EPT Season 11 Player of the Year Awards: Three leaderboards for players of all levels

The European Poker Tour, which is the world’s richest and most popular poker tour, today announced that it will introduce three new Player of the Year leaderboards for the duration of Season 11. These three leaderboards will use the Global Poker Index (GPI) formula for poker rankings. GPI is recognized as the world’s leading poker-ranking authority.

Since the first season of the EPT, the tour has witnessed extraordinary growth and now encompasses events with a buy-in of just $100 all the way up to €100,000. Given the huge breadth of tournaments that are available to players, there will be three tiers of the Player of the Year contest in Season 11 -- gold, silver and bronze.

It is expected that the winner of the Gold tier will be the player with the best results in EPT Main Events and High-Roller events, the winner of the Silver tier will likely be a player very successful at large side events, and the winner of the Bronze tier is likely to be a player who was successful at smaller side events. Each winner will receive a customized trophy in recognition of their achievement.

“The European Poker Tour caters to an incredible spectrum of players of all skill levels and bankrolls, and we believe the Player of the Year should reflect that,” said Edgar Stuchly, President of the European Poker Tour. “Each stop of the EPT is a huge poker festival and this change allows us to recognize this diversity.”

“We are pleased to continue our relationship with the EPT,” said Alexandre Dreyfus, President of GPI. “I'm happy that the EPT and Global Poker Index continue to work together to establish industry standards. We share a vision and commitment to promote poker as a global and unified sport to a mainstream audience”.