Global Poker Index Explained
| Global Poker Index (GPI) |
| Sport: | Poker |
| Founded: | 2011 |
| Owner: | Alexandre Dreyfus |
| President: | Eric Danis |
| Motto: | The Poker Ranking Authority |
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| Champion: | Bin Weng |
| Website: | GlobalPokerIndex.com |
The Global Poker Index (GPI) is a leaderboard index that ranks over 450,000 live tournament poker players in the world. The GPI poker rankings are updated on a weekly basis. Players’ performances are assessed by their finishing positions in poker tournaments occurring over six periods of six months (3 years).
The Global Poker Index uses data from the biggest poker database The Hendon Mob, known for collecting results of tournaments around the world and for being the reference in tournament results. They currently host results for over 325,000 poker tournaments.
The index is used in famous newspapers along with sports results to communicate poker rankings, both on the online and print version.
History
The Global Poker Index was originally created by Federated Sports + Gaming, along with the Epic Poker League(EPL), with Former World Series of Poker (WSOP) commissioner Jeffrey Pollack acting as the executive chairman, professional poker player Annie Duke as commissioner, and Matt Savage as the League's tournament director. The GPI was employed to rank players for the EPL and decide which players could take part in the League. On 29 February 2012, when Federated Sports + Gaming announced that they had filed for Bankruptcy, all of the organizations and all the brands were acquired by Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., at a bankruptcy auction in June 2012. Following this acquisition, Zokay Entertainment and the company's CEO, Alexandre Dreyfus acquired the GPI brand, along with its patent-pending formula, in order to create a single, unified ranking platform covering the live tournament poker world in its entirety.
The GPI ranking system
The GPI tracks players' results for their prior 3 years of play, in qualifying tournaments with 32 or more entrants (specialty events and freerolls are not counted), using a patent-pending formula that takes into account result ages, field difficulties, and field sizes to generate live tournament player rankings.
For each qualifying tournament a player finishes in-the-money they receive a GPI score. Those scores fall into one of six time periods, each of which covers a half-year based on the starting date of the tournament. These are called GPI Aging Periods. The sum of the player's largest five (5) scores for each of the two Aging Periods in the most recent year and their four (4) largest scores for the four Aging Periods prior to that is their total GPI score. GPI scores themselves are calculated by multiplying a Buy-in Factor, Finishing Factor, and Aging Factor.
The Buy-in Factor is the GPI's measure of relative difficulty, presuming larger buy-ins draw a more skilled field. Its median is calculated by dividing the USD equivalent of a $1,000 buy-in (fee included) by 1,000. This results in a Buy-in Factor of 1.0 for a $1,000 tournament, with Buy-in Factors being larger or smaller than 1.0 depending on whether the buy-in is larger or smaller than $1,000. This calculation uses a logarithmic function. It does so because the incremental increase in the skill set of the field theoretically diminishes as the buy-in amount increases. For example, in the GPI formula the percentage increase of GPI's Buy-In Factor between a $1500 event and an $2000 event is much greater than its percentage increase between $19,500 and a $20,000 buy-in events. Furthermore, all tournaments with a buy-in larger than $20,000 are treated as though the buy-in was only $20,000 and all tournaments with a buy-in smaller than $400 are treated as though the buy-in was $400.
The GPI also includes a Finishing Factor, which measures how players perform relative to the rest of the field they compete within in any given poker tournament. This Finishing Factor is calculated initially by dividing the field size by the player's finishing position and is also done using a logarithmic function. Furthermore, for any tournaments with a field size larger than 2,700 players will be treated as though their field was only 2,700. The GPI also employs an Aging Factor to player results. This is a multiplier that gives more points to tournaments based on how recently they were played in order to reward players both for recent success and consistency over time. Each Aging Period consists of 6 month periods of time, with the most recent being the previous 6 months from the present, and going backwards from there through to a point 3 years in the past. Each Aging Period has a different multiplier that is applied to score calculations, with multipliers decreasing as each Aging Period becomes less recent.
