May 09 2018, by Eric Danis
May 9, 2018 World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTEBOOK
›› World #1 Stephen Chidwick should be looking over his shoulder as a trio of former World #1’s are on the hunt: Adrian Mateos (World #2), David Peters (World #3) and Bryn Kenney (World #8) all have their sights set on returning to the top of the ladder
›› A strong start to the 2018 season sees the Czech Republic’s Michal Mrakeš (World #22) make his debut ranked inside the GPI Top 25
›› Darryll Fish (World #27), coming off a trio of impressive results in the past five months, is inching closer to joining the Top 25, sitting at a career-best #27 this week
›› Congratulations go out to Taylor Black (World #138), Michael Skelnička (World #191), Charles La Boissoiniere (World #265) and Mikalai Vaskaboinikau (World #275), who all make their GPI300 debuts this week
›› 2018 GPI PoY: Reigning GPI Player of the Year Adrian Mateos gets back in the 2018 PoY race this week after collecting three results at EPT Monte Carlo
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | Stephen Chidwick (4 weeks) | UK | 3,775.44 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,695.86 | 2 | = |
| #3 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,504.31 | 5 | +2 |
| #4 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,445.60 | 4 | = |
| #5 | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,418.33 | 3 | -2 |
| #6 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,363.28 | 6 | = |
| #7 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,260.93 | 7 | = |
| #8 | Bryn Kenney #1 | USA | 3,184.01 | 15 | +7 |
| #9 | Jan Schwippert | GER | 3,133.76 | 9 | = |
| #10 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,116.41 | 10 | = |
| #11 | Ari Engel | CAN | 3,115.63 | 8 | -3 |
| #12 | Stefan Schillhabel | GER | 3,111.70 | 12 | = |
| #13 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,109.94 | 11 | -2 |
| #14 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,041.57 | 13 | -1 |
| #15 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 2,995.06 | 18 | +3 |
| #16 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 2,976.13 | 14 | -2 |
| #17 | Jack Salter | UK | 2,972.15 | 17 | = |
| #18 | Brian Altman | USA | 2,968.87 | 20 | +2 |
| #19 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 2,950.45 | 21 | +2 |
| #20 | Kristen Bicknell CB | CAN | 2,890.35 | 23 | +3 |
| #21 | Jake Schindler | USA | 2,889.80 | 22 | +1 |
| #22 | Michal Mrakes | CZE | 2,881.65 | 29 | NEW |
| #23 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,873.50 | 16 | -7 |
| #24 | Albert Daher CB | LIB | 2,868.37 | 65 | NEW |
| #25 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,853.83 | 24 | -1 |
Out of the Top 25: #28 Sergio Aido (ESP) -3 // #35 Niall Farrell (UK) -16
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Anthony Ruberto | USA | 278 | 110 | +168 |
| Shaun Deeb | USA | 285 | 168 | +117 |
| Tomas Jozonis CB | LIT | 225 | 113 | +112 |
| Ubaid Habib CB | USA | 294 | 193 | +101 |
| Ryan Van Sanford | USA | 261 | 167 | +94 |
| Darryll Fish CB | USA | 100 | 27 | +73 |
| Will Failla | USA | 204 | 135 | +69 |
| Timothy Reilly | USA | 211 | 143 | +68 |
| Richard Dubini | ARG | 226 | 161 | +65 |
| Antoine Saout | FRA | 293 | 231 | +62 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| PLAYER | NATION | LAST | THIS | CHANGE |
| Daniel Dvoress | CAN | 130 | 268 | -138 |
| John Juanda | INA | 177 | 266 | -89 |
| Dmitry Yurasov | RUS | 175 | 263 | -88 |
| Philipp Gruissem | GER | 125 | 212 | -87 |
| Viktor Ustimov | RUS | 190 | 276 | -86 |
| Christoph Vogelsang | GER | 123 | 205 | -82 |
| Julian Stuer | GER | 101 | 181 | -80 |
| John Racener | USA | 215 | 291 | -76 |
| Omar Lakhdari | MAR | 174 | 239 | -65 |
| Javier Zapareto | ESP | 169 | 234 | -65 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA | -10 |
| #302 | Bobby Zhang | AUS | -21 |
| #303 | Raffaele Sorrentino | ITA | -8 |
| #304 | Joshua Turner | USA | -7 |
| #305 | Paul Newey | UK | +31 |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Daniel Strelitz | USA | 136 | Jesse Alexis Cohen | USA | 301 | |
| Taylor Black 300 | USA | 138 | Bobby Zhang | AUS | 302 | |
| Michael Sklenička 300 | CZE | 191 | Raffaele Sorrentino | ITA | 303 | |
| James Gilbert | USA | 206 | Joshua Turner | USA | 304 | |
| Usman Siddique | UK | 228 | Ismael Bojang | GER | 306 | |
| Demo Kiriopoulos CB | CAN | 233 | Phong Vip Nguyen | USA | 308 | |
| Brian Hastings | USA | 237 | Jason Mercier | USA | 309 | |
| Stefan Huber | SUI | 242 | Benjamin Richardson | AUS | 310 | |
| Josip Simunic | AUT | 249 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | POL | 313 | |
| Thomas Boivin | BEL | 250 | Pascal Lefrancois | CAN | 314 | |
| Marvin Rettenmeier | GER | 253 | Arunas Sapitavicius | LIT | 324 | |
| Charles La Boissonniere 300 | CAN | 265 | Stoyan Obreshkov | BUL | 328 | |
| Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | BLR | 275 | Daniel Colman | USA | 340 | |
| Conor Beresford | UK | 278 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | GER | 360 | |
| Juha Helppi | FIN | 298 | Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault | CAN | 376 | |
| Samuel Chartier | CAN | 299 | Charlie Carrell | UK | 425 |
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 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 2,928.70 | = |
| #2 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 2,813.98 | = |
| #3 | Justin Bonomo | USA | 2,639.82 | +1 |
| #4 | Sam Greenwood | CAN | 2,472.22 | -1 |
| #5 | Joseph Cheong | USA | 2,337.36 | +2 |
| #6 | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 2,095.88 | NEW |
| #7 | Isaac Haxton | USA | 2,094.39 | -2 |
| #8 | Timothy Miles | USA | 2,071.41 | = |
| #9 | Dylan Wilkerson | USA | 2,067.73 | -3 |
| #10 | Brian Altman | USA | 1,964.79 | +3 |
| #11 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 1,960.53 | +3 |
| #12 | Manig Loeser | GER | 1,931.40 | NEW |
| #13 | Ari Engel | CAN | 1,919.01 | -4 |
| #14 | Nick Pupillo | USA | 1,894.89 | -4 |
| #15 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | GRE | 1,890.78 | -4 |
Full May 9, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-05-09/300/
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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.
