Global Poker Index: Holz Continues Hold on Top Spots; November Niners Move 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 July 20, 2016.

2016 GPI Player of the Year

With only the final table of the Main Event left to be resolved, the 2016 World Series of Poker is over and done, and after grabbing the top spot in the 2016 Global Poker Index Player of the Year race in early June, Fedor Holz remains the frontrunner heading into the second half of the year. This marks a sixth-straight week at the top for Holz, whose victory in the One Drop for High Roller along with several other high roller successes catapulted him to first position.

The group of closest challengers to Holz for 2016 POY remains largely the same, although some recent results including in the final events of the WSOP helped a few players jump up into the top 10.

Chance Kornuth debuted just inside the 2016 POY top 10 last week, and moved up six more spots to No. 4 this time after making two deep runs in events at the Bellagio during the first half of July, including third in the Bellagio Cup XII won by Kully Sudhu.

Ivan Luca likewise went deep in a $25K Bellagio High Roller (finishing third), while also cashing in the WSOP Main Event (in 316th) to earn POY points and move from No. 35 to No. 8.Dietrich Fast also enters the POY top 10 …

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