September 05 2018, by Eric Danis

September 5, 2018 GPI World Poker Rankings

THIS WEEK’S NOTES

›› More success at EPT Barcelona sees Benjamin Pollak (World #7) move up the ranks yet again this week, this time to a career-best #7 in the World

›› Coming off a 3rd place finish in the Main Event at EPT Barcelona, Ognyan Dimov (World #57) reaches a career-best ranking AND moves in to the #1 spot on the Bulgarian charts

›› Congratulations go out to Joris Ruys (World #69) and Patrick Clarke (World #285), who both make their debuts ranked inside the GPI300

›› 2018 GPI PoY: Pollak is the only new entry in the PoY Top 15

GPI WORLD POKER RANKINGS TOP 25

RANK PLAYER NATION GPI SCORE LAST CHANGE
#1 Stephen Chidwick (21 weeks) UK 3,844.56 1 =
#2 Justin Bonomo USA 3,666.36 2 =
#3 William Alex Foxen USA 3,658.03 3 =
#4 Adrian Mateos #1 ESP 3,630.88 4 =
#5 David Peters #1 USA 3,531.70 5 =
#6 Jake Schindler USA 3,406.11 6 =
#7 Benjamin Pollak CB FRA 3,342.06 10 +3
#8 Joseph McKeehen USA 3,326.64 7 -1
#9 Jason Koon USA 3,293.35 8 -1
#10 Sam Greenwood CAN 3,281.90 9 -1
#11 Nikita Bodyakovskiy BLR 3,218.72 11 =
#12 Rainer Kempe GER 3,198.47 12 =
#13 Nick Petrangelo #1 USA 3,182.65 16 +3
#14 Christopher Michael Soyza MSA 3,137.78 13 -1
#15 Bryn Kenney #1 USA 3,058.80 14 -1
#16 Darren Elias USA 3,038.33 18 +2
#17 Anthony Zinno #1 USA 3,029.59 15 -2
#18 Dominik Nitsche GER 3,009.58 17 -1
#19 Steve O’Dwyer #1 USA 2,997.98 19 =
#20 Kristen Bicknell CB CAN 2,989.57 23 +3
#21 Bart Lybaert BEL 2,968.46 20 -1
#22 Benjamin Yu USA 2,955.07 21 -1
#23 Mike Leah CAN 2,916.68 27 NEW
#24 Ryan Riess USA 2,914.82 22 -2
#25 Dan Smith #1 USA 2,903.67 40 NEW

Out of the Top 25: #26 Jack Salter (UK) -2  //  #28 Brian Altman (USA) -3

SWIMMING UPSTREAM

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#146 Richard Kirsch CB USA 272 +126
#57 Ognyan Dimov CB BUL 174 +117
#76 Pete Chen TAI 173 +97
#175 Ivan Luca ARG 269 +94
#123 Orpen Kisacikoglu CB TUR 208 +85
#126 Upeshka De Silva USA 198 +72
#81 Sean Winter USA 138 +57
#144 Julien Sitbon CB FRA 201 +57
#210 Joe Elpayaa USA 265 +55
#211 Matas Cimbolas LIT 261 +50

DOWN THE LADDER

RANK PLAYER NATION LAST CHANGE
#278 Marvin Rettenmaier #1 GER 204 -74
#233 Kurt Jewell USA 170 -63
#277 Chen Lin TAI 215 -62
#244 Tom Hall UK 183 -61
#214 Samuel Phillips USA 162 -52
#202 Aaron Mermelstein USA 155 -47
#274 Phachara Wongwichit AUS 227 -47
#253 Kevin Saul USA 209 -44
#109 Georgios Zisimopoulos GRE 67 -42
#248 Martin Kabrhel CZE 207 -41

ON THE BUBBLE

RANK PLAYER NATION +/-
#301 Anna Antimony USA -10
#302 Jesse Yaginuma USA +63
#303 Brett Apter USA -10
#304 Marshall White USA -10
#305 Michael Newman USA -10

WHO’S IN? / WHO’S OUT?

GPI300: IN ››› NATION GPI# ‹‹‹ GPI300: OUT NATION GPI#
Joris Ruys 300 NED 69 Anna Antimony USA 301
Max Silver UK 195 Brett Apter USA 303
Ben Heath UK 196 Marshall White USA 304
Javier Zarco ESP 207 Michael Newman USA 305
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau CB BLR 227 Shankar Pillai USA 307
John Juanda INA 237 Maxwell Young USA 308
Byron Kaverman #1 USA 252 Christian Harder USA 309
Andres Korn GER 265 Bartlomiej Machon POL 311
Nick Schulman USA 275 Artem Metalidi UKR 314
Morten Mortensen DEN 281 Ryan Van Sanford USA 319
Guillaume Diaz FRA 282 Dmitry Gromov RUS 325
Patrick Clarke 300 IRL 285 Olivier Busquet USA 329
Brett Murray CB USA 297 Andrey Pateychuk RUS 359
Ralph Massey USA 300

 

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 3,691.67 =
#2 Justin Bonomo USA 3,660.28 =
#3 Jake Schindler USA 3,569.71 =
#4 David Peters USA 3,367.60 =
#5 Adrian Mateos ESP 3,362.78 +1
#6 William Alex Foxen USA 3,248.52 +3
#7 Shaun Deeb USA 3,230.72 -2
#8 Christopher Michael Soyza MAS 3,127.93 +7
#9 Anthony Zinno USA 3,116.13 -2
#10 Joseph McKeehen USA 3,086.82 -2
#11 Benjamin Pollak FRA 3,064.63 NEW
#12 Benjamin Yu USA 3,004.06 -2
#13 Jason Koon USA 2,948.00 -2
#14 Sam Greenwood CAN 2,925.92 -2
#15 Rainer Kempe GER 2,923.53 -2

 

Full September 5, 2018 rankings:
http://www.globalpokerindex.com/rankings/2018-09-05/300/

 

 

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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.