April 05 2018, by Eric Danis
April 4, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Benjamin Zamani (World #22) returns to the Top 25 for the first time in 10 weeks. The former World #10 won the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas earlier this week
›› Former November Niner Joseph Cheong (World #78) makes a an re-appearance in the Top 100; reaching his highest ranking in almost a year
›› Another former November Niner, Jerry Wong (World #301), drops two spots outside the GPI300 this week
›› Congratulations go out to Julien Sitbon (World #262), Stanley Lee (World #283) and Anatoliy Zyrin (World #293), who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Mega Millions XVIII Quantum Reload winner Ari Engel moves up to 2nd in the race for Player of the Year. Always a PoY contender, the #1 ranked player in Canada has already registered 14 results this season
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Adrian Mateos (19 weeks) | ESP | 3,752.03 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,504.94 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,419.07 | 3 | = |
| #4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,373.97 | 4 | = |
| #5 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,307.41 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,276.24 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,257.60 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,176.79 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,153.14 | 10 | +1 |
| #10 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,145.90 | 11 | +1 |
| #11 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,108.90 | 12 | +1 |
| #12 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,039.18 | 9 | -3 |
| #13 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,027.92 | 14 | +1 |
| #14 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,001.56 | 18 | +4 |
| #15 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,997.03 | 17 | +2 |
| #16 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 2,979.53 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,967.95 | 15 | -2 |
| #18 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,944.66 | 13 | -5 |
| #19 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,941.76 | 19 | = |
| #20 | Kristen Bicknell CB | CAN | 2,876.40 | 24 | +4 |
| #21 | Darren Elias | USA | 2,853.88 | 20 | -1 |
| #22 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,826.93 | 40 | NEW |
| #23 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,825.35 | 21 | -2 |
| #24 | Jan Schwippert | GER | 2,812.54 | 23 | -1 |
| #25 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,798.83 | 25 | = |
Out of the Top 25: #36 Ryan Riess (USA) -14
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Uri Reichenstein CB | GER | 272 | 193 | +79 |
| Kacper Pyzara CB | POL | 298 | 250 | +48 |
| Joseph Cheong | USA | 124 | 78 | +46 |
| Jared Jaffee | USA | 117 | 77 | +40 |
| Igor Yaroshevskyy | UKR | 169 | 129 | +40 |
| Barry Hutter | USA | 143 | 108 | +35 |
| Wayne Zhang | CHN | 258 | 224 | +34 |
| Sean Yu | KOR | 287 | 254 | +33 |
| Anatoly Filatov | RUS | 227 | 195 | +32 |
| Bobby Zhang CB | AUS | 261 | 232 | +29 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 180 | 289 | -109 |
| Vladimir Shabalin | RUS | 193 | 294 | -101 |
| Ryan Yu | CAN | 186 | 282 | -96 |
| Max Silver | UK | 161 | 256 | -95 |
| Kahle Burns | AUS | 182 | 246 | -64 |
| Daniel Colman | USA | 179 | 241 | -62 |
| Darryll Fish | USA | 66 | 117 | -51 |
| Phong Vip Nguyen | USA | 225 | 267 | -42 |
| David Eldridge | USA | 151 | 187 | -36 |
| Jake Schwartz | USA | 249 | 281 | -32 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Jerry Wong | USA | -2 |
| #302 | Stephen Song | USA | +1 |
| #303 | Michael Hahn | USA | -36 |
| #304 | Jeff Gross | USA | +17 |
| #305 | Allen Kessler | USA | +4 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Sonny Franco | FRA | 188 | Jerry Wong | USA | 301 | |
| Romain Lewis | FRA | 189 | Michael Hahn | USA | 303 | |
| Ben Palmer | USA | 221 | Salvatore Dicarlo | USA | 313 | |
| Eddy Sabat | USA | 236 | Kevin Eyster | USA | 315 | |
| Linh Tran | VIE | 242 | Cliff Josephy | USA | 318 | |
| Julien Sitbon CB | FRA | 262 | Ian O’Hara | USA | 322 | |
| Faraz Jaka | USA | 279 | Blake Bohn | USA | 327 | |
| Stanley Lee CB | USA | 283 | Zachary Donovan | USA | 328 | |
| Anatoliy Zyrin CB | RUS | 293 | Zachary Smiley | USA | 331 | |
| Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | 297 | Reginald Roberts | USA | 344 | |
| Valentin Vornicu | USA | 298 | Michael Amato | USA | 378 |
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 |
| #1 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,824.63 | = |
| #2 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,800.79 | +3 |
| #3 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,797.41 | -1 |
| #4 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 1,762.53 | -1 |
| #5 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 1,714.51 | -1 |
| #6 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,601.68 | = |
| #7 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 1,595.25 | = |
| #8 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 1,537.95 | = |
| #9 | Timothy Miles | USA | 1,474.85 | = |
| #10 | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,452.97 | = |
| #11 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 1,396.44 | = |
| #12 | Stephen Song | USA | 1,394.85 | = |
| #13 | Toby Lewis | UK | 1,383.74 | = |
| #14 | Loni Harwood | USA | 1,383.70 | = |
| #15 | Daniel Negreanu | CAN | 1,345.64 | = |
Full April 4, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-04-04/300/
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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.
