Power Rankings: Foxen in First, Aido's Million-Dollar Score and Deeb-Negreanu Drama

Alex Foxen! No. 1 on the GPI overall standings, in the hunt for the 2019 Global Poker Index Player of the Year coming off of winning it in 2018, and now No. 1 on the Poker Central Power Rankings after a very hot week in Monte Carlo. Daniel Negreanu and Shaun Deeb make big jumps in part due to their Twitter spat, Randall Emmett holds steady despite gaining a lot of points because of his controversial social media drama with 50 Cent.

The Poker Central Power Rankings are voted on each week by five-panel members who use their own criteria to determine player relevance leading to a list of 25 players that score points from 65 down to 1. The criteria loosely include player results, social media influence, some good ol’ drama or other things of note that make ear perk up and our eyes grow bigger. Got beef with our decisions on a week-to-week basis? Hit us up on @PokerCentral on Twitter and jump into the conversation.

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This man just does it all with big results! Foxen is defending his 2018 Player of the Year honors perfectly so far, racking up two big scores in Monte Carlo this week. Foxen finished fifth in a €25k High Roller and second in a €50k for a total just shy of a million dollars. Foxen also appeared on Joey Ingram’s podcast and dropped some great knowledge for you to check out!

Daniel Negreanu joined the Poker Central Podcast to talk about all the recent drama and his second-place ranking is largely due to being heavily involved in Twitter drama as well as him offering up some great packages for the 2019 WSOP. Check out his vlog right here.

Ali Imsirovic dropped quite a few spots after winning back-to-back ARIA High Rollers two weeks ago. Imsirovic still ranks first overall on the High Roller of the Year standings and looks to be a big favorite to take it all down as he announced to be playing these all throughout the summer.

Entertaining the masses for two nights on Dolly’s Game, Doyle Brunson got some serious love again this week on the Power Rankings. Relive Dolly’s Game on PokerGO right now.

Tune in again next week for the latest Poker Central Power Rankings! Until then, listen to Brent Hanks and me discuss this week’s rankings on the Poker Central Podcast. Looking to watch the latest live and on-demand poker action? Subscribe to PokerGO right now.