December 14 2017, by Eric Danis
December 13, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Ari Engel (World #6) is back in familiar territory. Winning his second Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) title earlier this week helped the Canadian return to the Top 10 for the first time since October
›› A strong 2017 campaign, which culminated with a runner-up finish at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas over the weekend, sees William Alex Foxen (World #22) crack the Top 25 for the very first time of his career
›› WPT Five Diamond third place finisher, and WPT Champions Club member, Michael Del Vecchio (World #97) is also up in the standings this week, entering the Top 100 for the first time
›› Congratulations go out to Georgios Vrakas (World #250), Yan Tsang (World #276), Ioannis Angelou-Konstas (World #281) and Shyngis Satubayen (World #292) who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Adrian Mateos (3 wks) | ESP | 3,525.04 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,384.32 | 2 | = |
| #3 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,343.89 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,254.33 | 6 | +2 |
| #5 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,225.16 | 4 | -1 |
| #6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,208.72 | 14 | +8 |
| #7 | Fedor Holz #1 | GER | 3,162.26 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,161.72 | 9 | +1 |
| #9 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,152.90 | 8 | -1 |
| #10 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,127.15 | 5 | -5 |
| #11 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,103.03 | 11 | = |
| #12 | Darren Elias CB | USA | 3,095.42 | 24 | +12 |
| #13 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,089.42 | 10 | -3 |
| #14 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,071.00 | 13 | -1 |
| #15 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,041.79 | 12 | -3 |
| #16 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,022.98 | 15 | -1 |
| #17 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,994.19 | 16 | -1 |
| #18 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,987.50 | 18 | = |
| #19 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,971.26 | 17 | -2 |
| #20 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,926.71 | 19 | -1 |
| #21 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,907.20 | 20 | -1 |
| #22 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 2,897.77 | 63 | NEW |
| #23 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 2,896.96 | 21 | -2 |
| #24 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,856.33 | 34 | NEW |
| #25 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,844.03 | 25 | = |
Out of the Top 25: #30 Ankush Mandavia (USA) -8 // #51 Charlie Carrel (UK) -28
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Michael Del Vecchio CB | USA | 265 | 97 | +168 |
| Shaun Deeb | USA | 230 | 121 | +109 |
| Daniel Colman | USA | 204 | 100 | +104 |
| Jared Jaffee | USA | 167 | 68 | +99 |
| Shankar Pillai | USA | 269 | 190 | +79 |
| Giuseppe Pantaleo | GER | 268 | 200 | +68 |
| Michael Gagliano | USA | 184 | 120 | +64 |
| Daniel Strelitz | USA | 237 | 179 | +58 |
| Rajaee Wazwaz | USA | 297 | 240 | +57 |
| Mihai Niste | ROU | 186 | 136 | +50 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Daniel Weinman | USA | 161 | 268 | -107 |
| Bryan Piccioli | USA | 220 | 294 | -74 |
| Ilkin Savalan Amirov | AZE | 185 | 254 | -69 |
| James Chen | TAI | 124 | 178 | -54 |
| Rafael Moraes | BRA | 144 | 195 | -51 |
| Juha Helppi | FIN | 196 | 247 | -51 |
| Garrett Greer | USA | 244 | 295 | -51 |
| Michael Aron | USA | 243 | 291 | -48 |
| Thomas Marchese | USA | 87 | 134 | -47 |
| Fabrice Soulier | FRA | 155 | 202 | -47 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA |
| #302 | Tomas Jozonis CB | LIT |
| #303 | Brett Bader | USA |
| #304 | Ray Qartomy | USA |
| #305 | Alex Keating | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Ludovic Geilich | UK | 184 | Brett Bader | USA | 303 | |
| Benjamin Keeline | USA | 227 | Ray Qartomy | USA | 304 | |
| Georgios Vrakas 300 | GRE | 250 | Alex Keating | USA | 305 | |
| Massoud ‘Mike’ Eskandari | IRA | 256 | Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 306 | |
| David ‘Chino’ Rheem | USA | 261 | Dominik Panka | POL | 307 | |
| Jared Griener CB | USA | 272 | Rocco Palumbo | ITA | 309 | |
| Yan Tsang 300 | HKG | 276 | Robert Heidorn | GER | 311 | |
| Millard Hale | USA | 277 | Jia Liu | USA | 312 | |
| Phil Hellmuth | USA | 280 | Thiago Crema de Macedo | BRA | 314 | |
| Ioannis Angelou-Konstas 300 | GRE | 281 | Jean Gaspard | USA | 317 | |
| Alexander Denisov | RUS | 284 | Ray Henson | USA | 318 | |
| Matt Bond | USA | 287 | Jean-Pascal Savard | CAN | 326 | |
| Anthony Ruberto | USA | 288 | Erwann Pecheux | FRA | 327 | |
| Shyngis Satubayen 300 | KAZ | 292 | Romain Lewis | FRA | 328 | |
| Matt Waxman | USA | 296 | Josip Simunic | POL | 329 | |
| Robert Hankins | USA | 297 | Scott Clements | USA | 342 | |
| Asi Moshe | ISR | 298 | Timothy Reilly | USA | 354 | |
| Bartolomiej Machon 300 | POL | 299 | Michael Zhang | UK | 357 |
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 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,498.71 | +1 |
| #2 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,478.06 | -1 |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,280.21 | = |
| #4 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,266.11 | = |
| #5 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,236.48 | +3 |
| #6 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,180.30 | -1 |
| #7 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,153.16 | +3 |
| #8 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,134.62 | -2 |
| #9 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,086.76 | -2 |
| #10 | Darren Elias | USA | 3,082.43 | +2 |
| #11 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 3,006.34 | -2 |
| #12 | Steffen Sontheimer | GER | 2,976.61 | +1 |
| #13 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,962.81 | NEW |
| #14 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,952.50 | NEW |
| #15 | Dejuante Alexander | USA | 2,952.46 | NEW |
Full December 13, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-12-13/300/
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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.
