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. 28:

Rank	GPI Score	Player Name	Last Week Rank	Change From Last Week
1	3340.95	Dan Smith	1	0
2	3305.80	Marvin Rettenmaier	2	0
3	3078.06	Jason Mercier	3	0
4	3057.06	Bertrand Grospellier	4	0
5	2927.18	Joseph Cheong	6	1
6	2892.60	Andrew Lichtenberger	5	-1
7	2816.39	Vanessa Selbst	8	1
8	2809.81	David Sands	9	1
9	2805.54	Michael Watson	7	-2
10	2785.22	Stephen O'Dwyer	10	0
11	2709.95	Bryn Kenney	11	0
12	2682.85	Phil Hellmuth	13	1
13	2650.59	Shannon Shorr	12	-1
14	2620.27	Justin Bonomo	14	0
15	2606.30	Philipp Gruissem	15	0
16	2538.95	Roberto Romanello	16	0
17	2535.30	Ole Schemion	17	0
18	2500.36	Michael Mizrachi	18	0
19	2499.00	Mohsin Charania	19	0
20	2497.40	Eugene Katchalov	20	0
21	2460.28	Konstantin Puchkov	21	0
22	2453.21	Mike McDonald	22	0
23	2341.03	Emanuel Failla	24	1
24	2318.96	Keven Stammen	25	1
25	2305.29	Roger Hairabedian	26	1
26	2305.18	Micah Raskin	29	3
27	2292.60	Juha Helppi	23	-4
28	2288.41	Joseph Serock	27	-1
29	2220.48	Daniel Negreanu	28	-1
30	2210.85	Toby Lewis	41	11
31	2207.51	Chris Klodnicki	30	-1
32	2187.53	Shawn Buchanan	33	1
33	2179.74	Noah Schwartz	31	-2
34	2172.14	Christian Harder	35	1
35	2151.54	Ilan Boujenah	36	1
36	2145.91	Kyle Julius	37	1
37	2131.64	Tobias Reinkemeier	34	-3
38	2129.32	John Juanda	38	0
39	2127.22	Jason Koon	42	3
40	2124.51	Martin Finger	44	4
41	2122.60	Kevin MacPhee	39	-2
42	2121.54	Christopher Brammer	40	-2
43	2112.39	Sorel Mizzi	32	-11
44	2086.77	Jonathan Duhamel	43	-1
45	2062.50	Nick Schulman	45	0
46	2057.36	Thomas Marchese	47	1
47	2049.63	Scott Seiver	48	1
48	2028.27	Daniel Shak	46	-2
49	2020.82	Todd Terry	49	0
50	1998.81	Kristijonas Andrulis	50	0
51	1996.69	David Baker	51	0
52	1992.84	Timothy Adams	52	0
53	1954.53	Ravi Raghavan	53	0
54	1952.87	Igor Kurganov	54	0
55	1949.52	Dimitar Danchev	56	1
56	1940.11	Fabrice Soulier	58	2
57	1933.99	Cary Katz	59	2
58	1926.78	Philippe Ktorza	55	-3
59	1913.35	Samuel Stein	60	1
60	1906.22	Leonid Bilokur	61	1
61	1905.09	Jonathan Aguiar	62	1
62	1891.46	Jason Wheeler	64	2
63	1880.88	Matt Waxman	65	2
64	1878.55	Joni Jouhkimainen	86	22
65	1874.52	Matthew Stout	66	1
66	1871.92	David Benyamine	63	-3
67	1862.29	Pierre Neuville	67	0
68	1849.97	Fabian Quoss	68	0
69	1846.78	Mihails Morozovs	70	1
70	1840.71	Antonio Esfandiari	71	1
71	1838.33	Erik Seidel	74	3
72	1837.99	Aubin Cazals	69	-3
73	1836.92	Scott Baumstein	73	0
74	1830.54	Paul Berende	75	1
75	1825.41	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	76	1
76	1817.84	Simon Ravnsbaek	72	-4
77	1808.78	Mihai Manole	101	24
78	1792.54	Byron Kaverman	77	-1
79	1786.80	Ognjen Sekularac	79	0
80	1781.14	Heinz Kamutzki	98	18
81	1780.24	Scott Clements	80	-1
82	1776.76	David Vamplew	82	0
83	1772.36	Martin Jacobson	78	-5
84	1770.91	Govert Metaal	83	-1
85	1768.87	Tommy Vedes	57	-28
86	1764.13	Ramin Hajiyev	84	-2
87	1758.38	Mickey Petersen	85	-2
88	1745.34	John Parker	108	20
89	1706.96	Tyler Reiman	155	66
90	1706.93	Oleksii Kovalchuk	81	-9
91	1705.96	Phil Ivey	92	1
92	1695.78	Allen Kessler	87	-5
93	1689.07	Samuel Chartier	89	-4
94	1687.29	Vineet Pahuja	90	-4
95	1678.48	Shaun Deeb	91	-4
96	1676.02	Darren Elias	93	-3
97	1673.13	Daniel O'Brien	88	-9
98	1664.87	Joe Elpayaa	94	-4
99	1662.56	Jeremy Ausmus	95	-4
100	1657.06	Andrey Gulyy	97	-3
101	1656.98	Olivier Busquet	99	-2
102	1653.38	Joe Kuether	105	3
