February 07 2019, by Eric Danis
February 6, 2019 GPI Global Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Former Global #1 Bryn Kenney (GPI #14) returns to the GPI Top 25 for the first time since October. Kenney was last ranked Global #1 in November of 2017
›› Kenney and WPT Champions Club member Michael Del Vecchio (GPI# 74) headlined the Aussie Millions Main Event. Del Vecchio’s 2nd place finish sees him move up 135 spots in the rankings this week
›› No debuts inside the GPI300 this week although some familiar names do make their return to the Top 300 including Vojtech Ruzicka (GPI #213), Mark Radoja (GPI #251), Phil Hellmuth (GPI# 282) and Justin Young (GPI #294)
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (18 weeks) | USA | 4,028.31 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,662.88 | 3 | +1 |
| #3 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,653.81 | 2 | -1 |
| #4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,482.70 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,460.96 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,346.76 | 12 | +6 |
| #7 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,326.70 | 6 | -1 |
| #8 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,298.84 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,273.59 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,264.14 | 7 | -3 |
| #11 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,263.54 | 10 | -1 |
| #12 | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,225.30 | 11 | -1 |
| #13 | Bart Lybaert | BEL | 3,164.44 | 13 | = |
| #14 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,142.05 | 67 | NEW |
| #15 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 3,136.07 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,103.46 | 15 | -1 |
| #17 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,097.29 | 16 | -1 |
| #18 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,082.61 | 17 | -1 |
| #19 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,027.28 | 20 | +1 |
| #20 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,015.09 | 27 | NEW |
| #21 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 3,012.57 | 19 | -2 |
| #22 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,007.32 | 18 | -4 |
| #23 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 2,981.03 | 23 | = |
| #24 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,977.22 | 21 | -3 |
| #25 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,960.30 | 22 | -3 |
Out of the Top 25: #26 Joseph McKeehen (USA) -2 // #28 Jeremy Ausmus (USA) -3
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #74 | Michael Addamo | USA | 209 | +135 |
| #174 | Andrew Kelsall | USA | 239 | +65 |
| #145 | Ping Liu | USA | 207 | +62 |
| #205 | Martin Jacobson | SWE | 265 | +60 |
| #175 | Joseph Couden | USA | 232 | +57 |
| #14 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 67 | +53 |
| #231 | Mike Shin CB | USA | 282 | +51 |
| #178 | Dominik Panka | POL | 222 | +44 |
| #121 | Eric Baldwin | USA | 164 | +43 |
| #148 | Jared Jaffee | USA | 191 | +43 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #279 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | POL | 195 | -84 |
| #219 | Ben Heath | UK | 150 | -69 |
| #237 | Kenny Hallaert | BEL | 176 | -61 |
| #171 | Martin Kozlov | AUS | 122 | -49 |
| #224 | Joshua Kay | USA | 187 | -37 |
| #217 | Tommy Nguyen | CAN | 186 | -31 |
| #249 | Loni Harwood | USA | 219 | -30 |
| #159 | Dejuante Alexander | USA | 130 | -29 |
| #201 | Richard Kirsch | USA | 172 | -29 |
| #225 | Victor Chong | MAS | 199 | -26 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Ray Qartomy | USA | -2 |
| #302 | Marton Czuczor | HUN | -2 |
| #303 | Joe Cada | USA | -2 |
| #304 | Greg Himmelbrand | USA | +88 |
| #305 | Hiroyuki Noda | JPN | -18 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Vojtech Ruzicka | CZE | 213 | Ray Qartomy | USA | 301 | |
| Jeremy Joseph | USA | 228 | Marton Czuczor | HUN | 302 | |
| Mark Radoja | CAN | 251 | Hiroyuki Noda | JPN | 305 | |
| Shankar Pillai | USA | 259 | Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 307 | |
| Phil Hellmuth | USA | 282 | Kitty Kuo | TAI | 309 | |
| Michael Marder | USA | 285 | Jordan Cristos | USA | 321 | |
| Adam Hendrix CB | USA | 286 | Viet Van Vo | USA | 356 | |
| Justin Young | USA | 294 | Christopher Bolek | USA | 406 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
Full February 6, 2019 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2019-02-06/300/
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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.
