July 13 2017, by Eric Danis
July 12, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Spending his 20th total week (15th straight) at the top of the GPI World Rankings, Nick Petrangelo passes Daniel Negreanu on the All-Time Total Weeks at #1 list – Petrangelo now sits 6th on the list
›› Coming off a 2nd place finish in the 3K NLH bracelet event at the World Series of Poker, Chance Kornuth (World #14) storms back into the Top 25 to a career-best #14
›› Two final tables in four days sees Esther Taylor-Brady (World #96) re-enter the GPI300 and crack the Top 100 for the first time of her career
›› Congratulations go out to Italian Raffaele Sorrentino (World #187), China’s Liang Xu (World #296) and Apostolos Bechrakis (World #299) of Greece, who all made their GPI300 debut this week
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,383.01 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Peters | USA | 3,307.24 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,267.94 | 3 | = |
| #4 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,230.06 | 9 | +5 |
| #5 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,164.37 | 6 | +1 |
| #6 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,101.63 | 8 | +2 |
| #7 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,047.42 | 5 | -2 |
| #8 | Sergio Aido CB | ESP | 3,016.33 | 13 | +5 |
| #9 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,002.51 | 7 | -2 |
| #10 | Rainer Kemper | GER | 2,975.84 | 14 | +4 |
| #11 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,970.03 | 12 | +1 |
| #12 | Connor Drinan | USA | 2,953.40 | 17 | +5 |
| #13 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,949.15 | 15 | +2 |
| #14 | Chance Kornuth CB | USA | 2,932.01 | 31 | NEW |
| #15 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 2,917.53 | 10 | -5 |
| #16 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,915.54 | 16 | = |
| #17 | Benjamin Zamani | USA | 2,896.95 | 27 | NEW |
| #18 | Paul Volpe | USA | 2,896.91 | 11 | -7 |
| #19 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 2,894.74 | 19 | = |
| #20 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 2,829.67 | 21 | +1 |
| #21 | Fedor Holz | GER | 2,814.94 | 4 | -17 |
| #22 | Darren Elias | USA | 2,812.15 | 28 | NEW |
| #23 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 2,810.58 | 20 | -3 |
| #24 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 2,804.65 | 22 | -2 |
| #25 | Pratyush Buddiga | USA | 2,798.77 | 23 | -2 |
Out of the Top 25: Jake Schindler (World #26, -1), David Yan (World #28, -10), Niall Farrell (World #31, -7)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Matt Salsberg | CAN | 279 | 139 | +140 |
| Alexandru Papazian CB | ROU | 293 | 155 | +138 |
| Chris Klodnicki | USA | 250 | 120 | +130 |
| Ryan Van Sanford CB | USA | 200 | 88 | +112 |
| Kilian Kramer | GER | 233 | 138 | +95 |
| James Gilbert | USA | 230 | 146 | +84 |
| Ryan Laplante CB | USA | 181 | 100 | +81 |
| Stefan Jedlicka | AUT | 274 | 210 | +64 |
| Gavin O’Rourke | IRL | 217 | 157 | +60 |
| Eddy Sabat | USA | 171 | 112 | +59 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Cliff Josephy | USA | 147 | 291 | -144 |
| Lucas Greenwood | CAN | 180 | 298 | -118 |
| Sean Winter | USA | 179 | 281 | -102 |
| John Monnette | USA | 154 | 244 | -90 |
| Chris Hunichen | USA | 115 | 196 | -81 |
| Mark Herm | USA | 216 | 285 | -69 |
| Sorel Mizzi | CAN | 172 | 239 | -67 |
| Jonathan Turner | USA | 122 | 188 | -66 |
| Vicente Delgado | ESP | 175 | 236 | -61 |
| Kane Kalas | USA | 183 | 243 | -60 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | Reginald Roberts | USA |
| #302 | Jesse Sylvia | USA |
| #303 | Kevin Eyster | USA |
| #304 | Kiryl Radzivonau | BLR |
| #305 | Vincent Moscati CB | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Esther Taylor-Brady CB | USA | 96 | Kevin Eyster | USA | 303 | |
| Raffaele Sorrentino 300 | ITA | 187 | Jake Cody | UK | 306 | |
| Benjamin Tollerene CB | USA | 191 | Jason Gooch | USA | 312 | |
| David Jackson | USA | 214 | Zohair Karim | USA | 314 | |
| Dylan Linde | USA | 223 | Maria Ho | USA | 316 | |
| Isaac Haxton | USA | 247 | Dan Heimiller | USA | 321 | |
| Phong Than Nguyen | USA | 258 | Tom Middleton | UK | 322 | |
| Matthew Wakeman | AUS | 260 | Dorian Rios Pavon | VEN | 326 | |
| Joey Weissman | USA | 265 | Peter Vitantonio | USA | 330 | |
| Aleksandr Gofman | RUS | 270 | Daniel Dizenzo | USA | 337 | |
| Tony Dunst | USA | 282 | Jeff Gross | USA | 338 | |
| Albert Daher | LIB | 286 | Ludovic Geilich | UK | 339 | |
| Guillaume Diaz | FRA | 289 | Antoine Saout | FRA | 341 | |
| Jonathan Borenstein | USA | 292 | Jussi Nevanlinna | FIN | 364 | |
| Liang Xu 300 | CHN | 296 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | GRE | 371 | |
| Bart Lybaert | BEL | 297 | Daniel Sindelar | USA | 457 | |
| Apostolos Bechrakis 300 | GRE | 299 | Bryan Piccioli | USA | 471 | |
| Adam Geyer | USA | 300 | Jason Les | USA | 490 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut
2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| #1 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 2,881.97 | = |
| #2 | Dan Smith | USA | 2,841.98 | +13 |
| #3 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 2,840.97 | -1 |
| #4 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,748.22 | +4 |
| #5 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,695.82 | -2 |
| #6 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 2,673.73 | -2 |
| #7 | Ari Engel | CAN | 2,652.80 | -2 |
| #8 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,616.70 | +3 |
| #9 | David Peters | USA | 2,607.62 | -3 |
| #10 | Anthony Spinella | USA | 2,470.15 | NEW |
| #11 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 2,466.55 | -4 |
| #12 | Pete Chen | TAI | 2,453.11 | -3 |
| #13 | Harrison Gimbel | USA | 2,437.13 | NEW |
| #14 | Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 2,430.71 | -4 |
| #15 | Olivier Busquet | USA | 2,404.98 | NEW |
Full July 12, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-07-12/300/
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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.
