Global Poker Index - What are the GPI Rankings?

Determining who the best poker players in the world are can often be subjective. Unlike sports like tennis, football or darts, where it’s clear who the best team or player is over a season, poker is a little more subjective. This is partly down to the luck factor that’s involved - a player with zero poker experience could hypothetically be the biggest winning player over a year. It’s also down to the fact that the highest level of poker doesn’t necessarily involve the best players, but rather just the richest people who can afford to play at the highest stakes. The Global Poker Index (GPI) uses a specific formula to rate and subsequently rank poker players across the world in the GPI Rankings.

	Player	Country	Index Score
1^st	Bin Weng	United States	4232.62 pts
2^nd	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	3862.74 pts
3^rd	Chris Brewer	United States	3813.51 pts
4^th	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	3744.9 pts
5^th	Jesse Lonis	United States	3722.6 pts
6^th	Ren Lin	China	3561.69 pts
7^th	Danny Tang Sponsor:	Hong Kong	3533.33 pts
8^th	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	3495.53 pts
9^th	Jason Koon Sponsor:	United States	3459.99 pts
10^th	Isaac Haxton	United States	3437.35 pts
11^th	Chance Kornuth	United States	3401.43 pts
12^th	Alex Foxen	United States	3306.54 pts
13^th	Stephen Song	United States	3285.53 pts
14^th	Adam Hendrix	United States	3277.65 pts
15^th	Sean Winter	United States	3245.81 pts
16^th	Jim Collopy	United States	3241.09 pts
17^th	Justin Saliba	United States	3236.03 pts
18^th	Darren Elias	United States	3234.42 pts
19^th	Shannon Shorr	United States	3220.05 pts
20^th	Mike Watson	Canada	3170.49 pts
21^st	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	3156.24 pts
22^nd	Chad Eveslage	United States	3133.72 pts
23^rd	Matthew Wantman	United States	3133.33 pts
24^th	Isaac Kempton	United States	3123.95 pts
25^th	Shaun Deeb	United States	3110.63 pts
26^th	Justin Liberto	United States	3107.33 pts
27^th	Artur Martirosian	Russian Federation	3077.51 pts
28^th	Punnat Punsri Sponsor:	Thailand	3049.05 pts
29^th	Alex Livingston	Canada	3043.27 pts
30^th	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	3041.77 pts
31^st	Farid Jattin	Colombia	3016.72 pts
32^nd	Sam Soverel	United States	3009.8 pts
33^rd	Julien Sitbon	France	2992.85 pts
34^th	Andrew Ostapchenko	United States	2983.17 pts
35^th	Michael Wang	United States	2975.85 pts
36^th	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	2962.52 pts
37^th	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	2952.58 pts
38^th	Adrian Mateos	Spain	2947.25 pts
39^th	Nick Pupillo	United States	2944.04 pts
40^th	Fabrice Bigot	France	2938.21 pts
41^st	Roman Hrabec	Czechia	2931.4 pts
42^nd	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	2920.02 pts
43^rd	Sergio Aido	Spain	2914.42 pts
44^th	Eduard Barsegyan	Russian Federation	2910.95 pts
45^th	Cary Katz	United States	2901.78 pts
46^th	Brock Wilson	United States	2900.23 pts
47^th	Joey Weissman	United States	2883.21 pts
48^th	Frank Lagodich	United States	2882.2 pts
49^th	Jonathan Jaffe	United States	2853.13 pts
50^th	Jinho Hong	Korea, Republic of	2846.79 pts
52^nd	Nick Schulman	United States	2842.58 pts
53^rd	Aram Oganyan	United States	2821.09 pts
54^th	Joe McKeehen	United States	2820.85 pts
55^th	Michael Rossitto	United States	2809.13 pts
56^th	Phil Hellmuth	United States	2805.79 pts
57^th	Seth Davies	United States	2805.12 pts
58^th	Daniel Rezaei	Austria	2800.76 pts
59^th	Juan Pardo	Spain	2794.77 pts
60^th	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	2791.04 pts
61^st	Ankit Ahuja	India	2789.45 pts
62^nd	Pedro Garagnani	Brazil	2785.15 pts
64^th	Joao Vieira	Portugal	2781.9 pts
65^th	Ben Heath	United Kingdom	2777.92 pts
66^th	Dan Smith	United States	2774.81 pts
67^th	Daniel Negreanu Sponsor:	Canada	2774.45 pts
68^th	Justin Bonomo	United States	2770.72 pts
69^th	Alexandre Reard Sponsor:	France	2768.79 pts
70^th	Yuval Bronshtein	Israel	2741.38 pts
71^st	Timothy Adams	Canada	2740.35 pts
72^nd	Kenny Hallaert	Belgium	2738.08 pts
73^rd	Henrik Hecklen	Denmark	2732.94 pts
74^th	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova, Republic of	2724.69 pts
75^th (102^nd)	Lander Lijo Bereciartua	Spain	2362.13 pts
75^th	Michael Rocco	United States	2718.24 pts
76^th	Josh Arieh	United States	2717.61 pts
77^th	Anthony Hu	United States	2716.66 pts
78^th	Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	2711.2 pts
79^th	Ethan Yau	United States	2710.62 pts
80^th	Thomas Boivin	Belgium	2701.48 pts
81^st	Josh Reichard	United States	2698.61 pts
82^nd	Brian Altman	United States	2692.49 pts
83^rd	Erik Seidel	United States	2689.69 pts
84^th	Lee Wai Kiat	Malaysia	2674.43 pts
86^th	Quan Zhou	China	2665.73 pts
87^th	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	2665.55 pts
88^th	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	2664.7 pts
89^th	Dylan Weisman	United States	2664.35 pts
90^th	Chino Rheem	United States	2663.12 pts
91^st	Eric Ting Yi Tsai		2659.71 pts
92^nd	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	2658.29 pts
93^rd	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	2657.16 pts
94^th	Calvin Anderson	United States	2657.12 pts
95^th	Andrew Lichtenberger	United States	2651.62 pts
96^th	Tobias Schwecht	Austria	2648.01 pts
97^th	Simeon Spasov	Bulgaria	2646.95 pts
99^th	Daewoong Song	Korea, Republic of	2637.79 pts
100^th	Kristen Foxen	Canada	2635.41 pts
101^st	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	2630.66 pts
102^nd	Santhosh Suvarna	India	2622.11 pts
103^rd	Nick Petrangelo	United States	2619.1 pts

