February 22 2017, by Eric Danis

February 22, 2017 World Poker Rankings Update

David Peters has returned to the top of the GPI World Poker Rankings…

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 David Peters CB USA 3,499.61 2 +1
#2 Nick Petrangelo USA 3,398.16 1 -1
#3 Bryn Kenney USA 3,255.49 4 +1
#4 Justin Bonomo CB USA 3,130.44 5 +1
#5 Adrian Mateos ESP 3,106.30 6 +1
#6 Ankush Mandavia CB USA 3,077.48 7 +1
#7 Fedor Holz GER 3,050.96 3 -4
#8 Dan Smith USA 3,007.59 9 +1
#9 Jack Salter UK 2,986.94 8 -1
#10 Ari Engel CAN 2,970.37 10 =
#11 Jason Koon CB USA 2,951.83 14 +3
#12 Byron Kaverman USA 2,942.64 22 +10
#13 Niall Farrell UK 2,909.62 12 -1
#14 Anthony Zinno USA 2,905.16 11 -3
#15 Rainer Kempe GER 2,872.22 18 +3
#16 Benjamin Zamani USA 2,871.87 13 -3
#17 Chance Kornuth USA 2,779.24 16 -1
#18 Andjelko Andrejevic SRB 2,741.93 17 -1
#19 Sergio Aido CB ESP 2,735.03 32 NEW
#20 Jake Schindler USA 2,723.66 19 -1
#21 Stephen Chidwick UK 2,722.75 20 -1
#22 Koray Aldemir CB GER 2,671.52 36 NEW
#23 Erik Seidel USA 2,648.80 30 NEW
#24 Steve O’Dwyer USA 2,629.77 26 NEW
#25 Davidi Kitai BEL 2,623.99 24 -1

Out of the Top 25: Connor Drinan USA (World #26, -11); Dietrich Fast GER (World #36, -11); Jason Mercier USA (World #39, -16); Ivan Luca ARG (World #79, -58)

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Kitty Kuo TAI 280 187 +93
Lance ‘Cord’ Garcia CB USA 163 76 +87
Jerry Wong USA 275 203 +72
Jan Bendik CZE 198 139 +59
Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero CB ARG 159 102 +57
Rajaee Wazwaz CB USA 183 126 +57
Juha Helppi FIN 126 75 +51
Patrick Leonard UK 231 182 +49
Olivier Busquet USA 184 138 +46
Benjamin Keeline CB USA 133 93 +40

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Andreas Freund AUT 161 285 -124
Matas Cimbolas LIT 121 234 -113
Michael Wang USA 210 283 -73
Josip Simunic AUT 167 238 -71
Samuel Chartier CAN 54 122 -68
Kevin MacPhee USA 192 260 -68
Adam Owen UK 136 196 -60
Moritz Dietrich AUT 239 298 -59
Ivan Luca ARG 21 79 -58
Joao Vieira AUT 174 232 -58

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION
#301 Riley Fuller USA
#302 Andy Hwang USA
#303 Cliff Josephy USA
#304 Konstantin Puchkov RUS
#305 Tobias Hausen GER

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

››› GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ NATION GPI#
Daniel Colman USA 151 Andy Hwang USA 302
Zohair Karim USA 190 Konstantin Puchkov RUS 304
Peter Vitantonio 300 USA 221 Tobias Hausen GER 305
Guo Dong CB CHN 226 Alexander Greenblatt USA 306
Daniel O’Brien USA 231 Jasper Van Putten NED 308
Park Yu Cheung 300 HKG 253 Nick Pupillo USA 311
Chris Moorman UK 255 Liv Boeree UK 316
Vicente Delgado ESP 267 Stoyan Obreshkov BUL 317
Lucas Greenwood 300 CAN 268 Georgios Sotiropoulos GRE 320
Lee Wai Kiat 300 MAS 274 Michael Addamo AUS 321
David Prociak 300 USA 276 Phong ‘Vip’ Nguyen USA 325
Raminder Singh 300 USA 281 Vladimir Geshkenbein RUS 331
Matthew Wakeman 300 AUS 284 Govert Metaal NED 335
Austin Peck 300 USA 288 Dejuante Alexander USA 339
Ihar Soika BLR 292 David Stefanski USA 341
Reginald Roberts 300 USA 293 Pavel Plesuv MDA 342
Thiago Nishijima BRA 294 Jeff Rossiter AUS 349
Andrey Shatilov RUS 296 Christoph Vogelsang GER 351
William Davies UK 297 Vojtech Ruzicka CZE 408
Natasha Mercier LIB 299 Andrey Kotelnikov RUS 456
Garrett Greer USA 300 Alex Keating USA 519

CB: Career-best GPI ranking  |  300: Making GPI300 debut


 

2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE

RANK PLAYER NATION PoY SCORE
#1 Bryn Kenney USA 1,780.53
#2 Mustapha Kanit ITA 1,597.35
#3 Byron Kaverman USA 1,257.50
#4 Sergio Aido ESP 1,175.05
#5 David Yan NZL 956.39
#6 Daniel Colman USA 915.02
#7 Roland Israelashvili USA 907.58
#8 Koray Aldemir GER 865.65
#9 Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero ARG 864.31
#10 Park Yu Cheung HKG 846.72
#11 Nathan Bjerno USA 796.36
#12 Nick Petrangelo USA 788.13
#13 Ben Heath UK 771.68
#14 Lucas Greenwood CAN 765.12
#15 Sergi Reixach ESP 760.80

 

Full February 22, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-02-22/300/

 

 

 

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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.