Although he’s taken a break from poker following the completion of the WSOP, Negreanu will hope that his hot streak continues in Barcelona starting later this week as the European Poker Tour kicks off its 11th season with the presentation of the EPT Barcelona Poker Festival. Negreanu does have a good track record in Barcelona. Just last year, he was runner-up to Thomas Muehloecker in the High Roller event.
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Schemion spends his second consecutive week atop the GPI World Rankings this week:
GLOBAL POKER INDEX WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 10 (August 13, 2014)
#1 Ole Schemion (GER) 3,997.15 #2 Daniel Negreanu (CAN) 3,940.54 (+1) #3 Dan Smith (USA) 3,907.02 (-1) #4 Scott Seiver (USA) 3,580,88 #5 Byron Kaverman (USA) 3,497.08 #6 Jason Mercier (USA) 3,480.64 #7 Paul Volpe (USA) 3,464.15 #8 Alex Bilokur (RUS) 3,385.89 (+1) #9 Jacob Schindler (USA) 3,253.06 (NEW) #10 Erik Seidel (USA) 3,244.80 (-2)
