June 28 2017, by Eric Danis
June 28, 2017 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› Coming off his second bracelet victory, 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Joe McKeehen (World #11) continues his push to #1, ranking a career-best #11 this week
›› Online poker legend Chris Hunichen (World #98) cracks the Top 100 for the very first time. Big Huni is closing in on 10M in online tournament winnings -according to our friends at PocketFives – and is close to breaking the 2M barrier in live tournaments
›› Coming off a victory in a 1K prelim event at the Wynn Summer Classic, Danish pro Morten Mortensen (World #200) has hit a career high ranking at #200
›› Congratulations go out to the following players, who make their GPI300 debut this week: Michael Zhang (World #234), Robert Heidorn (World #255), Daniel Dizenzo (World #285) and rising star Andreas Klatt (World #289)
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 3,483.52 | 1 | = |
| #2 | David Peters | USA | 3,388.23 | 3 | +1 |
| #3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,305.36 | 2 | -1 |
| #4 | Fedor Holz | GER | 3,265.07 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,233.71 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,218.54 | 7 | +1 |
| #7 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,200.21 | 8 | +1 |
| #8 | Dan Smith | USA | 3,147.71 | 6 | -2 |
| #9 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 3,142.76 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Paul Volpe | USA | 3,114.22 | 11 | +1 |
| #11 | Joseph McKeehen CB | USA | 3,093.32 | 24 | +13 |
| #12 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,003.49 | 17 | +5 |
| #13 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 2,987.79 | 12 | -1 |
| #14 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,978.54 | 13 | -1 |
| #15 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,976.64 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Connor Drinan | USA | 2,972.97 | 20 | +4 |
| #17 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,961.76 | 18 | +1 |
| #18 | Jason Koon | USA | 2,952.21 | 16 | -2 |
| #19 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 2,925.61 | 15 | -4 |
| #20 | David Yan | NZL | 2,904.74 | 22 | +2 |
| #21 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 2,892.63 | 19 | -2 |
| #22 | Jason Mercier | USA | 2,864.58 | 10 | -12 |
| #23 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 2,864.08 | 21 | -2 |
| #24 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,838.45 | 23 | -1 |
| #25 | Jake Schindler | USA | 2,780.55 | 27 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: John Racener (World #28, -3)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Joseph Cheong | USA | 269 | 127 | +142 |
| Chad Eveslage CB | USA | 264 | 124 | +140 |
| Sam Soverel CB | USA | 174 | 51 | +123 |
| Chino Rheem | USA | 267 | 164 | +103 |
| Chris Hunichen CB | USA | 200 | 98 | +102 |
| Viliyan Petleshkov | BUL | 255 | 156 | +99 |
| Scott Margerson CB | UK | 281 | 184 | +97 |
| Justin Young | USA | 271 | 175 | +96 |
| Artem Metalidi | UKR | 216 | 134 | +82 |
| Morten Mortensen | DEN | 278 | 200 | +78 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Robert Mizrachi | USA | 137 | 227 | -90 |
| Michael Watson | CAN | 153 | 225 | -72 |
| Dermot Blain | IRL | 220 | 291 | -71 |
| Manig Loeser | GER | 88 | 158 | -70 |
| Mihails Morozovs | LAT | 231 | 296 | -65 |
| Antoine Saout | FRA | 100 | 163 | -63 |
| Mark Herm | USA | 91 | 152 | -61 |
| Martin Kozlov | AUS | 143 | 202 | -59 |
| Jean-Pascal Savard | CAN | 194 | 252 | -58 |
| Daniel Negreanu | CAN | 72 | 128 | -56 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | DJ MacKinnon | USA |
| #302 | Bart Lybaert | BEL |
| #303 | Dean Blatt | AUS |
| #304 | Tobias Peters | NED |
| #305 | Celina Lin | CHN |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Ryan Laplante CB | USA | 172 | Celina Lin | CHN | 301 | |
| Matas Cimbolas | LIT | 181 | Bary Lybaert | BEL | 302 | |
| Kou Vang | USA | 185 | Tobias Peters | NED | 304 | |
| Juha Helppi | FIN | 211 | Benjamin Tollerene | USA | 307 | |
| Kenny Hallaert | BEL | 214 | Enzo Del Piero | UK | 308 | |
| Oliver Weis | GER | 221 | Wael Sarkis | LIB | 310 | |
| Ludovic Geilich | UK | 233 | Joe Elpayaa | USA | 311 | |
| Michael Zhang 300 | UK | 234 | Jesse Cohen | USA | 312 | |
| Noah Vaillancourt | CAN | 235 | James Juvancic | USA | 313 | |
| Artur Koren | GER | 237 | Jean Gaspard | USA | 314 | |
| Tom Middleton | UK | 245 | Thomas Taylor | CAN | 318 | |
| Robert Heidorn 300 | GER | 255 | Mark Darner | USA | 319 | |
| Kilian Kramer | GER | 269 | Lee Wai Kiat | MAS | 322 | |
| Matthew Wakeman | AUS | 271 | Dan Heimiller | USA | 326 | |
| Max Pescatori | ITA | 281 | Chris Klodnicki | USA | 329 | |
| Dylan Linde | USA | 282 | Jason Les | USA | 349 | |
| Daniel Dizenzo 300 | USA | 285 | Marshall White | USA | 351 | |
| Adrien Allain | FRA | 288 | Anthony Ruberto | USA | 359 | |
| Andreas Klatt 300 | GER | 289 | Shivan Abdine | AUS | 367 | |
| Stefan Jedlicka | AUT | 290 | Roland Israelashvili | USA | 368 | |
| Albert Daher | LIB | 293 | Mikhail Korotkikh | RUS | 372 | |
| Atanas Kavrakov | BUL | 300 | Esther Taylor-Brady | USA | 404 |
CB: Career-best GPI ranking | 300: Making GPI300 debut
2017 GPI PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | PoY SCORE | CHANGE |
| #1 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 2,840.97 | = |
| #2 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 2,741.39 | = |
| #3 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 2,673.73 | = |
| #4 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,616.19 | = |
| #5 | David Peters | USA | 2,511.81 | = |
| #6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 2,478.79 | = |
| #7 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 2,466.55 | = |
| #8 | Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 2,430.71 | = |
| #9 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,429.02 | +3 |
| #10 | Manig Loeser | GER | 2,340.79 | -1 |
| #11 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 2,301.98 | -1 |
| #12 | Dario Sammartino | ITA | 2,297.15 | NEW |
| #13 | Dan Smith | USA | 2,282.22 | NEW |
| #14 | Mike Leah | CAN | 2,239.78 | -3 |
| #15 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 2,224.53 | NEW |
Full June 28, 2017 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2017-06-28/300/
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About the author
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.
