super High Roller last week won by Fabian Quoss, although that finish didn’t give him GPI points.

Bryn Kenney also only has one small cash in Monaco thus far, but holds onto the No. 2 spot for a second week, his career-high ranking. Meanwhile of the top 10 players in the current GPI rankings Fedor Holz is …

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