December 06 2018, by Eric Danis

December 5, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings Update

THIS WEEK’S NOTES

›› Winning the WPT Seminole Rock N Roll Poker Open means a return to the Top 25 for Moldova’s Pavel Plesuv (World #14) – a career-best ranking

›› Chicago’s Ryan Tosoc (World #180) reached a career-best 180 this week. Tosoc has six Top 10 finishes so far this year

›› While there are no new entries in the GPI300 this week, we have 13 players returning to the elite group including reigning GPI Argentinian Player of the Year Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (World#292)

›› 2018 GPI PoY: All is quiet in the chase for GPI Player of the Year this week

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 William Alex Foxen (9 weeks) USA 3,992.22 1 =
#2 David Peters #1 USA 3,678.95 2 =
#3 Stephen Chidwick #1 UK 3,502.20 3 =
#4 Steve O’Dwyer #1 USA 3,478.37 5 +1
#5 Jake Schindler USA 3,422.80 6 +1
#6 Justin Bonomo USA 3,418.46 4 -2
#7 Adrian Mateos #1 ESP 3,394.73 7 =
#8 Ryan Riess USA 3,319.27 8 =
#9 Benjamin Pollak FRA 3,314.00 9 =
#10 Nikita Bodyakovskiy BLR 3,233.76 10 =
#11 Jason Koon USA 3,153.59 12 +1
#12 Rainer Kempe GER 3,115.52 11 -1
#13 Michael Addamo CB AUS 3,110.14 14 +1
#14 Pavel Plesuv CB MDA 3,100.99 39 NEW
#15 Joseph McKeehen USA 3,080.32 13 -2
#16 Christopher Michael Soyza MAS 3,077.41 15 -1
#17 Shaun Deeb USA 3,075.69 20 +3
#18 Dominik Nitsche GER 3,062.17 19 +1
#19 Anthony Zinno #1 USA 3,033.77 18 -1
#20 Jan Schiwppert GER 3,014.16 23 +3
#21 Benjamin Yu USA 3,013.20 21 =
#22 Kristen Bicknell CAN 3,001.65 17 -5
#23 Paul Volpe USA 2,946.63 53 NEW
#24 Timothy Miles USA 2,927.56 22 -2
#25 Mike Leah CAN 2,927.34 33 NEW

Out of the Top 25: #26 Koray Aldemir (GER) -10  //  #31 Joseph Cheong (USA) -6  //  #43 Nick Petrangelo #1 (USA) -19

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#142 James Gilbert USA 274 +132
#180 Ryan Tosoc CB USA 285 +105
#137 John Racener USA 223 +86
#136 Ismael Bojang GER 221 +85
#153 Tom Hall UK 233 +80
#143 Daniel Strelitz USA 209 +66
#45 Jacob Bazeley USA 107 +62
#146 Scott Bohlman CB USA 146 +61
#68 Davidi Kitai BEL 120 +52
#231 Danny Wong USA 283 +52

DOWN THE LADDER

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#215 Steffen Sontheimer GER 90 -125
#150 Benjamin Tollerene USA 73 -77
#174 Igor Kurganov RUS 113 -61
#269 Christopher Kruk CAN 219 -50
#294 Shannon Shorr USA 247 -47
#233 Ian Steinman USA 187 -46
#226 Andrey Pateychuk RUS 186 -40
#220 Guillaume Diaz FRA 181 -39
#254 Toby Lewis UK 215 -39
#158 Albert Daher LIB 121 -37

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION +/-
#301 Julien Martini FRA =
#302 Rex Clinkscales USA -5
#303 Martin Zamani USA +6
#304 Christoph Vogelsang GER -92
#305 Arunas Sapitavicius LIT -14

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Ravi Raghavan USA 209 Rex Clinkscales USA 302
Jeremy Joseph USA 218 Christoph Vogelsang GER 304
Brett Apter USA 263 Arunas Sapitavicius LIT 305
Phillip Hui USA 281 Daniel Dizenzo USA 306
Peter Eichhardt SWE 282 Laurynas Levinskas LIT 307
Allen Kessler USA 283 Paul Michaelis GER 311
John Andress USA 284 Kitty Kuo TAI 313
Ido Ashkenazi USA 285 David Eldridge USA 340
Jose Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Barbero ARG 292 Lance ‘Cord’ Garcia USA 351
Michael Gagliano USA 297 Cliff Josephy USA 369
Boris Kolev BUL 300 Jonathan Concepcion ESP 387

 

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 3,836.72 =
2nd David Peters USA 3,776.97 =
3rd Justin Bonomo USA 3,763.02 =
4th Stephen Chidwick UK 3,691.67 =
5th Jake Schindler USA 3,625.15 =
6th Steve O’Dwyer USA 3,531.55 =
7th Adrian Mateos ESP 3,412.43 =
8th Shaun Deeb USA 3,346.66 =
9th Benjamin Pollak FRA 3,313.33 =
10th Ryan Riess USA 3,284.31 =
11th Benjamin Yu USA 3,233.92 =
12th Christopher Michael Soyza MAS 3,228.97 =
13th Jason Koon USA 3,194.64 =
14th Nikita Bodyakovskiy BLR 3,184.50 =
15th Rainer Kempe GER 3,172.45 =

 

Full December 5, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-12-05/300/

 

 

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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.