August 19 2015, by Eric Danis

GPI300: Mercier maintains top spot; more points to come?

Jason Mercier continues his reign at the top – and more points could be on the way …

VIEW FROM THE TOP

Jason Mercier GPI

Make it five in a row for American superstar Jason Mercier (GPI#1, =). This is Mercier’s fourth longest streak at the top of the GPI World Poker Rankings. Mercier enjoyed streaks of 11 and 10 straight weeks at the start of 2012 and spent 17 weeks in a row at the top from May to September in 2013.

Bad news for those chasing the man who’s spent the most total weeks atop the GPI World Poker Rankings in history as Mercier’s points total could be in for a boost next week. Coming off a short break from the live tournament circuit, Mercier was quick to get back into the groove, winning the High Roller event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open late last night in his home state of Florida.

Mercier’s points increase won’t be as drastic as the 500+ points he is about to be awarded for the victory. Those points will replace a previous score (his 128th place finish at the WPT Seminole Poker Showdown in April) + his 2nd place finish in the High Roller event at EPT Barcelona last year is about to enter a third aging period.

2015 GPI Player of the Year front-runner Anthony Zinno (GPI#2, +2) returns to #2 on the GPI World Poker Rankings this week. Zinno’s 2015 has certainly been remarkable to date with a pair of WPT titles and a first WSOP gold bracelet to his credit so far this season. The rest of the World Top 10 remains intact.

Plenty of big names are moving up the charts this week including Ryan Riess (GPI#169, +42), Jeff Gross (GPI#162, +31), Vladimir Troyanovskiy (GPI#60, +19) and Darryll Fish (GPI#217, +16), who has already earned three scores so far this month.

GPI WORLD TOP 10

RANK PLAYER COUNTRY GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Jason Mercier USA 4,043.95 1 =
#2 Anthony Zinno USA 4,021.32 4 +2
#3 Byron Kaverman USA 3,987.89 2 -1
#4 Scott Seiver USA 3,901.43 3 -1
#5 Stephen Chidwick UK 3,748.14 5 =
#6 Dan Smith USA 3,710.76 6 =
#7 Bryn Kenney USA 3,648.60 7 =
#8 Dominik Nitsche GER 3,573.80 8 =
#9 Paul Volpe USA 3,547.33 9 =
#10 Dario Sammartino ITA 3,520.35 10 =

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER COUNTRY GPI SCORE LAST THIS CHANGE
Ryan Fee USA 1,831.43 272 227 +45
Louis Salter UK 1,918.33 238 195 +43
Ryan Riess USA 2,008.73 211 169 +42
Jeff Gross USA 2,028.62 193 162 +31
Vladimir Troyanovskiy RUS 2,710.88 79 60 +19
Daniel Weinman USA 1,728.04 290 272 +18
Darryll Fish USA 1,860.79 233 217 +16
J.J. Liu TAI 1,816.41 248 232 +16
Norbert Szecsi HUN 1,840.16 237 224 +13
Daniel Dvoress CAN 2,230.91 142 130 +12

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER COUNTRY GPI SCORE LAST THIS CHANGE
Rumen Nanev BUL 1,721.58 234 277 -43
Stuart Rutter UK 1,916.03 160 197 -37
Marc Etienne McLaughlin CAN 1,813.43 196 233 -37
Miroslav Alilovic FRA 1,787.12 210 246 -36
Daniel Colman USA 2,287.12 83 118 -35
Andrew Spears USA 1,750.84 227 262 -35
Dan Shak USA 1,840.75 192 222 -30
Corey Hochman USA 1,826.46 201 230 -29
Jesse Rockowitz USA 1,786.81 223 247 -24
Jeffrey Rossiter AUS 1,973.45 159 180 -21

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

IN COUNTRY GPI# OUT COUNTRY GPI#
Nick Pupillo USA 286 Jesse Cohen USA 332
David Nowling USA 300 Henrik Hecklen DEN 348

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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.