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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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.