Global Poker Index: High Roller Wins Carry Kaverman Upward; Holz Leads Overall, POY

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 August 10, 2016.

2016 GPI Player of the Year

No movement at all to report this week, POY-wise, as the top 10 remains identical from seven days ago with Fedor Holz the pace-setter again for a ninth-straight week.

In fact, you have to look all of the way down to the bottom of the top 40 to find any movement at all on the 2016 Player of the Year list. That’s where Jon Turner sits after moving up from No. 52 to No. 38 on the heels of his recent victory in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the Deep Stack Extravaganza III. Turner then added a few more POY points last week after a third-place finish in a $580 prelim at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harrah’s Cherokee.

GPI 300 Top 10

Holz enjoys a ninth week atop the overall Global Poker Index rankings as well, with everyone else immediately below him essentially staying put aside from one conspicuous exception.

Byron Kaverman shot up from No. 11 to No. 3 this week thanks to his back-to-back victories in $25,000 ARIA High Rollers last weekend. You might have read about those victories here: “Byron Kaverman Banks $500K …

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