Global Poker Index: Grospellier Still On Top

Posted at 10:00 2012-09-29 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 maintains a slim lead on Jason Mercier for the No. 1 spot. For a look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI website.

The Top 10 as of September 24, 2012

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank from Last Week
1	Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier	2,811.06	--
2	Jason Mercier	2,774.38	--
3	Dan Smith	2,699.92	--
4	Marvin Rettenmaier	2,649.39	--
5	Steve O'Dwyer	2,621.76	--
6	Andrew Lichtenberger	2,597.57	--
7	Philipp Gruissem	2,578.22	--
8	Vanessa Selbst	2,469.98	--
9	David "Doc" Sands	2,381.18	--
10	Shawn Buchanan	2,375.26	--

There were no changes in the top 10 this week, but the action at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe will result in some movement come next week.

Welcome to the GPI

Ten players are new to this week's GPI, led by Yorane Kerignard at No. 190 following his win in the WPT Malta Main Event for €120,000.

New Additions

Player	Total GPI Score	GPI Rank
Yorane Kerignard	1,316.69	190th
Alex Queen	1,193.69	233rd
Chance Kornuth	1,192.81	235th
Justin Zaki	1,188.67	238th
Chris Bjorin	1,183.37	243rd
David Diaz	1,179.48	244th
Thiago Nishijima	1,155.71	254th
Dan Murariu	1,144.48	259th
Tyler Patterson	1,137.87	269th
Marc Inizan	1,110.62	283rd

Falling from the GPI this week were Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Chad Brown, Fred Goldberg, Justin Conley, Kevin Calenzo, Kunal Patel, Raj Vohra, Simeon Naydenov, Tim West, and Viktor Blom.

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Allen Cunningham. With a 41st-place finish in the WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship Event, Cunningham now has a full Period 1 slate of scores.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
101st	Vyacheslav Igin	1,601.42	+41
127th	Kyle Bowker	1,524.74	+37
137th	Mickey Petersen	1,497.29	+58
140th	Alessio Isaia	1,488.02	+56
148th	Steve Brecher	1,454.75	+36
171st	Vinny Pahuja	1,369.93	+59
183rd	Chris Tryba	1,334.45	+39
192nd	Allen Cunningham	1,314.55	+74
223rd	Brandon Cantu	1,224.66	+51
225th	Ben Vinson	1,220.34	+30

Taking the biggest hit this week was John Racener. His period 2 is completely empty after his 35th-place finish in the 2011 WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship Event aged into Period 3.

Biggest Drops

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
144th	Darryll Fish	1,478.08	-39
169th	Yevgeniy Timoshenko	1,379.42	-29
222nd	Simon Ravnsbaek	1,229.61	-49
239th	John Racener	1,186.98	-51
242nd	Matt Giannetti	1,184.27	-50
258th	Jeff Madsen	1,144.72	-29
278th	Marc-Andre Laouceur	1,118.24	-33
281st	Arnaud Mattern	1,116.16	-42
298th	Konstantin Streletskiy	1,086.55	-48

What's In Store?

With the 2012 WSOPE in full swing, some GPIers have already posted results that will take shape in next week's rankings. Roger Hairabedian (No. 52) and Antonio Esfandiari (No. 106) have each claimed bracelets and will see a nice rise in their GPI standing. Others that have made final tables include Michael Mizrachi (No. 13), Oleksii Kovalchuk (No 58), and John Monnette (No. 128) are among those who have final tables and many more notables will also earn crucial GPI points, too, in the next week as the series continues.

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