April 25 2019, by Eric Danis
April 24, 2019 GPI Global Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Former GPI Global #1 Bryn Kenney (GPI #5) returns to the Global Top 5 for the first time in over a year. Kenney is off to a hot start to 2019 with wins in Melbourne and Las Vegas
›› Global Poker Award winner Maria Ho (GPI #95) is trending. Having already received 6th place points for qualifying for final table in the WPT Seminole Hard Poker Showdown (FT to be played in Vegas), she enters the Top 100 for the very first time of her career
›› Congratulations go out to Jerry Robinson (GPI #247), who enters the GPI300 for the very first time. Robinson is coming off back-to-back WPT Top 10 finishes
›› 2019 GPI PoY Race: With a pair of victories and five Top 10 finishes so far this year, Brian Altman leads the way in the 2019 PoY race
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (29 weeks) | USA | 3,888.88 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,592.07 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,500.02 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,479.42 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,362.36 | 6 | +1 |
| #6 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,360.90 | 7 | +1 |
| #7 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,329.46 | 5 | -2 |
| #8 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,297.32 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,278.83 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,250.84 | 10 | = |
| #11 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,188.07 | 11 | = |
| #12 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,131.96 | 13 | +1 |
| #13 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,094.40 | 14 | +1 |
| #14 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,072.14 | 28 | NEW |
| #15 | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,070.09 | 15 | = |
| #16 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,058.65 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Bart Lybaert | BEL | 3,052.16 | 18 | +1 |
| #18 | Manig Loeser | GER | 3,037.73 | 17 | -1 |
| #19 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,036.88 | 19 | = |
| #20 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 3,027.60 | 20 | = |
| #21 | Dylan Linde | USA | 2,998.00 | 21 | = |
| #22 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 2,974.53 | 24 | +2 |
| #23 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,973.83 | 25 | +2 |
| #24 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,963.17 | 12 | -12 |
| #25 | Joseph Cheong | USA | 2,954.99 | 26 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #26 Nick Pupillo (USA) -3 // #28 Almedin Imsirovic (BIH) -6
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #96 | Max Silver | UK | 278 | +182 |
| #95 | Maria Ho CB | USA | 209 | +114 |
| #145 | Shankar Pillai | USA | 255 | +110 |
| #188 | Chad Eveslage | USA | 291 | +103 |
| #105 | James Carroll CB | USA | 205 | +100 |
| #152 | Brett Bader | USA | 249 | +97 |
| #180 | Spencer Champlin CB | USA | 267 | +87 |
| #97 | Taylor Black | USA | 181 | +84 |
| #212 | David ‘ODB’ Baker | USA | 284 | +72 |
| #131 | Jerry Wong | USA | 201 | +70 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #285 | Ismael Bojang | GER | 210 | -75 |
| #260 | Ralph Wong | USA | 200 | -60 |
| #108 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 51 | -57 |
| #237 | Ray Qartomy | USA | 182 | -55 |
| #273 | Viliyan Petleshkov | BUL | 218 | -55 |
| #293 | Mike Shin | USA | 244 | -49 |
| #296 | Aaron Johnson | USA | 252 | -44 |
| #228 | Richard Kirsch | USA | 185 | -43 |
| #300 | Victor Ramdin | USA | 263 | -37 |
| #261 | Yunsheng Sun | CHN | 225 | -36 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Mihai Manole | ROU | -3 |
| #302 | Alexandre Santo | BRA | -3 |
| #303 | Michael Marder | USA | -8 |
| #304 | Ryan Phan | USA | -2 |
| #305 | Byron Kaverman #1 | USA | -2 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 168 | Mihai Manole | ROU | 301 | |
| David Jackson | USA | 214 | Alexandre Santo | BRA | 302 | |
| Will Failla | USA | 233 | Michael Marder | USA | 303 | |
| Ryan D’Angelo | USA | 235 | Wei Guo Liang | CHN | 312 | |
| Alexander Rocha | USA | 236 | Andrey Konopelko | BLR | 321 | |
| Jerry Robinson 300 | USA | 247 | Ben Heath | UK | 325 | |
| Patrick Clarke | IRL | 251 | Dominique Mosley | USA | 329 | |
| Brian Yoon | USA | 268 | Matt Glantz | USA | 333 | |
| Ryan Olisar | USA | 284 | Kyle Cartwright | USA | 341 | |
| Omar Lakhdari | ALG | 295 | Yan Tsang | HKG | 389 | |
| Dan Wilson | IRL | 297 | James Collopy | USA | 399 | |
| Bas de Laat | NED | 299 | Maria Lampropulos | ARG | 403 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
2019 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| 1st | Brian Altman | USA | 2,218.96 | = |
| 2nd | Sean Winter | USA | 2,107.89 | = |
| 3rd | Rainer Kempe | GER | 1,891.32 | +2 |
| 4th | Aaron Massey | USA | 1,772.45 | +6 |
| 5th | Bryn Kenney | USA | 1,767.30 | -2 |
| 6th | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,737.08 | -2 |
| 7th | Ariel Celestino | BRA | 1,679.71 | -1 |
| 8th | Pete Chen | TAI | 1,655.24 | -1 |
| 9th | Joseph Cheong | USA | 1,649.27 | -1 |
| 10th | Sean Yu | KOR | 1,590.40 | -1 |
Full April 24, 2019 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2019-04-24/300/
Related articles
Down the stretch they come in the GPI Player of the Year race as Australia’s Kahle Burns has managed to ...
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE #1 Stephen Chidwick (15th week) UK 3,661.02 1 = ...
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE #1 Stephen Chidwick (14th week) UK 3,661.87 1 = ...
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.
