March 16 2017, by Eric Danis

March 15, 2017 World Poker Rankings Update

Just like LAPC winner Daniel Strelitz (World #32 CB, +4) last week, it’s another World Poker Tour Main Event winner’s turn to move up in the rankings as WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Champion Samuel Panzica (World #5 CB, +20) enters the Top 10 for the very first time of his career …

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 David Peters USA 3,457.98 1 =
#2 Nick Petrangelo USA 3,234.88 2 =
#3 Bryn Kenney USA 3,203.87 3 =
#4 Justin Bonomo USA 3,171.55 4 =
#5 Samuel Panzica CB USA 3,171.24 25 +20
#6 Rainer Kempe CB GER 3,132.51 12 +6
#7 Adrian Mateos ESP 3,093.96 5 -2
#8 Dan Smith USA 2,965.04 7 -1
#9 Ankush Mandavia USA 2,963.93 6 -3
#10 Ari Engel CAN 2,962.34 9 -1
#11 Jason Koon USA 2,951.18 8 -3
#12 Jake Schindler USA 2,947.48 10 -2
#13 Byron Kaverman USA 2,929.58 11 -2
#14 Sergio Aido CB ESP 2,898.84 17 +3
#15 Niall Farrell UK 2,882.44 13 -2
#16 Fedor Holz GER 2,868.51 14 -2
#17 Paul Volpe USA 2,809.90 52 NEW
#18 Koray Aldemir GER 2,794.19 16 -2
#19 Jack Salter UK 2,752.40 15 -4
#20 Igor Yaroshevsky CB UKR 2,726.54 29 NEW
#21 Stephen Chidwick UK 2,704.16 19 -2
#22 David Yan NZL 2,701.11 18 -4
#23 Ben Heath UK 2,679.77 20 -3
#24 Erik Seidel USA 2,663.65 22 -2
#25 Connor Drinan USA 2,659.81 23 -2

Out of the Top 25: Benjamin Zamani USA (World #26, -5)

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Anthony Spinella CB USA 208 58 +150
Kevin MacPhee USA 278 141 +137
Joseph Serock USA 203 103 +100
Bryan Piccioli USA 271 181 +90
Kiryl Radzivonau BLR 237 153 +84
Garrett Greer USA 245 162 +83
Dylan Wilkerson USA 179 105 +74
Jean Gaspard USA 268 194 +74
Paul Tedeschi FRA 197 140 +57
Luiz Antonio Ferreira BRA 259 211 +48

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Rajaee Wazwaz USA 167 229 -62
Alexander Rocha USA 51 98 -47
Xixiang Luo CHN 133 175 -42
Vlad Darie ROU 192 234 -42
Wayne Zhang CHN 162 196 -34
Harrison Gimbel USA 75 106 -31
Eric Baldwin USA 169 198 -29
Mark Dube USA 249 278 -29
David Prociak USA 265 294 -29
Scott Davies USA 235 263 -28

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION
#301 Benjamin Perez USA
#302 Kalidou Sow FRA
#303 Upeshka De Silva USA
#304 Sergey Lebedev RUS
#305 William Davies UK

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

››› GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ NATION GPI#
Chino Rheem USA 161 Kalidou Sow FRA 302
Daniel O’Brien USA 199 Upeshka De Silva USA 303
Alexandru Papazian ROU 227 Sergey Lebedev RUS 304
Eduards Kudrjavcev 300 LAT 238 Michael Wang USA 306
Jeremy Joseph 300 USA 257 Jasper Van Putten NED 313
Alan King Lun Lau 300 HKG 267 Andreas Freund AUT 316
Willam Givens 300 USA 272 Kees van Brugge NED 332
Gerald Karlic AUT 284 Kane Kalas USA 336
Konstantin Puchkov RUS 286 Riley Fuller USA 362
Jared Griener 300 USA 300 Matt Salsberg CAN 374

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


 

2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE

RANK PLAYER NATION PoY SCORE
#1 Bryn Kenney USA 1,974.95
#2 Sergio Aido ESP 1,632.96
#3 Mustapha Kanit ITA 1,597.35
#4 Koray Aldemir GER 1,387.42
#5 Ben Heath UK 1,359.91
#6 Dylan Wilkerson USA 1,315.73
#7 Byron Kaverman USA 1,257.50
#8 Nadya Magnus USA 1,196.08
#9 Park Yu Cheung HKG 1,164.99
#10 Roland Israelashvili USA 1,151.97
#11 Manig Loeser GER 1,121.64
#12 Aaron Massey USA 1,088.74
#13 Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero ARG 1,081.56
#14 Jeremy Joseph USA 1,043.52
#15 Blake Bohn USA 1,032.11

 

Full March 15, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-03-15/300/

 

*Cover photo courtesy of World Poker Tour

 

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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.