December 14 2017, by Eric Danis
December 13, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Ari Engel (World #6) is back in familiar territory. Winning his second Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) title earlier this week helped the Canadian return to the Top 10 for the first time since October
›› A strong 2017 campaign, which culminated with a runner-up finish at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas over the weekend, sees William Alex Foxen (World #22) crack the Top 25 for the very first time of his career
›› WPT Five Diamond third place finisher, and WPT Champions Club member, Michael Del Vecchio (World #97) is also up in the standings this week, entering the Top 100 for the first time
›› Congratulations go out to Georgios Vrakas (World #250), Yan Tsang (World #276), Ioannis Angelou-Konstas (World #281) and Shyngis Satubayen (World #292) who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | Adrian Mateos (3 wks) | ESP | 3,525.04 | 1 | = |
#2 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,384.32 | 2 | = |
#3 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,343.89 | 3 | = |
#4 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,254.33 | 6 | +2 |
#5 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,225.16 | 4 | -1 |
#6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,208.72 | 14 | +8 |
#7 | Fedor Holz #1 | GER | 3,162.26 | 7 | = |
#8 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,161.72 | 9 | +1 |
#9 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,152.90 | 8 | -1 |
#10 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,127.15 | 5 | -5 |
#11 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,103.03 | 11 | = |
#12 | Darren Elias CB | USA | 3,095.42 | 24 | +12 |
#13 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,089.42 | 10 | -3 |
#14 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,071.00 | 13 | -1 |
#15 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,041.79 | 12 | -3 |
#16 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,022.98 | 15 | -1 |
#17 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,994.19 | 16 | -1 |
#18 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,987.50 | 18 | = |
#19 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,971.26 | 17 | -2 |
#20 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,926.71 | 19 | -1 |
#21 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,907.20 | 20 | -1 |
#22 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 2,897.77 | 63 | NEW |
#23 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 2,896.96 | 21 | -2 |
#24 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,856.33 | 34 | NEW |
#25 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,844.03 | 25 | = |
Out of the Top 25: #30 Ankush Mandavia (USA) -8 // #51 Charlie Carrel (UK) -28
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Michael Del Vecchio CB | USA | 265 | 97 | +168 |
Shaun Deeb | USA | 230 | 121 | +109 |
Daniel Colman | USA | 204 | 100 | +104 |
Jared Jaffee | USA | 167 | 68 | +99 |
Shankar Pillai | USA | 269 | 190 | +79 |
Giuseppe Pantaleo | GER | 268 | 200 | +68 |
Michael Gagliano | USA | 184 | 120 | +64 |
Daniel Strelitz | USA | 237 | 179 | +58 |
Rajaee Wazwaz | USA | 297 | 240 | +57 |
Mihai Niste | ROU | 186 | 136 | +50 |
DOWN THE LADDER
PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
Daniel Weinman | USA | 161 | 268 | -107 |
Bryan Piccioli | USA | 220 | 294 | -74 |
Ilkin Savalan Amirov | AZE | 185 | 254 | -69 |
James Chen | TAI | 124 | 178 | -54 |
Rafael Moraes | BRA | 144 | 195 | -51 |
Juha Helppi | FIN | 196 | 247 | -51 |
Garrett Greer | USA | 244 | 295 | -51 |
Michael Aron | USA | 243 | 291 | -48 |
Thomas Marchese | USA | 87 | 134 | -47 |
Fabrice Soulier | FRA | 155 | 202 | -47 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
#301 | Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA |
#302 | Tomas Jozonis CB | LIT |
#303 | Brett Bader | USA |
#304 | Ray Qartomy | USA |
#305 | Alex Keating | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Ludovic Geilich | UK | 184 | Brett Bader | USA | 303 | |
Benjamin Keeline | USA | 227 | Ray Qartomy | USA | 304 | |
Georgios Vrakas 300 | GRE | 250 | Alex Keating | USA | 305 | |
Massoud ‘Mike’ Eskandari | IRA | 256 | Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 306 | |
David ‘Chino’ Rheem | USA | 261 | Dominik Panka | POL | 307 | |
Jared Griener CB | USA | 272 | Rocco Palumbo | ITA | 309 | |
Yan Tsang 300 | HKG | 276 | Robert Heidorn | GER | 311 | |
Millard Hale | USA | 277 | Jia Liu | USA | 312 | |
Phil Hellmuth | USA | 280 | Thiago Crema de Macedo | BRA | 314 | |
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas 300 | GRE | 281 | Jean Gaspard | USA | 317 | |
Alexander Denisov | RUS | 284 | Ray Henson | USA | 318 | |
Matt Bond | USA | 287 | Jean-Pascal Savard | CAN | 326 | |
Anthony Ruberto | USA | 288 | Erwann Pecheux | FRA | 327 | |
Shyngis Satubayen 300 | KAZ | 292 | Romain Lewis | FRA | 328 | |
Matt Waxman | USA | 296 | Josip Simunic | POL | 329 | |
Robert Hankins | USA | 297 | Scott Clements | USA | 342 | |
Asi Moshe | ISR | 298 | Timothy Reilly | USA | 354 | |
Bartolomiej Machon 300 | POL | 299 | Michael Zhang | UK | 357 |
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 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,498.71 | +1 |
#2 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,478.06 | -1 |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,280.21 | = |
#4 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,266.11 | = |
#5 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,236.48 | +3 |
#6 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,180.30 | -1 |
#7 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,153.16 | +3 |
#8 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,134.62 | -2 |
#9 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,086.76 | -2 |
#10 | Darren Elias | USA | 3,082.43 | +2 |
#11 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 3,006.34 | -2 |
#12 | Steffen Sontheimer | GER | 2,976.61 | +1 |
#13 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,962.81 | NEW |
#14 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,952.50 | NEW |
#15 | Dejuante Alexander | USA | 2,952.46 | NEW |
Full December 13, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-12-13/300/
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