The Global Poker Index: Ranking the top 300 players

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The Global Poker Index (GPI) ranks the weekly performance of the world's top 300 live-tournament poker players.

Players are ranked weekly based on their performance by finishing in cash positions in qualifying tournaments occurring over the previous 36-month period.

Qualifying tournaments are events with 21 or more players and a buy-in of $1,500, or other currency equivalent, or higher that are open to the public, and are not specialty or selected audience events.

Each player's score for a given event is derived from a combination of their finishing place percentage, buy-in and aging factor. Learn more about how the GPI is calculated.

The GPI is updated weekly on USAToday.com and GlobalPokerIndex.com. The rankings below are as of Jan. 7:

Rank	GPI Score	Player Name	Last Week Rank	Change From Last Week
1	3335.01	Dan Smith	2	1
2	3300.53	Marvin Rettenmaier	1	-1
3	3194.92	Jason Mercier	3	0
4	3061.39	Bertrand Grospellier	4	0
5	2955.58	Andrew Lichtenberger	5	0
6	2927.18	Joseph Cheong	6	0
7	2804.00	David Sands	9	2
8	2688.51	Stephen O'Dwyer	7	-1
9	2647.07	Michael Watson	8	-1
10	2606.30	Philipp Gruissem	14	4
11	2538.95	Roberto Romanello	10	-1
12	2486.68	Phil Hellmuth	11	-1
13	2486.56	Mike McDonald	12	-1
14	2399.29	Bryn Kenney	19	5
15	2367.14	Shannon Shorr	16	1
16	2336.83	Keven Stammen	24	8
17	2310.09	Juha Helppi	27	10
18	2309.45	Justin Bonomo	26	8
19	2302.49	Mohsin Charania	28	9
20	2293.93	Konstantin Puchkov	29	9
21	2279.23	Thomas Marchese	31	10
22	2252.50	Vanessa Selbst	18	-4
23	2247.92	Emanuel Failla	23	0
24	2232.46	Roger Hairabedian	34	10
25	2220.48	Daniel Negreanu	21	-4
26	2207.90	Jonathan Duhamel	22	-4
27	2192.96	Eugene Katchalov	13	-14
28	2188.71	Sorel Mizzi	20	-8
29	2183.55	Noah Schwartz	33	4
30	2168.03	Kyle Julius	15	-15
31	2154.14	Ilan Boujenah	36	5
32	2138.19	Michael Mizrachi	37	5
33	2129.32	John Juanda	25	-8
34	2122.60	Kevin MacPhee	38	4
35	2104.81	Shawn Buchanan	30	-5
36	2101.09	Christopher Brammer	32	-4
37	2057.72	Daniel Shak	42	5
38	2038.10	Toby Lewis	40	2
39	2033.62	Scott Seiver	95	56
40	2019.11	Leonid Bilokur	45	5
41	2007.04	Timothy Adams	39	-2
42	1996.69	David Baker	17	-25
43	1995.99	Todd Terry	46	3
44	1986.08	Scott Baumstein	35	-9
45	1974.10	Phillippe Ktorza	47	2
46	1972.70	Joseph Serock	41	-5
47	1964.41	David Benyamine	49	2
48	1948.84	Kristijonas Andrulis	51	3
49	1937.73	Fabrice Soulier	52	3
50	1933.99	Cary Katz	78	28
51	1929.74	Micah Raskin	43	-8
52	1906.59	Martin Finger	50	-2
53	1880.14	Tommy Vedes	58	5
54	1878.58	Nick Schulman	84	30
55	1860.77	Ole Schemion	62	7
56	1850.55	Tobias Reinkemeier	60	4
57	1846.78	Mihails Morozovs	63	6
58	1840.71	Antonio Esfandiari	53	-5
