GPI300: Big moves inside the Top 10

Dan Smith survives a tumultuous week inside the Top 10 …

VIEW FROM THE TOP

One week after reaching at #1 for the first time in 2015, Dan Smith (GPI#1, =) retains his World #1 status this week. Smith is one of 19 ersers who returned to the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino earlier today to play Day 4 of the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship.

While Smith was able to retain the #1 rank, there was a shakeup awaiting the remaining members of this week’s Top 10, starting at #2 where Byron Kaverman (GPI#2, +8) sits for the very first time of his career.

Kaverman collected his very first bracelet victory over the weekend at the World Series of Poker, winning the No-Limit Hold’em Six Handed Championship, defeating Doug Polk (GPI#70, +55) for the title.

Stephen Chidwick (GPI#3, +4) also reached a career-high this week, reaching World #3 following his runner-up finish to Max Pescatori (GPI#112, +99) in the Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship at the WSOP. This is Chidwick’s fourth score of the Series.

Ole Schemion (GPI#5, -2) and Davidi Kitai (GPI#10, -4), who each have been mainstays at or near the top of the GPI World Poker Rankings for months, each fall in the standings for a second consecutive. While Schemion has yet to arrive in Las Vegas to play the WSOP, Kitai has been unable to cash in any events so far this summer.

GPI WORLD TOP 10

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SWIMMING UPSTREAM

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DOWN THE LADDER

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WHO’S IN?

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