March 07 2019, by Eric Danis
March 6, 2019 GPI Global Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› A broken arm couldn’t keep Michael Soyza from making a return to the winner’s circle, this time at the Triton Poker Series in South Korea; Soyza returns to a career-best #11 in the rankings
›› Staying with the Triton Poker Series, 1st and 2nd place prelim event finishers Justin Bonomo (GPI# 5) and Sam Greenwood (GPI #9) each make a return to the Global Top 10
›› Congratulations go out to Filipp Khavin (GPI #240), David Wang (GPI #253) and Hamid Izadi (GPI #285), who all make the GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2019 GPI PoY Race: Sean Winter maintains his lead while 2017 GPI American Player of the Year Bryn Kenney makes the move up to 3rd in the race for 2019 PoY
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (22 weeks) | USA | 3,919.98 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,754.95 | 2 | = |
| #3 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,676.48 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,644.85 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,557.69 | 11 | +6 |
| #6 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,464.72 | 5 | -1 |
| #7 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,359.10 | 6 | -1 |
| #8 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,341.45 | 7 | -1 |
| #9 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 3,308.90 | 21 | +12 |
| #10 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,285.01 | 9 | -1 |
| #11 | Christopher Michael Soyza CB | MAS | 3,264.77 | 15 | +4 |
| #12 | Dominik Nistche | GER | 3,181.84 | 12 | = |
| #13 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,167.27 | 23 | +10 |
| #14 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 3,145.06 | 13 | -1 |
| #15 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,144.39 | 10 | -5 |
| #16 | Bart Lybaert | BEL | 3,103.82 | 14 | -2 |
| #17 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,096.59 | 18 | +1 |
| #18 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,082.93 | 19 | +1 |
| #19 | Ali Imsirovic CB | BIH | 3,058.64 | 22 | +3 |
| #20 | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,054.28 | 16 | -4 |
| #21 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,048.12 | 17 | -4 |
| #22 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,015.25 | 8 | -14 |
| #23 | Manig Loeser | GER | 3,009.12 | 20 | -3 |
| #24 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 2,987.13 | 26 | NEW |
| #25 | Sean Winter | USA | 2,978.66 | 31 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Benjamin Yu (USA) -2 // #29 Joseph McKeehen (USA) -5
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #119 | Viet Van Vo CB | USA | 225 | +106 |
| #168 | Lance ‘Cord’ Garcia | USA | 256 | +88 |
| #202 | Kyle Cartright CB | USA | 287 | +85 |
| #200 | Dan Shak | USA | 282 | +82 |
| #91 | Jared Jaffee | USA | 150 | +59 |
| #211 | Joshua Reichard CB | USA | 270 | +59 |
| #207 | Scott Margereson | UK | 257 | +50 |
| #194 | Ismael Bojang | GER | 242 | +48 |
| #108 | Anthony Spinella | USA | 153 | +45 |
| #230 | Steve Sung CB | USA | 264 | +34 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #259 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 168 | -91 |
| #241 | Ramin Hajiyev | AZE | 176 | -65 |
| #153 | Yan Tsang | HKG | 90 | -63 |
| #234 | Richard Kirsch | USA | 183 | -51 |
| #254 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 207 | -47 |
| #252 | Ivan Luca | ARG | 208 | -44 |
| #290 | Zhong Chen | NED | 251 | -39 |
| #288 | Andrey Konopelko | BLR | 250 | -38 |
| #134 | Fahredin Mustafov | BUL | 99 | -35 |
| #255 | Byron Kaverman #1 | USA | 220 | -35 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Shannon Shorr | USA | -84 |
| #302 | Jasthi Kumar | USA | = |
| #303 | Ben Lamb | USA | +140 |
| #304 | Allen Kessler | USA | -3 |
| #305 | David Jackson | USA | -8 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Filipp Khavin 300 | USA | 240 | Shannon Shorr | USA | 301 | |
| David Wang 300 | AUS | 253 | David Jackson | USA | 305 | |
| Alan King Lun Lau | HKG | 262 | Richard Bai | USA | 308 | |
| Gao Wenling CB | CHN | 267 | Peter Eichhardt | SWE | 323 | |
| Jesse Yaginuma | USA | 279 | Hon Cheong Lee | HKG | 324 | |
| Iori Yogo | JPN | 284 | Christian Harder | USA | 338 | |
| Hamid Izadi 300 | USA | 285 | Nan Hong | CHN | 345 | |
| Blake Whittington | USA | 287 | Jack O’Neill | UK | 396 | |
| Guo Dong | CHN | 299 | Norbert Szecsi | HUN | 403 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
2019 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| 1st | Sean Winter | USA | 1,919.38 | = |
| 2nd | Rainer Kempe | GER | 1,610.25 | = |
| 3rd | Bryn Kenney | USA | 1,515.26 | +5 |
| 4th | Jack Salter | UK | 1,463.21 | -1 |
| 5th | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 1,461.56 | -1 |
| 6th | Toby Lewis | UK | 1,435.53 | -1 |
| 7th | Chino Rheem | USA | 1,351.81 | -1 |
| 8th | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 1,302.08 | NEW |
| 9th | David Peters | USA | 1,281.05 | -2 |
| 10th | Daniel Tang | HKG | 1,266.64 | -1 |
| 11th | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 1,222.77 | = |
| 12th | Pete Chen | TAI | 1,199.58 | NEW |
| 13th | James Romero | USA | 1,177.27 | NEW |
| 14th | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,160.69 | NEW |
| 15th | Ariel Celestino | BRA | 1,134.23 | NEW |
Full March 6, 2019 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2019-03-06/300/
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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.