What is the Global Poker Index Rankings?

The Global Poker Index (GPI) is a system for ranking the world’s best poker players. Players are ranked weekly based on their performance by finishing in cash positions in qualifying tournaments over the previous 36-month period. Qualifying tournaments are events with 32 or more players, a buy-in for at least $1, and open to the public. Selected audience events, such as women or seniors, are excluded from the list.

How are the Global Poker Index Rankings calculated?

The GPI Rankings are that takes into account tournament results over the past three years, attributing more value to the most recent results. The best five results in a six-month period are taken for a total of the previous 18 months. For the next 18 months, the best four results are taken in each six-month period. A weighting is applied, giving more relevance to the most recent results. A buy-in factor also comes into play, ensuring rankings aren’t skewed by the higher buy-in results. Any tournament between $1 and $20,000 is taken into account. Results from any tournament with a larger buy-in will still count towards the rankings, but the score taken from it will be capped as if it was a $20,000 tournament. The 300 players with the top score after all of these factors then make up the GPI Rankings for that week.

Who is the best poker player in the world?

This is largely subjective, and with the GPI Rankings changing each week, it’s difficult to pinpoint one player who people can unanimously agree is the best.

The 2021 Player of the Year, according to the GPI rankings, was Almedin Imsirovic. After a string of high-profile tournament victories that year, it’s difficult to argue with this result. Daniel Negreanu and were other notable names in the top 15.

However, away from the GPI Rankings, many people would agree that certain players are, and have been, at the top of the game for years. While they might not have the best recent results, nor be as active as they once were, the likes of Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Erik Seidel will always come up in the conversation due to their sheer presence at the very top of the game for so long.

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Is the Global poker Index accurate?

While there will always be disagreement over how rankings in poker are formulated, it’s generally accepted that the GPI Rankings provide some of the most accurate results for who the current best poker players are in the world.

Which players do the GPI Rankings cover?

The GPI Rankings cover any player that’s involved in one of the qualifying tournaments that fall under the GPI criteria. With the lower limit of tournament buy-ins $1, the result of anyone playing a tournament at that buy-in will be taken into account, but it’s unlikely that micro-stakes players will feature in the top 300 rankings due to the buy-in weighting factor.

Who makes the GPI Rankings?

The GPI Rankings were created by the . Founded in 2011, the index accumulates recent poker results and gives them a weighting based on the buy-in and how recently they were played. What’s left is a ranking of the best poker players.

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Global Poker Index - What are the GPI Rankings?

What is the Global Poker Index Rankings?

How are the Global Poker Index Rankings calculated?

Who is the best poker player in the world?

Global Poker Index FAQs