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Author: Michael Craig
GPI Top Ten Meet to Fight it Out
Velocity Debuts Epic Mix-Max Championship Friday Starting this Friday evening at 10 PM ET, Velocity broadcasts Epic Poker’s third Main ...
February 09 2012, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Jason Mercier Rides High-Roller to Number One
Jason Mercier (GPI#1 +2) reclaimed the top spot on the GPI this week with his win in the December Bellagio ...
December 21 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Matt Marafioti Joins the GPI Top Ten, Sorel Mizzi Returns
TOP TEN GETS SHUFFLED UP In a week dominated by results from the Bellagio’s World Poker Tour event, Matt Marafioti ...
December 14 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: ElkY Reclaims Number 1
In the final week before the end-of-the-year rush of results from Prague and Las Vegas, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellierreturned to GPI#1. He ...
December 08 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Greek Bailout
Last week’s tournaments didn’t lack for big finishes or big movements.Eugene Katchalov(GPI#4) finished runner-up in an event at EPT Loutraki. Dominik ...
November 30 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Sam Trickett Enters the GPI Top Ten
The final table of the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event, adjourned for nearly two months, played to its conclusion on ...
November 23 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Failla Joins Top Ten, O’Dwyer in the Top Twenty
In a week when the final tables of the WSOP Main Event and the Partouche Poker Tour dominated the news, ...
November 17 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Top Ten Reshuffle, Foxwoods Players Advance
Big buy-in tournament poker returned to the U.S. at Foxwoods last week. The $9,700 Main Event of the World Poker ...
November 10 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Iconic Names Join the GPI
Strong Moves in the GPI Top Twenty The GPI Top Ten remained mostly the same this week. The top four ...
November 02 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Shawn Buchanan, WSOP Europe Continue to Rock the GPI
As expected, the completion of the World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes has shaken up the Global Poker Index. ...
October 27 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Sam Trickett Moves Into The Top 20 with Big European Results
Great Britain’s Sam Trickett(GPI#13) vaulted 15 places into the Top Twenty in this week’s GPI, after a 4th-place finish in ...
October 20 2011, by Michael Craig
Stephen O’Dwyer Rockets Up the GPI
Stephen O’Dwyer (GPI#15), who won the first Epic Poker Pro/Am and was featured on EpicPoker.com as a Player to Watch, finished ...
October 12 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Mercier Slips Past Seidel for GPI#1
Jason Mercier, benefiting from Erik Seidel’s intermittent play 3 years ago, nudged ahead in their continuing battle for GPI#1. Bertrand ...
October 05 2011, by Michael Craig
Partouche Poker Tour Shakes Up GPI, Helppi Joins Top Ten
Juha Helppi (GPI#9) enters the GPI Top Ten for the first time, one of many players moving up the Global ...
September 28 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Shawn Buchanan Cracks GPI Top Ten
Shawn Buchanan entered the GPI Top Ten this week. His excellent WSOP play from the summer boosted his ranking when his ...
September 21 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Erik Seidel Rises to #1
Erik Seidel took over GPI#1 by the narrowest of margins last week, after making his second consecutive Epic Poker League ...
September 14 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Katchalov Passes ElkY
Eugene Katchalov (GPI#3), by finishing 3rd at EPT Barcelona last week, edged past Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier(GPI#4), once again tightening the ...
September 08 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Seiver Enters the Top Ten
Scott Seiver made the biggest jump among the players at the top of the GPI 300 for the week ending August ...
August 31 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Update: Mercier-Seidel-Grospellier Hold Top Three
After last week’s blockbuster results, which swept Jason Mercier to GPI#1 and solidifiedErik Seidel’s hold on GPI#2 and Eugene Katchalov’s ...
August 25 2011, by Michael Craig
Jason Mercier Regains Top Spot
Jason Mercier, with his third place finish in the Epic Poker League’s Inaugural Main Event, reclaimed GPI#1.Erik Seidel, runner-up to ...
August 18 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI Results: Post WSOP Action Begins
The first significant poker results are in from Tallinn, San Remo, and Pompano Beach, Florida since the conclusion of the ...
August 11 2011, by Michael Craig
Grospellier Holds #1, Seidel Climbs to #2
The interregnum between the World Series of Poker and the resumption of the WPT, EPT, and other poker tournaments around ...
August 04 2011, by Michael Craig
ElkY Stays on Top, and How Much is the November Nine Worth?
In the GPI as of July 26, 2011, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier held on to his slight lead over Jason Mercier (GPI#2) and Erik Seidel, ...
July 26 2011, by Michael Craig
ELKY “PASSES” MERCIER FOR #1, SEIDEL “SURGES”
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier nudged past Jason Mercier for GPI#1, and Erik Seidel (GPI#4) replaced Fabrice Soulier (GPI#7) in the Top Five. ...
July 21 2011, by Michael Craig
GPI DEBUTS WITH JASON MERCIER AT #1
The Global Poker Index (GPI) debuts with Jason Mercier as GPI#1 as of July 11, 2011. Based on the scoring of ...
July 14 2011, by Michael Craig
