December 21 2017, by Eric Danis
December 20, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› A pair of 4th place finish at PokerStars Championship Prague helped UK star Stephen Chidwick (World #3) to return to a career-best ranking. Chidwick has been part of the GPI World Top 10 for four consecutive months
›› William Alex Foxen (World #14) continues his late-season push. He followed up a 2nd place finish at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic earlier this month with a 10th place finish to close out the year in the PSC Prague Main Event
›› Speaking of the PSC Prague Main, 3rd place finisher Michal Mrakes (World #111) moved up 140 spots in the rankings to a career-best #111
›› Congratulations go out to Christopher Soyza (World #237), Kurt Jewell (World #272), Chris Ferguson (World #274), Jerome Sgorrano (World #296), Conor Beresford (World #297) and Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault (World #299) who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Adrian Mateos (4 wks) | ESP | 3,464.59 | 1 | = |
#2 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,302.68 | 2 | = |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick CB | UK | 3,265.66 | 5 | +2 |
#4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,255.50 | 3 | -1 |
#5 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,252.66 | 4 | -1 |
#6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,206.87 | 6 | = |
#7 | Fedor Holz #1 | GER | 3,172.03 | 7 | = |
#8 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,162.98 | 8 | = |
#9 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,125.46 | 10 | +1 |
#10 | Darren Elias CB | USA | 3,095.01 | 12 | +2 |
#11 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,089.42 | 13 | +2 |
#12 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 3,086.81 | 28 | NEW |
#13 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,085.94 | 11 | -2 |
#14 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 3,084.98 | 22 | +8 |
#15 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,073.19 | 14 | -1 |
#16 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,065.82 | 9 | -7 |
#17 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,023.68 | 23 | +6 |
#18 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,999.07 | 18 | = |
#19 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,996.50 | 16 | -3 |
#20 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,981.06 | 15 | -5 |
#21 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,978.62 | 21 | = |
#22 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,971.26 | 19 | -3 |
#23 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,944.76 | 17 | -6 |
#24 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,937.80 | 20 | -4 |
#25 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,902.12 | 24 | -1 |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Benjamin Zamani (USA) -2
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Michal Mrakes CB | CZE | 251 | 111 | +140 |
Mustapha Kanit | ITA | 265 | 146 | +119 |
Jason Wheeler | USA | 176 | 59 | +117 |
Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 192 | 82 | +110 |
Mark Herm | USA | 289 | 180 | +109 |
Daniel Tang CB | HKG | 165 | 70 | +95 |
Igor Kurganov | RUS | 114 | 30 | +84 |
Diego Zeiter | SUI | 197 | 124 | +73 |
Javier Zarco CB | ESP | 260 | 187 | +73 |
Phil Hellmuth | USA | 280 | 208 | +72 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
James Chen | TAI | 178 | 278 | -100 |
Jonathan Abdellatif | BEL | 164 | 258 | -94 |
Michael Gagliano | USA | 120 | 210 | -90 |
Julian Stuer | GER | 67 | 148 | -81 |
Dan Wilson | IRL | 140 | 216 | -76 |
Patrick Leonard | UK | 106 | 170 | -64 |
Matt Glantz | USA | 235 | 292 | -57 |
Harrison Gimbel | USA | 39 | 95 | -56 |
Thomas Boivin | BEL | 201 | 257 | -56 |
Jonathan Turner | USA | 210 | 265 | -55 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
#301 | Maxwell Young CB | USA |
#302 | Boris Kolev CB | BUL |
#303 | Loni Harwood | USA |
#304 | Samuel Chartier | CAN |
#305 | Michael Linster | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Robert Heidorn CB | GER | 179 | Loni Harwood | USA | 303 | |
Farid Jattin | COL | 182 | Samuel Chartier | CAN | 304 | |
Dylan Linde | USA | 191 | Matt Waxman | USA | 309 | |
Kalidou Sow CB | FRA | 196 | Georgios Vrakas | GRE | 310 | |
Kilian Kramer | GER | 231 | Jared Griener | USA | 311 | |
Christopher Kruk CB | CAN | 232 | Kyle Bowker | USA | 315 | |
Christopher Vogelsang | GER | 233 | Bartlomiej Machon | POL | 318 | |
Dominik Panka | POL | 235 | Kevin Eyster | USA | 322 | |
Jiri Horak CB | CZE | 236 | Michael Hahn | USA | 323 | |
Christopher Soyza 300 | MAS | 237 | Pratyush Buddiga | USA | 325 | |
Michael Zhang | USA | 250 | Seth Davies | USA | 326 | |
Dermot Blain | IRL | 259 | Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | GRE | 327 | |
Romain Lewis | FRA | 264 | Robert Hankins | USA | 329 | |
Kurt Jewell 300 | USA | 272 | Alexander Denisov | RUS | 332 | |
Chris Ferguson 300 | USA | 274 | Millard Hale | USA | 335 | |
Yuliyan Nikolaev Kolev | BUL | 282 | Ramin Hajiyev | AZE | 336 | |
Jussi Nevanlinna | FIN | 283 | Bryan Piccioli | USA | 343 | |
Shannon Shorr | USA | 285 | Anthony Ruberto | USA | 347 | |
Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA | 286 | Aliaksei Boika | BLR | 349 | |
Thiago Crema De Macedo | BRA | 289 | Daniel Weinman | USA | 362 | |
Scott Davies | USA | 290 | Jeremy Joseph | USA | 367 | |
Jerome Sgorrano 300 | BEL | 296 | Sorel Mizzi | CAN | 369 | |
Conor Beresford 300 | IRL | 297 | Matt Bond | USA | 392 | |
M-O Carpentier-Perrault 300 | CAN | 299 | Garrett Greer | USA | 543 |
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 | 3,504.71 | = |
#2 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,478.06 | = |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,341.89 | = |
#4 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,266.11 | = |
#5 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,236.48 | = |
#6 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 3,196.93 | NEW |
#7 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,180.30 | -1 |
#8 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,153.16 | -1 |
#9 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,134.62 | -1 |
#10 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,086.76 | -1 |
#11 | Darren Elias | USA | 3,082.43 | -1 |
#12 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,079.73 | NEW |
#13 | David Peters | USA | 3,011.84 | NEW |
#14 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 3,006.34 | -3 |
#15 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,995.10 | -1 |
Full December 20, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-12-20/300/
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