Global Poker Index: Ranking the top 300 players

Qualifying tournaments are events with 21 or more players at all buy-in levels that are open to the public, and are not specialty or selected audience events.

Each player's score for a given event is derived from a combination of their finishing place percentage, buy-in and aging factor. Learn more about how the GPI is calculated.

The GPI is updated weekly on USAToday.com and GlobalPokerIndex.com. The rankings below are as of Oct. 6: