August 24 2016, by Eric Danis
August 24, 2016 World Rankings Update
11th straight week at the top of the World Rankings for Fedor Holz, who picked up yet another seven-figure score earlier this week at the EPT Barcelona Festival …
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Fedor Holz | GER | 4,877.65 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 4,595.93 | 4 | +2 |
| #3 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 4,308.79 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Jason Mercier | USA | 4,285.16 | 2 | -2 |
| #5 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 4,140.36 | 10 | +5 |
| #6 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 4,022.08 | 5 | -1 |
| #7 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 4,018.68 | 9 | +2 |
| #8 | David Peters | USA | 3,988.07 | 6 | -2 |
| #9 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,981.37 | 7 | -2 |
| #10 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,934.30 | 8 | -2 |
| #11 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,864.30 | 11 | = |
| #12 | Erik Seidel | USA | 3,842.85 | 13 | +1 |
| #13 | Connor Drinan | USA | 3,727.65 | 20 | +7 |
| #14 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,693.95 | 12 | -2 |
| #15 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,674.50 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Andjelko Andrejevic | SRB | 3,664.29 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,650.03 | 18 | +1 |
| #18 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,579.16 | 15 | -3 |
| #19 | Barry Hutter | USA | 3,567.65 | 27 | +8 |
| #20 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,561.90 | 17 | -3 |
| #21 | Sean Winter | USA | 3,557.83 | 19 | -2 |
| #22 | Cary Katz | USA | 3,536.02 | 24 | +2 |
| #23 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 3,518.70 | 21 | -2 |
| #24 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,508.73 | 22 | -2 |
| #25 | Davidi Kitai | BEL | 3,468.70 | 23 | -2 |
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Jospeh Serock | USA | 2,110.52 | 281 | 192 | +89 |
| Quan Zhou | CHN | 2,082.68 | 286 | 200 | +86 |
| Aliaksei Boika | BLR | 2,055.14 | 300 | 215 | +85 |
| Dermot Blain | IRL | 2,053.36 | 296 | 216 | +80 |
| Jason Koon | USA | 2,826.19 | 135 | 59 | +76 |
| Salman Behbehani | USA | 2,456.94 | 192 | 119 | +73 |
| Corey Hochmann | USA | 2,209.09 | 238 | 165 | +73 |
| Adam Geyer | USA | 2,131.22 | 248 | 180 | +68 |
| Daniel Strelitz | USA | 2,732.60 | 193 | 130 | +63 |
| Chris Klodnicki | USA | 2,149.09 | 237 | 176 | +61 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| David “Doc” Sands | USA | 2,059.47 | 108 | 213 | -105 |
| Craig McCorkell | UK | 2,005.56 | 180 | 236 | -56 |
| Tyler Patterson | USA | 1,913.59 | 221 | 277 | -56 |
| Christopher Frank | GER | 1,895.12 | 228 | 284 | -56 |
| Ian O’Hara | USA | 2,222.34 | 110 | 160 | -50 |
| Alex Keating | USA | 1,978.96 | 199 | 247 | -48 |
| Jaroslaw Sikora | POL | 2,070.58 | 163 | 207 | -44 |
| Allen Kessler | USA | 1,868.96 | 253 | 297 | -44 |
| Miltiadis Kyriakides | GRE | 1,904.65 | 239 | 280 | -41 |
| Matthew Salsberg | CAN | 1,878.21 | 252 | 292 | -40 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| ››› GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ | NATION | GPI# | |
| David Yan | NZ | 147 | Moritz Dietrich | AUT | 301 | |
| Juha Helppi | FIN | 152 | Calvin Anderson | USA | 302 | |
| Tom Hall | UK | 153 | Chris Hunichen | USA | 303 | |
| Daniel Colman | USA | 185 | Vanessa Selbst | USA | 305 | |
| Tobias Reinkemeier | GER | 198 | Aleksandr Gofman | RUS | 306 | |
| Seth Davies | USA | 204 | Adam Friedman | USA | 308 | |
| Kitty Kuo | TAI | 210 | Gordon Vayo | USA | 311 | |
| Alexandros Kolonias | GRE | 221 | Brandon Shack-Harris | USA | 312 | |
| Alexandru Papazian | ROU | 222 | Andreas Freund | AUT | 313 | |
| Oleksii Khoroshenin | UKR | 237 | Ben Palmer | USA | 314 | |
| Roman Valerstein | USA | 250 | Jesse Yaginuma | USA | 315 | |
| Andrey Shatilov | RUS | 251 | Tom Middleton | UK | 316 | |
| Yang Zhang | CHN | 262 | Michael Semenov | RUS | 317 | |
| Josip Simunic | AUT | 263 | Ariel Celestino | BRA | 318 | |
| Mihails Morozovs | AUT | 271 | Gavin O’Rourke | IRL | 319 | |
| Jan Bendik | SLV | 272 | Matt Bond | USA | 320 | |
| Mark Radoja | CAN | 282 | Ricardo Alvarez | USA | 329 | |
| Martin Kozlov | AUS | 285 | Dylan Wilkerson | USA | 338 | |
| Louis Salter | UK | 293 | Mario Lopez | ARG | 350 | |
| Esther Taylor-Brady | USA | 296 | Simeon Naydenov | BUL | 378 |
2016 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE |
| #1 | Fedor Holz | GER | 3,637.69 |
| #2 | Paul Volpe | USA | 3,095.05 |
| #3 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,045.89 |
| #4 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 3,016.86 |
| #5 | David Peters | USA | 2,862.92 |
| #6 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 2,838.33 |
| #7 | Jason Mercier | USA | 2,812.00 |
| #8 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 2,799.02 |
| #9 | Ivan Luca | ARG | 2,796.21 |
| #10 | Dietrich Fast | GER | 2,707.36 |
| #11 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 2,606.87 |
| #12 | Anthony Gregg | USA | 2,605.30 |
| #13 | Bryan Piccioli | USA | 2,597.58 |
| #14 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 2,594.73 |
| #15 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 2,572.72 |
Full rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/
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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.
