August 24 2017, by Eric Danis
August 23, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Bryn Kenney (World #1) has taken over the GPI! Not only does Kenney become the 16th ever player to hit #1 on the GPI – he regains his #1 spot in the 2017 GPI Player of the Year race
›› Kenney replaces Nick Petrangelo (World #3), who spent 20 consecutive weeks ranked atop the GPI World Poker Rankings – the third longest streak in GPI history
›› Stefan Schillhabel (World #22) makes his Top 25 debut this week. The German has been ranked inside the GPI300 since February 2016
›› Congratulations go out to Zhaoxing Wang (World #286) who makes his GPI300 debut coming off his final table appearance at the Parx Big Stax 1500 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Bryn Kenney CB | USA | 3,415.63 | 6 | +1 |
#2 | David Peters | USA | 3,314.49 | 2 | = |
#3 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,297.95 | 1 | -2 |
#4 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,230.84 | 3 | -1 |
#5 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,213.65 | 5 | = |
#6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,186.97 | 4 | -2 |
#7 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,152.44 | 19 | +12 |
#8 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,140.81 | 7 | -1 |
#9 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 3,051.68 | 8 | -1 |
#10 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,036.14 | 9 | -1 |
#11 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 3,005.07 | 18 | +7 |
#12 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,991.24 | 12 | = |
#13 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,972.77 | 14 | +1 |
#14 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,956.18 | 15 | +1 |
#15 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,933.07 | 13 | -2 |
#16 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 2,925.99 | 16 | = |
#17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,915.41 | 21 | +4 |
#18 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,911.10 | 11 | -7 |
#19 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 2,901.42 | 23 | +4 |
#20 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,800.67 | 22 | +2 |
#21 | Jake Schindler | USA | 2,767.85 | 24 | +3 |
#22 | Stefan Schillhabel CB | GER | 2,764.55 | 26 | NEW |
#23 | Fedor Holz | GER | 2,759.15 | 10 | -13 |
#24 | Connor Drinan | USA | 2,735.48 | 17 | -7 |
#25 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,720.92 | 30 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #30 Charlie Carrell, UK (-11), #43 Jason Mercier, USA (-18)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Isaac Haxton | USA | 289 | 127 | +162 |
Peter Vitantonio CB | USA | 286 | 174 | +112 |
Luke Brereton CB | UK | 300 | 208 | +92 |
Vicente Delgado | ESP | 273 | 202 | +71 |
Igor Kurganov | RUS | 146 | 81 | +65 |
Vinny Pahuja | USA | 231 | 170 | +61 |
Quan Zhou | CHN | 154 | 97 | +57 |
Michael Del Vecchio CB | USA | 245 | 191 | +54 |
Timothy West | USA | 208 | 155 | +53 |
Usman Siddique CB | UK | 230 | 177 | +53 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 128 | 253 | -125 |
Vojtech Ruzicka | CZE | 189 | 290 | -101 |
Samuel Chartier | CAN | 115 | 203 | -88 |
Josip Simunic | AUT | 220 | 296 | -76 |
Brian Yoon | USA | 166 | 240 | -74 |
Ivan Deyra | FRA | 215 | 287 | -72 |
Dan Wilson | IRL | 205 | 275 | -70 |
Konstantin Puchkov | RUS | 190 | 250 | -60 |
Jimmy Guerrero | FRA | 176 | 229 | -53 |
Louis Salter | UK | 174 | 226 | -52 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
#301 | James Calderaro | USA |
#302 | Jake Cody | UK |
#303 | Adam Owen | UK |
#304 | Jerry Ödeen | SWE |
#305 | Scott Davies | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Bart Lybaert CB | BEL | 169 | Jake Cody | UK | 302 | |
Oleksii Khoroshenin | UKR | 220 | Adam Owen | UK | 303 | |
Goran Mandic | CRO | 230 | Jerry Ödeen | SWE | 304 | |
Ramin Hajiyev | AZE | 231 | Govert Metaal | NED | 310 | |
Jared Jaffee | USA | 248 | John Juanda | INA | 314 | |
Kitty Kuo | TAI | 268 | Jonathan Borenstein | USA | 316 | |
Chad Eveslage | USA | 276 | Felix Bleiker | SUI | 331 | |
Giuseppe Pantaleo | GER | 280 | Kiryl Radzivonau | BLR | 338 | |
Jeff Gross | USA | 281 | Aleksandr Gofman | RUS | 339 | |
Jerry Wong | USA | 283 | Kevin MacPhee | USA | 346 | |
Joseph Serock | USA | 284 | Scott Margereson | UK | 353 | |
Zhaoxing Wang 300 | USA | 286 | Alex Keating | USA | 363 | |
Kully Sidhu | UK | 291 | Matas Cimbolas | LIT | 365 | |
Alexander Condon | USA | 292 | Lance ‘Cord’ Garcia | USA | 366 | |
Apostolos Bechrakis CB | GRE | 298 | Uri Reichenstein | ISR | 437 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut
2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
#1 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,284.93 | +3 |
#2 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 2,992.49 | +3 |
#3 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,928.47 | -2 |
#4 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 2,881.97 | -2 |
#5 | Dan Smith | USA | 2,841.98 | -2 |
#6 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,809.01 | = |
#7 | Pete Chen | TAI | 2,747.89 | NEW |
#8 | David Peters | USA | 2,745.14 | = |
#9 | Ari Engel | CAN | 2,713.64 | -2 |
#10 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,654.66 | +4 |
#11 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 2,639.77 | NEW |
#12 | Anthony Spinella | USA | 2,632.83 | -3 |
#13 | Charlie Carrell | UK | 2,618.77 | -3 |
#14 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,616.70 | -3 |
#15 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,611.60 | -3 |
Full August 23, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-08-23/300/
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