March 14 2018, by Eric Danis
March 14, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› World #1 Adrian Mateos has entered the Top 10 for most total weeks (16) ranked #1 on the GPI. Next up for the Spanish star? Pushing by former World #1’s ElkY and Marvin Rettenmaier, who were each ranked #1 for 18 total weeks
›› Two-time WPTDeepStacks winner Ioannis Angelou-Konstas (World #150) of Greece moves up over spots in the rankings this week, now sitting at a career-best #150 in the world
›› Congratulations go out to Canada’s Duff Charette (World #282) and American Stephen Song (World #300), who each make their GPI300 debuts this week
›› We bid farewell to Faraz Jaka (World #306), who drops out of the GPI300 for the very first in GPI history. Jaka, who spends a little less time on the circuit these days, was ranked inside the 300 since the GPI released its first ever rankings on June 27, 2011
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Always a PoY contender, Canadian Ari Engel (World #5) moves up three spots in the PoY race after winning his 9th WSOP Circuit ring in Los Angeles
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Adrian Mateos (16 weeks) | ESP | 3,751.66 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,465.06 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,419.07 | 3 | = |
| #4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,354.58 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,294.08 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,250.83 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,210.56 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,176.93 | 9 | +1 |
| #9 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,158.80 | 10 | +1 |
| #10 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,152.06 | 8 | -2 |
| #11 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,147.47 | 11 | = |
| #12 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,118.26 | 12 | = |
| #13 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,103.11 | 13 | = |
| #14 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,051.97 | 14 | = |
| #15 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,993.44 | 15 | = |
| #16 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 2,990.40 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,968.20 | 17 | = |
| #18 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,956.26 | 20 | +2 |
| #19 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,940.49 | 18 | -1 |
| #20 | Darren Elias | USA | 2,872.38 | 19 | -1 |
| #21 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,831.15 | 21 | = |
| #22 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,813.97 | 22 | = |
| #23 | Ryan Riess | USA | 2,813.06 | 27 | NEW |
| #24 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,796.31 | 23 | -1 |
| #25 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 2,793.65 | 24 | -1 |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Samuel Panzica (USA) -2
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Joe Elpayaa | USA | 300 | 166 | +134 |
| Jonathan Abdellatif | BEL | 280 | 170 | +110 |
| Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | GER | 206 | 150 | +56 |
| Loni Harwood | USA | 194 | 141 | +53 |
| Michael Hahn | USA | 265 | 222 | +43 |
| Jack Sinclair CB | UK | 244 | 203 | +41 |
| Peter Vitantonio | USA | 291 | 250 | +41 |
| Dmitry Gromov | RUS | 226 | 186 | +40 |
| Jean Gaspard | USA | 240 | 200 | +40 |
| Alexander Denisov | RUS | 293 | 266 | +27 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| David Laka Calzada | ESP | 123 | 224 | -101 |
| Samuel Phillips | USA | 158 | 244 | -86 |
| Konstantin Puchkov | RUS | 201 | 276 | -75 |
| Alexandru Papazian | ROU | 188 | 254 | -66 |
| Aleksandr Gofman | RUS | 61 | 118 | -57 |
| Richard Dubini | ARG | 210 | 265 | -55 |
| Diego Zeiter | SUI | 151 | 201 | -50 |
| Chance Kornuth | USA | 58 | 97 | -39 |
| Stanislav Koleno | SLV | 224 | 259 | -35 |
| Dylan Wilkerson | USA | 159 | 193 | -34 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | Sean Winter | USA |
| #302 | Robert Heidorn | GER |
| #303 | Mukul Pahuja | USA |
| #304 | Richard Bai CB | USA |
| #305 | Juan Carlos Alvarado | MEX |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Seth Davies | USA | 256 | Faraz Jaka | USA | 306 | |
| Uri Reichenstein | ISR | 268 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | TUR | 307 | |
| Oliver Weis | GER | 269 | Adam Geyer | USA | 314 | |
| Duff Charette 300 | CAN | 282 | Ravi Raghavan | USA | 320 | |
| Thomas Taylor | CAN | 284 | Dean Blatt | AUS | 325 | |
| Tomas Soderstrom | SWE | 285 | Rajaee Wazwaz | USA | 339 | |
| Sean Yu | KOR | 287 | Roland Israelashvili | USA | 340 | |
| Bobby Zhang | AUS | 288 | Daniel Laidlaw | AUS | 345 | |
| Michael Wang | USA | 298 | Marshall White | USA | 375 | |
| Jan Bendik | SLV | 299 | Jeremy Joseph | USA | 394 | |
| Stephen Song 300 | USA | 300 | Canlin Chen | CHN | 427 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
2018 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| #1 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,797.41 | = |
| #2 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,618.23 | = |
| #3 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,502.74 | +3 |
| #4 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,478.17 | -1 |
| #5 | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,452.97 | -1 |
| #6 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 1,430.66 | -1 |
| #7 | Timothy Miles | USA | 1,411.31 | = |
| #8 | Toby Lewis | UK | 1,383.74 | = |
| #9 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 1,371.99 | = |
| #10 | Daniel Negreanu | CAN | 1,345.64 | = |
| #11 | Gianluca Sperenza | ITA | 1,339.32 | = |
| #12 | Gerald Karlic | AUT | 1,260.14 | = |
| #13 | Stephen Song | USA | 1,239.71 | = |
| #14 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 1,223.35 | = |
| #15 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 1,144.44 | = |
Full March 14, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-03-14/300/
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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.
