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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