May 03 2018, by Eric Danis
May 2, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Sam Greenwood (World #16) keeps on winning poker tournaments, and keeps on moving up the rankings too … he moves up to a career-best #16 this week
›› MSPT Minnesota 1st and 2nd place finishers, Rajaee Wazwaz (World #179) and Blake Bohn (World #185), move up over 100 spots in this week’s rankings
›› Congratulations go out to Almedin Imsirovic (World #271) who makes his GPI300 debuts this week
›› Meanwhile, former World #1 – and new dad – Jason Mercier (World #277) returns to the group of 300 for the first time since February
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Stephen Chidwick and Rainer Kempe, ranked PoY #1 and PoY #2, were able to add points to their 2018 point totals this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Stephen Chidwick (3 weeks) | UK | 3,782.00 | 1 | = |
#2 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,715.44 | 2 | = |
#3 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,418.33 | 3 | = |
#4 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,361.36 | 4 | = |
#5 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,356.47 | 5 | = |
#6 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,324.58 | 7 | +1 |
#7 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,260.93 | 6 | -1 |
#8 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,205.92 | 8 | = |
#9 | Jan Schwippert CB | GER | 3,152.76 | 10 | +1 |
#10 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,151.19 | 9 | -1 |
#11 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,135.51 | 11 | = |
#12 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,111.57 | 12 | = |
#13 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,051.04 | 16 | +3 |
#14 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,029.08 | 31 | NEW |
#15 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,027.78 | 15 | = |
#16 | Sam Greenwood CB | CAN | 3,020.07 | 20 | +4 |
#17 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,012.05 | 13 | -4 |
#18 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 2,976.14 | 14 | -4 |
#19 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,973.56 | 18 | -1 |
#20 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,968.87 | 17 | -3 |
#21 | Nick Petrangelo CB | USA | 2,962.10 | 21 | = |
#22 | Jake Schindler | USA | 2,889.80 | 22 | = |
#23 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 2,856.23 | 23 | = |
#24 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,853.83 | 25 | +1 |
#25 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,828.67 | 19 | -6 |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Isaac Haxton (USA) -6
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 245 | 123 | +122 |
Rajaee Wazwaz | USA | 293 | 179 | +114 |
Blake Bohn | USA | 290 | 185 | +105 |
Michael Watson | CAN | 277 | 184 | +93 |
Martin Jacobson | SWE | 217 | 142 | +75 |
Harrison Gimbel | USA | 150 | 97 | +53 |
Albert Daher | LIB | 116 | 65 | +51 |
Nicholas Palma CB | USA | 148 | 102 | +46 |
Georgios Vrakas | GRE | 125 | 80 | +45 |
Sylvain Loosli | FRA | 223 | 183 | +40 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
John Racener | USA | 102 | 215 | -113 |
Raffaele Sorrentino | ITA | 215 | 295 | -80 |
Thomas Marchese | USA | 178 | 247 | -69 |
Dmitry Yurasov | RUS | 108 | 175 | -67 |
John Juanda | INA | 118 | 177 | -59 |
Dominik Panka | POL | 201 | 257 | -56 |
Romain Lewis | FRA | 214 | 270 | -56 |
Dario Sammartino | ITA | 74 | 124 | -50 |
Erik Seidel | USA | 66 | 113 | -47 |
Andreas Klatt | GER | 144 | 186 | -42 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
#301 | Josias Santos | BRA | -6 |
#302 | Alexander Lakhov | RUS | -2 |
#303 | Duff Charette | CAN | -4 |
#304 | Stephen Buell | USA | -2 |
#305 | Paul Volpe | USA | -2 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 224 | Josias Santos | BRA | 301 | |
Mohsin Charania | USA | 252 | Alexander Lakhov | RUS | 302 | |
Almedin Imsirovic | USA | 271 | Christian Christner | GER | 311 | |
Jason Mercier #1 | USA | 277 | Roman Korenev | RUS | 317 | |
Anthony Ruberto | USA | 278 | Upeshka De Silva | USA | 318 | |
Andrey Konopelko | BLR | 284 | Kacper Pyzara | POL | 322 | |
Antoine Saout | FRA | 293 | Anders Korn | ARG | 341 | |
Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | 299 | Sam Soverel | USA | 345 |
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 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 2,762.62 | = |
#2 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,744.12 | = |
#3 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,313.43 | +2 |
#4 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,310.84 | +3 |
#5 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 2,094.39 | +3 |
#6 | Dylan Wilkerson | USA | 2,067.73 | -3 |
#7 | Joseph Cheong | USA | 2,063.75 | -3 |
#8 | Timothy Miles | USA | 1,955.07 | -2 |
#9 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,919.01 | +2 |
#10 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,894.89 | -1 |
#11 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,890.78 | -1 |
#12 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,842.66 | = |
#13 | Brian Altman | USA | 1,795.13 | = |
#14 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 1,756.38 | = |
#15 | Ryan Riess | USA | 1,697.53 | NEW |
Full May 2, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-05-02/300/
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