November 22 2018, by Eric Danis
November 21, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings
THIS WEEK’S NOTES
›› Former World #1 Steve O’Dwyer (World #5) is attempting to make his way back to the top. Coming off two deep runs at the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in the Bahamas, O’Dwyer reached the Top 5 for the first time since July 2017
›› Malaysia’s Seng Leow (World #146) has reached a career-best ranking for the second straight week. With players like Leow and GPI Top 25 Michael Soyza, Malaysian poker is certainly on the rise!
›› Congratulations go out to Diogo Veiga (World #169), Craig Mason (World #238) and WSOP bracelet winner Julien Martini (World #295), who all make their GPI300 debuts this week!
›› 2018 GPI PoY: O’Dwyer, Nikita Bodyakovskiy and Rainer Kempe are new entries in the 2018 PoY Top 15 – each hoping that a late run will allow them to move ahead of Alex Foxen for the 2018 PoY title
GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | GPI SCORE | LAST | CHANGE |
| #1 | William Alex Foxen (7 weeks) | USA | 4,010.49 | 1 | = |
| #2 | Justin Bonomo CB | USA | 3,658.51 | 4 | +2 |
| #3 | David Peters #1 | USA | 3,600.63 | 2 | -1 |
| #4 | Stephen Chidwick CB | UK | 3,556.49 | 3 | -1 |
| #5 | Steve O’Dwyer #1 | USA | 3,478.37 | 13 | +8 |
| #6 | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,453.95 | 5 | -1 |
| #7 | Adrian Mateos #1 | ESP | 3,418.41 | 6 | -1 |
| #8 | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,319.27 | 7 | -1 |
| #9 | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,314.00 | 10 | +1 |
| #10 | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,233.76 | 9 | -1 |
| #11 | Jason Koon | USA | 3,191.61 | 11 | = |
| #12 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,188.23 | 23 | +11 |
| #13 | Joseph McKeehen | USA | 3,185.61 | 8 | -5 |
| #14 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,131.46 | 12 | -2 |
| #15 | Michael Addamo | AUS | 3,107.98 | 14 | -1 |
| #16 | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,093.69 | 15 | -1 |
| #17 | Nick Petrangelo #1 | USA | 3,085.56 | 16 | -1 |
| #18 | Koray Aldemir | GER | 3,079.55 | 17 | -1 |
| #19 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 3,059.80 | 18 | -1 |
| #20 | Anthony Zinno #1 | USA | 3,048.66 | 19 | -1 |
| #21 | Dominik Nitsche | GER | 3,046.84 | 21 | = |
| #22 | Timothy Miles | USA | 3,019.75 | 22 | = |
| #23 | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,018.48 | 20 | -3 |
| #24 | Bart Lybaert | BEL | 2,930.99 | 24 | = |
| #25 | Jan Schwippert | GER | 2,928.12 | 25 | = |
Out of the Top 25: None
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #63 | Sean Winter | USA | 213 | +150 |
| #96 | Joao Simao | BRA | 222 | +126 |
| #168 | Viliyan Petleshkov | BUL | 258 | +90 |
| #134 | Taylor Black | USA | 223 | +89 |
| #68 | Alexander Lynskey CB | AUS | 134 | +66 |
| #158 | Robert Heidorn | GER | 158 | +62 |
| #146 | Seng Leow CB | MAS | 201 | +55 |
| #89 | Adam Owen | UK | 142 | +53 |
| #153 | Lander Lijo Bereciartua | ESP | 206 | +53 |
| #236 | Paul Balzano | USA | 284 | +48 |
DOWN THE LADDER
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | LAST | CHANGE |
| #271 | Jack Duong | USA | 197 | -74 |
| #298 | Michael Zhang | USA | 224 | -74 |
| #162 | Felipe Ramos | BRA | 89 | -73 |
| #228 | Ismael Bojang | GER | 166 | -62 |
| #252 | Chris Hunichen | USA | 204 | -48 |
| #226 | Richard Alsup | USA | 181 | -45 |
| #191 | Andrey Pateychuk | RUS | 147 | -44 |
| #197 | Ivan Luca | ARG | 154 | -43 |
| #206 | Shankar Pillai | USA | 165 | -41 |
| #186 | Thomas Marchese | USA | 146 | -40 |
ON THE BUBBLE
| RANK | PLAYER | NATION | +/- |
| #301 | Laurynas Levinskas CB | LIT | +125 |
| #302 | Marton Czuczor | HUN | -8 |
| #303 | Mike Shin | USA | -7 |
| #304 | Sergi Reixach | ESP | +232 |
| #305 | – | – | – |
WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?
| GPI300: IN ››› | NATION | GPI# | ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT | NATION | GPI# | |
| Paul Tedeschi | FRA | 166 | Marton Czuczor | HUN | 302 | |
| Diogo Veiga 300 | POR | 169 | Mike Shin | USA | 303 | |
| Anton Wigg | SWE | 176 | Andres Korn | ARG | 306 | |
| Christopher Kruk | CAN | 223 | Ido Ashkenazi | USA | 307 | |
| Craig Mason 300 | USA | 238 | Ryan Van Sanford | USA | 309 | |
| Ryan D’Angelo | USA | 257 | Jose Ignacio Barbero | ARG | 316 | |
| Joshua Reichard CB | USA | 260 | Thai Ha | VIE | 320 | |
| Joao Viera | POR | 261 | Wendy Freedman | USA | 330 | |
| Francois Billard | CAN | 269 | Michael Gagliano | USA | 331 | |
| Je Wook Oh | USA | 272 | Michael Linster | USA | 333 | |
| James Gilbert | USA | 277 | Filipp Khavin | USA | 334 | |
| Christopher Bolek | USA | 281 | Alexander Denisov | RUS | 348 | |
| Richard Dubini | ARG | 286 | Christian Harder | USA | 352 | |
| Cliff Josephy | USA | 291 | Pierre Neuville | BEL | 355 | |
| Julien Martini 300 | FRA | 295 | Mihai Niste | ROU | 369 | |
| Will Failla | USA | 297 | Eric Blair | USA | 381 |
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 |
| 1st | William Alex Foxen | USA | 3,836.72 | = |
| 2nd | Justin Bonomo | USA | 3,763.02 | +2 |
| 3rd | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 3,691.67 | -1 |
| 4th | David Peters | USA | 3,677.32 | -1 |
| 5th | Jake Schindler | USA | 3,625.15 | = |
| 6th | Steve O’Dwyer | USA | 3,531.55 | NEW |
| 7th | Adrian Mateos | ESP | 3,412.43 | -1 |
| 8th | Shaun Deeb | USA | 3,346.66 | -1 |
| 9th | Benjamin Pollak | FRA | 3,313.33 | = |
| 10th | Ryan Riess | USA | 3,284.31 | -2 |
| 11th | Benjamin Yu | USA | 3,233.92 | -1 |
| 12th | Christopher Michael Soyza | MAS | 3,228.97 | -1 |
| 13th | Jason Koon | USA | 3,194.64 | -1 |
| 14th | Nikita Bodyakovskiy | BLR | 3,184.50 | NEW |
| 15th | Rainer Kempe | GER | 3,172.45 | NEW |
Full November 21, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-11-21/300/
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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.
