December 27 2018, by Eric Danis
December 26, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Super High Roller Bowl Champion Isaac Haxton (World #20) returns to the Top 25 for the first time since September, placing at a career-best #20
›› A CPPT victory at the Venetian Deep Stack Showdown sees Jonathan Turner (World #144), the top mover inside the GPI300, reach his highest ranking since July 2017
›› Congratulations go out to WPT Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic 4th place finisher Ping Liu (World #241), who makes their debut ranked inside the GPI300 this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: The GPI will reveal all Players of the Year (Overall, Female, Regional and National) on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 – stay tuned!
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (12 weeks) | USA | 4,015.65 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,617.29 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,602.31 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,525.99 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,441.79 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,368.88 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,349.77 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,311.35 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,304.73 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,253.02 | 11 | +1 |
| #11 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,250.72 | 10 | -1 |
| #12 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,136.62 | 13 | +1 |
| #13 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,112.36 | 15 | +2 |
| #14 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,106.87 | 14 | = |
| #15 | Paul Volpe | USA | 3,104.07 | 23 | +8 |
| #16 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,102.98 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,088.71 | 17 | = |
| #18 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,048.38 | 19 | +1 |
| #19 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,040.97 | 12 | -7 |
| #20 | Isaac Haxton CB | USA | 3,038.17 | 26 | NEW |
| #21 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 2,985.03 | 20 | -1 |
| #22 | Manig Loeser CB | GER | 2,967.27 | 24 | +2 |
| #23 | Jan Scwhippert | GER | 2,946.09 | 25 | +2 |
| #24 | Barry Hutter | USA | 2,941.70 | 28 | NEW |
| #25 | Anthony Zinno #1 | USA | 2,936.47 | 21 | -4 |
Out of the Top 25: #26 Kristen Bicknell (CAN) -4 // #40 Justin Bonomo (USA) -22
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #144 | Jonathan Turner | USA | 271 | +127 |
| #222 | Joao Vieira | POR | 300 | +78 |
| #177 | Milad Oghabian Langar CB | IRI | 224 | +47 |
| #165 | Felipe Ramos | BRA | 207 | +42 |
| #101 | Aymon Hata CB | UK | 141 | +40 |
| #214 | Paul Höfer | GER | 253 | +39 |
| #176 | James Romero | USA | 214 | +38 |
| #265 | Vadzim Lipauka | BLR | 299 | +34 |
| #110 | Martin Kozlov | AUS | 143 | +33 |
| #63 | Ognyan Dimov | BUL | 93 | +30 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #235 | Scott Bohlman | USA | 116 | -119 |
| #268 | Craig Varnell | USA | 191 | -77 |
| #294 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | POL | 220 | -74 |
| #300 | Ubaid Habib | USA | 232 | -68 |
| #208 | Joseph Couden | USA | 150 | -58 |
| #283 | Shankar Pillai | USA | 228 | -55 |
| #287 | James Chen | TAI | 236 | -51 |
| #245 | Jonathan Karamalikis | AUS | 195 | -50 |
| #197 | Jared Jaffee | USA | 152 | -45 |
| #253 | Stanley Lee | USA | 209 | -44 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Allen Kessler | USA | +2 |
| #302 | Steve Sung | USA | +6 |
| #303 | Scott Clements | USA | +124 |
| #304 | Cliff Josephy | USA | +6 |
| #305 | Charles La Boissoniere | CAN | +6 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Jimmy Guerrero | USA | 232 | Gavin O’Rourke | IRL | 308 | |
| Igor Kurganov | RUS | 234 | Mark Dube | USA | 309 | |
| Ping Liu 300 | USA | 241 | Chen Lin | TAI | 312 | |
| Dan Wilson | IRL | 243 | Phillip Hui | USA | 314 | |
| David Pham | USA | 262 | Mark Radoja | CAN | 317 | |
| Longsheng Tan CB | USA | 269 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 318 | |
| Dimitar Danchev | BUL | 273 | Steven van Zadelhoff | NED | 330 | |
| John Andress | USA | 274 | Ryan Leng | USA | 333 | |
| Rex Clinkscales | USA | 279 | Christopher Kruk | CAN | 335 | |
| Eric Blair | USA | 282 | Craig Mason | USA | 340 | |
| Jonathan Concepcion CB | ESP | 284 | Antoine Saout | FRA | 356 | |
| Marton Czuczor | HUN | 285 | Erik Seidel #1 | USA | 366 | |
| Matthew Wantman | USA | 295 | Adam Hendrix | USA | 375 | |
| Frederik Jensen | DEN | 296 | Toby Lewis | UK | 381 | |
| Lucas Greenwood | CAN | 297 | Richard Dubini | ARG | 406 | |
| Atanas Kavrakov | BUL | 298 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | RUS | 545 |
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 |
| 1st | William Alex Foxen | USA | 4,095.52 | = |
| 2nd | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,787.26 | = |
| 3rd | David Peters | USA | 3,776.97 | = |
| 4th | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,763.02 | = |
| 5th | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,716.07 | = |
| 6th | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,596.30 | = |
| 7th | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,503.07 | = |
| 8th | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,412.43 | = |
| 9th | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,389.65 | = |
| 10th | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,381.56 | = |
| 11th | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,366.69 | = |
| 12th | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,346.66 | = |
| 13th | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,313.33 | = |
| 14th | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,284.31 | = |
| 15th | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,267.34 | = |
Full December 26, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-12-26/300/
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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.
