January 17 2019, by Eric Danis
January 16, 2019 GPI Global Poker Rankings Update
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Coming off back-to-back GPI Female Player of the Year campaign, and her first GPI PoY Canada title, Kristen Bicknell (GPI #12) is off to a roaring start in 2019, moving to a career-best GPI #12 following her deep run in the PokerStars PSPC Event in the Bahamas
›› Five of the Top 10 players with the biggest gains inside of the GPI300 this week have hit career bests: Arsenii Karmatckii, Uri Reichenstein, Christoph Vogelsang, Joao Simao and Laurynas Levinskas
›› Congratulations go out to Tommy Nguyen (GPI #187) and Carlos Chadha Villamarin (GPI #280), who make their debut ranked inside the GPI300 this week
›› 2019 GPI PoY: The 2019 GPI Player of the Year races open next week!
GPI GLOBAL POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
#1 | William Alex Foxen (15 weeks) | USA | 4,016.97 | 1 | = |
#2 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,655.78 | 2 | = |
#3 | Stephen Chidwick #1 | UK | 3,495.77 | 3 | = |
#4 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,489.55 | 4 | = |
#5 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,337.59 | 7 | +2 |
#6 | Benjamin Pollak CB | FRA | 3,300.89 | 8 | +2 |
#7 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,298.84 | 6 | -1 |
#8 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,294.04 | 5 | -3 |
#9 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy CB | BLR | 3,274.90 | 10 | +1 |
#10 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,274.83 | 14 | +4 |
#11 | Pavel Plesuv | MDA | 3,225.30 | 9 | -2 |
#12 | Kristen Bicknell CB | CAN | 3,152.57 | 26 | NEW |
#13 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,129.20 | 11 | -2 |
#14 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,070.31 | 13 | -1 |
#15 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,066.66 | 17 | +2 |
#16 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,062.49 | 18 | +2 |
#17 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,054.12 | 12 | -5 |
#18 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,051.88 | 15 | -3 |
#19 | Bart Lybaert | BEL | 3,039.39 | 40 | NEW |
#20 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,983.99 | 61 | NEW |
#21 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,973.89 | 45 | NEW |
#22 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 2,965.19 | 19 | -3 |
#23 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,961.65 | 20 | -3 |
#24 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 2,949.39 | 23 | -1 |
#25 | Jan Schwippert | GER | 2,939.21 | 21 | -4 |
Out of the Top 25: #29 Barry Hutter (USA) -4 // #33 Benjamin Yu (USA) -11 // #35 Paul Volpe (USA) -19 // #38 Anthony Zinno #1 (USA) -14
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
#83 | Arsenii Karmatckii CB | RUS | 265 | +182 |
#57 | Ole Schemion #1 | GER | 174 | +118 |
#118 | Uri Reichenstein CB | ISR | 234 | +116 |
#73 | Steffen Sontheimer | GER | 185 | +112 |
#108 | Igor Kurganov | RUS | 196 | +88 |
#59 | Christoph Vogelsang CB | GER | 145 | +86 |
#52 | Joao Simao CB | BRA | 133 | +81 |
#99 | Laurynas Levinskas CB | LIT | 180 | +81 |
#111 | Scott Stewart | USA | 191 | +80 |
#169 | Tomas Jozonis | LIT | 247 | +78 |
DOWN THE LADDER
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
#278 | Martin Jacobson | SWE | 126 | -152 |
#272 | Sorel Mizzi | CAN | 189 | -83 |
#210 | Felipe Ramos | BRA | 138 | -72 |
#239 | Darren Rabinowitz | USA | 173 | -66 |
#264 | Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 198 | -66 |
#266 | Phachara Wongwichit | THA | 202 | -64 |
#245 | Viet Van Vo | USA | 182 | -63 |
#228 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 168 | -60 |
#142 | Brian Hastings | USA | 90 | -52 |
#167 | Anthony Spinella | USA | 116 | -51 |
ON THE BUBBLE
RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
#301 | Alexandre Santo CB | BRA | +188 |
#302 | Kacper Pyzara | POL | -98 |
#303 | Allen Kessler | USA | -41 |
#304 | Blair Hinkle | USA | +119 |
#305 | Dan Shak | USA | +73 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
Ivan Luca | ARG | 149 | Kacper Pyzara | POL | 302 | |
Jose Ignacia Barbero | ARG | 160 | Allen Kessler | USA | 303 | |
Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault CB | CAN | 164 | Spencer Champlin | USA | 307 | |
Julien Martini CB | FRA | 176 | Marton Czuczor | HUN | 308 | |
Sergi Reixach | ESP | 180 | Ryan D’Angelo | USA | 309 | |
Tommy Nguyen 300 | CAN | 187 | Peter Hengsakul | USA | 310 | |
Joseph Couden | USA | 197 | Jonathan Concepcion | ESP | 312 | |
Conor Beresford CB | UK | 198 | Francois Billard | CAN | 313 | |
Dzmitry Urbanovich | POL | 231 | Justin Young | USA | 319 | |
Ryan Hughes | USA | 233 | Roland Israelashvili | USA | 320 | |
Scott Clements | USA | 236 | Jesse Yaginuma | USA | 327 | |
Byron Kavermam #1 | USA | 237 | Atanas Kavrakov | BUL | 340 | |
Scott Baumstein | USA | 238 | Brian Green | USA | 346 | |
Craig Mason | USA | 254 | Chris Ferguson | USA | 356 | |
Javier Zarco | ESP | 261 | Dimitar Danchev | BUL | 365 | |
Carlos Chadha Villamarin 300 | ESP | 280 | Michael Watson | CAN | 368 | |
Chris Hunichen | USA | 282 | Jordan Cristos | USA | 376 | |
Toby Lewis | UK | 283 | Justin Zaki | USA | 382 | |
Jussi Nevanlinna | FIN | 285 | Danny Wong | USA | 405 | |
Craig Varnell | USA | 292 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 462 | |
Christian Harder | USA | 294 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | BLR | 471 | |
Mike Takayama | PHI | 298 | Phil Hellmuth | USA | 487 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut | #1: Former GPI World #1
Full January 16, 2019 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2019-01-16/300/
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