National and regional rankings
The Global Poker Index National Rankings ranks players by Country, with 20 different national rankings are currently available, by North American, Latin American, European, and Asian regions as well. The GPI is used as a central reference point when ranking live tournament poker players including France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Latin America and the USA.
Poker team rankings
The GPI create rankings of players comprising professional poker teams to show which teams’ players have the best overall results. Ranked teams include PokerStars, Winamax and Party Poker.
Former Number Ones
GPI Player Of the Year
The GPI Player Of the Year (POY) award is given to the player topping GPI's Player of the Year Leaderboard at the end of each calendar year. Standings are updated weekly with the top 1,000 contenders ranked according to results, with the Leaderboard utilizing an augmented version of GPI's existing ranking formula which disregards aging factors and includes 11 total results from qualifying tournament results in each given year (top 6 results from the first 6 months of the year and top 5 results from these 6 months of each year). Buy in restrictions, minimum player field restrictions are kept as-is, as
Player of the Year
Female Player of the Year
Global poker masters
The Global Poker Index aggregates the Top 300 performing players in the world and groups them by nationality to create GPI Country Rankings to show how many top players hail from specific nations. Currently the US is the world's top performing country in terms of live tournament player results, with over 50% of all Top 300 GPI ranked players being American.Using the country rankings, the Global Poker Masters will be a world cup of poker, gathering the best players from 9 countries around the world, in order to decide which country is the best.
Awards
The Global Poker Index is the host of the European Poker Awards. The GPI EPA takes place every year in January and rewards the best European Poker Players and newcomers, as well as the people involved in the industry.
Starting in 2015, the American Poker Awards took place in Los Angeles, USA, and rewarded the best live poker players in America, as well as the biggest contributors in the industry.
Starting in 2019, the Global Poker Index announced the 1st Annual Global Poker Awards to be held on April 5, 2019. The event would combine multiple awards programs, including the American Poker Awards and European Poker Awards.[1]
2019 Global Poker Awards
The 1st Annual Global Poker Awards presented by PokerStars for the 2018 poker season was held on April 5, 2019, at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino. There were 20 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Ali Nejad and Drea Renae.[2] [3] Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
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- Justin Bonomo Wins Big One for One Drop, completing Super High Roller streak (SHRB China, SHRB IV, One Drop)
- Jeremy Hilsercop receives PSPC Platinum Pass
- Joe Cada wins WSOP The Closer; registering for the event moments after 5th place finish in the WSOP Main Event
- Doyle Brunson plays his final WSOP event
| - The Chip Race Poker Podcast - David Lappin and Dara O'Kearney
- LFG Podcast - Chad Holloway and Jamie Kerstetter
- PokerCentral Podcast - Brent Hanks and Remko Rinkema
- PokerNews Podcast - Sarah Herring
- The Fives - Lance Bradley and Donnie Peters for PocketFives
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| - Paul Campbell - ARIA
- Tony Burns - Seminole
- Jack Effel - WSOP
- Kenny Hallaert - Unibet Open
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| - Sarah Herring
- Drew Amato
- Remko Rinkema
- Christian Zetzsche
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- Lance Bradley - "The Pursuit of Poker Success" book
- Drew Amato - "Doyle Brunson bids farewell to WSOP" photo
- Haley Hintze - "Vayo v. PokerStars" article
- PokerCentral/PokerGO - "Super High Roller Club: Schulman featuring Nejad" video
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2020 Global Poker Awards
The 2nd Annual Global Poker Awards for the 2019 poker season was held on March 6, 2020, at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino. There were 25 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Maria Ho and Drea Renae.[4] [5] [6] Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
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- Robert Campbell
- Ramon Colillas
- Ben Farrell
- George Wolff
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| - PokerStars Players Championship Bahamas - PokerStars
- Triton London Million for Charity - Triton Poker
- World Series of Poker Main Event - WSOP
- World Series of Poker Big 50 - WSOP
