David Peters wins both the Global Poker Index and CardPlayer Player of the Year awards, eclipsing the impressive German, Fedor Holz.

I’m not the man who ends up elbow deep in algorithms searching for the missing link in poker’s Player of the Year (POY) races, and I guess that’s why I was surprised to learn that David Peters had won the Global Poker Index (GPI) 2016 POY title.

Look, I am a huge David Peters fan. And during any other year Peters performances would rank as obscenely top notch. But he performed out of his skin during a 12-month period where Fedor Holz played like he owned the soul of the game.

The young German got the job done on six occasions. He locked down four seven-figure scores and earned $16.4m. PokerNews believed Holz’s year was so special they ranked it as the #2 Poker Moment of the Year, and yet the record books will show that it wasn’t good enough to win the GPI POY title.