December 21 2017, by Eric Danis
December 20, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› A pair of 4th place finish at PokerStars Championship Prague helped UK star Stephen Chidwick (World #3) to return to a career-best ranking. Chidwick has been part of the GPI World Top 10 for four consecutive months
›› William Alex Foxen (World #14) continues his late-season push. He followed up a 2nd place finish at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic earlier this month with a 10th place finish to close out the year in the PSC Prague Main Event
›› Speaking of the PSC Prague Main, 3rd place finisher Michal Mrakes (World #111) moved up 140 spots in the rankings to a career-best #111
›› Congratulations go out to Christopher Soyza (World #237), Kurt Jewell (World #272), Chris Ferguson (World #274), Jerome Sgorrano (World #296), Conor Beresford (World #297) and Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault (World #299) who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Adrian Mateos (4 wks) | ESP | 3,464.59 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,302.68 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick CB | UK | 3,265.66 | 5 | +2 |
| #4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,255.50 | 3 | -1 |
| #5 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,252.66 | 4 | -1 |
| #6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,206.87 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Fedor Holz #1 | GER | 3,172.03 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,162.98 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,125.46 | 10 | +1 |
| #10 | Darren Elias CB | USA | 3,095.01 | 12 | +2 |
| #11 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,089.42 | 13 | +2 |
| #12 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 3,086.81 | 28 | NEW |
| #13 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,085.94 | 11 | -2 |
| #14 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 3,084.98 | 22 | +8 |
| #15 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,073.19 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,065.82 | 9 | -7 |
| #17 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,023.68 | 23 | +6 |
| #18 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,999.07 | 18 | = |
| #19 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,996.50 | 16 | -3 |
| #20 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,981.06 | 15 | -5 |
| #21 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,978.62 | 21 | = |
| #22 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,971.26 | 19 | -3 |
| #23 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,944.76 | 17 | -6 |
| #24 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,937.80 | 20 | -4 |
| #25 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,902.12 | 24 | -1 |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Benjamin Zamani (USA) -2
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Michal Mrakes CB | CZE | 251 | 111 | +140 |
| Mustapha Kanit | ITA | 265 | 146 | +119 |
| Jason Wheeler | USA | 176 | 59 | +117 |
| Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 192 | 82 | +110 |
| Mark Herm | USA | 289 | 180 | +109 |
| Daniel Tang CB | HKG | 165 | 70 | +95 |
| Igor Kurganov | RUS | 114 | 30 | +84 |
| Diego Zeiter | SUI | 197 | 124 | +73 |
| Javier Zarco CB | ESP | 260 | 187 | +73 |
| Phil Hellmuth | USA | 280 | 208 | +72 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| James Chen | TAI | 178 | 278 | -100 |
| Jonathan Abdellatif | BEL | 164 | 258 | -94 |
| Michael Gagliano | USA | 120 | 210 | -90 |
| Julian Stuer | GER | 67 | 148 | -81 |
| Dan Wilson | IRL | 140 | 216 | -76 |
| Patrick Leonard | UK | 106 | 170 | -64 |
| Matt Glantz | USA | 235 | 292 | -57 |
| Harrison Gimbel | USA | 39 | 95 | -56 |
| Thomas Boivin | BEL | 201 | 257 | -56 |
| Jonathan Turner | USA | 210 | 265 | -55 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | Maxwell Young CB | USA |
| #302 | Boris Kolev CB | BUL |
| #303 | Loni Harwood | USA |
| #304 | Samuel Chartier | CAN |
| #305 | Michael Linster | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Robert Heidorn CB | GER | 179 | Loni Harwood | USA | 303 | |
| Farid Jattin | COL | 182 | Samuel Chartier | CAN | 304 | |
| Dylan Linde | USA | 191 | Matt Waxman | USA | 309 | |
| Kalidou Sow CB | FRA | 196 | Georgios Vrakas | GRE | 310 | |
| Kilian Kramer | GER | 231 | Jared Griener | USA | 311 | |
| Christopher Kruk CB | CAN | 232 | Kyle Bowker | USA | 315 | |
| Christopher Vogelsang | GER | 233 | Bartlomiej Machon | POL | 318 | |
| Dominik Panka | POL | 235 | Kevin Eyster | USA | 322 | |
| Jiri Horak CB | CZE | 236 | Michael Hahn | USA | 323 | |
| Christopher Soyza 300 | MAS | 237 | Pratyush Buddiga | USA | 325 | |
| Michael Zhang | USA | 250 | Seth Davies | USA | 326 | |
| Dermot Blain | IRL | 259 | Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | GRE | 327 | |
| Romain Lewis | FRA | 264 | Robert Hankins | USA | 329 | |
| Kurt Jewell 300 | USA | 272 | Alexander Denisov | RUS | 332 | |
| Chris Ferguson 300 | USA | 274 | Millard Hale | USA | 335 | |
| Yuliyan Nikolaev Kolev | BUL | 282 | Ramin Hajiyev | AZE | 336 | |
| Jussi Nevanlinna | FIN | 283 | Bryan Piccioli | USA | 343 | |
| Shannon Shorr | USA | 285 | Anthony Ruberto | USA | 347 | |
| Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA | 286 | Aliaksei Boika | BLR | 349 | |
| Thiago Crema De Macedo | BRA | 289 | Daniel Weinman | USA | 362 | |
| Scott Davies | USA | 290 | Jeremy Joseph | USA | 367 | |
| Jerome Sgorrano 300 | BEL | 296 | Sorel Mizzi | CAN | 369 | |
| Conor Beresford 300 | IRL | 297 | Matt Bond | USA | 392 | |
| M-O Carpentier-Perrault 300 | CAN | 299 | Garrett Greer | USA | 543 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| #1 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,504.71 | = |
| #2 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,478.06 | = |
| #3 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,341.89 | = |
| #4 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,266.11 | = |
| #5 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,236.48 | = |
| #6 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 3,196.93 | NEW |
| #7 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,180.30 | -1 |
| #8 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,153.16 | -1 |
| #9 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,134.62 | -1 |
| #10 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,086.76 | -1 |
| #11 | Darren Elias | USA | 3,082.43 | -1 |
| #12 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,079.73 | NEW |
| #13 | David Peters | USA | 3,011.84 | NEW |
| #14 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 3,006.34 | -3 |
| #15 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,995.10 | -1 |
Full December 20, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-12-20/300/
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About the author
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.
