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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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.