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- Lex Veldhuis
- Hristivoje Pavlovic
- Benjamin Spragg
- Matthew Staples
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- The Grid: Jennifer Shahade
- DAT Poker Podcast - Terrence Chan, Ross Henry, Adam Schwartz, and Daniel Negreanu
- Poker Life Podcast - Joey Ingram
- The Fives - Lance Bradley and Donnie Peters for PocketFives
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- Joey Ingram
- Lance Bradley
- Haley Hintze
- Nick Jones
| - Martin Harris - "Poker and Pop Culture" for D+B Publishing
- Lance Bradley - "A Fight for Fatherhood: The Biggest Win of Jason Young's Life" for PocketFives
- Aleeyah Jadavji - "Kevin Roster Spread Sarcoma Awareness at WSOP, Wants to End Life on His Terms" for PokerNews
- Paul Seaton - "The Unabridged Story of The Hendon Mob" for PokerNews
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- Drew Amato - "Dario Sammartino folds at the WSOP" for PokerGO
- Antonio Abrego - "Ryan Laplante in deep thought at WSOP" for PokerNews
- Joe Giron - "WPT Champion Frank Steupchin is lifted in victory" for WPT
- Hayley Hochstetler - "Doyle Brunson and Jack Binion at WSOP celebration" for WSOP
| - Joey Ingram - "Investigating Mike Postle Hand Histories from Stones Live"
- PokerGO - "Legends of the Game: Stu Unger"
- PokerGO - "The Big Blind with Jeff Platt featuring Mike Matusow, Norman Chad, Sarah Herring"
- Sam Rega - "Who Makes Money from Professional Poker" for CNBC
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- Ryan Riess makes 10-high all-in call at EPT Monte Carlo final table
- Bryce Yockey takes a historic hit against Josh Arieh in the WSOP Poker Players Championship
- Sam Trickett makes Stephen Chidwick fold best hand at Triton London 1M event
- Thi Xoa Nguyen folds full house to Athanasios Polychronopoulos at PSPC
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| - Timothy Duckworth - Tournament Live Reporters
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2022 Global Poker Awards
The 3rd Annual Global Poker Awards for the 2021 poker season was held on February 18, 2022, at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino. There were 26 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renae.[7] [8]
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
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- Adam Friedman - WSOP $10k Dealer's Choice Championship
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| - Jamie Kerstetter
- Will Jaffe
- Kitty Kuo
- Kevin Mathers
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| - Brad Owen
- Jaman Burton
- Ryan Depaulo
- Ethan Yau
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| - Paul Campbell - ARIA
- Justin Hammer - various
- Ray Pulford - Wynn Las Vegas
- Andy Tillman - various
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- World Series of Poker Main Event - WSOP
- Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open Opening Event - Seminole Hard Rock
- Wynn Mystery Bounty (Summer) - Wynn Las Vegas
- Wynn Millions - Wynn Las Vegas
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| - Christian Zetzsche
- Merom Doft
- Timothy Duckworth
- Chad Holloway
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- Lance Bradley - "Isai Scheinberg: His Company, His Legacy, and How Black Friday Impacted Both" for PocketFives
- Alex O'Brien - "How a $10k poker win changed how I think" for BBC
- D'Arcy Maine - "While battling brain cancer, Michael Graydon lives World Series of Poker dream" for ESPN.com
- Charles Rabin - "From immigration 'cage' to newest poker champ at Hard Rock. An Afghan refugee's luck turns" for Miami Herald
| - Enrique Malfavon - "The WSOP Main Event Bubble Bursts" for PokerGO
- Antonio Abrego - "Adam Friedman defeats Phil Hellmuth for 3rd straight WSOP $10k Dealer's Choice title" for PokerGO
- Hayley Hochstetler - "The End of an Era"
- Danny Maxwell - "Brandon Shack-Harris and his umbrella at WSOP" for PokerNews/WSOP
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- Remko Rinkema - "Run it Back with Stefanie Ungar" for PokerGO
- Paul Guyer and Andrew Neeme - The Villain Who Stole Christmas
- Last Call Pokeridokumentii
- Jeff Platt - "Stand Up for Me, Please
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| - Doug Polk makes epic fold versus Phil Hellmuth on High Stakes Poker
- Daniel Cates gets Ryan Leng to fold in $50k Poker Players Championship
- Nicholas Rigby pulls monster bluff during late stages of WSOP Main Event
- Quads over quads on Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event
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| - Masato Yokosawa
- Johan Guilbert
- Greg Liow
- Jonathan Little
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2023 Global Poker Awards
