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Grospellier Leads GPI Rankings
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2011-07-30 07:27
Ever since poker hit the World Wide Web big time in 2003-2004, fans and industry members have developed the need for some sort of a ranking system that would let everyone know who the best player is, based on factual data rather than on individual taste and charisma.
Federated Sports and Gambling have introduced the GPI (Global Poker Index) a system which is updated weekly and which does exactly that: it determines who the best 300 tournament players are, analyzing a plethora of data from a variety of angles to make its rankings as accurate as possible indeed.
According to the algorithm,
PokerStars’ French pro and ex-Starcraft player Bertrand Grospellier is currently the best player around. Grospellier generated a score of 2,450.09 to clinch the top spot ahead of Jason Mercier, who fell short by an extremely small margin. His score was 2,434.30. Erik Seidel is currently 3rd, followed by Eugene Katchalov in 4th place. Sam Stein and Fabrice Soulier follow, trailed in turn by Sorel Mizzi and Tom Marchese.
David Baker and John Juanda round up the top 10.
Grospellier has held the top spot for quite a while now. He has had an excellent WSOP run this summer, scoring a bracelet and finishing 3rd in another event. Tom Marchese is the only player who recently managed to break into the top 10. He did so, on account of his Bellagio Cup VII performance which earned him enough points to vault him past several of the players who had been ahead of him. Marchese’s top 10 showing came at Vanessa Selbst’s expense, who has thus been pushed into 11th place.
The GPI tracked the 300 best live tournament players. On the whole, this week no fewer than 20 new names appeared on the list, mostly thanks to various players making it deep in the
WSOP Main Event. Stefan Huber was the one who broke into the highest position: 51st. Bolivar Palacios, David Bach and Sebastian Ruthenberg also made the list, together with Guillaume Darcourt and Vladimir Geshkenbein.
