But the good news doesn’t stop there for Smith. He has also taken over the GPI Player of the Year race, moving ahead of fellow American Scott Seiver for the lead. While the GPI World Poker Rankings takes into account a players’ results from the past three seasons, the PoY race, obviously, looks at results from 2014 exclusively.
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Smith has been playing lights out since last December when he won the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the famed Bellagio on the Las Vegas stirp. Smith has added over $3M to his career totals in that time.
GLOBAL POKER INDEX WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 10 (Sep. 3, 2014)
#1 Dan Smith (USA) 4,112.52 #2 Ole Schemion (GER) 4,009.50 #3 Daniel Negreanu (CAN) 3,944.64 #4 Jason Mercier (USA) 3,875.82 (+2) #5 Scott Seiver (USA) 3,645.14 (-1) #6 Byron Kaverman (USA) 3,483.35 (-1) #7 Paul Volpe (USA) 3,386.25 #8 Stephen Chidwick (UK) 3,359.81 (NEW) #9 Alex Bilokur (RUS) 3,325.19 (-1) #10 Davidi Kitai (BEL) 3,284.94 (-1)
Out of Top 10: #12 Erik Seidel (-2)
