June 20 2018, by Eric Danis

June 20, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings

THIS WEEK’S NOTES

›› A third victory of the season sees Alex Foxen (World #2) move up to a career-best #2 this week. Foxen defeated his better half, Kristen Bicknell (World #21), also a Top 25 player, heads-up for the 5K MSPT Championship at the DeepStack Championship Series at Venetian

›› Joseph McKeehen (World #5), coming off a pair of 3rd place finishes early at the WSOP, joins the GPI Top 5 for the first time of his career

›› A 3rd place finish in a 1K side event at the Wynn Summer Classic helps Thomas Boivin (World #125) move up over 100 spots to his best ranking of 2018

›› Congratulations go out to Arsenii Karmatckii (World #243) and Christopher Vitch (World #274), who each make their debuts ranked inside the GPI300 this week

›› 2018 GPI PoY: Justin Bonomo conserves his lead atop the 2018 race, holding off current GPI World #1 Stephen Chidwick at the top

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Stephen Chidwick (10 weeks) UK 3,765.37 1 =
#2 William Alex Foxen CB USA 3,631.75 5 +3
#3 Adrian Mateos #1 ESP 3,614.16 2 -1
#4 Justin Bonomo USA 3,513.07 4 =
#5 Joseph McKeehen CB USA 3,508.03 6 +1
#6 David Peters #1 USA 3,489.83 3 -3
#7 Sam Greenwood CAN 3,346.86 7 =
#8 Rainer Kempe GER 3,297.32 8 =
#9 Jason Koon USA 3,295.97 9 =
#10 Bryn Kenney #1 USA 3,247.08 10 =
#11 Benjamin Pollak FRA 3,170.92 13 +2
#12 Nick Petrangelo #1 USA 3,152.59 11 -1
#13 Jan Schwippert GER 3,060.51 12 -1
#14 Dominik Nitsche GER 3,033.20 15 +1
#15 Darren Elias USA 3,027.43 16 +1
#16 Steve O’Dwyer #1 USA 3,018.02 17 +1
#17 Koray Aldemir GER 3,011.94 14 -3
#18 Ari Engel CAN 3,002.29 18 =
#19 Nikita Bodyakovskiy BLR 2,991.17 20 +1
#20 Jake Schindler USA 2,986.60 19 -1
#21 Kristen Bicknell CAN 2,967.62 27 NEW
#22 Benjamin Tollerene USA 2,958.70 21 -1
#23 Albert Daher LIB 2,954.87 23 =
#24 Stefan Schillhabel GER 2,938.52 22 -2
#25 Brian Altman USA 2,909.28 24 -1

Out of the Top 25: #26 Timothy Miles (USA) -1

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#164 Darren Rabinowitz USA 275 +111
#125 Thomas Boivin BEL 226 +101
#188 Tom Hall UK 285 +97
#149 Kevin Saul CB USA 234 +85
#148 Kahle Burns CB AUS 227 +79
#220 Danny Wong USA 296 +76
#96 Aaron Mermelstein USA 168 +72
#195 Marshall White USA 266 +71
#122 Phil Hellmuth USA 192 +70
#207 Andy Frankenberger USA 274 +67

DOWN THE LADDER

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#279 Michael Gagliano USA 157 -122
#290 Seth Davies USA 197 -93
#219 Bartlomiej Machon POL 139 -80
#284 Harry Lodge UK 204 -80
#230 James Chen TAI 152 -78
#260 Dominik Panka POL 183 -77
#289 Paul Höfer GER 213 -76
#137 Harrison Gimbel USA 68 -69
#208 Asi Moshe ISR 149 -59
#298 Matthew Yorra USA 241 -57

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION +/-
#301 Stephen Song USA -2
#302 Sander van Wesemael NED -4
#303 Tobias Peters NED -51
#304 Chris Hunichen USA -74
#305 Kitty Kuo TAI -56

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Taylor Paur USA 172 Stephen Song USA 301
David Jackson USA 191 Sander van Wesemael NED 302
Upeshka De Silva USA 209 Tobias Peters NED 303
Martin Kozlov AUS 213 Chris Hunichen USA 304
Jeremy Ausmus USA 216 Kitty Kuo TAI 305
Ian O’Hara USA 227 Ryan Leng USA 308
Arsenii Karmatckii 300 RUS 243 Viliyan Petleshkov BUL 310
Andrey Konopelko BLR 249 Boris Kolev BUL 311
Guillaume Diaz CB FRA 253 Quan Zhou CHN 313
Spencer Champlin USA 257 Felix Blieker SUI 316
Conor Beresford UK 258 Konstantin Puchkov RUS 322
Jesse Alexis Cohen USA 269 Blake Bohn USA 326
Alexander Greenblatt USA 271 Patrick Leonard UK 327
Christopher Vitch 300 USA 274 Demo Kiriopoulos CAN 329
Justin Zaki USA 277 Jussi Nevanlinna FIN 336
Stoyan Obreshkov BUL 278 Morten Mortensen DEN 346
Govert Metaal NED 281 Alexander Denisov RUS 367
Connor Drinan USA 282 Daniel Wagner USA 390
Vinny Pahuja USA 293 Christopher Frank GER 392
Zachary Smiley USA 295 Anton Wigg SWE 393
Alexander Lakhov RUS 296 Charles La Boissoniere CAN 406
Georgios Sotiropoulos GRE 297 Ramon Miquel ESP 410
Viktor Ustimov RUS 299 Scott Margereson UK 468
Michael Wang USA 300 Juan Carlos Alvarado MEX 551

 

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 Justin Bonomo USA 3,536.43 =
#2 Stephen Chidwick UK 3,415.46 =
#3 Joseph McKeehen USA 3,007.29 +4
#4 Jake Schindler USA 2,959.53 =
#5 Rainer Kempe GER 2,923.53 -2
#6 Adrian Mateos ESP 2,696.48 -1
#7 Bryn Kenney USA 2,631.34 -1
#8 Joseph Cheong USA 2,595.92 =
#9 Manig Loeser GER 2,578.54 +1
#10 Kristen Bicknell CAN 2,506.33 NEW
#11 Timothy Miles USA 2,504.43 =
#12 Sam Greenwood CAN 2,472.22 -3
#13 David Peters USA 2,416.27 +2
#14 Georgios Zisimopoulos GRE 2,371.36 -2
#15 William Alex Foxen USA 2,337.05 NEW

 

Full June 20, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-06-20/300/

 

 

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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.