August 31 2017, by Eric Danis

August 30, 2017 World Poker Rankings

THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK

›› Stephen Chidwick (World #5) is making another run at #1! The former World #3 is coming off a successful PokerStars Championship Barcelona festival, adding a win and a 3rd place finish in Spain

›› Success in Barca have also propelled WSOP Main Event 3rd place finisher Benjamin Pollak (World #12) to a career-best ranking

›› For the first time in history, three Spaniards are ranked inside the Top 25 as Javier Zapatero (World #17) joins mainstays Adrian Mateos (World #6) and Sergio Aido (World #15)

›› Congratulations go out to Lander Lijo Bereciartua (World #237) and Osmin Dardon (World #293), who make their GPI300 debuts this week

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Bryn Kenney USA 3,415.63 1 =
#2 Nick Petrangelo #1 USA 3,307.33 3 +1
#3 David Peters #1 USA 3,262.53 2 -1
#4 Justin Bonomo USA 3,230.84 4 =
#5 Stephen Chidwick UK 3,209.76 7 +2
#6 Adrian Mateos ESP 3,203.92 5 -1
#7 Ari Engel CAN 3,127.74 6 -1
#8 Dan Smith #1 USA 3,076.69 8 =
#9 Ankush Mandavia USA 3,053.09 9 =
#10 Koray Aldemir CB GER 3,014.22 19 +9
#11 Samuel Panzica USA 3,005.07 11 =
#12 Benjamin Pollak CB FRA 2,980.34 47 NEW
#13 Jason Koon USA 2,956.18 14 +1
#14 Jack Salter UK 2,941.54 13 -1
#15 Sergio Aido ESP 2,940.09 15 =
#16 Joseph McKeehen USA 2,910.59 12 -4
#17 Javier Zapareto CB ESP 2,850.00 44 NEW
#18 Rainer Kempe GER 2,843.18 17 -1
#19 Charlie Carrel UK 2,776.29 31 NEW
#20 Stefan Schillhabel CB GER 2,770.91 22 +2
#21 Jake Schindler USA 2,767.85 21 =
#22 Brian Altman CB USA 2,760.45 27 NEW
#23 Dario Sammartino ITA 2,756.23 18 -5
#24 Paul Volpe USA 2,726.00 26 NEW
#25 Niall Farrell UK 2,712.07 25 =

Out of the Top 25: #26 Steve O’Dwyer (USA) -10, #32 Benjamin Zamani (USA) -12; #39 Fedor Holz (GER) -16; #40 Pratyush Buddiga (USA) -12; #45 Connor Drinan (USA) -21

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Albert Daher LIB 273 124 +149
Raffaele Sorrentino CB ITA 218 98 +120
Pavel Plesuv MDA 253 144 +109
Paul Newey UK 297 200 +97
Usman Siddique CB UK 177 82 +95
Pierre Neuville BEL 165 89 +76
Sam Grafton CB UK 216 142 +74
Dan Wilson IRL 275 203 +72
Sylvain Loosli FRA 140 73 +67
Jared Jaffee USA 248 183 +65

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Artem Metalidi UKR 161 271 -110
Ivan Luca ARG 67 155 -88
Ilkin Savalan Amirov AZE 131 202 -71
Dylan Linde USA 142 213 -71
Kilian Kramer GER 175 236 -61
Diego Zeiter SUI 146 206 -60
Lucas Blanco ESP 167 226 -59
Rafael Moraes BRA 150 207 -57
Ryan D’Angelo USA 188 245 -57
Louis Salter UK 226 283 -57

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION
#301 Patrick Mahoney USA
#302 Josip Simunic AUT
#303 Richard Alsup USA
#304 Martin Kabhrel CZE
#305 Linh Tran VIE

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Alex Difelice CB CAN 173 Patrick Mahoney USA 301
Stefan Jedlicka AUT 186 Josip Simunic AUT 302
Jeremy Meacham CB USA 209 Richard Alsup USA 303
Govert Metaal NED 217 Martin Kabrhel CZE 304
Jake Cody UK 229 Stoyan Obreshkov BUL 306
Lander Lijo Bereciartua 300 ESP 237 Andjelko Andrejevic SRB 309
Aleksandr Gofman RUS 242 Demo Kiriopoulos CAN 310
Jussi Nevanlinna FIN 253 Massoud Eskandari IRI 311
John Juanda INA 258 Brian Yoon USA 313
Andre Akkari BRA 266 Sergey Lebedev RUS 318
Jan Bendik SLV 270 Shaun Deeb USA 327
Matas Cimbolas LIT 274 Oleksii Khoroshenin UKR 336
Kyle Bowker USA 276 Apostolos Bechrakis GRE 337
Adam Owen UK 284 Goran Mandic CRO 339
Francois Billard CAN 292 Andrey Pateychuk RUS 349
Osmin Dardon 300 USA 293 Asi Moshe ISR 370
Robert Hankins USA 294 Dominik Nitsche GER 373
Anton Astapau BLR 295 Kully Sidhu UK 375
Christoph Vogelsang GER 296 Vojtech Ruzicka CZE 383
Jens Lakemeier GER 297 Joseph Serock USA 388
James Calderaro USA 300 Noah Vaillancourt CAN 460

CB: Career-best GPI ranking  |  300: Making GPI300 debut |  #1: Former GPI World #1


 

2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE

RANK PLAYER NATION PoY SCORE CHANGE
#1 Bryn Kenney USA 3,284.93 =
#2 Koray Aldemir GER 3,149.15 =
#3 Nick Petrangelo USA 3,058.14 +1
#4 Dario Sammartino ITA 2,928.47 -1
#5 Dan Smith USA 2,841.98 =
#6 Sergio Aido ESP 2,809.01 =
#7 Pete Chen TAI 2,781.40 =
#8 Stephen Chidwick UK 2,778.51 NEW
#9 Ari Engel CAN 2,769.06 =
#10 David Peters USA 2,745.14 -2
#11 Adrian Mateos ESP 2,705.65 =
#12 Manig Loeser GER 2,667.58 -2
#13 Javier Zapatero ESP 2,641.92 NEW
#14 Anthony Spinella USA 2,632.83 -2
#15 Charlie Carrel UK 2,618.77 -2

 

Full August 30, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-08-30/300/

 

 

 

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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.