Global Poker Index: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier Gaining Ground on Jason Mercier

Posted 3 days 22 hours ago 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. For a look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI website.

The Top 10 as of August 27, 2012

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank from Last Week
1	Jason Mercier	2,823.31	--
2	Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier	2,820.14	--
3	Dan Smith	2,644.59	--
4	Marvin Rettenmaier	2,635.92	--
5	Steve O'Dwyer	2,595.68	--
6	Vanessa Selbst	2,573.37	--
7	Erik Seidel	2,523.32	+1
8	Mike McDonald	2,505.44	-1
9	Andrew Lichtenberger	2,423.38	+1
10	Sorel Mizzi	2,373.93	+2

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier gained about 47 points since last week's rankings and finds himself only three points behind Jason Mercier. "ElkY" finished seventh place for €43,510 in the €10,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller event at EPT Barcelona. Meanwhile, his fourth-place result ($72,550) from the $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller at the 2012 LA Poker Classic aged into Period 2 and also increased his Period 2 total.

Welcome to the GPI

Sixteen players were new to this week's GPI, led by Joni Jouhkimainen, who finished third at the EPT Barcelona Main Event for €404,050.

New Additions

Player	Total GPI Score	GPI Rank
Joni Jouhkimainen	1,535.57	129
Anatoly Gurtovy	1,335.43	180
Jan Heitmann	1,269.10	198
Zoltan Szabo	1,232.98	216
Konstantin Streletskiy	1,219.14	221
Marc-Andre Ladouceur	1,184.92	235
Konstantin Tolokno	1,159.18	246
Rodrigo Dos-Santos Caprioli	1,142.79	254
Jonathan Karamalikis	1,141.24	255
Marko Neumann	1,134.61	257
Juan Manuel Pastor	1,126.51	263
Stephane Benadiba	1,116.73	268
Matthias De Meulder	1,113.18	273
Lucille Cailly	1,111.84	276
Pedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero	1,090.56	292
Bryce Yockey	1,083.48	298

Falling from the GPI this week were Benny Spindler, Brent Hanks, Carlos Mortensen, Chance Kornuth, Justin Schwartz, Kunal Patel, Massimiliano Martinez, Matt Berkey, Michael Tureniec, Mike Sexton, Nick Binger, Paul Lieu, Rob Akery, Ryan Eriquezzo, Sean Jazayeri, and Viktor Blom.

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Jean-Noel Thorel after his sixth-place finish in the €10,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller event at EPT Barcelona for €54,390. That gave his Period 1 total a significant boost as he only had one other cash since late February. Alex Bilokur and Tobias Reinkemeier finished second and third in that event, respectively, and also climbed up the GPI ranks.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
52	Alex Bilokur	1,907.89	+45
63	Tobias Reinkemeier	1,843.81	+50
91	John Juanda	1,698.78	+46
96	Alain Roy	1,660.47	+80
127	Jean-Philippe Rohr	1,537.08	+47
131	Jake Cody	1,523.55	+40
134	Kristijonas Andrulis	1,519.69	+57
164	Jean-Noel Thorel	1,371.82	+108
172	David Vamplew	1,353.04	+38
178	Yury Gulyy	1,337.62	+66

Dropping the most this week was Matt Stout. His seventh-place result in a $5,100 side event at the 2012 LA Poker Classic (worth $21,390) aged into Period 2, leaving Stout with only one Period 1 result.

Biggest Drops

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
123	Victor Ramdin	1,549.77	-30
175	Dan Kelly	1,347.27	-35
197	Jason Dewitt	1,274.42	-43
211	Kenny Hicks	1,241.76	-34
226	Dan O'Brien	1,204.37	-41
236	Allen Cunningham	1,184.05	-54
258	Jason Somerville	1,134.32	-42
262	Matt Stout	1,126.84	-59
290	Mikhail Petrov	1,092.16	-32
293	Johnny Lodden	1,088.58	-32

What's In Store?

The World Poker Tour Legends of Poker wrapped up Wednesday, and next week you can expect Greg Mueller (fifth place) and Ali Eslami (fourth place) to enter the GPI. Meanwhile, Jeff Madsen (No. 291) finished sixth and should get breathing room for the No. 300 cutoff.

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