August 30 2018, by Eric Danis
August 29, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› A high roller victory at EPT Barcelona, currently underway sees two-time GPI France PoY Benjamin Pollak (World #10) return to the GPI World Top 10
›› Making his Top 25 debut this week is Malaysia’s #1 ranked player, Christopher Michael Soyza (World #13), who earned his 6th win of the year last week
›› Congratulations go out to China’s Wei Guo Liang (World #248) who makes his GPI300 debuts this week
›› Two former GPI World #1 ranked players drop from the GPI300 this week as Fedor Holz (World #313) and Byron Kaverman (World #405) bow out this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Alex Foxen continued his strong 2018 with a 2nd place finish in a high roller at EPT Barcelona; moving back into the PoY Top 10
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Stephen Chidwick (20 weeks) | UK | 3,844.56 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,666.36 | 2 | = |
| #3 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,599.03 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,516.22 | 5 | +1 |
| #5 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,504.27 | 4 | -1 |
| #6 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,447.25 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,365.82 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,293.35 | 9 | +1 |
| #9 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 3,281.90 | 8 | -1 |
| #10 | Benjamin Pollak CB | FRA | 3,274.94 | 25 | +15 |
| #11 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy CB | BLR | 3,233.55 | 13 | +2 |
| #12 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,196.50 | 10 | -2 |
| #13 | Christopher Michael Soyza CB | MAS | 3,137.78 | 26 | NEW |
| #14 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,058.91 | 11 | -3 |
| #15 | Anthony Zinno #1 | USA | 3,029.59 | 15 | = |
| #16 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,026.69 | 14 | -2 |
| #17 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,009.58 | 17 | = |
| #18 | Darren Elias | USA | 3,003.00 | 16 | -2 |
| #19 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,997.98 | 12 | -7 |
| #20 | Bart Lybaert | BEL | 2,995.62 | 18 | -2 |
| #21 | Benjamin Yu CB | USA | 2,949.82 | 23 | +2 |
| #22 | Ryan Riess CB | USA | 2,914.82 | 24 | +2 |
| #23 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 2,913.35 | 22 | -1 |
| #24 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,899.35 | 42 | NEW |
| #25 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,871.50 | 27 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #26 Shaun Deeb (USA) -7 // #37 Pavel Plesuv (MDA) -17 // #39 Jan Schwippert (GER) -18
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #194 | Seth Davies | USA | 279 | +85 |
| #116 | Tobias Peters | NED | 179 | +63 |
| #147 | Joe Kuether | USA | 205 | +58 |
| #211 | Dominik Panka | POL | 266 | +55 |
| #188 | Alexander Lynskey | AUS | 239 | +51 |
| #146 | Joshua Kay CB | USA | 191 | +45 |
| #228 | Viet Van Vo | USA | 267 | +39 |
| #162 | Samuel Phillips | USA | 197 | +35 |
| #109 | Kenny Hallaert | BEL | 144 | +35 |
| #243 | Vadzim Lipauka CB | BLR | 277 | +34 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #197 | Paul Hofer | GER | 109 | -88 |
| #169 | Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 81 | -88 |
| #200 | Toby Lewis | UK | 115 | -85 |
| #237 | Uri Reichenstein | GER | 166 | -71 |
| #297 | Ryan Van Sanford | USA | 230 | -67 |
| #247 | Yuliyan Nikolaev Kolev | BUL | 186 | -61 |
| #158 | Sylvain Loosli | FRA | 99 | -59 |
| #204 | Marvin Rettenmaier #1 | GER | 146 | -58 |
| #210 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | UKR | 156 | -54 |
| #259 | Mihai Niste | ROU | 209 | -50 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Francois Billard | CAN | +75 |
| #302 | Richard Dubini | ARG | -12 |
| #303 | Felix Bleiker | SUI | +8 |
| #304 | Milad Oghabian Langar CB | NED | +199 |
| #305 | Nick Schulman | USA | +4 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Orpen Kisacikoglu CB | TUR | 208 | Richard Dubini | ARG | 302 | |
| Wei Guo Liang 300 | CHN | 248 | Govert Metaal | NED | 310 | |
| Pfizer Jordan | USA | 254 | Fedor Holz #1 | GER | 313 | |
| Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 258 | Greg Himmelbrand | USA | 322 | |
| Joe Elpayaa | USA | 265 | Alexander Greenblatt | USA | 329 | |
| Michael Gagliano | USA | 276 | Timur Margolin | ISR | 336 | |
| Arkadiy Tsinis | USA | 289 | Ryan Yu | CAN | 379 | |
| Vineet Pahuja | USA | 292 | David ‘ODB’ Baker | USA | 385 | |
| Christian Harder | USA | 298 | Byron Kaverman #1 | USA | 405 | |
| Bartlomiej Machon | POL | 299 | Conor Beresford | UK | 406 |
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 | 3,691.67 | = |
| #2 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,660.28 | = |
| #3 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,569.71 | = |
| #4 | David Peters | USA | 3,144.12 | = |
| #5 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,139.85 | = |
| #6 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,138.43 | +1 |
| #7 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 3,116.13 | -1 |
| #8 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,086.82 | = |
| #9 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,077.09 | +5 |
| #10 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,004.06 | -1 |
| #11 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,948.00 | -1 |
| #12 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,925.92 | -1 |
| #13 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,923.53 | -1 |
| #14 | Joseph Cheong | USA | 2,902.54 | -1 |
| #15 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 2,877.35 | NEW |
Full August 29, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-08-29/300/
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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.
