December 20 2018, by Eric Danis
December 19, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Former World #1 Nick Petrangelo (World #14) makes a big jump back into the Top 25, moving up 14 spots after a successful tournament run at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Six of the top 14 ranked players are either the current or former GPI World #1`s
›› WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Champion Dylan Linde (World #30) is up 85 spots to a career best #30 in the World this week
›› Congratulations go out to Russia’s Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy (World #260) and Americans Michael Marder (World #227), Dominique Mosley (World #263), Blake Whittington (World #292) and Adam Hendrix (World #295), who make their debut ranked inside the GPI300 this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: World #1 Alex Foxen added to his 2018 PoY lead, becoming the first player to ever collect over 4,000 points in a year since the GPI introduced their new scoring system in 2016
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | William Alex Foxen (11 weeks) | USA | 4,029.51 | 1 | = |
#2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,625.67 | 2 | = |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,600.43 | 3 | = |
#4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,525.99 | 4 | = |
#5 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,434.09 | 5 | = |
#6 | Benjamin Pollak CB | FRA | 3,377.17 | 7 | +1 |
#7 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,345.85 | 6 | -1 |
#8 | Pavel Plesuv CB | MDA | 3,327.26 | 9 | +1 |
#9 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,304.73 | 8 | -1 |
#10 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,287.81 | 10 | = |
#11 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,253.02 | 11 | = |
#12 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,196.90 | 24 | +12 |
#13 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,169.42 | 13 | = |
#14 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,154.56 | 28 | NEW |
#15 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,112.36 | 12 | -3 |
#16 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,102.08 | 16 | = |
#17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,088.71 | 14 | -3 |
#18 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,068.91 | 15 | -3 |
#19 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,048.38 | 17 | -2 |
#20 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,020.67 | 18 | -2 |
#21 | Antony Zinno #1 | USA | 2,980.86 | 19 | -2 |
#22 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 2,965.12 | 20 | -2 |
#23 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,959.96 | 21 | -2 |
#24 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,959.55 | 22 | -2 |
#25 | Jan Schwippert | GER | 2,942.89 | 23 | -2 |
Out of the Top 25: #29 Timothy Miles (USA) -4
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
#175 | Laurynas Levinskas CB | LIT | 282 | +107 |
#193 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 290 | +97 |
#203 | Shannon Shorr | USA | 299 | +96 |
#142 | Alexander Greenblatt | USA | 232 | +90 |
#90 | Sonny Franco CB | FRA | 179 | +89 |
#30 | Dylan Linde CB | USA | 115 | +85 |
#117 | William Berry | USA | 194 | +77 |
#147 | Andrey Pateychuk | RUS | 222 | +75 |
#205 | Richard Alsup | USA | 278 | +73 |
#161 | Timothy Reilly | USA | 233 | +72 |
DOWN THE LADDER
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
#269 | Albert Daher | LIB | 148 | -121 |
#252 | John Racener | USA | 154 | -98 |
#280 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 183 | -97 |
#246 | Viliyan Petleshkov | BUL | 156 | -90 |
#238 | Martin Finger | GER | 159 | -79 |
#235 | Asi Moshe | ISR | 158 | -77 |
#217 | Matas Cimbolas | LIT | 141 | -76 |
#138 | Kalidou Sow | FRA | 68 | -70 |
#207 | Felipe Ramos | BRA | 140 | -67 |
#294 | Blake Bohn | USA | 228 | -66 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
#301 | Ping Liu CB | USA | +318 |
#302 | Chad Eveslage | USA | +8 |
#303 | Allen Kessler | USA | -19 |
#304 | Ivan Zhetchev CB | BUL | +104 |
#305 | Lucas Greenwood | CAN | +211 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Paul Michaelis CB | GER | 115 | Allen Kessler | USA | 303 | |
Sorel Mizzi | CAN | 182 | Longsheng Tan | USA | 306 | |
Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 184 | John Richards | USA | 307 | |
Craig Varnell | USA | 191 | Steve Sung | USA | 308 | |
Andre Akkari | BRA | 192 | Peter Eichhardt | SWE | 309 | |
Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 202 | Charles La Boissoinniere | CAN | 311 | |
Ole Schemion #1 | GER | 208 | Rex Clinkscales | USA | 313 | |
Joseph Serock | USA | 216 | Artem Metalidi | UKR | 315 | |
Michael Marder 300 | USA | 227 | Vinny Pahuja | USA | 316 | |
Chris Ferguson | USA | 239 | Eric Blair | USA | 317 | |
Andrey Konopelko | BLR | 240 | Roland Israelashvili | USA | 319 | |
Justin Zaki | USA | 242 | Thai Ha | VIE | 322 | |
Tomas Jozonis | LIT | 245 | Kitty Kuo | TAI | 323 | |
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy 300 | RUS | 260 | Iori Yogo | JPN | 324 | |
Dominique Mosley 300 | USA | 263 | Dan Wilson | IRL | 326 | |
Samuel Phillips | USA | 274 | Kahle Burns | AUS | 328 | |
Ian O’Hara | USA | 284 | Julien Martini | FRA | 330 | |
Steven van Zadelhoff | NED | 287 | Igor Kurganov | RUS | 332 | |
Anna Antimony | USA | 289 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | BLR | 337 | |
Blake Whittington 300 | USA | 292 | Faraz Jaka | USA | 345 | |
Adam Hendrix 300 | USA | 295 | Alexander Lakhov | RUS | 351 | |
Richard Dubini | ARG | 296 | David Pham | USA | 363 | |
Mark Radoja | CAN | 297 | Jose “Nacho” Barbero | ARG | 382 | |
Vadzim Lipauka | BLR | 299 | Je Wook Oh | USA | 396 | |
Joao Vieira | POR | 300 | Jeremy Joseph | USA | 405 |
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 | 4,070.18 | = |
2nd | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,786.91 | +2 |
3rd | David Peters | USA | 3,776.97 | -1 |
4th | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,763.02 | -1 |
5th | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,716.07 | = |
6th | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,596.30 | = |
7th | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,503.07 | NEW |
8th | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,412.43 | -1 |
9th | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,389.65 | -1 |
10th | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,381.56 | NEW |
11th | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,366.69 | NEW |
12th | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,346.66 | -3 |
13th | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,313.33 | -3 |
14th | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,284.31 | -3 |
15th | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,267.34 | -3 |
Full December 19, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-12-19/300/
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