December 16 2015, by Eric Danis
GPI300: Chidwick, Duhamel re-enter Top 10
We’re a little over a week away from the end of the end of the 2015 poker season and a pair of star players have returned to the Top 10 …
VIEW FROM THE TOP
Byron Kaverman (GPI#1, =) will finish 2015 with the second longest consecutive weeks straight ranked #1 on the GPI World Poker Rankings; he begins his 12th consecutive week at the top. Kaverman is currently competing at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas.
Two new entries into the Top 10 this week as a pair of familiar faces return to the elite group. Coming off a side event victory at the EPT Prague Festival, Stephen Chidwick (GPI#9, +7) returns to the Top 10 for the first time since October. The UK star is joined by 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel (GPI#10, +3), who makes a Top 10 appearance for the first time in nine months.
Meanwhile, a pair of former World #1’s, Dan Smith (GPI#11, -6) and Erik Seidel (GPI#16, -6), drop out of this week’s Top 10.
Six players make their debut inside the GPI300 this week: Piotr Franczak (GPI#207), Arie Ori Miller (GPI#247), Stefan Ivanov (GPI#275), Ricardo Alvarado (GPI#280), Ryan Tepen (GPI#295) and Cord Garcia (GPI#296) – congratulations!
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 4,308.16 | 1 | = |
#2 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 4,155.82 | 3 | +1 |
#3 | Jason Mercier | USA | 4,071.96 | 2 | -1 |
#4 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,990.01 | 4 | = |
#5 | Nicholas Petrangelo | USA | 3,789.29 | 7 | +2 |
#6 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,678.41 | 6 | = |
#7 | Kevin MacPhee | USA | 3,657.01 | 8 | +1 |
#8 | Martin Finger | GER | 3,655.92 | 9 | +1 |
#9 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,628.48 | 16 | NEW |
#10 | Jonathan Duhamel | CAN | 3,589.22 | 13 | NEW |
Out of the Top 10 this week: Dan Smith (GPI#11), Erik Seidel (GPI#16)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Ramin Hajiyev | AZE | 2,546.13 | 189 | 82 | +107 |
Justin Oliver | CAN | 1,875.01 | 296 | 219 | +77 |
Oliver Weis | GER | 1,879.64 | 291 | 217 | +74 |
Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,315.81 | 183 | 111 | +72 |
David Levi | USA | 1,943.03 | 272 | 202 | +70 |
Simeon Naydenov | BUL | 1,843.00 | 295 | 226 | +69 |
Jose Nacho Barbero | ARG | 1,947.74 | 256 | 198 | +58 |
Joao Vieira | POR | 2,577.64 | 132 | 75 | +57 |
David Vamplew | UK | 1,981.14 | 243 | 187 | +56 |
Igor Kurganov | RUS | 2,396.29 | 153 | 100 | +53 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Andrey Zaichenko | RUS | 1,762.43 | 156 | 268 | -112 |
Doug Polk | USA | 1,734.79 | 207 | 287 | -80 |
Dylan Linde | USA | 1,833.05 | 161 | 235 | -74 |
Antonio Esfandiari | USA | 1,737.70 | 216 | 285 | -69 |
Kevin Eyster | USA | 1,831.79 | 171 | 238 | -67 |
Dan Heimiller | USA | 1,984.39 | 126 | 185 | -59 |
Justin Young | USA | 1,731.65 | 231 | 290 | -59 |
Giuliano Bendinelli | ITA | 1,794.09 | 196 | 251 | -55 |
Mayu Roca Uribe | COL | 1,714.94 | 246 | 299 | -53 |
J.C. Tran | USA | 1,779.89 | 208 | 260 | -52 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
››› GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ | NATION | GPI# | |
Piotr Franczak | POL | 207 | Richard Kirsch | USA | 303 | |
Matthias De Meulder | GER | 216 | Thomas Butzhammer | GER | 307 | |
Samuel Stein | USA | 228 | Calvin Anderson | USA | 309 | |
Roman Korenev | RUS | 232 | Dmitry Ivanov | RUS | 312 | |
Nick Yunis | COL | 242 | Isaac Baron | USA | 317 | |
Jean-Noel Thorel | FRA | 244 | Konstantin Puchkov | RUS | 341 | |
Leo Wolpert | USA | 246 | Daniel Stern | USA | 343 | |
Arie Orie Miller | ISR | 247 | Garrett Greer | USA | 344 | |
Raiden Kan | HKG | 248 | Dean Baranowski | USA | 349 | |
Daniel Buckley | USA | 261 | Brian Roberts | USA | 352 | |
Kitty Kuo | TAI | 265 | Bobby Oboodi | USA | 354 | |
Stefan Ivanov | BUL | 275 | Alexander Kuzmin | RUS | 363 | |
Ricardo Alvarado | USA | 280 | Robert Mizrachi | USA | 373 | |
Vyacheslav Stoyanov | MDA | 286 | Tyler Reiman | USA | 392 | |
Fernando Brito | POR | 289 | Jesse Sylvia | USA | 394 | |
Ryan Tepen | USA | 295 | Nicholas Rampone | USA | 395 | |
Cord Garcia | USA | 296 | Georges Yazbeck | LIB | 408 | |
Ben Palmer | USA | 300 | Henrik Hecklen | DEN | 480 |
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