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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