December 29 2016, by Eric Danis
December 28, 2016 World Poker Rankings Update
There are just a few days left to the 2016 poker season and with three big events presented at Aria this week, the PoY race is still up for grabs…
2016 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE |
| #1 | David Peters | USA | 3,666.31 |
| #2 | Fedor Holz | GER | 3,644.80 |
| #3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,479.70 |
| #4 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 3,336.54 |
| #5 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,316.07 |
| #6 | Alan ‘Ari’ Engel | CAN | 3,290.43 |
| #7 | Paul Volpe | USA | 3,192.88 |
| #8 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,176.03 |
| #9 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 3,138.97 |
| #10 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 3,114.66 |
| #11 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 3,088.76 |
| #12 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,002.78 |
| #13 | Ivan Luca | ARG | 2,992.47 |
| #14 | Jason Mercier | USA | 2,983.71 |
| #15 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,941.18 |
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Fedor Holz | GER | 4,722.60 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Petrers | USA | 4,435.53 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Dan Smith | USA | 4,314.81 | 5 | +2 |
| #4 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 4,295.23 | 3 | -1 |
| #5 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 4,141.78 | 6 | +1 |
| #6 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 4,081.59 | 7 | +1 |
| #7 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 4,057.35 | 4 | -3 |
| #8 | Jake Schindler | USA | 4,001.51 | 8 | = |
| #9 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,981.81 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 3,906.18 | 11 | +1 |
| #11 | Erik Seidel | USA | 3,900.53 | 12 | +1 |
| #12 | Connor Drinan | USA | 3,872.79 | 10 | -2 |
| #13 | Jack Salter CB | UK | 3,802.55 | 19 | +6 |
| #14 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 3,790.85 | 15 | +1 |
| #15 | Sean Winter | USA | 3,786.13 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Paul Volpe | USA | 3,703.18 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,701.80 | 20 | +3 |
| #18 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 3,678.11 | 17 | -1 |
| #19 | Jason Mercier | USA | 3,652.50 | 13 | -6 |
| #20 | Cary Katz | USA | 3,634.12 | 18 | -2 |
| #21 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,633.77 | 21 | = |
| #22 | Igor Kurganov | RUS | 3,571.11 | 23 | +1 |
| #23 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 3,562.33 | 24 | +1 |
| #24 | Davidi Kitai | BEL | 3,543.33 | 22 | -2 |
| #25 | Ivan Luca | ARG | 3,536.83 | 25 | = |
Out of Top 25: None
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Matas Cimbolas CB | LIT | 293 | 162 | +131 |
| Josip Simunic CB | AUT | 285 | 167 | +118 |
| Timothy Burt CB | USA | 262 | 189 | +73 |
| Anthony Spinella | USA | 243 | 177 | +66 |
| Sergi Reixach CB | ESP | 175 | 114 | +61 |
| Natasha Mercier | LIB | 271 | 215 | +56 |
| Michael Addamo CB | AUS | 256 | 208 | +48 |
| Paul Balzano CB | USA | 289 | 248 | +41 |
| Patrick Leonard CB | UK | 245 | 205 | +40 |
| Artur Koren | GER | 134 | 96 | +38 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Michael Watson | CAN | 151 | 234 | -83 |
| Alexander Lynskey | AUS | 107 | 184 | -77 |
| Daniel Negrenau | CAN | 111 | 178 | -67 |
| Jason Les | USA | 101 | 168 | -67 |
| Zohair Karim | USA | 216 | 274 | -58 |
| Marc MacDonnell | IRL | 232 | 288 | -56 |
| Mark Herm | USA | 171 | 225 | -54 |
| Kiryl Radzivonau | BLR | 160 | 214 | -54 |
| Timothy West | USA | 181 | 232 | -51 |
| Georgios Sotiropoulos | GRE | 173 | 224 | -51 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| ››› GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT ‹‹‹ | NATION | GPI# | |
| Jussi Nevanlinna | FIN | 161 | Daniel O’Brien | USA | 303 | |
| Gleb Kovtunov CB | UKR | 212 | Matt Waxman | USA | 305 | |
| Kevin Eyster | USA | 228 | Jonathan Little | USA | 314 | |
| Ihar Soika | BLR | 229 | Alex Goulder | UK | 318 | |
| Alexandru Papazian | ROU | 237 | Roland Israelashvili | USA | 320 | |
| Viliyan Petleshkov | BUL | 247 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 329 | |
| Johanssy Joseph 300 | USA | 265 | Justin Zaki | USA | 329 | |
| Jyri Merivirta CB | FIN | 271 | Dan Shak | USA | 331 | |
| Andrey Kotelnikov | CYP | 276 | David Malka | USA | 333 | |
| Vladimir Geshkenbein CB | RUS | 277 | Ralph ‘Rep’ Porter | USA | 336 | |
| Daniel Buzgon | USA | 282 | Randy Pfeifer | USA | 351 | |
| Jens Lakemeier | GER | 284 | Phillip Hui | USA | 368 | |
| Andrei Zaichenko | RUS | 285 | Robert Mizrachi | USA | 368 | |
| Rocco Palumbo | ITA | 291 | Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA | 371 | |
| Joey Weissman | USA | 292 | Javier Zarco | ESP | 373 | |
| Aleksandr Gofman | RUS | 295 | Esther Taylor-Brady | USA | 407 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut
Full December 28, 2016 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/300/2016-12-28/
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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.
