July 07 2017, by Eric Danis

July 5, 2017 World Poker Rankings

THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK

›› The grinder of all grinders, Ari Engel (World #3) continues his charge to #1. He becomes the highest ranked Canadian in 33 months (Daniel Negreanu, October 2014)

›› 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Joe McKeehen (World #10) improves on his career best ranking for the second straight week

›› Speaking of the WSOP Main (which starts in just a few days, by the way!), 2014 7th place finisher Daniel Sindelar (World #286) enters the GPI300 for the very first time of his career

›› Other than Sindelar, six other players made their GPI300 debuts this week: Asi Moshe (World #198), WSOP bracelet winner Andres Korn (World #218), Uri Reichenstein (World #231), Martin Kabrhel (World #255), Jiri Horak (World #280) and Simon Lam (World #295)

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Nick Petrangelo USA 3,483.52 1 =
#2 David Peters USA 3,313.89 2 =
#3 Ari Engel CB CAN 3,255.61 5 +2
#4 Fedor Holz GER 3,239.59 4 =
#5 Steve O’Dwyer USA 3,206.48 6 +1
#6 Adrian Mateos ESP 3,205.01 7 +1
#7 Dan Smith USA 3,147.71 8 +1
#8 Justin Bonomo USA 3,133.85 3 -5
#9 Bryn Kenney USA 3,128.34 9 =
#10 Joseph McKeehen CB USA 3,093.32 11 +1
#11 Paul Volpe USA 3,050.79 10 -1
#12 Jack Salter UK 3,027.84 12 =
#13 Sergio Aido CB ESP 2,982.93 14 +1
#14 Rainer Kempe GER 2,975.84 17 +3
#15 Samuel Panzica USA 2,969.61 15 =
#16 Jason Koon USA 2,951.76 18 +2
#17 Connor Drinan USA 2,949.25 16 -1
#18 David Yan CB NZL 2,928.13 20 +2
#19 Stephen Chidwick UK 2,925.06 19 =
#20 Koray Aldemir GER 2,883.77 21 +1
#21 Ankush Mandavia USA 2,869.56 13 -8
#22 Charlie Carrel UK 2,864.08 23 +1
#23 Pratyush Buddiga USA 2,794.81 26 NEW
#24 Niall Farrell UK 2,780.95 24 =
#25 Jake Schindler USA 2,777.01 25 =

Out of the Top 25: Jason Mercier (World #32, -10)

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Brian Yoon USA 286 98 +188
Thomas Boivin CB BEL 201 100 +101
Cary Katz USA 166 73 +93
Juha Helppi FIN 211 119 +92
Mohsin Charania USA 170 85 +85
Jeremy Joseph CB USA 240 161 +79
Artur Koren GER 237 170 +67
Andrew Spears USA 154 93 +61
Paul Newey UK 270 214 +56
Samuel Phillips CB USA 217 163 +54

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Shaun Deeb USA 138 232 -94
Mark Herm USA 152 216 -64
Daniel Negreanu CAN 128 186 -58
Antoine Saout FRA 163 220 -57
Marc MacDonnell IRL 160 215 -55
Jared Jaffee USA 122 174 -52
Dejuante Alexander USA 142 189 -47
Paul Tedeschi FRA 147 194 -47
Jason Gooch USA 226 270 -44
Phillip Hui USA 93 136 -43

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION
#301 Matthew Wakeman AUS
#302 Bart Lybaert BEL
#303 Jesse Sylvia USA
#304 Albert Daher LIB
#305 Joey Weissman USA

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Tobias Peters NED 156 Matthew Wakeman AUS 301
Scott Clements USA 188 Albert Daher LIB 304
Ray Qartomy USA 191 Joey Weissman USA 305
Ihar Soika BLR 195 Kevin Andriamahefa USA 306
Asi Moshe 300 ISR 198 Michael Lech USA 307
Andrey Pateychuk RUS 208 Matt Waxman USA 308
Dan Wilson IRL 210 Kiryl Radzivonau BLR 311
Andres Korn 300 ARG 218 Jesse Yaginuma USA 312
James Gilbert USA 230 Dylan Linde USA 313
Uri Reichenstein 300 ISR 231 Atanas Kavrakov BUL 314
Konstantin Puchkov RUS 235 Mihails Morozovs LAT 316
Chris Klodnicki USA 250 Brian Rast USA 333
Stoyan Obreshkov CB GER 253 Park Yu Cheung HKG 336
Martin Kabrhel 300 CZE 255 Reginald Roberts USA 347
Javier Zarco ESP 257 Simon Deadman UK 355
Jason Les USA 258 Robert Mizrachi USA 369
Jerry Odeen SWE 260 Mike McDonald CAN 386
Jens Lakemeier GER 268 Max Pescatori ITA 388
Michael Tureniec SWE 278 Daniel O’Brien USA 389
Jiri Horak 300 CZE 280 Michael Watson CAN 395
Matt Glantz USA 282 Isaac Haxton USA 398
Daniel Sindelar 300 USA 286 David Diaz USA 417
Dan Heimiller USA 289 Michael Mizrachi USA 499
Simon Lam 300 USA 295 Adrien Allain FRA 506

CB: Career-best GPI ranking  |  300: Making GPI300 debut


 

2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE

RANK PLAYER NATION PoY SCORE CHANGE
#1 Nick Petrangelo USA 2,881.97 +1
#2 Bryn Kenney USA 2,840.97 -1
#3 Sergio Aido ESP 2,676.10 +1
#4 Koray Aldemir GER 2,673.73 -1
#5 Ari Engel CAN 2,652.80 +1
#6 David Peters USA 2,607.62 -1
#7 Adrian Mateos ESP 2,466.55 =
#8 Dario Sammartino ITA 2,461.79 +4
#9 Pete Chen TAI 2,453.11 NEW
#10 Daniel Dvoress CAN 2,430.71 -2
#11 Justin Bonomo USA 2,429.02 -2
#12 John Racener USA 2,358.79 NEW
#13 Manig Loeser GER 2,340.79 -3
#14 Byron Kaverman USA 2,301.98 -3
#15 Dan Smith USA 2,282.22 -2

 

Full July 5, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-07-05/300/

 

 

 

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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.