April 18 2018, by Eric Danis
April 18, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› There’s a new sheriff in town! Coming off the heels of his 3rd place finish in the Main Event at the partypoker MILLIONS Grand Final in Barcelona, Stephen Chidwick takes over the top spots in both the GPI World Rankings and 2018 Player of the Year races!
›› Alex Foxen is also on the rise this week, moving up to the #3 on the GPI World Poker Rankings. Foxen had held the #5 for four straight weeks since first entering the Top 10 last month
›› Bulgaria’s Fahredin Mustafov (World #89) cracks the Top 100 for the very first time, moving up over 100 spots following a successful run at the partypoker MILLIONS Grand Final
›› While there was a lot of movement in and out of the GPI300 this week, we have zero players making their GPI300 debuts while a total of 16 players are returning to the Top 300, including partypoker MILLIONS Grand Final Main Event winner Pascal Lefrançois (World #230)
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Aside from Chidwick’s return to PoY #1, Americans Isaac Haxton and Brian Altman also make big moves up the PoY charts, both entering the PoY Top 5
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Stephen Chidwick (1 week) | UK | 3,809.70 | 2 | +1 |
| #2 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,738.95 | 1 | -1 |
| #3 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 3,418.33 | 5 | +2 |
| #4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,364.53 | 3 | -1 |
| #5 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,360.62 | 4 | -1 |
| #6 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,257.60 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,213.04 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,201.61 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,176.79 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Brian Altman CB | USA | 3,163.56 | 16 | +6 |
| #11 | Jan Schiwppert | GER | 3,155.13 | 24 | +13 |
| #12 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,132.88 | 14 | +2 |
| #13 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,124.32 | 15 | +2 |
| #14 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,122.88 | 10 | -4 |
| #15 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,111.56 | 11 | -4 |
| #16 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,071.83 | 31 | NEW |
| #17 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,042.88 | 12 | -5 |
| #18 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 2,970.34 | 13 | -5 |
| #19 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,960.31 | 17 | -2 |
| #20 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,944.38 | 18 | -2 |
| #21 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,924.09 | 19 | -2 |
| #22 | Nick Petrangelo CB | USA | 2,916.44 | 20 | -2 |
| #23 | Jake Schindler | USA | 2,896.63 | 29 | NEW |
| #24 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 2,876.40 | 21 | -3 |
| #25 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,872.21 | 23 | -2 |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Darren Elias (USA) -3 // #28 Benjamin Zamani (USA) -2
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Fahredin Mustafov CB | BUL | 221 | 89 | +132 |
| David Laka Calzada | ESP | 275 | 144 | +131 |
| Julian Stuer | GER | 223 | 114 | +109 |
| Michael Tureniec | SWE | 292 | 190 | +102 |
| Phillip Gruissem | GER | 177 | 97 | +80 |
| Byron Kaverman #1 | USA | 158 | 78 | +80 |
| Ludovic Geilich CB | UK | 140 | 63 | +77 |
| Ryan Van Sanford | USA | 269 | 200 | +69 |
| François Billard CB | CAN | 123 | 55 | +68 |
| Michael Watson | CAN | 243 | 181 | +62 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Phil Hellmuth | USA | 169 | 275 | -106 |
| Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 143 | 238 | -95 |
| Tom Hall | UK | 111 | 194 | -83 |
| Sam Soverel | USA | 166 | 219 | -53 |
| Richard Kirsch | USA | 208 | 258 | -50 |
| Jean Gaspard | USA | 199 | 248 | -49 |
| Jake Schwartz | USA | 231 | 276 | -45 |
| Vlad Darie | ROU | 90 | 133 | -43 |
| Joshua Kay | USA | 160 | 193 | -33 |
| Morten Mortensen | DEN | 209 | 240 | -31 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Yuki Ko CB | JPN | +695 |
| #302 | Stephen Buell | USA | -19 |
| #303 | Zachary Smiley | USA | +26 |
| #304 | Stanley Lee | USA | -20 |
| #305 | Derek Wolters | USA | -20 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Joey Weissman CB | USA | 130 | Stephen Buell | USA | 302 | |
| Adam Owen CB | UK | 132 | Stanley Lee | USA | 304 | |
| Martin Jacobson | SWE | 205 | Derek Wolters | USA | 305 | |
| Asi Moshe | ISR | 208 | Vadzim Lipauka | BLR | 307 | |
| Anton Wigg | SWE | 212 | Kevin Saul | USA | 310 | |
| Dean Baranowski | USA | 213 | Matthew Moss | UK | 312 | |
| Zachary Donovan | USA | 217 | Matthew Stout | USA | 313 | |
| Omar Lakhdari | MAR | 223 | Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | 314 | |
| Upeshka Da Silva | USA | 229 | Jonathan Karamalikis | AUS | 315 | |
| Pascal Lefrançois | CAN | 230 | Valentin Vornicu | ROU | 316 | |
| Marc-Olivier Carpentier | CAN | 241 | Anatoliy Zyrin | RUS | 318 | |
| Joe Kuether | USA | 244 | Daniel Strelitz | USA | 320 | |
| Sean Winter | USA | 254 | Park Yu Cheung | HKG | 321 | |
| Justin Young | USA | 259 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | GER | 324 | |
| Thomas Boivin | BEL | 264 | Mohsin Charania | USA | 326 | |
| Shaun Deeb | USA | 293 | Alexandru Papazian | ROU | 385 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
2018 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| #1 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 2,588.63 | +5 |
| #2 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,212.48 | -1 |
| #3 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 1,918.59 | +9 |
| #4 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,890.78 | = |
| #5 | Brian Altman | USA | 1,866.61 | +8 |
| #6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,834.60 | -4 |
| #7 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,824.63 | -4 |
| #8 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 1,790.99 | -3 |
| #9 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 1,756.38 | +1 |
| #10 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 1,697.91 | +5 |
| #11 | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,639.27 | -4 |
| #12 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 1,632.12 | -4 |
| #13 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 1,603.73 | NEW |
| #14 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,601.68 | -5 |
| #15 | Jake Schindler | USA | 1,581.99 | NEW |
Full April 18, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-04-18/300/
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About the author
Eric Danis’ passion for poker came at a very early age but it’s when writing about and covering the game he loves that Danis is most in his element. Danis is better known for creating www.PTPRpoker.com where he spent a few years covering poker events. Danis is also known for having worked on the poker shows Poker Eh! and The Pulse on the Quad Jacks Network.