103	1653.15	Elio Fox	122	19
104	1648.13	John Paul Kelly	96	-8
105	1632.30	Zachary Clark	100	-5
106	1628.72	Kyle Bowker	104	-2
107	1626.56	Dwyte Pilgrim	106	-1
108	1620.88	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	107	-1
109	1605.48	Faraz Jaka	102	-7
110	1601.15	Johnny Lodden	109	-1
111	1601.12	Yevgeniy Timoshenko	110	-1
112	1597.24	Alexander Dovzhenko	111	-1
113	1593.43	Kassem Deeb	112	-1
114	1586.63	Stephen Chidwick	113	-1
115	1586.40	Steve Brecher	114	-1
116	1585.81	Michael Benvenuti	115	-1
117	1584.89	Alessandro Longobardi	116	-1
118	1575.76	Samad Razavi	103	-15
119	1571.17	Matt Marafioti	117	-2
120	1566.38	Manig Loeser	119	-1
121	1564.92	Andy Frankenberger	120	-1
122	1562.40	Matthew Glantz	121	-1
123	1553.41	Danyel Boyaciyan	123	0
124	1548.73	Dominik Nitsche	124	0
125	1545.24	John Monnette	125	0
126	1543.10	Erik Cajelais	126	0
127	1536.87	Jan Bendik	129	2
128	1530.73	Mclean Karr	130	2
129	1522.66	Jonathan Karamilikis	118	-11
130	1521.13	Jeff Gross	131	1
131	1520.69	Daniel Buzgon	132	1
132	1517.31	David Williams	133	1
133	1516.70	Isaac Haxton	134	1
134	1515.43	Max Silver	135	1
135	1513.19	Gavin Smith	136	1
136	1513.18	Melanie Weisner	152	16
137	1510.36	Dana Kellstrom	137	0
138	1507.21	Dmitry Vitkind	138	0
139	1506.65	Justin Zaki	139	0
140	1493.71	Zimnan Ziyard	143	3
141	1492.32	Davidi Kitai	145	4
142	1489.89	Andrew Badecker	144	2
143	1473.79	Joe Tehan	154	11
144	1467.93	Dermot Blain	127	-17
145	1467.86	Isaac Baron	148	3
146	1466.00	Brian Rast	149	3
147	1464.71	Vadim Kursevich	150	3
148	1463.58	Bruno Lopes	141	-7
149	1460.31	Amit Makhija	151	2
150	1448.39	Alain Roy	142	-8
151	1445.99	Matt Salsberg	157	6
152	1443.58	Chris Bjorin	158	6
153	1439.59	Jonathan Roy	159	6
154	1439.28	Tomeu Gomila	160	6
155	1435.93	David Peters	161	6
156	1432.84	Frank Rusnak	223	67
157	1423.78	Greg Mueller	166	9
158	1420.50	Jeffrey Rossiter	147	-11
159	1420.32	Tristan Clemencon	167	8
160	1420.27	David Baker	168	8
161	1408.43	Ismael Bojang	170	9
162	1405.52	Joel Micka	172	10
163	1404.91	Anton Wigg	128	-35
164	1396.60	Fernando Brito	174	10
165	1393.08	Rocco Palumbo	175	10
166	1392.31	Corey Burbick	164	-2
167	1387.37	Paul Volpe	176	9
168	1385.86	Sam Trickett	162	-6
169	1378.79	Michael Telker	177	8
170	1375.91	Daniel Kelly	178	8
171	1372.22	Liv Boeree	215	44
172	1371.73	David Rheem	180	8
173	1369.51	Ramzi Jelassi	181	8
174	1364.93	Salvatore Bonavena	163	-11
175	1362.72	Tom Alner	169	-6
176	1361.50	Andrey Zaichenko	189	13
177	1360.79	Chris Moorman	182	5
178	1360.34	John Dolan	183	5
179	1358.98	Rodrigo Caprioli	184	5
180	1354.13	Annand Ramdin	187	7
181	1350.29	Giacomo Fundaro	190	9
182	1348.70	Edward Sabat	191	9
183	1347.23	Jesse Martin	192	9
184	1345.85	Alexander Venovski	185	1
185	1344.05	Darryll Fish	153	-32
186	1343.53	Yury Gulyy	186	0
187	1342.68	Brandon Cantu	193	6
188	1342.24	Jose Manuel Nadal	194	6
189	1341.04	Andrew Chen	195	6
190	1338.35	Lee Childs	196	6
191	1333.72	Andrea Dato	140	-51
192	1333.28	Taylor Paur	198	6
193	1333.26	Marco Leonzio	146	-47
194	1331.62	Jacob Bazeley	254	60
195	1321.16	Tristan Wade	179	-16
196	1320.35	Sean Jazayeri	199	3
197	1318.25	Ben Vinson	197	0
198	1315.34	Salman Behbehani	200	2
199	1310.14	Artem Litvinov	202	3
200	1306.14	Denys Drobyna	203	3
201	1304.14	Yann Dion	156	-45
202	1303.42	Stanislav Barshak	201	-1
203	1297.21	Dan Murariu	171	-32