The 4th Annual Global Poker Awards for the 2022 poker season was held on March 3, 2023, at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino.[9] [10] There were 27 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renae.[11] [12]
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
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- Phil Ivey
- Alex Keating
- Taylor von Kriegenbergh
- Daniel Weinman
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- Ethan Yau
- Jaman Burton
- Mariano Grandoli
- Brad Owen
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- Natalie Bode
- Jesse Fullen
- Lexy Gavin-Mather
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| - Ray Pulford - Wynn Las Vegas
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- WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
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| - Jennifer Shahade - "How Becoming a Poker Pro Helped Me Accept a Personal Tragedy" for The Wall Street Journal
- Tim Fiorvanti - "Andrew Moreno made Good on a 15-Year Dream" for WPT.com
- Connor Richards - "The Endlessly Creative Side of Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel" for PokerNews
- Robbie Strazynski - "In the Name of the Father, the Son... and the Poker" for Cardplayer Lifestyle
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- Hayley Hochstetler - "Glantz Pulls Million Dollar Bounty" for PokerNews
- Antonio Abrego - "Oooooooooooo yeah
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- Spenser Sembrat - "That First Bracelet Feeling" for PokerNews
| - Gregory Liow - "Poker vlogger who doesn't understand that the voice over is done in post"
- Caitlin Comeskey - "A love letter to the investigation parody"
- Joey Ingram - "Emergency Investigation: Garrett vs Robbi on Hustler Live"
- Marle Spragg - "Solvers"
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- Only Friends Podcast - Matt Berkey, Melissa Schubert, Landon Tice, and others for Solve4Why
- Poker in the Ears - James Hartigan and Joseph Stapleton for PokerStars
- PokerGO Podcast - Timothy Duckworth, Donnie Peters, and Remko Rinkema for PokerGO
- The Chip Race Poker Podcast - David Lappin, Dara O'Kearney, and Barry Carter for Unibet Poker
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- WSOP Main Event Bracelet
- EPT Main Event Trophy
- PGT Stairway To Millions Trophy
- WPA - Women's Poker Association
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- Daniel Negreanu hits runner-runner quads on way to SHRB victory
- David Diaz lays down absolute monster on Day 7 of WSOP Main Event
- PapoMC pulls monster bluff in WSOP Main Event
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| - The Star Entertainment Group Gold Coast for the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital on behalf of Shane Warne
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2024 Global Poker Awards
The 5th Annual Global Poker Awards for the 2023 poker season was held on February 24, 2024, at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino.[13] There were 29 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renae.[14] [15] [16]
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
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- Daniel Sepiol - WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
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- William Kopp
- Samuel Laskowitz
- Santhosh Suvarna
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| - Marle Spragg
- Jamie Kerstetter
- Caitlin Comesky
- Will Jaffe
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- Caitlin Comeskey
- Gregory Liow
- Marle Spragg
- Alexander Seibt
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| - WSOP Main Event
- Irish Poker Open Main Event
- WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
- WPT Prime Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
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| - Wynn Millions
- Irish Poker Open
- Malta Poker Festival
- Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
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| - David Hill - "The Tales of Billy Baxter: The Final Days of Stu Ungar" for WPT.com
- Alex O'Brien - "The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World"
- Connor Richards - "He Played At An Elite Level For Seven Decades: Doyle Brunson Remembered During WSOP By His Peers" for PokerNews
- Brad Willis - "PokerGO Might Have Just Saved Televised Poker" for Poker.org
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- Rachel Winter - "Schulman Cool"
- Matthew Berglund - "Inconsolable"
- Hayley Hochstetler - "Weinman Wins"
- Danny Maxwell - "On the Bubble"
| - PokerGO - "Doyle Brunson Celebration of Life"
- Caitlin Comeskey - "A love letter to the million dollar game"
- Phil Galfond, Matti Harju - "What Makes Phil Ivey the GOAT?"
