December 03 2018, by Eric Danis

November 28, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings Update

THIS WEEK’S NOTES

›› A side event victory at the WPT Seminole Rock N Roll Poker Open sees David Peters (World #2) back in the #2 spot behind Alex Foxen

›› Amongst the biggest risers this week are a pair of French players, Guillaume Diaz (World #181) and Julien Sitbon (World #110), who gain 31 and 20 spots inside the GPI300, respectively

›› Congratulations go out to Lithuania’s Laurynas Levinskas (World #289), who makes his GPI300 debut this week!

›› 2018 GPI PoY: Peters moves up a few spots to 2nd in the PoY race as well … otherwise, it was a quiet week in the PoY rankings

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 William Alex Foxen (8 weeks) USA 4,010.49 1 =
#2 David Peters #1 USA 3,678.95 3 +1
#3 Stephen Chidwick #1 UK 3,532.45 4 +1
#4 Justin Bonomo USA 3,520.76 2 -2
#5 Steve O’Dwyer #1 USA 3,478.37 5 =
#6 Jake Schindler USA 3,442.80 6 =
#7 Adrian Mateos #1 ESP 3,393.78 7 =
#8 Ryan Riess USA 3,319.27 8 =
#9 Benjamin Pollak FRA 3,314.00 9 =
#10 Nikita Bodyakovskiy BLR 3,233.76 10 =
#11 Rainer Kempe GER 3,188.23 12 +1
#12 Jason Koon USA 3,172.99 11 -1
#13 Joseph McKeehen USA 3,147.02 13 =
#14 Michael Addamo CB AUS 3,110.14 15 +1
#15 Christopher Michael Soyza MAS 3,097.99 16 +1
#16 Koray Aldemir GER 3,058.31 18 +2
#17 Kristen Bicknell CAN 3,050.53 19 +2
#18 Anthony Zinno #1 USA 3,048.66 20 +2
#19 Dominik Nitsche GER 3,046.84 21 +2
#20 Shaun Deeb USA 3,028.97 14 -6
#21 Benjamin Yu USA 3,018.48 23 +2
#22 Timothy Miles USA 2,979.49 22 =
#23 Jan Schwippert GER 2,928.12 25 +2
#24 Nick Petrangelo #1 USA 2,914.85 17 -7
#25 Joseph Cheong USA 2,891.38 26 NEW

Out of the Top 25: #34 Bart Lybaert (BEL) -10

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#135 Seth Davies USA 183 +48
#160 Marvin Rettenamier #1 GER 200 +40
#109 Seng Leow CB MAS 146 +37
#244 Christopher Bolek USA 281 +37
#181 Guillaume Diaz CB FRA 212 +31
#110 Julien Sitbon CB FRA 130 +20
#67 Ludovic Geilich UK 85 +18
#192 Matt Affleck USA 210 +18
#188 Dzmitry Urbanovich POL 205 +17
#249 Jeff Gross USA 266 +17

DOWN THE LADDER

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#226 Faraz Jaka USA 163 -63
#246 Thomas Marchese USA 186 -60
#146 Joris Ruys NED 90 -56
#201 Kenny Hallaert BEL 145 -56
#251 Ivan Luca ARG 197 -54
#291 Arunas Sapitavicius LIT 244 -47
#73 Benjamin Tollerene USA 33 -40
#170 Erik Seidel #1 USA 141 -29
#180 Martin Finger GER 151 -29
#212 Christoph Vogelsang GER 185 -27

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION +/-
#301 Julien Martini FRA -6
#302 Bobby Poe USA +34
#303 Sergi Reixach ESP +1
#304
#305 Ido Ashkenazi USA +2

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Alexander Greenblatt USA 248 Julien Martini FRA 301
Alexander Lakhov RUS 286 Will Failla USA 306
Laurynas Levinskas 300 LIT 289 Chris Hunichen USA 307
Thai Ha VIE 292 Martin Zamani USA 309
Daniel Dizenzo USA 295 Michael Zhang UK 315
Craig Varnell USA 296 Weiyi Zhang CHN 330
Kitty Kuo TAI 300 Michael Newman USA 419

 

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 David Peters USA 3,776.97 +2
3rd Justin Bonomo USA 3,763.02 -1
4th Stephen Chidwick UK 3,691.67 -1
5th Jake Schindler USA 3,625.15 =
6th Steve O’Dwyer USA 3,531.55 =
7th Adrian Mateos ESP 3,412.43 =
8th Shaun Deeb USA 3,346.66 =
9th Benjamin Pollak FRA 3,313.33 =
10th Ryan Riess USA 3,284.31 =
11th Benjamin Yu USA 3,233.92 =
12th Christopher Michael Soyza MAS 3,228.97 =
13th Jason Koon USA 3,194.64 =
14th Nikita Bodyakovskiy BLR 3,184.50 =
15th Rainer Kempe GER 3,172.45 =

 

Full November 28, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-11-28/300/

 

 

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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.