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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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.