- Marle Spragg - "ICM"
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- The Chip Race Poker Podcast - David Lappin, Dara O'Kearney, and Barry Carter for Unibet Poker
- Poker in the Ears - James Hartigan and Joseph Stapleton for PokerStars
- Thinking Poker Podcast - Andrew Brokos and Carlos Welch
- Only Friends Podcast - Matt Berkey, Melissa Schubert, Landon Tice, and others for Solve4Why
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- Seth Moeller
- Jonathan Rand
- Alexander Seibt
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- Asian Poker Tour Taipei Lion Trophy
- Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup
- NAPT Las Vegas Main Event Trophy
- Poker Dream Malaysia Dragon Trophy
- WSOP Main Event Bracelet
| - Craziest Pre-Flop Action of ALL-TIME at Triton Poker Series London
- Bill Perkins goes ALL-IN, but he’s late for a flight on Poker at the Lodge
- Dwan vs Polk in 1.13M Pot in Million Dollar Game on Hustler Casino Live
- Dwan vs Wesley in the biggest pot in televised poker history on Hustler Casino Live
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Fantasy poker manager
The Global Poker Index released the first ever Fantasy Poker game allowing poker fans to draft for free their favorite players for the biggest poker tournaments in the world. The game quickly became the official game of the World Poker Tour and the World Series of PokerThe game consists in drafting 10 poker players with a defined virtual budget, following the concept of fantasy sports in general.
GPI Magazine
GPI launched its first print publication during the 2014 World Series of Poker where the magazine was distributed for free in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, as well as in other places in Las Vegas. The 56 page first edition saw the poker pro Vanessa Selbst making the cover, and featured numerous people from the industry.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 2019-03-07 . Announcing the Global Poker Awards . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: Global Poker Awards Results: Imsirovic Breakout Player of the Year, Bonomo Wins Moment of the Year . 2023-02-17 . www.pokernews.com . en.
- Web site: 2018 Global Poker Awards . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: pgt-website . 2023-02-17 . www.pgt.com.
- Web site: 2020-01-24 . Joey Ingram Leads the Charge with Four Global Poker Awards Nominations . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: 2020-03-07 . The 2nd Annual Global Poker Awards Celebrated 25 of Poker’s Best Including Poker ICON Recipient Johnny Chan . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: Imsirovic Wins Three Global Poker Awards; Friedman, Kerstetter & Spragg Among Other Winners . 2023-02-17 . www.pokernews.com . en.
- Web site: 2022-02-19 . 2021: A Banner Year For Ali Imsirovic Recognized at 3rd Global Poker Awards . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: 2023-02-02 . Nominations announced for 4th Global Poker Awards . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: 2023-02-07 . GLOBAL POKER AWARDS FANS CHOICE AWARDS REACH FINAL FOUR VOTING ROUND . 2023-02-17 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: Hustler Casino Live, Angela Jordison Get Recognition at 4th Annual Global Poker Awards . 2023-03-05 . www.pokernews.com . en.
- Web site: 2023-03-04 . 4th Global Poker Awards Celebrates Best in the Business Throughout 2022 . 2023-03-05 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: 2024-01-23 . Nominations announced for the 5th Global Poker Awards . 2024-03-12 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
- Web site: Global Poker Awards 2023 Winners PGT . 2024-03-12 . PokerGO Tour . en.
- Web site: Hintze . Haley . 2024-01-23 . GPI announces 2023 Global Poker Awards finalists . 2024-03-12 . Poker.org . en-US.
- Web site: 2024-02-25 . The 5th Annual Global Poker Awards Honors the Top Performers of 2023 . 2024-03-12 . Global Poker Awards . en-US.
