Global Poker Index: Philipp Gruissem Joins the Top 10

Posted at 10:10 2012-09-22 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 September 17, 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	2,640.74	--
5	Steve O'Dwyer	2,621.76	--
6	Andrew Lichtenberger	2,597.57	+1
7	Philipp Gruissem	2,578.22	+12
8	Vanessa Selbst	2,508.90	-2
9	David "Doc" Sands	2,381.18	--
10	Shawn Buchanan	2,375.26	--

Joining the top 10 this week is Philipp "philbort" Gruissem. With a third-place finish in the World Poker Tour Season XI Grand Prix de Paris for €170,065, Gruissem rounded out an impressive Period 1 with this fourth score (he has two other six-figure scores in Period 1).

Welcome to the GPI

Of the 10 new players to join this week's GPI, Ramin Hajiyev debuts the highest at No. 174. A native of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Hajiyev finished in 11th place at the 2012 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. The winner of that tournament, Ole Schemion, also made his debut on the GPI — in the No. 185 spot.

New Additions

Player	Total GPI Score	GPI Rank
Ramin Hajiyev	1,357.05	174th
Ole Schemion	1,321.52	185th
Vinny Pahuja	1,196.99	230th
Tomeu Gomila	1,166.68	242nd
Fabian Quoss	1,162.64	243rd
Jesse Alexis Cohen	1,144.78	251st
Sean Jazayeri	1,134.99	260th
Matt Salsberg	1,124.26	268th
Nicolas Cardyn	1,086.62	293rd
Justin Conley	1,081.03	297th

Falling from the GPI this week were Barny Boatman, Eric Baldwin, Erich Kollmann, Ludovic Lacay, Maxi Lehmanski, Morten Mortensen, Pedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero, Rob Akery, Sebastian Winkler, and Mike Sexton.

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Dan O'Brien after his fourth-place score in the 2012 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event for €341,991.

Biggest Gains

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
32nd	Tobias Reinkemeier	2,034.87	+38
76th	Kristijonas Andrulis	1,745.65	+51
100th	Tristan Wade	1,608.88	+38
119th	Dan O'Brien	1,553.33	+112
122nd	David Vamplew	1,549.81	+57
127th	David Benyamine	1,525.69	+44
150th	Timothy Adams	1,438.92	+71
173rd	Simon Ravnsbaek	1,357.42	+98
200th	John Andress	1,278.47	+42
238th	James Akenhead	1,174.13	+39
239th	Arnaud Mattern	1,171.13	+49

On the other hand, Frederik Jensen slipped the furthest. His win in the EPT Madrid Main Event back in March aged into Period 2.

Biggest Drops

Rank	Player	Total Score	Change in Rank From Last Week
62nd	Oleksii Kovalchuk	1,850.34	-30
78th	Sam Trickett	1,718.99	-32
148th	Keven Stammen	1,441.79	-40
157th	Salman Behbehani	1,412.68	-65
160th	Vadzim Kursevich	1,405.05	-26
188th	John Racener	1,315.21	-41
202nd	Frederik Jensen	1,275.92	-78
258th	Ben Vinson	1,138.41	-52
284th	Marko Neumann	1,102.38	-30
288th	Ty Reiman	1,098.00	-66

What's In Store?

It's a busy time for the World Poker Tour with two events going on simultaneously. The Borgata Poker Open is down to 27 players, and among those still in are Steve Brecher (No. 184), Vinny Pahuja (No. 230), Kyle Bowker (No. 164), and Todd Terry (No. 73). Also still in progress is WPT Malta, down to its final table. Ilan Boujenah (No. 48), finished in 11th place and Alessio Isaia (No. 196) is fourth in chips with six players remaining.

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