- Official Poker Rankings Player Search
- Online Poker Rankings
- Online Poker Player Rankings
- Best Poker Players Ranking
- Professional Poker Player Rankings
Online Poker – The Internet Poker Millionaire Online Poker allows anybody to sit at their computer, or on their tablet on the sofa and play online poker. The rise in popularity of online poker has lead to regular high payout tournaments where players can enter for quite a modest fee and win prizes of hundreds of thousands, or even millions. The Global Poker Index (GPI) is a leaderboard index that ranks over 450,000 live tournament poker players in the world. The GPI poker rankings are updated on a weekly basis. Players’ performances are assessed by their finishing positions in poker tournaments occurring over six periods of six months (3 years). The Global Poker Index uses data from the biggest poker database The Hendon Mob.
| Sport | Poker |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 |
| Owner(s) | Alexandre Dreyfus |
| Motto | The Poker Ranking Authority |
| Most recent champion(s) | Adrian Mateos |
| Official website | GlobalPokerIndex.com |
The Global Poker Index (GPI) is a leaderboard index that ranks over 450,000 live tournament poker players in the world. The GPI poker rankings are updated on a weekly basis. Players’ performances are assessed by their finishing positions in poker tournaments occurring over six periods of six months (3 years).[1]
The Global Poker Index uses data from the biggest poker database The Hendon Mob, known for collecting results of tournaments around the world and for being the reference in tournament results. They currently host results for over 325,000 poker tournaments.
The index is used in famous newspapers along with sports results to communicate poker rankings, both on the online and print version.[2]
History[edit]
The Global Poker Index was originally created by Federated Sports + Gaming, along with the Epic Poker League(EPL), with Former World Series Of Poker (WSOP) commissioner Jeffrey Pollack acting as the executive chairman, professional poker player Annie Duke as commissioner, and Matt Savage as the League's tournament director. The GPI was employed to rank players for the EPL and decide which players could take part in the League. On 29 February 2012, when Federated Sports + Gaming announced that they had filed for Bankruptcy, all of the organizations and all the brands were acquired by Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., at a bankruptcy auction in June 2012.[3] Following this acquisition, Zokay Entertainment and the company's CEO, Alexandre Dreyfus acquired the GPI brand, along with its patent-pending formula, in order to create a single, unified ranking platform covering the live tournament poker world in its entirety.[4]
The GPI ranking system[edit]
The GPI tracks players' results for their prior 3 years of play, in qualifying tournaments with 32 or more entrants (specialty events and freerolls are not counted), using a patent-pending formula that takes into account result ages, field difficulties, and field sizes to generate live tournament player rankings.[5]
For each qualifying tournament a player finishes in-the-money they receive a GPI score. Those scores fall into one of six time periods, each of which covers a half-year based on the starting date of the tournament. These are called GPI Aging Periods. The sum of the player's largest five (5) scores for each of the two Aging Periods in the most recent year and their four (4) largest scores for the four Aging Periods prior to that is their total GPI score. GPI scores themselves are calculated by multiplying a Buy-in Factor, Finishing Factor, and Aging Factor.
The Buy-in Factor is the GPI's measure of relative difficulty, presuming larger buy-ins draw a more skilled field. Its median is calculated by dividing the USD equivalent of a $1,000 buy-in (fee included) by 1,000. This results in a Buy-in Factor of 1.0 for a $1,000 tournament, with Buy-in Factors being larger or smaller than 1.0 depending on whether the buy-in is larger or smaller than $1,000. This calculation uses a logarithmic function. It does so because the incremental increase in the skill set of the field theoretically diminishes as the buy-in amount increases. For example, in the GPI formula the percentage increase of GPI's Buy-In Factor between a $1500 event and an $2000 event is much greater than its percentage increase between $19,500 and a $20,000 buy-in events. Furthermore, all tournaments with a buy-in larger than $20,000 are treated as though the buy-in was only $20,000 and all tournaments with a buy-in smaller than $400 are treated as though the buy-in was $400.
The GPI also includes a Finishing Factor, which measures how players perform relative to the rest of the field they compete within in any given poker tournament. This Finishing Factor is calculated initially by dividing the field size by the player's finishing position and is also done using a logarithmic function. Furthermore, for any tournaments with a field size larger than 2,700 players will be treated as though their field was only 2,700. The GPI also employs an Aging Factor to player results. This is a multiplier that gives more points to tournaments based on how recently they were played in order to reward players both for recent success and consistency over time. Each Aging Period consists of 6 month periods of time, with the most recent being the previous 6 months from the present, and going backwards from there through to a point 3 years in the past. Each Aging Period has a different multiplier that is applied to score calculations, with multipliers decreasing as each Aging Period becomes less recent.
National and regional rankings[edit]
The Global Poker Index National Rankings ranks players by Country, with 20 different national rankings are currently available, by North American, Latin American, European, and Asian regions as well. The GPI is used as a central reference point when ranking live tournament poker players including France,[6] Italy,[7] Spain, Brazil, Latin America [8] and the USA.
Poker team rankings[edit]
The GPI create rankings of players comprising professional poker teams to show which teams’ players have the best overall results. Ranked teams include PokerStars, Winamax and Party Poker.
