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Jeff Hakim (Jeff710 @ PokerStars, YoungSupremacy & Full Tilt Poker) This Lebanese-born online player has “only” $706,000 in ranked winnings so far on the tour, but my personal experience with him as a player is why he makes this list. I have played with him many times over the years and he always seems to be still in late in most events.
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With three cashes at the first stop of the tenth season of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, including final table appearances in the €50,000 Super High Roller (sixth for $212,959) and the €10,000 High Roller (sixth for $121,328), German Ole Schemion is now atop the GPI Player of the Year race.

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six-month periods as calculated by the USA Today Global Poker Index point system.

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For a look at both lists, visit the official GPI website.

2013 GPI Player of the Year

Rank	Player	Score	Change
1	Ole Schemion	892.40	6
2	Daniel Negreanu	875.96	4
3	Mike Watson	836.80	0
4	Paul Volpe	814.81	-3
5	Steven Silverman	786.11	-3
6	Jonathan Duhamel	768.24	28
7	Steve O'Dwyer	767.53	1
8	Bryn Kenney	764.21	-3
9	David Peters	736.55	-5
10	Marvin Rettenmaier	696.56	7

With three cashes at the first stop of the tenth season of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, including final table appearances in the €50,000 Super High Roller (sixth for $212,959) and the €10,000 High Roller (sixth for $121,328), German Ole Schemion is now atop the GPI Player of the Year race. In May, during the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT9 Grand Final, Schemion won three side events and finished third in the €5,000 eight-game tournament.

In 2013 alone, Schemion has 12 final table appearances and over $1.2 million in earnings.

Moving up four spots to No. 2 is Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu, who won his fifth bracelet in the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event, finished runner-up in the EPT Barcelona High Roller for $352,881. Negreanu now has nearly $2.2 million in earnings this year.

Jumping up 28 spots to No. 6 is fellow Canadian and Team Pro Jonathan Duhamel. Duhamel finished runner-up in a €2,000 side event at EPT Barcelona for $83,739 and fifth in the €10,000 High Roller for $157,847.

Exiting from the top 10 of the Player of the Year race are Griffin Benger and Scott Seiver.

GPI 300 Top 10

Rank	Player	Total Score	Rank Change
1	Marvin Rettenmaier	3238.58	1
2	Daniel Negreanu	3187.66	5
3	Jason Mercier	3149.04	-2
4	Philipp Gruissem	3070.49	1
5	Joseph Cheong	3040.17	-1
6	Ole Schemion	3031.88	4
7	Mike Watson	3006.29	-1
8	Stephen O'Dwyer	3000.48	-5
9	Igor Kurganov	2906.90	-1
10	Paul Volpe	2837.17	1

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Marvin Rettenmaier returns to the top of the GPI 300 for the first time since May 16, while Jason Mercier, the former No. 1 player in the world, fell two spots to No. 3.

Leapfrogging five spots to No. 2 is the aforementioned Negreanu. This is the highest ranking Kid Poker has ever had in the GPI, and he is just 50 points behind Rettenmaier for the top spot.

Returning to the top 10 is Paul Volpe, the former leader in the Player of the Year race. Volpe peaked at No. 7 in the GPI 300, and is ranked No. 4 in the United States.

Welcome to the GPI

Player	Total GPI Score	GPI Rank
Joao Barbosa	1429.29	202
Sergio Espina	1416.95	206
Atanas Gueorguiev	1410.69	210
Marcin Wydrowski	1393.04	220
Nikolaus Teichert	1375.38	228
Thomas Butzhammer	1360.19	236
Ondrej Vinklarek	1339.52	243
Leo Fernandez	1330.61	246
Thomas Muehloecker	1329.71	247
Jean-Noel Thorel	1327.44	248
Martin Staszko	1311.83	254
Grayson Ramage	1307.16	256
Massimo Mosele	1288.52	268
Jordan Cristos	1275.90	279
David Boyaciyan	1264.14	284
Jesse Yaginuma	1262.68	287
Jan Peter Jachtmann	1252.69	294
Phil Laak	1249.51	298

Among the new players this week are Phil Laak, Jan Peter Jachtmann, David Boyaciyan, Grayson Ramage, Martin Staszko, and Leo Fernandez.

Laak finished fifth in the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker a few weeks ago for $109,385, and finished 19th in the WSOP One Drop High Roller for $173,723. Laak’s peak in the GPI 300 is at No. 68.

Boyaciyan also rejoins the GPI 300 this week at No. 284. The Dutchman won the 2011 Master Classics of Poker for $527,391, finished second in the EPT8 Prague Main Event for $716,323, and finished third in the EPT8 Prague Main Event for $405,197.

Exiting from the GPI 300 this week are John Dolan, Aku Joentausta, Hiren “Sunny” Patel, Mike Wattel, Jeremy Kottler, Jose Manuel Nadal, Manuel Bevand, David Stefanski, Kevin Eyster, Steve Sung, Michael DeGilio, Naoya Kihara, Jan Collado, Jarred Solomon, David Diaz, Artem Metalidi, Max Silver, Alex Venovski.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total GPI Score	Change
125	David Benefield	1698.06	103
128	Anaras Alekberovas	1690.21	94
141	Kevin Vandersmissen	1643.17	82
146	Walid Bou Habib	1621.25	88
153	Niall Farrell	1605.75	77
171	Jonas Lauck	1519.03	91
181	Yann Dion	1479.52	96
188	Kent Lundmark	1460.19	104
201	Sergey Rybachenko	1429.46	62
203	Jonathan Karamalikis	1424.44	69

Kent Lundmark makes the biggest leap this week, moving up 104 spots to No. 188. The Swede finished 64th in the EPT Barcelona Main Event for $20,012 and 14th in a €2,000 side event for $6,916.

Making the second-largest jump this week is November Niner David Benefield. Benefield finished fifth in the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller for $278,439, 110th in the Main Event for $15,183, and eighth in the High Roller for $64,008.