February 14 2019, by Eric Danis
February 13, 2019 GPI Global Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Rainer Kempe and David Peters pull off the switcheroo again as the German returns to a career-best Global #2 while former #1 Peters returns to the third spot
›› Coming off a 68th place finish at the WPT Borgata Winter Open, 2017 WSOP Monster Stack 3rd place finisher Stanley Lee moves up close to 40 spots within the GPI300 to a career-best #179
›› Congratulations go out to Richard Bai (GPI #291), Simon Burns (GPI #292), Alexandre Santo (GPI #294) and Gao Wenling (GPI #296) who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2019 GPI PoY Race: Kempe remains ranked first. 2019 PCA Champ Chino Rheem moves up a spot following his 4th place finish in the High Roller event at WPTDeepStacks Brussels
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (19 weeks) | USA | 3,924.28 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Rainer Kempe CB | GER | 3,653.81 | 3 | +1 |
| #3 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,615.74 | 2 | -1 |
| #4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,494.30 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,461.08 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,326.70 | 7 | +1 |
| #7 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,321.86 | 9 | +2 |
| #8 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,302.22 | 6 | -2 |
| #9 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,290.15 | 8 | -1 |
| #10 | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,225.30 | 12 | +2 |
| #11 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,191.54 | 11 | = |
| #12 | Bart Lybaert CB | BEL | 3,164.09 | 13 | +1 |
| #13 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,141.42 | 14 | +1 |
| #14 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 3,136.07 | 15 | +1 |
| #15 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,103.43 | 18 | +3 |
| #16 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,097.29 | 17 | +1 |
| #17 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,071.53 | 10 | -7 |
| #18 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,060.68 | 20 | +2 |
| #19 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,027.28 | 19 | = |
| #20 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 3,012.57 | 21 | +1 |
| #21 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,003.92 | 22 | +1 |
| #22 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,978.37 | 24 | +2 |
| #23 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 2,966.14 | 23 | = |
| #24 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,944.71 | 26 | NEW |
| #25 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 2,938.15 | 16 | -9 |
Out of the Top 25: #27 Brian Altman (USA) -2
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #79 | Joshua Turner | USA | 166 | +87 |
| #210 | Brett Apter | USA | 293 | +83 |
| #151 | Jeremy Joseph | USA | 228 | +77 |
| #179 | Stanley Lee CB | USA | 218 | +39 |
| #253 | Phachara Wongwichit | THA | 287 | +34 |
| #108 | Aaron Massey | USA | 138 | +30 |
| #86 | Chino Rheem | USA | 111 | +25 |
| #107 | Andre Akkari CB | BRA | 131 | +24 |
| #205 | Dominique Mosley | USA | 229 | +24 |
| #146 | Maxwell Young | USA | 169 | +23 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #269 | Keven Stammen | USA | 157 | -112 |
| #271 | Ihar Soika | BLR | 189 | -82 |
| #242 | Hon Cheong Lee | HKG | 183 | -59 |
| #185 | Benjamin Tollerene | USA | 128 | -57 |
| #140 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 90 | -50 |
| #257 | Brett Bader | USA | 208 | -49 |
| #223 | Joseph Couden | USA | 175 | -48 |
| #114 | Anatoly Filatov | RUS | 72 | -42 |
| #156 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 115 | -41 |
| #290 | Loni Harwood | USA | 249 | -41 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Steve Sung | USA | +74 |
| #302 | Chris Hunichen | USA | -10 |
| #303 | Robin Hegele | USA | +10 |
| #304 | Chen Lin | USA | +22 |
| #305 | Nikolai Sears | JPN | +9 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Victor Ramdin | USA | 225 | Chris Hunichen | USA | 302 | |
| Ray Qartomy | USA | 283 | Felipe Ramos | BRA | 309 | |
| Marton Czuczor | HUN | 284 | Ralph Massey | USA | 311 | |
| Joe Cada | USA | 285 | Anna Antimony | USA | 312 | |
| Greg Himmelbrand | USA | 286 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 314 | |
| Hiroyuki Noda | JPN | 287 | Joshua Kay | USA | 315 | |
| Lucas Greenwood | CAN | 289 | Guo Dong | CHN | 317 | |
| Richard Bai 300 | USA | 291 | Harrison Gimbel | USA | 318 | |
| Simon Burns 300 | UK | 292 | Carlos Chadha Villamarin | USA | 319 | |
| Alexandre Santo 300 | BRA | 294 | Kacper Pyzara | POL | 324 | |
| Peter Hengsakul CB | USA | 295 | Iori Yogo | JPN | 326 | |
| Gao Wenling 300 | CHN | 296 | Shankar Pillai | USA | 342 | |
| Jonathan Concepcion | ESP | 297 | Martin Kozlov | AUS | 366 | |
| Jordan Cristos | USA | 299 | Mike Shin | USA | 386 | |
| Allen Kessler | USA | 300 | Patrik Antonius | FIN | 449 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
Full February 13, 2019 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2019-02-13/300/
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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.
