Team Italy is set to be represented by its country’s past two National Players of the Year, Dario Sammartino (GPI#13), who won the PoY in 2013, and Mustapha Kanit (GPI#37), who recently wrapped up a Top 10 season on the live tournament circuit. W
The latest release of the Global Poker Index World Poker Rankings saw Ole Schemion extend his lead at the top. Sitting comfortably in first place for the third week in a row, Schemion looks to enter the Global Poker Masters as the man to beat when play be
You would have been hard pressed to find a Erwann Pecheux (GPI#58) fan outside of France just a year ago. Twelve months later, Pecheux is the man that will lead Team France at the Global Poker Masters in March. Pecheux enjoyed a breakout year in 2
Mustapha Kanit (GPI#40) is in total control of Italy’s Player of the Year race with just a few months left to the 2014 poker season. With close to a 1,000 point lead on Andrea Dato (GPI#73), Kanit can start to breathe a little easier, although he
The World Cup of Online Poker (WCOOP) wrapped up on Monday with GPI Poker Player of the Month for August Fedor Holz (GPI#378) taking home the big $1.3M top prize. Although he’s been hot of late with a successful trip to EPT Barcelona prior to
The United Kingdom poker landscape has certainly changed in recent years. Gone are the days of the “old school” grinders topping the charts, it’s a young person’s game now it seems and the players ranked atop the GPI National UK st
He’s the best poker player to ever come out of France. He’s one of the most popular players in the world. For years, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (GPI#122) has been one of the best, spending a considerable amount of time atop the GP
It can’t get any closer than the race for third in the GPI National race in Germany. Two elite players, World Series of Poker standouts Dominik Nitsche (GPI#35) and Ismael Bojang (GPI#36), are separated by less than a point in what has to be the clo
It’s simple really. Dan Smith (GPI#1) is in total control of his own destiny heading into the final month of the poker season. Smith holds a respectable lead in the both the GPI300 and GPI Player of the Year races and it certainly looks locks he sho
The Global Poker Masters is a purely competitive arena where Poker’s top countries can compete for global dominance without gimmicks; with national teams chosen solely on the merit of player’s results, and the advantage of a structure created to showc