59	1839.17	Simon Ravnsbaek	61	2
60	1830.54	Paul Berende	67	7
61	1825.41	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	66	5
62	1813.51	Byron Kaverman	44	-18
63	1809.96	Erik Seidel	57	-6
64	1797.94	Martin Jacobson	48	-16
65	1786.80	Ognjen Sekularac	72	7
66	1780.02	Jason Koon	80	14
67	1778.45	Oleksii Kovalchuk	75	8
68	1774.08	Igor Kurganov	71	3
69	1771.97	Christian Harder	56	-13
70	1769.37	Govert Metaal	76	6
71	1764.13	Ramin Hajiyev	77	6
72	1760.33	Joe Elpayaa	98	26
73	1759.03	David Vamplew	70	-3
74	1758.03	Samuel Stein	59	-15
75	1747.28	Allen Kessler	68	-7
76	1737.09	Elio Fox	86	10
77	1734.00	Joni Jouhkimainen	88	11
78	1713.07	Jeremy Ausmus	54	-24
79	1707.80	Ravi Raghavan	92	13
80	1706.23	Jonathan Aguiar	91	11
81	1703.14	Faraz Jaka	64	-17
82	1687.29	Vineet Pahuja	85	3
83	1684.93	Michael Benvenuti	97	14
84	1682.25	Samuel Chartier	65	-19
85	1673.72	Phil Ivey	90	5
86	1669.07	Kassem Deeb	69	-17
87	1668.35	Steve Brecher	83	-4
88	1662.73	Fabian Quoss	101	13
89	1657.06	Andrey Gulyy	102	13
90	1654.26	Heinz Kamutzki	81	-9
91	1646.70	Matt Waxman	103	12
92	1641.38	Chris Klodnicki	79	-13
93	1639.73	Aubin Cazals	104	11
94	1634.22	Daniel O'Brien	106	12
95	1631.92	Mihai Manole	87	-8
96	1629.54	Samad Razavi	108	12
97	1628.61	Joe Kuether	110	13
98	1627.00	John Parker	74	-24
99	1616.61	Kyle Bowker	89	-10
100	1612.79	Jonathan Karamilikis	114	14
101	1609.96	Alain Roy	113	12
102	1609.29	Danyel Boyaciyan	111	9
103	1608.38	Matt Marafioti	73	-30
104	1601.12	Yevgeniy Timoshenko	94	-10
105	1600.91	John Paul Kelly	55	-50
106	1597.24	Alexander Dovzhenko	100	-6
107	1569.21	Jason Wheeler	127	20
108	1566.63	Dmitry Vitkind	121	13
109	1564.92	Andy Frankenberger	123	14
110	1562.86	Dominik Nitsche	124	14
111	1551.93	Stephen Chidwick	146	35
112	1545.84	Dana Kellstrom	125	13
113	1545.24	John Monnette	129	16
114	1544.51	Anton Wigg	117	3
115	1543.10	Erik Cajelais	93	-22
116	1539.18	Dermot Blain	118	2
117	1538.75	Alessandro Longobardi	151	34
118	1536.44	Scott Clements	130	12
119	1530.73	Mclean Karr	132	13
120	1530.71	Gavin Smith	82	-38
121	1520.69	Daniel Buzgon	136	15
122	1515.33	Matt Salsberg	120	-2
123	1512.07	Zimnan Ziyard	135	12
124	1510.28	Corey Burbick	115	-9
125	1507.59	Pierre Neuville	128	3
126	1504.81	Isaac Haxton	137	11
127	1503.57	Davidi Kitai	138	11
128	1501.51	Dwyte Pilgrim	133	5
129	1499.85	Andrea Dato	99	-30
130	1499.75	Bruno Lopes	105	-25
131	1497.59	Isaac Baron	119	-12
132	1487.86	Marco Leonzio	140	8
133	1486.31	Salvatore Bonavena	131	-2
134	1486.02	John Dolan	141	7
135	1485.23	William Reynolds	107	-28
136	1484.25	Jeffrey Rossiter	144	8
137	1482.87	Amit Makhija	96	-41
138	1479.54	Zachary Clark	126	-12
139	1476.60	Mickey Petersen	148	9
140	1466.00	Brian Rast	108	-32
141	1464.71	Vadim Kursevich	150	9
