December 06 2018, by Eric Danis
December 5, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Winning the WPT Seminole Rock N Roll Poker Open means a return to the Top 25 for Moldova’s Pavel Plesuv (World #14) – a career-best ranking
›› Chicago’s Ryan Tosoc (World #180) reached a career-best 180 this week. Tosoc has six Top 10 finishes so far this year
›› While there are no new entries in the GPI300 this week, we have 13 players returning to the elite group including reigning GPI Argentinian Player of the Year Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (World#292)
›› 2018 GPI PoY: All is quiet in the chase for GPI Player of the Year this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | William Alex Foxen (9 weeks) | USA | 3,992.22 | 1 | = |
#2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,678.95 | 2 | = |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,502.20 | 3 | = |
#4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,478.37 | 5 | +1 |
#5 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,422.80 | 6 | +1 |
#6 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,418.46 | 4 | -2 |
#7 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,394.73 | 7 | = |
#8 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,319.27 | 8 | = |
#9 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,314.00 | 9 | = |
#10 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,233.76 | 10 | = |
#11 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,153.59 | 12 | +1 |
#12 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,115.52 | 11 | -1 |
#13 | Michael Addamo CB | AUS | 3,110.14 | 14 | +1 |
#14 | Pavel Plesuv CB | MDA | 3,100.99 | 39 | NEW |
#15 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,080.32 | 13 | -2 |
#16 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,077.41 | 15 | -1 |
#17 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,075.69 | 20 | +3 |
#18 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,062.17 | 19 | +1 |
#19 | Anthony Zinno #1 | USA | 3,033.77 | 18 | -1 |
#20 | Jan Schiwppert | GER | 3,014.16 | 23 | +3 |
#21 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,013.20 | 21 | = |
#22 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 3,001.65 | 17 | -5 |
#23 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,946.63 | 53 | NEW |
#24 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,927.56 | 22 | -2 |
#25 | Mike Leah | CAN | 2,927.34 | 33 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #26 Koray Aldemir (GER) -10 // #31 Joseph Cheong (USA) -6 // #43 Nick Petrangelo #1 (USA) -19
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
#142 | James Gilbert | USA | 274 | +132 |
#180 | Ryan Tosoc CB | USA | 285 | +105 |
#137 | John Racener | USA | 223 | +86 |
#136 | Ismael Bojang | GER | 221 | +85 |
#153 | Tom Hall | UK | 233 | +80 |
#143 | Daniel Strelitz | USA | 209 | +66 |
#45 | Jacob Bazeley | USA | 107 | +62 |
#146 | Scott Bohlman CB | USA | 146 | +61 |
#68 | Davidi Kitai | BEL | 120 | +52 |
#231 | Danny Wong | USA | 283 | +52 |
DOWN THE LADDER
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
#215 | Steffen Sontheimer | GER | 90 | -125 |
#150 | Benjamin Tollerene | USA | 73 | -77 |
#174 | Igor Kurganov | RUS | 113 | -61 |
#269 | Christopher Kruk | CAN | 219 | -50 |
#294 | Shannon Shorr | USA | 247 | -47 |
#233 | Ian Steinman | USA | 187 | -46 |
#226 | Andrey Pateychuk | RUS | 186 | -40 |
#220 | Guillaume Diaz | FRA | 181 | -39 |
#254 | Toby Lewis | UK | 215 | -39 |
#158 | Albert Daher | LIB | 121 | -37 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
#301 | Julien Martini | FRA | = |
#302 | Rex Clinkscales | USA | -5 |
#303 | Martin Zamani | USA | +6 |
#304 | Christoph Vogelsang | GER | -92 |
#305 | Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | -14 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Ravi Raghavan | USA | 209 | Rex Clinkscales | USA | 302 | |
Jeremy Joseph | USA | 218 | Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 304 | |
Brett Apter | USA | 263 | Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | 305 | |
Phillip Hui | USA | 281 | Daniel Dizenzo | USA | 306 | |
Peter Eichhardt | SWE | 282 | Laurynas Levinskas | LIT | 307 | |
Allen Kessler | USA | 283 | Paul Michaelis | GER | 311 | |
John Andress | USA | 284 | Kitty Kuo | TAI | 313 | |
Ido Ashkenazi | USA | 285 | David Eldridge | USA | 340 | |
Jose Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Barbero | ARG | 292 | Lance ‘Cord’ Garcia | USA | 351 | |
Michael Gagliano | USA | 297 | Cliff Josephy | USA | 369 | |
Boris Kolev | BUL | 300 | Jonathan Concepcion | ESP | 387 |
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 |
1st | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,836.72 | = |
2nd | David Peters | USA | 3,776.97 | = |
3rd | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,763.02 | = |
4th | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,691.67 | = |
5th | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,625.15 | = |
6th | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,531.55 | = |
7th | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,412.43 | = |
8th | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,346.66 | = |
9th | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,313.33 | = |
10th | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,284.31 | = |
11th | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,233.92 | = |
12th | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,228.97 | = |
13th | Jason Koon | USA | 3,194.64 | = |
14th | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,184.50 | = |
15th | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,172.45 | = |
Full December 5, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-12-05/300/
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