GPI300: Shorr, Duhamel Move Up, Serock Moves In

All is quiet at the top but Shannon Shorr and Jonathan Duhamel make the push up…

VIEW FROM THE TOP

Daniel Negreanu (GPI#1, -) makes it two straight weeks (9 of the past 10 weeks) at the top of the GPI300. Vanessa Selbst (GPI#2, -) returns at #2 and Ole Schemion (GPI#3, -) stays at #3. It’s important to note that all three lost points this week, it will be interesting to see what happens next.

Marvin Rettenmaier (GPI#4, -), Jason Mercier (GPI#5, -) and Mike McDonald (GPI#6, -) also retain their positions within the Top 10. Rettenmaier and Mercier begin a fifth straight week in their respective positions.

Shannon Shorr (GPI#7, +3) and Jonathan Duhamel (GPI#8, +3) each move up three spots this week. Shorr moves up to #7 in the World while Duhamel makes a return to the Top 10 at #8. Both players have their eyes set on besting their career best #5 rank in the coming weeks.

Like Duhamel, Joseph Serock (GPI#10 CB, +2) enters the Top 10 this week. This is Serock’s first time ranked inside the Top 10. Ravi Raghavan (GPI#13, -4) and Sorel Mizzi (GPI#19, -12) drop out of the Top 10 in this week’s update.

GPI TOP 10:

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SWIMMING UPSTREAM

A week after falling in the standings, Kitty Kuo (GPI#220, +43) is back up this week. She moves up over 40 spots to #220 in the world following her 34th place finish at IPT Sanremo. This was Kuo’s first cash on the live tournament circuit this season.

John Holley (GPI#217 CB, +48), IPT Sanremo 3rd place finisher Jae Sim (GPI#183 CB, +42), WPT SHR Showdown prelim event winner Zohair Karim (GPI#188 CB, +39), reigning GPI European Poker Awards Rookie of the Year Adrian Mateos Diaz (GPI#62 CB, +35) and Justin Zaki (GPI#75 CB, +30) also make big moves up this week.

This week’s Top 10 Movers within the GPI300:

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DOWN THE LADDER

Benjamin Spindler (GPI#254, -93) drops the furthest down the ladder this week, moving down almost 100 spots to #254 in the world. Spindler will hope to turn things around quickly as the EPT Grand Final is right around the corner. Spindler finished 13th in the High Roller event in Monte Carlo last year.

WSOP Bracelet winner Mark Radoja (GPI#141, -84), WPT Champions Club member Benjamin Hamnett (GPI#141, -84) and defending Sydney Championships winner Daniel Laidlaw (GPI#201, -56) also take a tumble in this week’s standings.

This week’s Top 10 Drops within the GPI300:

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IN-N-OUT

After four weeks away, Italian pro Alessandro Longobardi (GPI#291) returns to the GPI300 this week. Longobardi earned a fourth place finish at IPT Sanremo that allowed him to return to the 300, where he spent 16 straight months ranked before falling outside last month.

Chad Eveslage (GPI#275 CB), Niall Farrell (GPI#281), Flavien Guenan (GPI#300) and Tony Cousineau, who spent last week on the GPI300 bubble at #301, are a few of the other players to enter the 300 this week. For Eveslage, it’s his first ever visit inside the 300.

It’s sad to see Barry Greenstein (GPI#305) leave the 300 for only the fourth week of his career on the GPI. Greenstein, who was part of our GPI Player of the Decade Final Table in December, has been a staple on the live tournament circuit for over 10 years.

Belgian pro Kenny Hallaert (GPI#303), recent Unibet Copenhagen winner Frederik Jensen (GPI#324) and 2013 WPT SHR Showdown Champion Kevin Eyster (GPI#349) all join Greenstein on the outside looking in this week.

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ON THE BUBBLE

Russia’s Dmitry Vitkind (GPI#301) is on the GPI300 bubble this week.

Vitkind dropped out of the GPI300 for the first time since the GPI’s inception last week. The 32-year-old’s total earnings on the live tournament circuit crossed the 1M USD mark in 2013. He most recently finished 74th at IPT Sanremo, allowing him to move up 60 spots in the rankings this week.

CB = Career Best GPI Ranking