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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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.