Global Poker Index: All Quiet on the GPI Front; Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier On Top

Posted at 09:01 2012-05-19 by Mickey Doft

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes a player's results over six half-year periods. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier maintained his slight hold on No. 1, just fending off Jason Mercier. For a look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI website.

The Top 10 as of May 14, 2012

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank from Last Week
1	Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier	2,885.25	--
2	Jason Mercier	2,861.95	--
3	David "Doc" Sands	2,581.69	--
4	Sorel Mizzi	2,545.25	--
5	Steve O'Dwyer	2,441.45	+3
6	Eugene Katchalov	2,439.03	-1
7	Dan Smith	2,430.18	-1
8	Noah Schwartz	2,414.38	-1
9	Mike McDonald	2,332.42	+5
10	Jonathan Duhamel	2,288.28	-1

Welcome to the GPI

New Additions

Player	Total GPI Score	GPI Rank
Vitor Coelho	1,231.66	196th
Paul Berende	1,183.33	214th
Stuart Fox	1,074.68	274th
David Sonelin	1,041.11	296th
David Pham	1,039.43	298th
Max Silver	1,039.00	299th
Connor Drinan	1,038.97	300th

Falling from the GPI this week were Brandon Cantu, Danyel Boyaciyan, Kyle Bowker, Lucien Cohen, Markus Ristola, Michael Binger, and Tom McCormick.

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Kent Lundmark. The Swede finished in second place in the Main Event at the Unibet Open Paris for €98,051.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
56th	Anton Wigg	1,719.06	+34
67th	Mustapha Kanit	1,670.48	+76
92nd	Scott Clements	1,565.72	+17
94th	Andrey Zaichenko	1,547.62	+22
102nd	Ognjen Sekularec	1,531.00	+24
134th	Kent Lundmark	1,400.05	+82
141st	Igor Kurganov	1,370.22	+40
167th	Matt Giannetti	1,311.07	+68
204th	Yury Gulyy	1,200.94	+55
222nd	Dan Murariu	1,168.16	+22

Rob Akery slipped the furthest this week on the GPI. His runner-up performance in a €2,000 side event at the EPT Grand Final in Madrid last year slipped into Period 3.

Biggest Drops

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
64th	David Peters	1,698.18	-37
110th	Joe Ebanks	1,506.94	-43
171st	Keven Stammen	1,306.30	-31
172nd	Galen Hall	1,304.82	-54
177th	Justin Young	1,296.43	-44
189th	Alex Venovski	1,254.00	39-
220th	Nicolas Chouity	1,172.96	-31
266th	Rob Akery	1,085.42	-72
277th	Eric Baldwin	1,072.13	-37
287th	Jeff Lisandro	1,049.90	-36

What's In Store?

Like this week, next week won't provide much change through the GPI. The WPT World Championship kicks off in a few days and at the end of the month will start to get the ball rolling again with the GPI.

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