Former Number Ones[edit]
GPI Player Of the Year[edit]
The GPI Player Of the Year (POY) award is given to the player topping GPI's Player of the Year Leaderboard at the end of each calendar year. Standings are updated weekly with the top 1,000 contenders ranked according to results, with the Leaderboard utilizing an augmented version of GPI's existing ranking formula which disregards aging factors and includes 11 total results from qualifying tournament results in each given year (top 6 results from the first 6 months of the year and top 5 results from these 6 months of each year). Buy in restrictions, minimum player field restrictions are kept as-is, as[9]
- POY 2012 : Dan Smith
- POY 2013 : Ole Schemion
- POY 2014 : Daniel Colman
- POY 2015 : Byron Kaverman
- POY 2016 : David Peters
- POY 2017 : Adrian Mateos
- POY 2018 : Alex Foxen
- POY 2019 : Alex Foxen
Global poker masters[edit]
Official Poker Rankings Player Search
The Global Poker Index aggregates the Top 300 performing players in the world and groups them by nationality to create GPI Country Rankings to show how many top players hail from specific nations. Currently the US is the world's top performing country in terms of live tournament player results, with over 50% of all Top 300 GPI ranked players being American.Using the country rankings, the Global Poker Masters will be a world cup of poker, gathering the best players from 9 countries around the world, in order to decide which country is the best.[10]
Awards[edit]
The Global Poker Index is the host of the European Poker Awards. The GPI EPA takes place every year in January and rewards the best European Poker Players and newcomers, as well as the people involved in the industry.[11]
Starting in 2015, the American Poker Awards took placee in Los Angeles, USA, and rewarded the best live poker players in America, as well as the biggest contributors in the industry.
Online Poker Rankings
Fantasy poker manager[edit]
The Global Poker Index released the first ever Fantasy Poker game allowing poker fans to draft for free their favorite players for the biggest poker tournaments in the world. The game quickly became the official game of the World Poker Tour[12] and the World Series Of Poker[13]The game consists in drafting 10 poker players with a defined virtual budget, following the concept of fantasy sports in general.
GPI Magazine[edit]
GPI launched its first print publication during the 2014 World Series Of Poker where the magazine was distributed for free in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, as well as in other places in Las Vegas. The 56 page first edition saw the poker pro Vanessa Selbst making the cover, and featured numerous people from the industry.[14]
References[edit]
- ^The Global Poker Index: Ranking the top 300 poker players on USA Today
- ^poker rankings on USA Today
- ^Pinnacle Entertainment acquires bankrupt operators of Epic Poker League and Heartland Poker Tour on Las Vegas Review Journal
- ^Global Poker Index Sold to Alex Dreyfus’ Zokay Entertainment on pokerfuse.com
- ^Vanessa Selbst is currently 2nd in the Global Poker Index according to the Las Vegas Review Journal
- ^French RankingsArchived 2012-12-20 at the Wayback Machine on MadeInPoker and on the French Poker FederationArchived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Italian Rankings on CardPlayer.it
- ^Latin American Rankings on CodigoPoker
- ^the race for the Global Poker Index leadership week after week on Pokernews
- ^Global Poker Index Announces the Global Poker Masters: 'It's Going to Be Poker's World Cup!' on Pokernews
- ^The GPI European Poker Awards: A Guaranteed Success on Poker 52 Europa
- ^Fantasy Poker Manager Named Official Fantasy Game of the World Poker Tour on workdpokertour.com
- ^The top 25 things to watch at the 2014 World Series of Poker in the Las Vegas Sun
- ^The GPI expand into print with their new magazine on Calvin Ayre's website.
