December 13 2018, by Eric Danis
December 12, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› France’s Benjamin Pollak (World #7) continues his strong 2018, returning to a career-best #7 in the World. Pollak has been ranked inside the GPI Top 10 since the end of August
›› Coming off a 3rd place finish in a High Roller event at the Jeju Red Dragon in South Korea, China’s Xixiang Luo (World #181) moves up 110 spots inside the GPI300 this week
›› Congratulations to out to Japan’s Iori Yogo (World #286), Orhan Ates of Turkey (World #293) and American Longsheng Tan (World #294), who make their debut ranked inside the GPI300 this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Another quiet week in the PoY race with only Christopher Michael Soyza moving up the ranks. Soyza also moved to a career-best #12 on the GPI World Rankings
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (10 weeks) | USA | 3,932.81 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,661.60 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,470.59 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,466.87 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,366.52 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,354.48 | 7 | +1 |
| #7 | Benjamin Pollak CB | FRA | 3,314.00 | 9 | +2 |
| #8 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,279.87 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Pavel Plesuv CB | MDA | 3,253.67 | 14 | +5 |
| #10 | Shaun Deeb CB | USA | 3,250.75 | 17 | +7 |
| #11 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,244.69 | 10 | -1 |
| #12 | Christopher Michael Soyza CB | MAS | 3,128.83 | 16 | +4 |
| #13 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,128.47 | 11 | -2 |
| #14 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,098.79 | 12 | -2 |
| #15 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,068.91 | 6 | -9 |
| #16 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,062.74 | 13 | -3 |
| #17 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,036.16 | 18 | +1 |
| #18 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,029.93 | 21 | +3 |
| #19 | Anthony Zinno #1 | USA | 3,023.71 | 19 | = |
| #20 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 2,999.71 | 22 | +2 |
| #21 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,969.87 | 23 | +2 |
| #22 | Manig Loeser CB | GER | 2,957.50 | 28 | NEW |
| #23 | Jan Scwhippert | GER | 2,946.87 | 20 | -3 |
| #24 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,933.34 | 15 | -9 |
| #25 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,915.85 | 24 | -1 |
Out of the Top 25: #26 Mike Leah (CAN) -1
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #181 | Xixiang Luo | CHN | 291 | +110 |
| #150 | Elio Fox | USA | 241 | +91 |
| #163 | Arsenii Karmatckii CB | RUS | 227 | +64 |
| #165 | Guillaume Diaz CB | FRA | 220 | +55 |
| #188 | Viet Van Vo | USA | 237 | +49 |
| #123 | Thomas Boivin | BEL | 170 | +47 |
| #100 | Scott Bohlman CB | USA | 146 | +46 |
| #140 | Felipe Ramos | BRA | 184 | +44 |
| #92 | Seth Davies | USA | 134 | +42 |
| #161 | Jonathan Karamalikis | AUS | 203 | +42 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #212 | David Pham | USA | 116 | -96 |
| #153 | Jared Jaffee | USA | 86 | -67 |
| #182 | Sylvain Loosli | FRA | 124 | -58 |
| #235 | Erik Seidel #1 | USA | 177 | -58 |
| #172 | Michael Del Vecchio | USA | 115 | -57 |
| #289 | Craig Mason | USA | 236 | -53 |
| #263 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 214 | -49 |
| #234 | Antoine Saout | FRA | 187 | -47 |
| #225 | Michael Dentale | USA | 179 | -46 |
| #278 | Richard Alsup | USA | 232 | -46 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Joao Vieira | POR | -42 |
| #302 | Christian Harder | USA | +54 |
| #303 | Omar Lakhdari | MAR | -4 |
| #304 | Jimmy Guerrero | FRA | -70 |
| #305 | Andre Akkari | BRA | -62 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Julien Martini CB | FRA | 259 | Joao Vieira | POR | 301 | |
| Charles La Boissonniere | CAN | 269 | Omar Lakhdari | MAR | 303 | |
| Steve Sung | USA | 271 | Jimmy Guerrero | FRA | 304 | |
| Alex Ziskin | USA | 274 | Andre Akkari | BRA | 305 | |
| Kitty Kuo | TAI | 281 | Richard Dubini | ARG | 322 | |
| Laurynas Levinskas | LIT | 282 | Georgios Vrakas | GRE | 326 | |
| Iori Yogo 300 | JPN | 286 | Michael Gagliano | USA | 333 | |
| Roland Israelashvili | USA | 291 | Craig Varnell | USA | 337 | |
| Orhan Ates 300 | TUR | 293 | Ryan Tosoc | USA | 343 | |
| Longsheng Tan 300 | USA | 294 | John Andress | USA | 356 | |
| Eric Blair | USA | 295 | Boris Kolev | BUL | 406 | |
| Scott Margereson | UK | 296 | ||||
| Rex Clinkscales | USA | 298 |
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 | 3,630.77 | = |
| 6th | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,531.55 | = |
| 7th | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,412.43 | = |
| 8th | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,389.65 | +4 |
| 9th | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,346.66 | -1 |
| 10th | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,313.33 | -1 |
| 11th | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,284.31 | -1 |
| 12th | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,233.92 | -1 |
| 13th | Jason Koon | USA | 3,194.64 | = |
| 14th | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,184.50 | = |
| 15th | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,172.45 | = |
Full December 12, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-12-12/300/
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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.
