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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