November 02 2017, by Eric Danis
November 1, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Spanish star Adrian Mateos (World #2) earned his career-best ranking this week. The multiple-time European Poker Award winner is coming off a side event victory at the Asia Championship of Poker in Macau
›› Stephen Chidwick (World #3), who also stared in Macau, returns to a career-best #3 for the first time since June of 2015
›› A WSOP Europe bracelet victory helped Martin Kabrhel (World #125) reach his career-high ranking this week
›› Although we have no players making their GPI300 debuts this week, three of the 15 returnees reached their career-best this week: Alan King Lun Lau (World #118), David Laka (World #151) and Michael Aron (World #207).
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Bryn Kenney (11 wks) | USA | 3,434.18 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Adrian Mateos CB | ESP | 3,381.18 | 5 | +3 |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick CB | UK | 3,296.52 | 8 | +5 |
| #4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,275.04 | 2 | -2 |
| #5 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,241.30 | 3 | -2 |
| #6 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,160.93 | 4 | -2 |
| #7 | Fedor Holz #1 | GER | 3,130.06 | 9 | +2 |
| #8 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,119.05 | 7 | -1 |
| #9 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,101.23 | 6 | -3 |
| #10 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,043.44 | 10 | = |
| #11 | Stefen Schillhabel CB | GER | 3,038.51 | 12 | +1 |
| #12 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,022.49 | 11 | -1 |
| #13 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,010.65 | 13 | = |
| #14 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,964.28 | 15 | +1 |
| #15 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,943.34 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,941.49 | 30 | NEW |
| #17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,934.43 | 16 | -1 |
| #18 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 2,911.64 | 19 | +1 |
| #19 | Jason Mercier #1 | USA | 2,839.22 | 25 | +6 |
| #20 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 2,831.43 | 20 | = |
| #21 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 2,829.77 | 17 | -4 |
| #22 | Brian Altman CB | USA | 2,813.54 | 38 | NEW |
| #23 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,795.77 | 22 | -1 |
| #24 | Connor Drinan | USA | 2,773.80 | 23 | -1 |
| #25 | Jake Schindler | USA | 2,744.99 | 26 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Sergio Aido (ESP) -9 // #28 Jack Salter (USA) -7 // #46 Benjamin Pollak (FRA) -22
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Michael Watson | CAN | 268 | 101 | +167 |
| Omar Lakhdari CB | MAR | 298 | 222 | +76 |
| Martin Kabrhel CB | CZE | 199 | 125 | +74 |
| Daniel Tang CB | HKG | 254 | 183 | +71 |
| Paul Balzano | USA | 226 | 163 | +63 |
| Upeshka Da Silva | USA | 183 | 123 | +60 |
| Roman Korenev | RUS | 107 | 59 | +48 |
| Martin Jacobson | SWE | 212 | 164 | +48 |
| Daniel Negreanu #1 | CAN | 190 | 144 | +46 |
| Andre Akkari | BRA | 267 | 227 | +40 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Philipp Gruissem | GER | 174 | 272 | -98 |
| Sam Greenwood | CAN | 105 | 187 | -82 |
| Davidi Kitai | BEL | 90 | 167 | -77 |
| Kiryl Radzivonau | BLR | 202 | 275 | -73 |
| Ole Schemion | GER | 79 | 150 | -71 |
| Walter Treccarichi | ITA | 157 | 218 | -61 |
| Romain Lewis | FRA | 221 | 281 | -60 |
| Ivan Deyra | FRA | 195 | 254 | -59 |
| David Yan | NZL | 104 | 161 | -57 |
| Samuel Chartier | CAN | 176 | 226 | -50 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | Jeff Gross | USA |
| #302 | Kou Vang | USA |
| #303 | Seth Davies | USA |
| #304 | Jerry Wong | USA |
| #305 | Reginald Robert | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Alan King Lun Lau CB | HKG | 118 | Jeff Gross | USA | 301 | |
| Gerald Karlic | AUT | 128 | Kou Vang | USA | 302 | |
| David Laka CB | ESP | 151 | Seth Davies | USA | 303 | |
| Michael Aron CB | USA | 207 | Reginald Roberts | USA | 305 | |
| Dominik Nitsche | GER | 233 | Anton Astapau | BLR | 307 | |
| James Calderaro | USA | 253 | Kitty Kuo | TAI | 319 | |
| Christoph Volgesang | GER | 261 | Dimitar Danchev | BUL | 320 | |
| Atanas Kavrakov | BUL | 263 | Jake Cody | UK | 324 | |
| Alex Difelice | CAN | 269 | Eduards Kudrjavcevs | LAT | 345 | |
| Josip Simunic | AUT | 273 | Denis Timofeev | RUS | 381 | |
| Ramin Hajiyev | AZE | 286 | Diego Zeiter | SUI | 390 | |
| Dermot Blain | IRL | 287 | Jan Bendik | SLV | 402 | |
| Michael Linster | USA | 290 | Farid Jattin | COL | 409 | |
| Peter Eichhardt | SWE | 293 | Stefan Jedlicka | AUT | 479 | |
| Simon Lam | USA | 300 | Paul Tedeschi | FRA | 507 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| #1 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,469.74 | = |
| #2 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,236.07 | +3 |
| #3 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,167.07 | -1 |
| #4 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,128.58 | +5 |
| #5 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,094.01 | -2 |
| #6 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,057.16 | -2 |
| #7 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,972.63 | = |
| #8 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 2,930.15 | -2 |
| #9 | Dejuante Alexander | USA | 2,919.11 | -1 |
| #10 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,870.44 | +1 |
| #11 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,865.75 | -1 |
| #12 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 2,849.49 | = |
| #13 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,830.89 | = |
| #14 | Pete Chen | TAI | 2,830.05 | NEW |
| #15 | Ari Engel | CAN | 2,827.40 | = |
Full November 1, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-11-01/300/
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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.
