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Global Poker Index: Ole Schemion Reclaims Overall Rankings Lead as WSOP Begins

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player’s results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six-month periods as calculated by the USA Today Global Poker Index point system.

2015 GPI Player of the Year

It was a quiet week atop the Global Poker Index 2015 Player of the Year leaderboard with zero movement among the top eight positions and only Atanas Kavrakov moving up into the top 10 after collecting points for his victory in the partypoker World Poker Tour National Cyprus Main Event last week.