External links[edit]
| WSOP Titles | WPT Titles | EPT Titles | Poker Earnings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erik Seidel | 8 | 1 | 0 | $21,499,344 |
| 2 | Phil Ivey | 9 | 1 | 0 | $17,649,220 |
| 3 | John Juanda | 5 | 0 | 0 | $15,113,768 |
| 4 | Allen Cunningham | 5 | 0 | 0 | $12,031,743 |
| 5 | Carlos Mortensen | 2 | 3 | 0 | $11,598,083 |
| 6 | Gus Hansen | 1 | 4 | 0 | $11,240,678 |
| 7 | JC Tran | 2 | 1 | 0 | $10,416,658 |
| 8 | Erick Lindgren | 2 | 2 | 0 | $9,881,849 |
| 9 | Mike Matusow | 4 | 0 | 0 | $8,974,373 |
| 10 | Chris Ferguson | 5 | 0 | 0 | $8,281,926 |
| 11 | Vanessa Selbst | 2 | 0 | 0 | $8,018,466 |
| 12 | Paul Wasicka | 0 | 0 | 0 | $7,896,100 |
| 13 | Huck Seed | 5 | 0 | 0 | $7,582,816 |
| 14 | David Benyamine | 1 | 1 | 0 | $7,047,146 |
| 15 | Howard Lederer | 2 | 2 | 0 | $6,571,538 |
| 16 | Gavin Smith | 1 | 1 | 0 | $5,959,186 |
| 17 | Kathy Liebert | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,929,521 |
| 18 | Andy Bloch | 1 | 0 | 0 | $5,415,383 |
| 19 | John Cernuto | 3 | 0 | 0 | $5,352,640 |
| 20 | Roland de Wolfe | 1 | 1 | 1 | $5,330,556 |
| 21 | Robert Mizrachi | 1 | 0 | 0 | $4,498,967 |
| 22 | Andy Black | 0 | 0 | 0 | $4,432,368 |
| 23 | Annie Duke | 1 | 0 | 0 | $4,270,549 |
| 24 | Lee Watkinson | 1 | 0 | 0 | $4,146,149 |
| 25 | Jeff Madsen | 3 | 0 | 0 | $4,054,686 |
| 26 | Annette Obrestad | 1 | 0 | 0 | $3,910,678 |
| 27 | Vanessa Rousso | 0 | 0 | 1 | $3,513,841 |
| 28 | Max Pescatori | 2 | 0 | 0 | $3,322,683 |
| 29 | Phil Gordon | 0 | 1 | 0 | $2,786,896 |
| 30 | Jennifer Harman | 2 | 0 | 0 | $2,697,533 |
| 31 | Joanne Liu | 0 | 0 | 0 | $2,678,069 |
| 32 | Greg Mueller | 2 | 0 | 0 | $2,621,740 |
| 33 | Liv Boeree | 0 | 0 | 1 | $2,281,097 |
| 34 | Tom Dwan | 0 | 0 | 0 | $2,213,937 |
| 35 | Sandra Naujoks | 0 | 0 | 1 | $1,789,239 |
| 36 | Victoria Coren | 0 | 0 | 1 | $1,745,178 |
| 37 | Clonie Gowen | 0 | 1 | 0 | $1,639,064 |
| 38 | Viktor Blom | 0 | 0 | 0 | $1,527,299 |
| 39 | Eddy Scharf | 2 | 0 | 0 | $1,327,119 |
| 40 | Erica Schoenberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | $848,458 |
| 41 | Aaron Bartley | 0 | 0 | 0 | $215,777 |
The Lucrative Game of Poker
There is a lot of money to be made in the poker world. You can see that just from our rankings above, with players who have tournament poker earnings of 10 or 20 million dollars. It is possible to rack up a sizeable personal fortune if you have the skills to regularly win poker events, or even if you have a good run at one large poker event and walk away with a monstrous and sometimes outrageous prize.
This is very different to the old days of poker, where winners of large tournaments would still walk away with very good prizes, but would be more like a few hundred thousand dollars rather than the many millions of today’s game.
This is largely due to the influx of poker players over the past decade, with the transition of the sport to a game played behind closed doors, into a main stream sport that is televised and shown all over the world. Some of the large events in the poker calendar attract fields of thousands of players, and the more players, the bigger the prize pool.
The World Series of Poker Main Event
The World Series of Poker main event still offers one of the biggest prizes in poker. This is due to the massive field generated by the tournament. The field, which ranges from 6,000 to 9,000 each year has to be split over a number of starting days, as the full field cannot fit into the massive WSOP tournament space at the Rio, in Las Vegas.
The huge fields are partly driven by the prestige of the being the headline poker event of the year, but also by the quantity of people who qualify for the event via smaller buy in online satellite tournaments run by online poker sites.
Of course these huge fields are all paying $10,000 to enter the tournament which generates a outrageous prize pool. The biggest was in 2006 with a prize pool of $82.5million and a first prize of $12million.
The WSOP One Drop – Biggest Prize in Poker
In 2012, the World Series of Poker introduce a new event. It was a high rollers $1million buy in tournament which was 4 times the next biggest buy in tournament. The event attracted the biggest professional poker players in the sport together with other wealthy people including at least 2 billionaires.
There were 48 entrants, and eventual winner Antonio Esfandiari took home a 1st place prize of $18.3million, with even 2nd placed Sam Trickett taking home a sizeable $10million.
The event generated a massive amount of Buzz in the poker world and in the main stream press, culminating in the biggest spectacle the poker world has ever seen, with a broadcast on ESPN, showgirls and piles and piles of cash.
Online Poker Player Rankings
Online Poker – The Internet Poker Millionaire
Best Poker Players Ranking
Online Poker allows anybody to sit at their computer, or on their tablet on the sofa and play online poker. The rise in popularity of online poker has lead to regular high payout tournaments where players can enter for quite a modest fee and win prizes of hundreds of thousands, or even millions.
Regular tournaments take place at the big online poker sites, such as the Pokerstars Sunday Million which takes place every Sunday night, with a guaranteed prize pool of $1million for a relatively small buy in of $215. This guarantee is usually smashed and a much larger prize pool results. Many similar weekly tournaments take place but this is the largest.
Professional Poker Player Rankings
There are also Online Tournament Series which regularly occur and mirror the festival feel of the World Series of Poker by running a series of events, of varying buy in amounts and various formats of poker. The biggest two of these are the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) run by Pokerstars which in 2013 had a guaranteed prize pool of $40million over 66 events and the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) run by Full Tilt Poker.