Global Poker Index: Gruissem Passes Negreanu For No. 2; Mercier Still Leads

Posted at 11:00 2013-06-17 by Brett Collson

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.

Top 10 as of June 11, 2013

Rank	Player	Total Score	Rank Change
1	Jason Mercier	3359.71	--
2	Philipp Gruissem	3143.52	+4
3	Daniel Negreanu	3084.06	-1
4	Mike Watson	3046.65	-1
5	Steve O'Dwyer	3013.63	-1
6	Marvin Rettenmaier	2970.04	-1
7	Bertrand Grospellier	2867.55	+2
8	David Sands	2853.08	+1
9	Joseph Cheong	2849.92	+2
10	Ole Schemion	2820.58	-1

There was no change atop the rankings again this week as Jason Mercier maintained his No. 1 ranking. However, one week after his PokerStars teammate Daniel Negreanu took over the No. 2 position, German high roller Philipp Gruissem snatched it away. Fresh off his final table appearance at the GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Warm-Up event, Gruissem climbed four spots to No. 2, bumping Negreanu back to No. 3.

There were no other major changes in the top 10, although Bertrand Grospellier did move up two spots to No. 7. He could pick up even more steam in next week's rankings after making a final table at the World Series of Poker on Tuesday.

Welcome to the GPI

New Additions

Player	Total GPI Score	GPI Rank
Jacob Bazeley	1378.31	190
Pratyush Buddiga	1334.37	203
Tam Truong	1302.38	209
Artem Metalidi	1296.58	213
Matthew Ashton	1281.83	223
Yuval Bronshtein	1,184.08	230
Melanie Weisner	1256.30	234
Amit Makhija	1254.79	239
Nick Wong	1243.44	245
Tony Cousineau	1242.81	246
Kyle Bowker	1235.58	249
Dani Stern	1235.49	250
Jonas Lauck	1228.28	255
John Hennigan	1216.32	263
Owen Crowe	1196.55	275
Dario Alioto	1192.85	277
Amir Lehavot	1191.58	278
Randy Lew	1186.62	282
Joseph Couden	1172.81	290
Alex Queen	1171.98	292
Paul Tedeschi	1171.46	293
Benjamin Pollak	1159.45	298

Jacob Bazeley joins the GPI 300 this week after a fifth-place finish in Event #11: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed). It marked Bazeley's second WSOP final table in as many years; he finished runner-up to Brent Hanks in Event #2: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em last year.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total GPI Score	Change
19	David Peters	2604.49	+89
52	Jeffrey Rossiter	2062.03	+38
74	Ognjen Sekularac	2,076.41	+36
85	Isaac Haxton	1843.95	+125
122	Gavin Smith	1620.69	+58
125	Athanasios Polychronopoulos	1748.53	+36
132	Joe Tehan	1564.84	+66
134	Edward Sabat	1561.45	+87
146	Andrey Zaichenko	1518.20	+69
188	Samantha Cohen	1384.87	+59

David Peters was among the biggest climbers this week, up 89 spots to No. 19, but it had little to do with his four WSOP cashes so far this summer. According to Mary Faulkner at the GPI, the Hendon Mob poker database moved several cashes that were listed under another David Peters over to him, which resulted in a huge points gain.

Isaac Haxton made a huge jump following his runner-up finish in the GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Warm-Up event. Jeff Rossiter also had success in Macau, finishing runner-up in the GDAM Main Event for HKD$24,500,000 (USD$3,161,290).

Biggest Drops

Rank	Player	Total GPI Score	Change
177	Christopher De Maci	1421.62	-51
179	Matthew Glantz	1410.91	-60
199	John Eames	1353.44	-46
221	Danyel Boyaciyan	1286.95	-88
235	Cesar Garcia	1255.32	-53
258	Ramzi Jelassi	1226.96	-65
271	David Williams	1198.78	-58

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