March 22 2018, by Eric Danis
March 21, 2018 World Poker Rankings: Re-Enter the Dragon
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› David Pham (World #35) is at it again. Three weeks after re-entering the GPI300, “The Dragon” has once again hit a career-best ranking. Pham has won two big events this month: The Wynn Spring Classic Championship and the WSOP Circuit Los Angeles Main Event
›› Meanwhile, William Alex Foxen (World #5) continues his rise in the rankings. Foxen cracks the GPI World Top 10 for the first time this week on the heels of a Super High Roller victory at APPT Macau
›› A fifth career win sees 2017 GPI Female Player of the Year Kristen Bicknell (World #31) return as #1 on the GPI Female World charts. Bicknell has been ranked #1 or #2 in the Female standings for 32 straight weeks
›› Congratulations go out to HPT Belterra Champion Aaron Johnson (World #253) who makes his GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Nick Pupillo, Ari Engel and Joseph McKeehen remain ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively despite each adding to their point totals this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Adrian Mateos (17 weeks) | ESP | 3,752.69 | 1 | = |
#2 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,419.07 | 3 | +1 |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,406.84 | 2 | -1 |
#4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,402.28 | 4 | = |
#5 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 3,304.16 | 11 | +6 |
#6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,278.34 | 5 | -1 |
#7 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,222.81 | 6 | -1 |
#8 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,195.39 | 7 | -1 |
#9 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,192.61 | 8 | -1 |
#10 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,176.97 | 10 | = |
#11 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,118.26 | 12 | +1 |
#12 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,106.37 | 9 | -3 |
#13 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,030.64 | 18 | +5 |
#14 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,024.65 | 14 | = |
#15 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,007.25 | 13 | -2 |
#16 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,993.44 | 15 | -1 |
#17 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 2,990.40 | 16 | -1 |
#18 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,968.20 | 17 | -1 |
#19 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,940.49 | 19 | = |
#20 | Darren Elias | USA | 2,857.83 | 20 | = |
#21 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,838.27 | 21 | = |
#22 | Ryan Riess CB | USA | 2,824.39 | 23 | +1 |
#23 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,802.70 | 22 | -1 |
#24 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 2,793.65 | 25 | +1 |
#25 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,760.54 | 24 | -1 |
Out of the Top 25: None
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Christian Harder | USA | 245 | 154 | +91 |
Andres Korn CB | ARG | 283 | 201 | +82 |
Stanislav Koleno CB | SLV | 259 | 182 | +77 |
Shankar Pillai | USA | 280 | 209 | +71 |
Andy Frankenberger | USA | 262 | 195 | +67 |
Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 213 | 147 | +66 |
Peter Vitantonio | USA | 250 | 186 | +64 |
Peter Eichhardt | SWE | 270 | 210 | +60 |
David Pham CB | USA | 91 | 35 | +56 |
Uri Reichenstein | ISR | 268 | 212 | +56 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Cliff Josephy | USA | 195 | 287 | -92 |
Jonathan Karamalikis | AUS | 173 | 236 | -63 |
Paul Volpe | USA | 220 | 273 | -53 |
Christian Christner | GER | 77 | 129 | -52 |
Daniel Strelitz | USA | 215 | 267 | -52 |
Erik Seidel | USA | 65 | 114 | -49 |
Dzmitry Urbanovich | POL | 184 | 231 | -47 |
Francois Billard | CAN | 78 | 123 | -45 |
Michael Tureniec | SWE | 237 | 279 | -42 |
David Laka Calzada | ESP | 224 | 264 | -40 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
#301 | Allen Kessler | USA |
#302 | Chad Eveslage | USA |
#303 | Eddy Sabat | USA |
#304 | Viktor Ustimov CB | RUS |
#305 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau CB | BLR |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Aaron Johnson 300 | USA | 253 | Allen Kessler | USA | 301 | |
Mukul Pahuja | USA | 259 | Samuel Phillips | USA | 327 | |
Mohsin Charania | USA | 274 | Seth Davies | USA | 328 | |
Valentin Vornicu | USA | 292 | Michael Wang | USA | 329 | |
Sean Winter | USA | 297 | James Calderaro | USA | 349 | |
Robert Heidorn | GER | 298 | Kevin Saul | USA | 362 | |
Faraz Jaka | USA | 299 | Esther Taylor-Brady | USA | 406 | |
Matt Bond | AUS | 300 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 429 |
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 | 1,676.96 | = |
#3 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,666.18 | = |
#4 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,601.68 | = |
#5 | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,452.97 | = |
#6 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 1,441.01 | NEW |
#7 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 1,430.66 | -1 |
#8 | Timothy Miles | USA | 1,411.31 | -1 |
#9 | Stephen Song | USA | 1,394.85 | +4 |
#10 | Toby Lewis | UK | 1,383.74 | -2 |
#11 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 1,371.99 | -2 |
#12 | Daniel Negreanu | CAN | 1,345.64 | -2 |
#13 | Gianluca Sperenza | ITA | 1,339.32 | -2 |
#14 | David Peters | USA | 1,298.40 | NEW |
#15 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 1,295.56 | NEW |
Full March 21, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-03-21/300/
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