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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]
For the last several years, the largest tournament in the world has been the World Series of Poker Main Event. With the exception of 1992, the US$10,000 buy-in tournament increased in prize pool year-over-year from its start in 1970 until 2007 (the latter a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which reduced the number of players winning their seats via online play).
RankingHero is a ranking and social networking site for the poker community. It hosts an extensive live poker database and an interactive social platform linking all actors in the poker industry - from online operators and live poker venues, through professional players and industry leaders, to recreational players and fans.
Daniel Cates (born November 14, 1989) [1] also known as jungleman12 or w00ki3z. is a professional poker player from the United States, once considered to be one of the best heads-up No Limit Texas Hold 'em players in the world. [2] By 2014, his online cash game earnings at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars was over US$11 million. In 2010, he won ...
Thomas Dwan Jr. (born July 30, 1986) [1] is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr". [2]
Daniel Negreanu (/ n ɪ ˈ ɡ r ɑː n uː /; [5] born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. In 2014, independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index recognized Negreanu as the best poker player of the previous ...
Gavin Griffin (born August 28, 1981, in Darien, Illinois) is an American professional poker player. He attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.. Starting as an internet poker player he successfully made the transition to live poker, and broke Allen Cunningham's record as the youngest person ever to win a World Series of Poker title [2] in 2004, winning a $3,000 Pot Limit Texas ...
In 2010, Klein appeared in Season 7 of Game Show Network's High Stakes Poker. In 2015, Klein played in the $250,000 Aria Super High Roller cash game where he won a $458,500 pot after hero calling Antonio Esfandiari with J ♣ 8 ♣ on a board of 7 ♦ 9 ♦ 8 ♦ 9 ♠ 3 ♥. Esfandiari held K ♣ 5 ♣ for a stone cold bluff. [4]