September 09 2015, by Eric Danis

GPI300: Kaverman, Kitai on the rise

Mercier holds on while Kaverman, Kitai are making another push …

VIEW FROM THE TOP

Jason Mercier GPI

Thumbs up to Jason Mercier (GPI#1, =) who is spending his 8th consecutive week atop the GPI World Poker Rankings. Mercier, who became the first player to cross the 60-weeks at the top barrier last week, does have a few players threatening to remove him from the top spot.

One of those player, Byron Kaverman (GPI #2, +1), moves to #2 in the World for the fifth time of his career. Kaverman is one spot away from becoming the 11th player in history to reach #1 status. The Ohio man has earned 14 results so far this season and entered the 4,000-point club for the very first time of his career this week.

Speaking of #2 ranked players in the World, Belgian superstar, and former World #2, Davidi Kitai (GPI#7, +3) makes a Top 10 push for the second week in a row. After spending over 11 months ranked inside the Top 10, Kitai had dropped out of the elite group last month only to make his triumphant return in last week’s rankings update.

No first time entries into the GPI300 this week as all six players making their way in are re-entering 300, including former World #44 Vitaly Lunkin (GPI# 293), who returns for the first time in 15 weeks.

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Jason Mercier USA 4,245.59 1 =
#2 Byron Kaverman USA 4,203.09 3 +1
#3 Anthony Zinno USA 4,003.40 2 -1
#4 Scott Seiver USA 3,935.50 4 =
#5 Nicholas Petrangelo USA 3,817.84 5 =
#6 Paul Volpe USA 3,707.71 6 =
#7 Davidi Kitai BEL 3,601.95 10 +3
#8 Stephen Chidwick UK 3,592.90 7 -1
#9 Bryn Kenney USA 3,590.78 8 -1
#10 Mustapha Kanit ITA 3,580.03 9 -1

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST THIS CHANGE
Ray Qartomy USA 1,983.07 272 189 +83
J.J. Liu TAI 1,977.80 277 194 +83
Christopher De Maci USA 1,914.90 285 211 +74
Allen Kessler USA 2,060.61 206 168 +38
J.C. Tran USA 2,046.77 208 171 +37
Michael Wang USA 2,546.49 117 83 +34
Benjamin Yu USA 1,880.57 254 222 +32
Christopher Csik USA 1,809.78 280 248 +32
Corey Hochman USA 2,077.27 193 163 +30
Nipun Java IND 2,128.20 175 149 +26

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST THIS CHANGE
Anatoly Filatov RUS 1,686.53 168 294 -126
Nicolas Chouity LIB 1,724.17 218 285 -67
Benjamin Vinson UK 1,793.91 202 256 -54
Oliver Price UK 2,131.97 94 147 -53
Toby Lewis UK 2,083.88 111 162 -51
Antonio Buonanno ITA 1,806.77 213 249 -36
Manig Loeser GER 1,763.90 231 267 -36
Isaac Baron USA 2,028.53 143 178 -35
Maxim Panyak RUS 1,679.86 270 299 -29
Jean Montury FRA 1,791.62 233 258 -25

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

››› GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ NATION GPI#
Stan Jablonski USA 235 Giacomo Fundaro ITA 304
Vojtech Ruzicka CZE 279 Lasse Frost DEN 332
Randy Pfeifer USA 290 Andrey Pateychuk RUS 337
Vitaly Lunkin RUS 293 Oscar Alache Orrego CHI 360
Rajaee Wazwaz USA 295 Arie Ori Miller ISR 366
Emrah Cakmak FRA 297 Olesksandr Gnatenko UKR 412

 

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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.