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
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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