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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