142	1460.40	Darryll Fish	149	7
143	1457.82	Melanie Weisner	153	10
144	1450.08	Tomeu Gomila	134	-10
145	1446.12	Chris Bjorin	143	-2
146	1443.49	Jan Bendik	154	8
147	1438.71	Matthew Stout	142	-5
148	1434.42	Sam Trickett	156	8
149	1427.80	David Steicke	159	10
150	1420.32	Tristan Clemencon	122	-28
151	1416.14	David Williams	162	11
152	1415.43	Tom Alner	163	11
153	1411.25	Ana Laura Marquez Esteban	164	11
154	1408.43	Ismael Bojang	165	11
155	1406.39	Dan Murariu	152	-3
156	1399.98	Jean-Noel Thorel	168	12
157	1396.60	Fernando Brito	116	-41
158	1393.08	Rocco Palumbo	172	14
159	1382.48	Andrew Chen	174	15
160	1379.93	Timothy West	169	9
161	1375.43	Salman Behbehani	161	0
162	1374.46	Brandon Cantu	179	17
163	1373.50	Andrew Badecker	195	32
164	1366.44	Tristan Wade	182	18
165	1358.98	Rodrigo Caprioli	184	19
166	1357.48	Jesse Martin	144	-22
167	1356.17	Olivier Busquet	155	-12
168	1356.09	Nicholas Grippo	139	-29
169	1353.26	Dimitar Danchev	166	-3
170	1351.03	Hans Winzeler	186	16
171	1348.23	Jose Manuel Nadal	189	18
172	1345.31	Chris Moorman	157	-15
173	1344.59	Daniel Kelly	173	0
174	1343.54	Lee Childs	185	11
175	1334.91	Ben Vinson	219	44
176	1333.56	Ludovic Lacay	192	16
177	1326.78	Tom McCormick	183	6
178	1321.85	Mustapha Kanit	196	18
179	1310.14	Artem Litvinov	201	22
180	1308.60	Michael Graydon	188	8
181	1306.74	Khiem Nguyen	194	13
182	1306.14	Denys Drobyna	204	22
183	1303.09	Jonathan Little	205	22
184	1301.69	Justin Zaki	170	-14
185	1295.72	Guillaume Darcourt	181	-4
186	1294.80	David Peters	202	16
187	1294.35	Jose Ignacio Barbero	207	20
188	1293.74	Jason Somerville	175	-13
189	1292.77	Mukul Pahuja	242	53
190	1290.52	Sean Jazayeri	208	18
191	1288.97	Frank Rusnak	209	18
192	1288.78	Gregory Merson	112	-80
193	1287.46	Taylor Paur	147	-46
194	1283.42	Liv Boeree	176	-18
195	1282.40	Koen De Visscher	213	18
196	1281.97	Joe Tehan	187	-9
197	1281.90	Sergio Castelluccio	214	17
198	1274.43	Justin Young	199	1
199	1273.99	Shaun Deeb	197	-2
200	1273.18	Aurangzeb Sheikh	250	50
201	1272.40	Jess Yawitz	218	17
202	1270.63	Darren Elias	171	-31
203	1266.29	Jeff Gross	177	-26
204	1265.94	Vyacheslav Igin	230	26
205	1262.04	Ray Qartomy	228	23
206	1261.14	Paul Tedeschi	222	16
207	1257.97	Kent Lundmark	212	5
208	1249.04	Vojtech Ruzicka	235	27
209	1238.11	Alexander Roumeliotis	233	24
210	1230.80	Roman Romanovskyi	234	24
211	1228.46	David Rheem	200	-11
212	1224.60	David Stefanski	220	8
213	1219.10	Chady Ojeil	240	27
214	1218.54	Craig McCorkell	191	-23
215	1217.28	John Eames	241	26
216	1216.91	Barry Greenstein	193	-23
217	1215.55	Nicolas Cardyn	243	26
218	1215.27	Anthony Gregg	178	-40
219	1214.50	Johnny Lodden	231	12
220	1209.61	Sergii Baranov	246	26
221	1205.29	Andrey Zaichenko	198	-23
222	1205.25	Stanislav Barshak	211	-11
