The 2016 Social Power Table

Their faces may stay the same, but their social power rankings do not.

Once again, PokerStars has analyzed the reach and influence of some of its most popular personalities. Last year in the 2014 Social Power Table, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey sat at the top of the list. This year, that’s changed, especially so for the man you know as ElkY.

How does the performance of the world’s top poker pros relate to their social media success? We worked with social monitoring tool Followerwonk to find out.

Rank	Player	Twitter		Facebook		Social Channels	Social Score
		Followers	Social Authority	Likes	Like alyzer
1(+8)	Bertrand Grospellier	64.7K	64	28.8K	85		79(+23)
		@elkypoker
2(+1)	Liv Boeree	110K	67	88.2K	63		71(+3)
		@Liv_Boeree
3(-2)	Daniel Negreanu	378K	82	140K	40		68(-10)
		@realkidpoker
4(+7)	Vanessa Selbst	79.3K	62	8.4K	57		66(+14)
		@vanessaselbst
5NEW	Jason Somerville	48K	75	665	38		64NEW
		@JasonSomerville
6NEW	Fatima Moreira de Melo	35K	56	10K	55		63NEW
		@Fatimademelo
7(-4)	Phil Ivey	845K	71	241K	47		62(-11)
		@philivey
8(+2)	Phil Hellmuth	231K	63	91K	47		58(+3)
		@phil_hellmuth
9(-4)	Jason Mercier	110K	59	57K	34		55(-8)
		@jasonmercier
10-2	Sam Trickett	57K	58	9.7K	44		55(-2)
		@samtrickett1
11(-6)	Joe Hachem	34.2K	48	23.3K	50		53(-12)
		@josephhachem
12NEW	Chris Moneymaker	41.7K	55	3.7K	42		53NEW
		@CMONEYMAKER
13-7	Antonio Esfandiari	184K	57	85.6K	36		51(-7)
		@magicantonio
14-7	Jonathan Duhamel	59.6K	55	45K	35		50(-8)
		@jonathanduhamel
15NEW	Eugene Katchalov	32.8K	44	3.3K	46		46NEW
		@thegrinder44

* FollowerWonk’s social authority is a 1 to 100 scale that describes the influence a profile has on Twitter. The influence of a profile is determined by the retweet rate of the users’ last few hundred tweets and how recent those retweets are.

** Likealyzer Score: Uses more than 40 signals from facebook including the number of likes a page has, as well as the average number of shares, likes and comments per post.

*** The data for this table was collected on the 10/19/2015.