January 17 2018, by Eric Danis

January 17, 2018 World Poker Rankings

THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK

›› 2017 GPI Player of the Year Adrian Mateos (World #1, =) is already off to a hot start in 2018. His 4th place finish in the 2018 PCA Main Event saw him increase his lead at the top.  The Spanish superstar now sits on more points than he did when he first became World #1

›› PCA Main Event deep runs also helped former 2016 GPI Player of the Year David Peters (World #2, +2) and Koray Aldemir (World #5, +10), who finished 3rd in the Main, make moves inside the Top 25

›› A victory in a side event at the WPT European Championship in Berlin helped former World #2 Davidi Kitai (World #99, +96) move back into the Top 100 for the first time since October

›› Congratulations go out to Tomas Soderstrom (World #279), Canlin Chen (World #286) and Zachary Donovan (World #292) who all make their GPI300 debuts this week

›› 2018 GPI PoY: Coming off a trio of PCA scores, including a High Roller victory, Canadian Christopher Kruk kicks off the 2018 race at #1. PCA Main Event winner Maria Lampropulos starts the season at GPI PoY #3

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Adrian Mateos (8 wks) ESP 3,588.10 1 =
#2 David Peters #1 USA 3,277.36 4 +2
#3 Rainer Kempe CB GER 3,259.33 6 +3
#4 Bryn Kenney #1 USA 3,246.69 2 -2
#5 Koray Aldemir CB GER 3,230.30 15 +10
#6 Jason Koon USA 3,125.65 10 +4
#7 Ari Engel CAN 3,193.02 5 -2
#8 Stephen Chidwick UK 3,182.05 3 -5
#9 Stefan Schillhabel GER 3,140.03 7 -2
#10 Nick Petrangelo #1 USA 3,132.10 18 +8
#11 Steve O’Dwyer #1 USA 3,070.63 9 -2
#12 Sergio Aido ESP 3,069.20 8 -4
#13 Fedor Holz #1 GER 3,041.17 17 +4
#14 William Alex Foxen USA 3,031.48 11 -3
#15 Justin Bonomo USA 3,001.49 19 +4
#16 Jack Salter UK 2,993.71 14 -2
#17 Benjamin Pollak FRA 2,953.43 21 +4
#18 Darren Elias USA 2,945.60 12 -6
#19 Sam Greenwood CAN 2,937.42 16 -3
#20 Dan Smith #1 USA 2,913.65 13 -7
#21 Samuel Panzica USA 2,908.35 20 -1
#22 Joseph McKeehen USA 2,841.74 22 =
#23 Brian Altman USA 2,820.24 26 NEW
#24 Benjamin Zamani USA 2,792.77 23 -1
#25 Dejuante Alexander USA 2,790.99 24 -1

Out of the Top 25: #27 Albert Daher (LIB) -2

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Krzysztof Stybaniewicz CB USA 284 147 +137
Maria Lampropulos CB ARG 164 45 +119
Christopher Kruk CB CAN 212 111 +101
Davidi Kitai BEL 195 99 +96
Mustapha Kanit ITA 222 128 +94
David Eldridge USA 300 230 +70
Robert Hankins USA 297 233 +64
Oliver Weis GER 176 115 +61
Matt Glantz USA 232 173 +59
Daniel Negreanu #1 CAN 141 87 +54

DOWN THE LADDER

PLAYER NATION LAST THIS CHANGE
Alex Difelice CAN 186 268 -82
Jonathan Karamalikis AUS 135 208 -73
Osmin Dardon USA 155 224 -69
Paul Höfer GER 78 140 -62
Ryan Laplante USA 158 217 -59
Dylan Wilkerson USA 214 270 -56
Patrick Leonard UK 84 139 -55
Upeshka De Silva USA 173 223 -50
Jason Mercier #1 USA 174 222 -48
Dan Wilson IRL 203 250 -47

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION
#301 Kilian Kramer GER
#302 Esther Taylor-Brady USA
#303 Shannon Shorr USA
#304 Ryan Leng USA
#305 Peter Eichhardt SWE

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Nicholas Palma USA 201 Shannon Shorr USA 303
Jefferey Fielder CB USA 238 Joshua Reichard USA 306
Allen Kessler USA 241 Timothy Reilly USA 307
Anthony Ruberto USA 253 Oleksii Khoroshenin UKR 308
Paul Michaelis CB GER 264 Seth Davies USA 309
Tomas Soderstrom 300 SWE 279 Alexander Denisov RUS 310
Valentin Vornicu USA 285 Cliff Josephy USA 311
Canlin Chen 300 CHN 286 Simeon Naydenov BUL 313
Dmitry Gromov RUS 288 Michael Rocco USA 322
Michael Wang USA 289 Benjamin Yu USA 327
Zachary Donovan 300 USA 292 Felix Bleiker SUI 349
Andrew Spears USA 293 James Obst AUS 351
Loni Harwood USA 294 Jimmy Guerrero FRA 353
Vineet Pahuja USA 296 Josias Santos BRA 357
Joshua Turner USA 297 David Rheem USA 360
Kevin Calenzo USA 298 Matt Berkey USA 374
Richard Kirsch USA 299 Cate Hall USA 381
James Chen TAI 300 Jonathan Turner USA 395

 

CB: Career-best GPI ranking  |  300: Making GPI300 debut |  #1: Former GPI World #1


 

2018 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE

RANK PLAYER NATION PoY SCORE CHANGE
#1 Christopher Kruk CAN 749.95 =
#2 Aylar Lie NOR 631.15 =
#3 Maria Lampropulos ARG 606.34 =
#4 Ole Schemion GER 550.61 =
#5 Justin Bonomo USA 543.99 =
#6 Benjamin Pollak FRA 543.98 =
#7 Isaac Haxton USA 537.94 =
#8 Daniel Jones USA 532.38 =
#9 Jeffrey Trudeau USA 524.91 =
#10 Kunal Patni IND 518.41 =
#11 Shawn Buchanan CAN 508.81 =
#12 Stefan Schillhabel GER 501.79 =
#13 Ashkan Fattahi IRI 496.73 =
#14 Cary Katz USA 494.07 =
#15 Maria Konnikova USA 472.71 =

 

Full January 17, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-01-17/300/

 

 

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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.