April 05 2018, by Eric Danis
April 4, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Benjamin Zamani (World #22) returns to the Top 25 for the first time in 10 weeks. The former World #10 won the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas earlier this week
›› Former November Niner Joseph Cheong (World #78) makes a an re-appearance in the Top 100; reaching his highest ranking in almost a year
›› Another former November Niner, Jerry Wong (World #301), drops two spots outside the GPI300 this week
›› Congratulations go out to Julien Sitbon (World #262), Stanley Lee (World #283) and Anatoliy Zyrin (World #293), who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Mega Millions XVIII Quantum Reload winner Ari Engel moves up to 2nd in the race for Player of the Year. Always a PoY contender, the #1 ranked player in Canada has already registered 14 results this season
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Adrian Mateos (19 weeks) | ESP | 3,752.03 | 1 | = |
#2 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,504.94 | 2 | = |
#3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,419.07 | 3 | = |
#4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,373.97 | 4 | = |
#5 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,307.41 | 5 | = |
#6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,276.24 | 6 | = |
#7 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,257.60 | 7 | = |
#8 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,176.79 | 8 | = |
#9 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,153.14 | 10 | +1 |
#10 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,145.90 | 11 | +1 |
#11 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,108.90 | 12 | +1 |
#12 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,039.18 | 9 | -3 |
#13 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,027.92 | 14 | +1 |
#14 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,001.56 | 18 | +4 |
#15 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,997.03 | 17 | +2 |
#16 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 2,979.53 | 16 | = |
#17 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,967.95 | 15 | -2 |
#18 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,944.66 | 13 | -5 |
#19 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,941.76 | 19 | = |
#20 | Kristen Bicknell CB | CAN | 2,876.40 | 24 | +4 |
#21 | Darren Elias | USA | 2,853.88 | 20 | -1 |
#22 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,826.93 | 40 | NEW |
#23 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,825.35 | 21 | -2 |
#24 | Jan Schwippert | GER | 2,812.54 | 23 | -1 |
#25 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,798.83 | 25 | = |
Out of the Top 25: #36 Ryan Riess (USA) -14
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Uri Reichenstein CB | GER | 272 | 193 | +79 |
Kacper Pyzara CB | POL | 298 | 250 | +48 |
Joseph Cheong | USA | 124 | 78 | +46 |
Jared Jaffee | USA | 117 | 77 | +40 |
Igor Yaroshevskyy | UKR | 169 | 129 | +40 |
Barry Hutter | USA | 143 | 108 | +35 |
Wayne Zhang | CHN | 258 | 224 | +34 |
Sean Yu | KOR | 287 | 254 | +33 |
Anatoly Filatov | RUS | 227 | 195 | +32 |
Bobby Zhang CB | AUS | 261 | 232 | +29 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 180 | 289 | -109 |
Vladimir Shabalin | RUS | 193 | 294 | -101 |
Ryan Yu | CAN | 186 | 282 | -96 |
Max Silver | UK | 161 | 256 | -95 |
Kahle Burns | AUS | 182 | 246 | -64 |
Daniel Colman | USA | 179 | 241 | -62 |
Darryll Fish | USA | 66 | 117 | -51 |
Phong Vip Nguyen | USA | 225 | 267 | -42 |
David Eldridge | USA | 151 | 187 | -36 |
Jake Schwartz | USA | 249 | 281 | -32 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
#301 | Jerry Wong | USA | -2 |
#302 | Stephen Song | USA | +1 |
#303 | Michael Hahn | USA | -36 |
#304 | Jeff Gross | USA | +17 |
#305 | Allen Kessler | USA | +4 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Sonny Franco | FRA | 188 | Jerry Wong | USA | 301 | |
Romain Lewis | FRA | 189 | Michael Hahn | USA | 303 | |
Ben Palmer | USA | 221 | Salvatore Dicarlo | USA | 313 | |
Eddy Sabat | USA | 236 | Kevin Eyster | USA | 315 | |
Linh Tran | VIE | 242 | Cliff Josephy | USA | 318 | |
Julien Sitbon CB | FRA | 262 | Ian O’Hara | USA | 322 | |
Faraz Jaka | USA | 279 | Blake Bohn | USA | 327 | |
Stanley Lee CB | USA | 283 | Zachary Donovan | USA | 328 | |
Anatoliy Zyrin CB | RUS | 293 | Zachary Smiley | USA | 331 | |
Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | 297 | Reginald Roberts | USA | 344 | |
Valentin Vornicu | USA | 298 | Michael Amato | USA | 378 |
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 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,824.63 | = |
#2 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,800.79 | +3 |
#3 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,797.41 | -1 |
#4 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 1,762.53 | -1 |
#5 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 1,714.51 | -1 |
#6 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,601.68 | = |
#7 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 1,595.25 | = |
#8 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 1,537.95 | = |
#9 | Timothy Miles | USA | 1,474.85 | = |
#10 | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,452.97 | = |
#11 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 1,396.44 | = |
#12 | Stephen Song | USA | 1,394.85 | = |
#13 | Toby Lewis | UK | 1,383.74 | = |
#14 | Loni Harwood | USA | 1,383.70 | = |
#15 | Daniel Negreanu | CAN | 1,345.64 | = |
Full April 4, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-04-04/300/
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