204	1295.78	Mukul Pahuja	188	-16
205	1295.14	Nicholas Grippo	206	1
206	1290.27	Craig McCorkell	237	31
207	1288.78	Gregory Merson	207	0
208	1286.52	John Racener	208	0
209	1284.65	Koen De Visscher	210	1
210	1283.82	Guillaume Darcourt	209	-1
211	1280.98	Timothy West	211	0
212	1277.54	Jason Somerville	212	0
213	1274.65	Ana Laura Marquez Esteban	205	-8
214	1273.18	Aurangzeb Sheikh	214	0
215	1270.28	Joey Weissman	216	1
216	1270.16	Mustapha Kanit	217	1
217	1267.06	Vyacheslav Igin	220	3
218	1266.23	Tom McCormick	219	1
219	1264.28	Timothy Chang	221	2
220	1261.14	Paul Tedeschi	222	2
221	1257.35	Kenneth Hicks	225	4
222	1254.81	Michael Graydon	227	5
223	1251.67	Paul Nunes	230	7
224	1249.04	Vojtech Ruzicka	229	5
225	1244.93	David Steicke	165	-60
226	1244.13	David Stefanski	235	9
227	1242.91	Hui Chen-Kuo	284	57
228	1240.51	Kent Lundmark	224	-4
229	1239.64	William Reynolds	231	2
230	1236.81	Jake Cody	233	3
231	1234.51	Laurent Polito	204	-27
232	1232.79	Jean-Noel Thorel	173	-59
233	1231.65	Ludovic Lacay	226	-7
234	1230.80	Roman Romanovskyi	234	0
235	1214.08	Sergio Castelluccio	228	-7
236	1213.55	Alexander Queen	244	8
237	1213.50	Alexander Kravchenko	239	2
238	1210.21	Alexander Roumeliotis	232	-6
239	1207.04	Jonathan Little	241	2
240	1204.06	Thiago Nishijima	242	2
241	1200.32	Adam Geyer	247	6
242	1200.02	Justin Young	248	6
243	1195.78	Ray Qartomy	249	6
244	1194.79	Barry Greenstein	238	-6
245	1190.98	Paul Lieu	263	18
246	1190.04	John Eames	253	7
247	1189.96	Owen Crowe	273	26
248	1187.66	Chady Ojeil	251	3
249	1187.36	Christopher De Maci	252	3
250	1183.44	Jose Ignacio Barbero	236	-14
251	1178.42	Tyler Patterson	297	46
252	1174.42	Nicolas Cardyn	255	3
253	1172.36	Sergii Baranov	240	-13
254	1169.73	Jason Tompkins	258	4
255	1169.37	Khiem Nguyen	213	-42
256	1167.17	Leo Fernandez	259	3
257	1165.34	Hans Winzeler	218	-39
258	1165.18	Jean-Philippe Rohr	260	2
259	1165.11	Yuval Bronshtein	256	-3
260	1164.43	Anthony Gregg	261	1
261	1164.27	Morten Mortensen	257	-4
262	1158.42	Mikhail Petrov	262	0
263	1153.79	Andy Bloch	250	-13
264	1149.89	Thomas Gabriel	265	1
265	1148.83	Dario Alioto	266	1
266	1148.53	Harrison Gimbel	267	1
267	1146.88	Matthias De Meulder	268	1
268	1144.44	Daniel Idema	245	-23
269	1143.89	Amir Lehavot	269	0
270	1142.17	Eric Baldwin	270	0
271	1139.65	Jess Yawitz	264	-7
272	1134.38	Calvin Anderson	274	2
273	1133.91	Max Lehmanski	275	2
274	1129.77	Paul Guichard	277	3
275	1128.72	Terrence Chan	278	3
276	1122.76	Alan Engel	N/A	N/A
277	1121.43	David Diaz	281	4
278	1118.05	Lucille Cailly	282	4
279	1116.39	Yorane Kerignard	283	4
280	1109.33	Allen Cunningham	286	6
281	1108.38	Galen Hall	287	6
282	1108.37	Steven Silverman	288	6
283	1108.34	Kenny Hallaert	271	-12
284	1103.52	Max Greenwood	290	6
285	1103.10	Ronny Kaiser	280	-5
286	1101.57	Ali Eslami	291	5
287	1099.26	Frederik Jensen	276	-11
288	1097.02	Joseph Couden	294	6
289	1095.80	Nicolas Levi	295	6
290	1094.24	Josh Brikis	N/A	N/A
291	1093.95	Jeremy Kottler	296	5
292	1089.64	Daniele Mazzia	298	6
293	1089.58	Jude Ainsworth	289	-4
294	1087.46	Martins Adeniya	300	6
295	1087.31	Bruno Fitoussi	N/A	N/A
296	1085.46	Aku Joentausta	N/A	N/A
297	1085.08	Grant Levy	243	-54
298	1084.72	Nicholas Verkaik	N/A	N/A
299	1084.17	George Dunst	293	-6
300	1082.71	Tam Truong	N/A	N/A

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