November 26 2015, by Eric Danis
GPI300: Kitai, Seidel back in Top 10; Antonio, Cody drop out of 300
Eight wasn’t enough for Kaverman … meanwhile, a pair of Top 10 fixtures are back up and the Magician is one of the players to disappear from the 300 …
VIEW FROM THE TOP
Byron Kaverman (GPI#1, =) begins his ninth straight week ranked atop the GPI World Poker Rankings. Kaverman, who also tops the 2015 GPI PoY race, will carry both leads into the final month of the 2015 poker season.
A pair of former Top 10 standouts have made a return to the elite group. After a two week absence, Triple Crown winner Davidi Kitai (GPI#9, +3) returns to the Top 10 this week. Kitbul has been ranked inside the Top 10 for all but 9 weeks so far in 2015 … meanwhile, for the first time since August 2014, former World #1 Erik Seidel (GPI#10, +3) also returns to the Top 10 this week.
Congratulations to WSOP bracelet winner Justin Oliver (GPI#292, +53) and Riley Fuller (GPI#297, +16), who each enter the GPI300 for the very first time of their careers.
Jake Cody (GPI#304, -67) and Antonio Esfandiari (GPI#314, -73) are two of the bigger names to drop out of the GPI300 this week.
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 4,415.13 | 1 | = |
#2 | Jason Mercier | USA | 4,263.66 | 2 | = |
#3 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 4,006.85 | 3 | = |
#4 | Nicholas Petrangelo | USA | 3,885.15 | 4 | = |
#5 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,816.24 | 6 | +1 |
#6 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,811.83 | 5 | -1 |
#7 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,792.67 | 7 | = |
#8 | Martin Finger | GER | 3,685.07 | 10 | +2 |
#9 | Davidi Kitai | BEL | 3,632.05 | 12 | NEW |
#10 | Erik Seidel | USA | 3,624.77 | 13 | NEW |
Out of the Top 10 this week: Dominik Nitsche (GPI#11, -3), Kevin MacPhee (GPI#17, -8)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Jussi Nevanlinna | FIN | 2,001.48 | 268 | 183 | +85 |
Brian Altman | USA | 2,216.27 | 211 | 127 | +84 |
Kilian Kramer | GER | 2,210.02 | 196 | 129 | +67 |
Darryll Fish | USA | 2,204.52 | 195 | 132 | +63 |
Jean Gaspard | USA | 2,212.90 | 178 | 128 | +50 |
Randy Pfeifer | USA | 1,837.72 | 269 | 228 | +41 |
Senh Man Ung | UK | 1,869.42 | 255 | 217 | +38 |
Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,025.26 | 210 | 175 | +35 |
Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 2,418.73 | 127 | 93 | +34 |
Aleksandr Gofman | RUS | 1,959.07 | 227 | 194 | +33 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Phillip Hui | USA | 1,748.78 | 222 | 277 | -55 |
Andy Frankenberger | USA | 1,744.75 | 231 | 281 | -50 |
Charles Chattah | UK | 1,765.08 | 228 | 268 | -40 |
Ben Vinson | UK | 1,729.85 | 253 | 293 | -40 |
Samuel Chartier | CAN | 2,209.25 | 93 | 130 | -37 |
Salman Behbehani | USA | 1,891.08 | 176 | 213 | -37 |
Max Greenwood | CAN | 1,800.61 | 215 | 250 | -35 |
Roberto Romanello | UK | 1,891.56 | 179 | 212 | -33 |
Mark Darner | USA | 1,857.23 | 188 | 221 | -33 |
Brian Green | USA | 2,035.02 | 146 | 173 | -27 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
››› GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ | NATION | GPI# | |
Michael Dentale | USA | 231 | Jake Cody | UK | 304 | |
Timothy Adams | CAN | 236 | Vinny Pahuja | USA | 305 | |
Tobias Peters | NED | 262 | Harrison Gimbel | USA | 310 | |
Joey Weissman | USA | 273 | Eric Baldwin | USA | 311 | |
Justin Oliver | CAN | 292 | Antonio Esfandiari | USA | 314 | |
Riley Fuller | USA | 297 | Kelly Minkin | USA | 318 | |
Justin Schwartz | USA | 298 | Viet Van Vo | USA | 354 |
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