July 05 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 July 2, 2012

lost about 100 points from their total score this week, but Grospllier took the bigger hit. His third-place finish in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max event from the 2011 World Series of Poker fell into Period 3. Mercier’s sixth-place finish in the $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball last summer aged from Period 2, but his drop in points was not as severe.

Making his debut in the GPI top ten is Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi following his win in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. He rose up the ranks 26 places. Also ascending the GPI is the runner-up in that event, Chris Klodnicki. He climbed 15 spots and is No. 14.

Welcome to the GPI

New Additions

Sixteen players are new to this week’s GPI, led by Maria Ho at No. 221. With three recent WSOP cashes, Ho rounded out her Period 1 slate with a full four cashes.

PlayerTotal GPI ScoreGPI Rank

Maria Ho	1,234.59	221st
Lee Goldman	1,209.98	229th
Brett Richey	1,202.51	232nd
Tim Finne	1,169.59	245th
Fabrizio Gonzalez	1,165.57	249th
Chad Brown	1,161.45	251st
Andy Bloch	1,151.28	254th
Rob Akery	1,140.63	261st
Justin Schwartz	1,123.71	267th
Marc Inizan	1,118.93	271st
Jeremy Ausmus	1,118.47	273rd
Tyler Bonkowski	1,108.	277th
Barny Boatman	1,105.86	278th
Juan Manuel Pastor	1,104.76	279th
Viktor Blom	1,100.12	283rd
Harrison Gimbel	1,090.23	291st

Falling from the GPI this week were Alessio Isaia, Andrew Robl, Balazs Botond, Dylan Wilkerson, Josh Arieh, Kenny Shih, Mark Radoja, Mike Beasley, Mike Binger, Mike Leah, Nikolai Yakovenko, Owais Ahmed, Ryan Welch, Simon Charette, Vladimir Kochelaevskiy, and Brian Rast.

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Fernando Brito. The Portuguese pro had two WSOP cashes last week, including a third-place finish in a $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #46) worth $282,676.

Biggest Gains

RankPlayerTotal ScoreChange in Rank From Last Week

77th	Fernando Brito	1,710.64	+112
78th	Amir Lehavot	1,709.00	+55
89th	Kyle Julius	1,685.89	+69
122nd	Jonathan Little	1,508.50	+52
123rd	Matt Giannetti	1,501.66	+120
130th	Dwyte Pilgrim	1,485.16	+67
159th	Micah Raskin	1,399.89	+60
176th	Pratyush Buddiga	1,341.62	+89
182nd	Paul Berende	1,331.74	+87
187th	Chris McClung	1,320.71	+63

Reigning WSOP Player of the Year Ben Lamb took the biggest his this week, falling 115 places. In 111th place just two weeks ago, Lamb is due to slide out of the GPI altogether as early as next week. This week, it’s his eighth-place finish in last year’s $50,000 Poker Players Championship that slipped into Period 2. Depending on when last year’s Main Event start/end date is determined to be (as early as July/as late as November), his third-place finish is going to slip into Period 2.

Biggest Drops

RankPlayerTotal ScoreChange in Rank From Last Week

158th	Scott Seiver	1,401.86	-75
161st	Barry Greenstein	1,395.40	-89
173rd	Joe Ebanks	1,353.24	-59
211th	Nick Grippo	1,254.94	-47
216th	Eric Froehlich	1,241.46	-73
225th	Allen Bari	1,217.24	-58
248th	Bryce Yockey	1,166.68	-53
285th	Ben Lamb	1,097.29	-115
287th	Dmitry Gromov	1,096.09	-66
297th	Antony Lellouche	1,086.24	-43

What’s In Store?

The Big One for One Drop concluded on Tuesday and Antonio Esfandiari claimed the victory. Needless to say, he’ll shoot up the ranks from his current rank, No. 207.

Sam Trickett (No.97) finished second, Phil Hellmuth (No. 48) finished fourth, and Brian Rast, who fell off the GPI this week, finished sixth. Each of them will shoot up the ranks next week.

