Global Poker Index: 10 Weeks at the Top for Fedor Holz

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 17, 2016.

2016 GPI Player of the Year

It’s another week at the top of the Global Poker Index 2016 Player of the Year leaderboard for Fedor Holz, his 10th-straight in first position.

Indeed, the entire top 10 stayed exactly the same from seven days ago amid another relatively slow week of tournament poker for the leaders. Things should get rattled somewhat soon, however, with the start of the new season of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona.

Looking down the POY list for some upward movers, Jake Schwartz improved from No. 76 to No. 55 after he won a $1,100 buy-in turbo NL event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. Seth Davies also went from No. 103 to No. 65 after winning a SHRPO prelim event of his own and finishing second in another.

GPI 300 Top 10

It was a similar story this week in the overall GPI rankings where Holz stayed at No. 1 — also for a 10th-straight week — while the nine players behind him remained right where they were as well.

Aside from Holz, the top 10 includes four other …

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