March 08 2018, by Eric Danis
March 7, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› 2015 WSOP Main Event Champion Joseph McKeehen (World #6, +6) has entered the Top 10, moving to a career-best #6 in the World. McKeehen finished 3rd at WPT Rolling Thunder outside Sacramento earlier this week
›› 2017 American Poker Award nominee William Alex Foxen (World #11, +5) continues his rise in the World Rankings. Foxen is coming off a High Roller victory at the LAPC in Los Angeles
›› A runner-up finish at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic sees former World #17 Toby Lewis (World #80, +212) rocket up the charts, hitting his best ranking in over two and a half years
›› Congratulations go out to Ubaid Habib (World #252) and Zachary Smiley (World #257), who each make their GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Three wins in three days in Cyprus helped Georgios Zisimopoulos (World #74) move all the way up to the #1 spot in the GPI PoY race
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Adrian Mateos (15 weeks) | ESP | 3,751.66 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,466.10 | 2 | = |
| #3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,407.68 | 3 | = |
| #4 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,354.58 | 4 | = |
| #5 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,304.57 | 5 | = |
| #6 | Joseph McKeehen CB | USA | 3,250.83 | 12 | +6 |
| #7 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,210.56 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,200.36 | 9 | +1 |
| #9 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,176.93 | 10 | +1 |
| #10 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,158.80 | 8 | -2 |
| #11 | William Alex Foxen CB | USA | 3,135.06 | 16 | +5 |
| #12 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,118.26 | 6 | -6 |
| #13 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,103.11 | 11 | -2 |
| #14 | Dan Smith #1 | USA | 3,051.97 | 13 | -1 |
| #15 | Jack Salter | UK | 3,003.43 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 2,990.40 | 29 | NEW |
| #17 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,965.35 | 15 | -2 |
| #18 | Niall Farrell | UK | 2,947.37 | 17 | -1 |
| #19 | Darren Elias | USA | 2,897.15 | 20 | +1 |
| #20 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,895.95 | 19 | -1 |
| #21 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 2,831.15 | 18 | -3 |
| #22 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,813.97 | 21 | -1 |
| #23 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,796.31 | 23 | = |
| #24 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 2,793.65 | 24 | = |
| #25 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 2,788.68 | 27 | NEW |
Out of the Top 25: #28 Jake Schindler (USA) -6 // #29 Mike Leah (CAN) -4
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Toby Lewis | UK | 292 | 80 | +212 |
| Vladimir Shabalin CB | RUS | 276 | 191 | +85 |
| Matt Affleck | USA | 128 | 51 | +77 |
| Marc MacDonnell | IRL | 159 | 84 | +75 |
| Ryan Yu CB | CAN | 256 | 183 | +73 |
| Chance Kornuth | USA | 121 | 58 | +63 |
| Michael Gagliano | USA | 200 | 140 | +60 |
| Kurt Jewell CB | USA | 203 | 147 | +56 |
| Ivan Deyra CB | FRA | 207 | 152 | +55 |
| Vinny Pahuja | USA | 299 | 248 | +51 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Kevin Saul | USA | 228 | 297 | -69 |
| Jake Cody | UK | 161 | 228 | -67 |
| Aaron Mermelstein | USA | 156 | 216 | -60 |
| Usman Siddique | UK | 182 | 230 | -48 |
| Tom Hall | UK | 67 | 114 | -47 |
| Ravi Raghavan | USA | 249 | 296 | -47 |
| Anthony Spinella | USA | 55 | 89 | -34 |
| Rajaee Wazwaz | USA | 259 | 289 | -30 |
| Jason Gooch | USA | 196 | 225 | -29 |
| Ryan Leng | USA | 230 | 259 | -29 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION |
| #301 | Thomas Taylor | CAN |
| #302 | Michael Wang | USA |
| #303 | Jonathan Hanner | USA |
| #304 | Jan Bendik | SLV |
| #305 | Richard Bai | USA |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| David Pham CB | USA | 93 | Michael Wang | USA | 302 | |
| Joshua Kay CB | USA | 181 | Jonathan Hanner | USA | 303 | |
| Schuyler Thornton CB | USA | 241 | Jan Benkik | SLV | 304 | |
| Daniel Strelitz | USA | 222 | Sean Winter | USA | 307 | |
| Jeremy Joseph | USA | 249 | Sean Yu | KOR | 308 | |
| Ubaid Habib 300 | USA | 252 | Robert Heidorn | GER | 310 | |
| Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA | 256 | Tomas Soderstrom | SWE | 311 | |
| Zachary Smiley 300 | USA | 257 | Juan Carlos Alvarado | MEX | 312 | |
| Derek Wolters | USA | 268 | Valentin Vornicu | USA | 313 | |
| Andy Frankenberger | USA | 271 | Chad Eveslage | USA | 314 | |
| James Calderaro | USA | 272 | Upeshka De Silva | USA | 315 | |
| Shankar Pillai | USA | 276 | Chen Lin | TAI | 323 | |
| Peter Vitantonio | USA | 291 | Bobby Zhang | AUS | 352 | |
| Joe Elpayaa | USA | 300 | Govert Metaal | NED | 359 |
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 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,631.11 | NEW |
| #2 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,618.23 | NEW |
| #3 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 1,478.17 | NEW |
| #4 | Joao Simao | BRA | 1,452.97 | +11 |
| #5 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 1,430.66 | -4 |
| #6 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,426.10 | +1 |
| #7 | Timothy Miles | USA | 1,411.31 | -2 |
| #8 | Toby Lewis | UK | 1,383.74 | NEW |
| #9 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 1,371.99 | -7 |
| #10 | Daniel Negreanu | CAN | 1,345.64 | -7 |
| #11 | Gianluca Sperenza | ITA | 1,339.32 | -7 |
| #12 | Gerald Karlic | AUT | 1,260.14 | -2 |
| #13 | Stephen Song | USA | 1,239.71 | NEW |
| #14 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 1,223.35 | -8 |
| #15 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 1,144.44 | -7 |
Full March 7, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-03-07/300/
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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.