To look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI website. While you’re at it, follow the GPI on Twitter and its Facebook page.

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April 11 2011, Donnie Peters

Day 3 of the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun came to a close on Monday as the field was cut down to its final 24 players. Leading the pack into Day 4 is defending champion Vanessa Selbst with 1.406 million in chips.

When play began for the day, 74 players returned to the felt, but only 56 of them got paid. That meant a handful of players would have to hit the rail empty handed. Some of those players who were eliminated short of the money included Kevin Eyster, Ronnie Bardah, Team PokerStars Online’s Andrew Brokos, Todd Terry and Dan O’Brien. The official bubble boy title went to Nick Binger, who ended his tournament in 57th place.

Binger had a rough day filled with a lot of bad luck. First, he had Adam Junglen on the ropes holding to Junglen’s . The poker gods shined on Junglen though as the board ran out to give him a flush and send the rockets of Binger crashing to the ground.

Junglen was then the player who finished off Binger, having to come from behind again to do so. This time, Junglen cracked a pair of queens for Binger. Binger was all in preflop with and Junglen held just one overcard with the . The board ran out to give Junglen an ace on the river and the winning hand.

Binger took it extremely well and left with a smile on his face. “I just keep telling people that bubbling builds character,” he said as he made his way to the rail. In fact, Binger hopped right back on his horse and was seen playing a satellite to the $10,000 Bounty Shootout later in the evening.

Once the money bubble broke, the players started dropping fairly quickly, as expected. The first to go was last year’s runner-up Mike Beasley. He was followed by a group of players that included Jerry Wong, Team PokerStars Pro Greg DeBora, Jeff Papola and Lee Markholt.

Selbst was able to build her stack pretty steadily throughout the day, but it wasn’t until right at the end of the night that she took over the chip lead from Vincent Rubianes.

From under the gun, Olivier Busquet raised to 21,000. Rubianes reraised to 51,000 from the cutoff and then action fell on Selbst on the button. She four-bet to 109,000 and play folded back to Busquet. He folded and then Rubianes made the call. The flop came down and Rubianes checked. Selbst bet 129,000 and Rubianes made the call, making this pot awfully big between two of the largest stacks in the room.

The turn card added the to the board and completed a possible flush draw. Both players checked to see the put a fourth club on board on the river. Rubianes checked and Selbst bet 294,000. After tanking for a bit, Rubianes made the call, but only to muck his hand when Selbst tabled the for a king-high club flush.

Day 4 Table and Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerChips

1	1	Nenad Medic	350,000
1	2	Eric Froehlich	420,000
1	3	Vincent Rubianes	1,023,000
1	4	Taylor von Kriegenbergh	289,000
1	5	Aaron Overton	907,000
1	6	Olivier Busquet	356,000
1	7	Vanessa Selbst	1,406,000
1	8	Jean-Philippe Matte	331,000
2	1	Corey Hochman	355,000
2	2	Thomas Hoglund Jr.	629,000
2	3	Joe Tehan	490,000
2	4	Sukh Sandhu	267,000
2	5	Philippe Plouffe	293,000
2	6	David Stefanski	162,000
2	7	Adam Geyer	803,000
2	8	Ara Melikian	233,000
3	1	Dan Shak	488,000
3	2	Chris Tryba	361,000
3	3	Joseph Gibbons	179,000
3	4	Jacobo Fernandez	813,000
3	5	Tyler Kenney	478,000
3	6	Kyle Loman	340,000
3	7	Steve O’Dwyer	507,000
3	8	Jonathan Schroer	231,000

Play resumes on Tuesday at 12:00 p.m EDT (1600 GMT) where the final 24 players will return to action and play down to just one final table of eight is left standing. There’s plenty of firepower still left in the field, but it’s Selbst’s tournament now and it doesn’t look like she’s ready to give up her title anytime soon. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the live coverage from the event as only our world class Live Reporting Team can bring it to you!

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