September 13 2012, 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 10, 2012

to reclaim the top spot.

Welcome to the GPI

Nine players are new to this week’s GPI, led by Jacob Bazeley following a fifth-place finish for $25,460 in a $5,000 no-limit hold’em side event at the 2012 WinStar River Poker Series.

New Additions

PlayerTotal GPI ScoreGPI Rank

Jacob Bazeley	1,300.86	190th
Kunal Patel	1,130.83	258th
Carla Solinas	1,098.62	284th
Viktor Blom	1,073.74	295th
Mike Sexton	1,073.60	296th
Rob Akery	1,072.64	297th
Maxi Lehmanski	1,070.89	298th
Eric Baldwin	1,070.64	299th
Moreten Mortensen	1,069.24	300th

Falling from the GPI this week were Hugo Lemaire, James Mitchell, Joe Cassidy, Mike Leah, Nam Le, Ryan Eriquezzo, Stephane Benadiba, Taylor von Kriegenbergh, and Vinny Pahuja.

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Ismael Bojang. His Period 2 had only one score before his eighth-place finish in a $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2012 Merit Spring Open aged into Period 2. In addition to gaining that second score in his Period 2, it wasn’t previously counting as part of his Period 1 slate, so he lost no points there.

Biggest Gains

RankPlayerTotal ScoreChange in Rank From Last Week

35th	Scott Baumstein	1,987.44	+22
117th	Sergio Castelluccio	1,557.88	+34
152nd	Roland Israelashvili	1,434.87	+15
167th	Aubin Cazals	1,375.79	+25
202nd	Rupert Elder	1,263.43	+40
204th	Ismael Bojang	1,252.25	+41
216th	Massimo Mosele	1,232.28	+15
246th	Paul Volpe	1,144.20	+16
251st	Max Silver	1,140.50	+34
279th	Bryce Yockey	1,104.99	+17

Slipping the most this week were Tim West and Matt Waxman. For West, it was his 11th-place finish in the second Epic Poker League event (worth $46,020) that aged into Period 3. Waxman’s win in the 2011 WPT Grand Prix de Paris Main Event worth “500,000 also aged into Period 3.

Biggest Drops

RankPlayerTotal ScoreChange in Rank From Last Week

62nd	Fabrice Soulier	1,850.14	-32
68th	Martin Jacobson	1,796.27	-26
89th	Matt Waxman	1,684.51	-40
94th	Isaac Baron	1,625.42	25-
153rd	Alex Kravchenko	1,429.19	-38
154th	Guillaume Darcourt	1,425.38	-22
217th	Mario Puccini	1,231.49	-29
242nd	John Andress	1,153.63	-32
260th	Allen Cunningham	1,128.32	-27
280th	Tim West	1,102.42	-67

What’s In Store?

The 2012 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event results will be reflected in next week’s standings, helping out fourth-place finisher Dan O’Brien (currently No. 231) and Dan Smith. Even though Smith’s seventh-place score for “178,496 most likely won’t crack his current top-four Period 1 scores, it will pay huge dividends when his scores begin to age into Period 2 next month. Smith is on the fast track to No. 1 on the GPI.

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