Global Poker Index: Selbst Back in Overall Top 10, Lisandro Leaps Up, Smith Leads

October 09, 2014

Martin Harris

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.

2014 GPI Player of the Year

Rank	Player	GPI Score	Change
1	Dan Smith	3839.04	-
2	Mustapha Kanit	3567.62	-
3	Jason Mercier	3545.77	+2
4	Scott Seiver	3480.86	-1
5	Daniel Colman	3444.90	-1
6	Jacob Schindler	3384.02	+2
7	Keven Stammen	3278.36	-1
7	Alex Bilokur	3276.21	-1
9	Ole Schemion	3144.31	-
10	Ami Barer	3068.13	-

Dan Smith continues to lead the 2014 GPI Player of the Year race after another relatively quiet week. Among the top 10, both Jason Mercier and Jacob Schindler managed to move up a couple of spots from their positions a week ago. While currently fifth-ranked Daniel Colman collected yet another big cash prize this week by picking up £600,000 ($959,622) for his victory in the World Poker Tour Alpha8 London event, that win is not reflected in this week’s rankings.

Indeed, there was little movement among the entire top 50 in the POY race, although as mentioned last week results from the 2014 PokerStars.com UKIPT Isle of Man, 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London, and the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific should start to affect the rankings as the year begins to wind toward its close.

GPI 300 Top 10

Rank	Player	GPI Score	Change
1	Dan Smith	4100.61	-
2	Ole Schemion	4021.84	-
3	Daniel Negreanu	3896.21	-
4	Jason Mercier	3816.58	-
5	Scott Seiver	3648.91	-
6	Byron Kaverman	3570.64	-
7	Alex Bilokur	3559.04	-
8	Davidi Kitai	3472.94	-
9	Stephen Chidwick	3427.21	-
10	Vanessa Selbst	3317.04	+4

Meanwhile in the overall GPI rankings the top nine positions remained unchanged while Vanessa Selbst climbed from No. 14 to No. 10 to reclaim a spot inside the top 10 after three months. Selbst's spent two weeks atop the GPI rankings back in June.

Since the GPI rankings began in early 2011, Selbst has consistently remained inside the top 50 aside from a brief three-week period in September 2013, spending nearly all of her time in the GPI's top 20.

Welcome to the GPI

Rank	Player	Total Score
203	Jeff Lisandro	1863.45
254	Marcel Luske	1738.22
267	Hans Winzeler	1722.48
297	Oleksandr Gnatenko	1658.04
298	Richard Dubini	1657.12
299	Vladimir Schemelev	1657.11
300	Andy Frankenberger	1654.70

There are seven new names in the Top 300 this week, including several previously-ranked players making a return, among them a couple of well-decorated pros who have enjoyed recent success.

Marcel Luske was boosted from No. 311 to No. 254 this week after finishing third in the 2014 World Poker Tour National Valkenburg Main Event won by Niels van Leeuwen. And Jeff Lisandro jumped from No. 312 to No. 203 by winning his sixth career WSOP bracelet in the AU$1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha event at WSOP APAC.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total GPI Score	Change
203	Jeff Lisandro	1863.45	+109
167	Miroslav Alilovic	1982.92	+79
267	Hans Winzeler	1722.48	+70
147	John Dolan	2078.20	+65
297	Oleksandr Gnatenko	1658.04	+64

The WSOP APAC win meant Lisandro enjoyed the biggest gain this week among those in the Top 300. Miroslav Alilovic also moved up significantly after taking second in the No-Limit Hold'em France Poker Series High Roller event in Mandelieu La Napoule.