This week’s Global Poker Index leaderboard finally saw some movement in top 3, after no changes were registered for four consecutive weeks. Unsurprisingly, German Ole Schemion still tops it with 4,207.86 points, but Scott Seiver and Davidi Kitai switched places. The latter now ranks 2nd with 3,910.74 points and is followed by Seiver with 3.883.00 points.
Belgium-born Kitai is one of the few poker players to have won WSOP, WPT, and EPT events. The poker pro is the proud holder of three WSOP bracelets. He claimed his first one in 2008 by winning a $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em event for the amount of $244,583. It is interesting to note that Kitai is, in fact, the first Belgian player to ever win a WSOP bracelet.
In April 2012, he won his first and only EPT title in Berlin. There, he received $930,816 – his biggest live cash so far. As mentioned above, the player has a WPT title as well. This one he won in 2011 at the L.A. Poker Classic WPT Celebrity Invitational event where he topped a field of 482 players. Kitai had to defeat some of the biggest names in the world of poker.
He also cashed in other major events, some of them being a third-place finish at the EPT Season 10 Grand Final €25,000 + 500 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8 Max for $728,692, a third-place finish at the EPT Season 5 Barcelona €8,000 + 250 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event for $649,036, and an eighth-place finish at the APPT 2014 Asia Championship of Poker for $312,091.
As for his performance in 2015, the player finished first at the EPT Season 11/FPS Season 4 €2,000 + 150 #21 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Cash 8-Handed event in Deauville and was paid $51,799. He cashed $9,396 and $25,314 in two other Deauville events, as well as $44,993 in an EPT Season 11/IPT Season 7 Malta event.
So far, Kitai’s winnings from live tournaments amount to $6,067,479. The player ranks 1st in the Belgium all time money list and 87th in the world’s all time money list. He is a two-time winner of the Belgian player of the year award. Furthermore, he received the GPI award for Tournament Performance of the Year back in 2012.
It was in May 2008 when the player joined the Winamax Pro Team. Kitai can often be spotted at the card room’s Pot-Limit Omaha tables under the screen name “Kitbul”. According to latest data, the player has more than 3800 games played with total winnings amounting to more than $800,000 and largest cash of about $30,000.
