Poker news tagged with 'global poker index'

Alex Foxen has been known to be a successful poker pro both in the online and live circuit since 2012 - his first recorded achievement in the Hendon mob showing a 1st place finish in the WSOP Circuit $355 NLHE in New Orleans for $22,421.

Read more » Alex Foxen wins 2018 GPI POY award, girlfriend Kristen Bicknell wins Female GPI POY for 2nd time

The world's largest information provider of poker tournament results has succumbed to the pressure from both regulators and players, and it will now allow its users to delete, or at least rename, their accounts.

The Hendon Mob apparently has not made any official announcements about this change last week; however, users are now allowed to either change the alias on their account so that others will not know who it is, or if they would like to do so, they can delete their user account entirely.

Read more » Hendon Mob succumbs to Privacy Laws, Allows Deletion of Poker Player Accounts

A video montage of alleged cheating at the 2009 Partouche Poker Tour Grand Final was uploaded to You Tube on January 28. The man behind the video, Nordine Bouya, claimed that the winner (Paul Pierre Pasqualini) and the second place finisher (Cedric Rossi) used a simple code to signal to each other what cards they had. The video has been viewed over 115,000 times so far and has generated a wild debate.

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Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is back in first place on Global Poker Index thanks to his third-place finish in the €100,000 Super High Roller that was played during EPT Monte-Carlo.

Jason Mercier, who had the lead last week, has now dropped to second place. This is the first time since December last year that ElkY is back in the lead on GPI's list. However, it extremely tight among the top players, so we might see a change already next week.

Read more » Global Poker Index: "ElkY" Reclaims Top Spot

Erik Seidel, who had outstanding tournament results last year, has dropped 2 positions since last week on the Global Poker Index. The main reason for this drop is due to his 2nd place finish in the Epic Poker League $20,000 NLHE 6-Max Main Event aging into Period 2.

Read more » Global Poker Index: Jason Mercier overtakes the lead from Seidel

Global Poker Index released a new list of the top 300 tournament poker players the other day. GPI used a formula that takes a player's result over the six half-year periods . Erik Seidel, as usual, holds the the Number 1 position, and close behind him are Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Jason Mercier. 

Read more » Global Poker Index update