2016 GPI, National Players of the Year

Following is a full list of winners of the Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year races…

GPI PLAYERS OF THE YEAR

2016 GPI Player of the Year
David Peters (USA)

2016 GPI Female Player of the Year
Cate Hall (USA)

2016 GPI European Player of the Year
Fedor Holz (GER)

2016 GPI Female European Player of the Year
Liv Boeree (UK)

2016 GPI Latin American Player of the Year
Ivan Luca (ARG)

2016 GPI Asia/Pacific Player of the Year
David Yan (NZ)

2016 GPI Great China Player of the Year
Yang Zhang (CHN)

AMERICAS*

Argentina
Ivan Luca

Brazil
Felipe Mojave Ramos

Canada
Alan ‘Ari’ Engel

Chile
Nick Yunis

Colombia
Farid Jattin

Costa Rica
Steven Thompson

Peru
Hugo Perez

USA
David Peters

Uruguay
Alex Gustavo Komaromi

Venezuela
Dorian Alejandro Rios Pavon

EUROPE*

Belarus
Aliaksei Boika

Belgium
Davidi Kitai

Bulgaria
Viliyan Petleshkov

Croatia
Goran Mandic

Cyprus
Andrey Kotelnikov

Czech Republic
Jiri Horak

Denmark
Frederik Jensen

Estonia
Markku Koplimaa

Finland
Juha Helppi

France
Antoine Saout

Germany
Fedor Holz

Greece
Georgios Zisimopoulos

Hungary
Balazs Somodi

Ireland
Dan Wilson

Italy
Walter Treccarichi

Latvia
Eduards Kudrjavcevs

Lithuania
Matas Cimbolas

Moldova
Pavel Plesuv

Netherlands
Tobias Peters

Norway
Felix Stephensen

Poland
Dzmitry Urbanovich

Portugal
Joao Vieira

Romania
Vlad Darie

Russia
Igor Kurganov

Serbia
Andjelko Andrejevic

Slovakia
Jan Bendik

Spain
Adrian Mateos

Sweden
Peter Eicchardt

Switzerland
Diego Zeiter

Turkey
Orpen Kisacikoglu

Ukraine
Igor Yaroshevsky

United Kingdom
Charlie Carrel

ASIA/PACIFIC*

Armenia
Harry Arutyunyan

Australia
James Obst

China
Yang Zhang

Hong Kong
Daniel Chi Tang

India
Nipun Java

Iran
Massoud Eskandari

Israel
Zvi Stern

Japan
Yosuke Sekiya

Lebanon
Wael Sarkis

Malaysia
Lee Wai Kiat

New Zealand
David Yan

Philippines
Mike Takayama

Singapore
Alex Xiang Wei Lee

South Korea
Sean Yu

Taiwan
Kitty Kuo

Vietnam
Linh Tran

AFRICA*

Egypt
Mathieu Selides

Morocco
Omar Lakhdari

South Africa
Melanie Banfield

*Minimum 1,000 PoY Points scored

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PoY NOTEBOOK

›› Holz earns back-to-back GPI European PoY titles; 5th straight year a German wins European PoY (Martin Rettenmaier 2012, Ole Schemion 2013 & 2014)

›› Boeree wins the GPI Female European PoY race for the third consecutive season (Ana Marquez won in 2013)

›› Argentina: Second consecutive National PoY title for Luca

›› Armenia: Second consecutive National PoY title for Arutyunyan

›› Austria: Freund wins National PoY over Stefan Jedlicka by just 9 total points

›› Azerbaijan: Amirov wins third National PoY in past four years (Ramin Hajiyev won in 2015)

›› Belgium: Kitai wins National PoY over Pierre Neuville by just 39 total points; 5th straight National PoY title for KitBul

›› Colombia: Jattin wins National PoY crown for third consecutive season (Mayu Roca Uribe won in 2013)

›› Croatia: Mandic wins fourth straight National PoY title

›› Denmark: Jensen wins back-to-back National PoY crowns (Henrik Hecklen won in 2014)

›› France: Less than 120 points separated Saout, Adrien Allain, 2013 and 2015 National PoY Benjamin Pollak and Sylvain Loosli

›› Greece: Zisimopoulos wins back-to-back National PoY titles (Georgios Sotiropoulos won in 2014)

›› Hong Kong: Tang won over two-time defending National PoY Raiden Kan by 54 points

›› Hungary: Somodi defeated Zoltan Gal by 13 points in National PoY race

›› Latvia: Kudrjavcevs stopped a three-year National PoY streak from Mihails Morozovs

›› Lithuania: Cimbolas earns third straight Nationa PoY title (Anaras Alekberovas won in 2013)

›› Morocco: Lakhdari wins third National PoY title in four years (William Kakon won in 2015)

›› New Zealand: Yan wins fourth straight National PoY title

›› Norway: Stephensen wins second straight National PoY crown

›› Philippines: Takayama (who also won 2014 National PoY) defeated Lester Edoc by 21 points

›› Portugal: Vieira wins third straight National PoY (Joao Barbosa won in 2013)

›› Serbia: Andrejevic wins third straight National PoY (Ognjen Sekularac won in 2013)

›› Slovakia: Bendik wins fourth straight National PoY title

›› South Korea: Yu takes over from three-time National PoY Jae Kyung Sim

›› Spain: Mateos wins fourth straight National PoY title

›› Taiwan: Kuo (who won 2013 National PoY) defeated Terry Fan by 6 total points

›› Ukraine: Yaroshevsky wins back-to-back National PoY titles (Eugene Katchalov won in 2014)

 

*Cover photo courtesy: WPT.com