223	1204.53	Galen Hall	190	-33
224	1204.06	Thiago Nishijima	180	-44
225	1202.49	John Racener	251	26
226	1201.40	Daniel Idema	253	27
227	1201.26	Dominykas Karmazinas	254	27
228	1200.88	Paul Volpe	167	-61
229	1200.86	Alexander Kravchenko	255	26
230	1200.41	Christopher De Maci	206	-24
231	1197.51	Alexander Queen	259	28
232	1195.11	Paul Lieu	203	-29
233	1194.34	Alexander Venovski	216	-17
234	1192.97	Matthew Glantz	252	18
235	1192.91	Thomas Gabriel	224	-11
236	1192.06	Oliver Speidel	258	22
237	1189.99	Yuval Bronshtein	158	-79
238	1188.02	Andy Bloch	232	-6
239	1176.11	Jacob Bazeley	229	-10
240	1173.61	Aaron Lim	264	24
241	1172.42	Paul Nunes	245	4
242	1169.94	Morten Mortensen	249	7
243	1169.73	Jason Tompkins	266	23
244	1165.18	Jean-Philippe Rohr	268	24
245	1163.85	Juan Carlos Alvarado	270	25
246	1161.21	Ronny Kaiser	239	-7
247	1160.63	Annand Ramdin	262	15
248	1158.42	Mikhail Petrov	272	24
249	1157.87	Adam Geyer	223	-26
250	1155.89	Harrison Gimbel	247	-3
251	1154.39	Giacomo Fundaro	273	22
252	1148.75	Dario Alioto	237	-15
253	1146.77	Matthias De Meulder	271	18
254	1146.47	Kenny Hallaert	210	-44
255	1142.90	Eric Baldwin	236	-19
256	1142.31	Greg Mueller	279	23
257	1139.04	Lee Markholt	282	25
258	1136.28	Lucille Cailly	284	26
259	1136.00	Manig Loeser	291	32
260	1135.40	Laurent Polito	285	25
261	1133.55	Frederik Jensen	244	-17
262	1130.50	Joseph Couden	267	5
263	1130.04	Ramzi Jelassi	287	24
264	1129.77	Paul Guichard	288	24
265	1127.10	Steven van Zadelhoff	269	4
266	1126.74	Roland Israelashivili	160	-106
267	1121.43	David Diaz	260	-7
268	1118.85	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	N/A	N/A
269	1117.23	Amir Lehavot	294	25
270	1116.39	Yorane Kerignard	295	25
271	1116.17	Hui Chen-Kuo	296	25
272	1115.53	Ondrej Vinklarek	297	25
273	1115.23	Jude Ainsworth	N/A	N/A
274	1113.44	Bruno Fitoussi	299	25
275	1109.75	Martins Adeniya	N/A	N/A
276	1109.64	Manuel Bevand	N/A	N/A
277	1109.36	Timothy Chang	265	-12
278	1109.33	Allen Cunningham	263	-15
279	1103.46	Kenneth Hicks	293	14
280	1101.57	Ali Eslami	256	-24
281	1101.36	Barry Hutter	N/A	N/A
282	1097.86	George Dunst	N/A	N/A
283	1096.27	Yury Gulyy	277	-6
284	1094.54	Tam Truong	N/A	N/A
285	1093.72	Tyler Patterson	289	4
286	1090.82	Casey Kastle	227	-59
287	1081.99	James Dempsey	N/A	N/A
288	1079.94	Robert Cezarescu	N/A	N/A
289	1078.99	Jonathan Turner	275	-14
290	1073.42	William Thorson	N/A	N/A
291	1071.13	Josh Brikis	238	-53
292	1069.28	Max Silver	N/A	N/A
293	1067.15	Adam Levy	274	-19
294	1067.09	Maria Ho	221	-73
295	1066.98	Brian Hawkins	N/A	N/A
296	1066.14	Randy Lew	N/A	N/A
297	1065.26	Eric Sfez	N/A	N/A
298	1064.31	Hafiz Khan	N/A	N/A
299	1063.84	Leo Fernandez	276	-23
300	1063.56	Cesar Garcia	N/A	N/A

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