January 05 2018, by Eric Danis
GPI Player of the Year 2017
Another poker year is in the books! Another poker year where a lead change in the final major series of the season meant yet another exciting finish for Player of the Year. Spaniard standout Adrian Mateos would take the lead from American superstar Bryn Kenney in Prague and would seal the deal with a 26 point victory.
Mateos’ win also earns him GPI European Player of the Year honors. He becomes the first non-German to win the title in GPI history. Marvin Rettenmaier won the Euro title back in 2012; Ole Schemion in 2013 and 2014 and Fedor Holz also went back-to-back winning the last two years (2015, 2016).
On the ladies’ side, Canadian Kristen Bicknell was in total control and wrapped-up a remarkable 2017 season by winning the GPI Female Player of the Year title by 431 points.
Congratulations also go out to poker ambassador extraordinaire Felipe Ramos (GPI Latin American PoY; GPI National Brazil PoY), Pete Chen (GPI Asian PoY; GPI Greater China PoY; GPI Taiwan PoY) and all of the National Players of the Year listed below … on to 2018!
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GPI Player of the Year Major Rankings
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GPI Female Player of the Year Major Rankings
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GPI National Player of the Year Major Rankings
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GPI National Player of the Year
GPI Player of the Year Major Rankings
2017 GPI Player of the Year: Adrian Mateos
2017 GPI Player of the Year Americas: Bryn Kenney
2017 GPI Player of the Year Europe: Adrian Mateos
2017 GPI Player of the Year Latin America: Felipe Mojave Ramos
2017 GPI Player of the Year Asia: Pete Chen
GPI Female Player of the Year Major Rankings
2017 GPI Female Player of the Year: Kristen Bicknell
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2017 GPI Female Player of the Year Americas: Kristen Bicknell
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2017 GPI Female Player of the Year Europe: Aylar Lie
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2017 GPI Female Player of the Year Latin America: Maria Constanza Lampropulos
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2017 GPI Female Player of the Year Asia: Sixiao “Juicy” Li
GPI National Player of the Year Major Rankings
2017 GPI Player of the Year United Kingdom: Stephen Chidwick
2017 GPI Player of the Year Germany: Koray Aldemir
2017 GPI Player of the Year Russia: Dmitry Yurasov
2017 GPI Player of the Year France: Alexandre Reard
2017 GPI Player of the Year Italy: Dario Sammartino
2017 GPI Player of the Year USA: Bryn Kenney
2017 GPI Player of the Year Canada: Ari Engel
2017 GPI Player of the Year Australia: Adrian Attenborough
2017 GPI Player of the Year China: Quan Zhou
2017 GPI Player of the Year Belgium: Kenny Hallaert
2017 GPI Player of the Year Sweden: Martin Jacobson
2017 GPI Player of the Year The Netherlands: Tobias Peters
2017 GPI Player of the Year India: Nipun Java
2017 GPI Player of the Year India (Events in India only): Vikram Kumar
GPI National Player of the Year
| Country | Player of the Year | PoY Fact |
| Albania | Albano Llani | |
| Argentina | Jose “Nacho” Barbero | Ends Ivan Luca 2-year National PoY streak |
| Armenia | Harry Arutyunyan | |
| Australia | Adrian Attenborough | |
| Austria | Thomas Mühlöcker | |
| Azerbaijan | Ilkin Savalan Amirov | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Belarus | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | |
| Belgium | Kenny Hallaert | Ends Davidi Kitai’s 5-year National PoY streak |
| Brazil | Felipe Mojave Ramos | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Bulgaria | Boris Kolev | |
| Canada | Ari Engel | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Chile | Nick Yunis | Back-to-back National PoY |
| China | Quan Zhou | |
| Colombia | Farid Jattin | 4th consecutive National PoY |
| Croatia | Goran Mandic | 5th consecutive National PoY |
| Cyprus | Yiannis Liperis | 3rd consecutive National PoY |
| Czech Republic | Martin Kabrhel | |
| Denmark | Morten Mortensen | Ends Frederik Jensen’s 2-year National PoY streak |
| Egypt | Mathieu Selides | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Finland | Jussi Nevanlinna | 2nd National PoY in last 3 years |
| France | Alexandre Reard | |
| Germany | Koray Aldemir | Ends Fedor Holz’s 2-year National PoY streak |
| Greece | Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | Ends Georgios Zisimopoulos’ 2-year streak |
| Hong Kong | Yan Shing Tsang | |
| Hungary | Peter Kamaras | |
| India | Nipun Java | |
| Indonesia | John Juanda | |
| Iran | Massoud Eskandari | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Ireland | Marc MacDonnell | Won by 13 points; 2nd National PoY in last 3 years |
| Israel | Asi Moshe | |
| Italy | Dario Sammartino | Sammartino finished 2nd in 2015, 2016 |
| Jamaica | Emile John Schiff | |
| Japan | Shinobu Tanaka | |
| Kazakhstan | Shyngis Satubayen | |
| Latvia | Eduards Kudrjavcevs | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Lebanon | Albert Daher | |
| Lithuania | Matas Cimbolas | 4th consecutive National PoY |
| Macau | Masato Nikawadori | |
| Malaysia | Christopher Soyza | |
| Mexico | Juan Carlos Alvarado | |
| Moldova | Pavel Plesuv | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Montenegro | Vlado Banicevic | |
| Morocco | Omar Lakhdari | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Netherlands | Tobias Peters | Back-to-back National PoY |
| New Zealand | David Yan | 5th consecutive National PoY |
| Norway | Preben Stokkan | Ends Felix Stephensen’s 2-year National PoY streak |
| Peru | Diego Ventura | 2nd National PoY in last 3 years |
| Philippines | Mike Takayama | 2nd consecutive National PoY; 3 in last 4 |
| Poland | Dzmitry Urbanovich | 3rd consecutive National PoY |
| Portugal | Pedro Cabeca | |
| Romania | Vlad Darie | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Russia | Dmitry Yurasov | |
| Serbia | Aleksandar Tomovic | Ends Andjelko Andrejevic’s 3-year streak |
| Singapore | Dhanesh Vijaykumar Chainani | |
| Slovakia | Stanislav Koleno | Ends Jan Bendik’s 3-year National PoY streak |
| South Korea | Sean Yu | Back-to-back National PoY |
| Spain | Adrian Mateos | 5th consecutive National PoY |
| Sweden | Martin Jacobson | |
| Switzerland | Diego Zeiter | Won by 8 pts; 2nd consecutive National PoY |
| Taiwan | Pete Chen | |
| Turkey | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Back-to-back National PoY |
| United Kingdom | Stephen Chidwick | 2nd National PoY in last 3 years |
| Ukraine | Igor Yaroshevskyy | 3rd consecutive National PoY |
| Uruguay | Brian Kaufman Esposito | |
| USA | Bryn Kenney | |
| Venezuela | Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | |
| Vietnam | Linh Tran | Back-to-back National PoY |
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Eric Danis’ passion for poker came at a very early age but it’s when writing about and covering the game he loves that Danis is most in his element. Danis is better known for creating www.PTPRpoker.com where he spent a few years covering poker events. Danis is also known for having worked on the poker shows Poker Eh! and The Pulse on the Quad Jacks Network.
