Players’ performances are assessed by their finishing positions in poker tournaments occurring over six periods of six months (3 years).

The index is used in famous newspapers along with sports results to communicate poker rankings, both on the online and print version.

[3] Following this acquisition, Zokay Entertainment and the company's CEO, Alexandre Dreyfus acquired the GPI brand, along with its patent-pending formula, in order to create a single, unified ranking platform covering the live tournament poker world in its entirety.

[4] The GPI tracks players' results for their prior 3 years of play, in qualifying tournaments with 32 or more entrants (specialty events and freerolls are not counted), using a patent-pending formula that takes into account result ages, field difficulties, and field sizes to generate live tournament player rankings.

The GPI also includes a Finishing Factor, which measures how players perform relative to the rest of the field they compete within in any given poker tournament.

The GPI is used as a central reference point when ranking live tournament poker players including France,[6] Italy,[7] Spain, Brazil, Latin America [8] and the USA.

The GPI EPA takes place every year in January and rewards the best European Poker Players and newcomers, as well as the people involved in the industry.

There were 26 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renae.

[20][21] There were 27 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renae.

[24] There were 29 awards presented, and the show was aired on PokerGO and was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renae.

GPI launched its first print publication during the 2014 World Series of Poker where the magazine was distributed for free in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, as well as in other places in Las Vegas.

The 56 page first edition saw the poker pro Vanessa Selbst making the cover, and featured numerous people from the industry.