As we enter the final quarter of the 12 months, it is time to try how the International Poker Index world rankings are trying, in addition to who’s in with an opportunity of successful 2024 Participant of the 12 months honors come the top of it.
September was an enormous month with EPT Barcelona and the Poker Masters on the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, and among the largest and finest poker gamers on the market had been in motion.
GPI Rankings: Lonis Continues to Lead the Approach
The International Poker Index Rankings have been up to date and as soon as once more it is Jesse Lonis atop the pile for the twentieth straight week because the world’s #1 poker participant.
Three top-ten finishes at EPT Barcelona final month included a fourth-place end within the €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler, gained by Kayhan Mokri.
Lonis cashed for €457,400 ($506,276) on this occasion, his second-largest money of the 12 months behind his runner-up end within the WSOP Occasion #92: $50,000 Excessive Curler for $1,358,633.
In the meantime, Spaniard Adrian Mateos made it 9 weeks because the world’s #2 ranked poker participant. Mateos began the 12 months ranked thirtieth on the planet, and was final ranked #1 in April 2018, however has loved success in 2024 together with two Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence titles in Jeju and Montenegro.
Extra just lately, Mateos gained a title and cashed 4 occasions for over $1 million mixed on the Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Cyprus competition.
And whereas Mateos opted out of taking part in at EPT Barcelona, one participant who did not was Canadian Mike Watson. He was ranked outdoors the GPI High 10 previous to this 12 months’s WSOP, and had by no means ranked larger than second.
Nevertheless, a Triple Crown-securing bracelet and a September that noticed him win the EPT $10,000 Excessive Curler title has resulted in him rising 4 locations to 3rd on the planet behind Mateos and Lonis.
GPI Rankings: Punsri Re-enters GPI High 10
The one motion on this month’s GPI High 10 sees Thailand’s Punnat Punsri leapfrog Danny Tang and Isaac Haxton. Punsri had slipped out of the High 10 in mid-September for the primary time since July, throughout which he reached a career-best fourth on the planet.
Nevertheless, a fifth-place end within the APT Taipei Poker Basic Tremendous Excessive Curler has seen him return. Punsri cashed for NT$5,793,950 ($183,482) at a last desk that additionally featured Ethan “Rampage” Yau who completed sixth.
Different Huge Movers
Stephen Music’s EPT Barcelona Foremost Occasion victory has seen him soar into the High 10 in September. Having began the month twenty sixth on the planet his €1,290,386 victory over a subject of 1,975 has earned him sufficient factors to sit down sixth on the planet.
Nevertheless, he isn’t the most important mover contained in the High 10 for the reason that September rankings, with the Poker Masters seeing Spencer Champlin transfer up 30 locations to seventieth on the planet after his victory within the opening occasion of the competition.
In the meantime, Daniel Sepiol has reached a brand new career-high of twentieth on the planet after additionally cashing on the Poker Masters.
No Change in Participant of the 12 months
There have been no modifications within the 2024 Participant of the 12 months rankings, with Adrian Mateos nonetheless main from David Coleman. Coleman hasn’t been outdoors of the highest 5 within the POY rankings all 12 months having loved a stellar begin to the 12 months.
Coming into 2024 ranked outdoors the GPI prime 200, he hit the bottom working and had secured 4 titles on the PokerGO Studio earlier than the top of April. A WPT Alpha8 Trifecta title adopted and he now sits second within the Participant of the 12 months rankings, and fourth on the planet — the best he is ever been ranked.
Foxen Leads GPI Feminine Participant of the 12 months
Nonetheless the primary ranked feminine poker participant, Kristen Foxen continues to steer each the GPI and 2024 Participant of the 12 months rankings. Foxen is at present in motion on the WSOP Europe, making Day 2 of the €25,000 NLH GGMillion€ however failing to money.
The present #2 ranked feminine poker participant is Cherish Andrews forward of Victoria Livschitz and up to date EPT Barcelona Foremost Occasion last tablist Rania Nasreddine, who moved up from seventh courtesy of her fourth-place end.
In the meantime, latest Life Outdoors Poker visitor Maria Konnikova has re-entered the High 10 and sits seventh on the planet after three cashes in Barcelona, together with a fifth-place end within the €3,000 Thriller Bounty occasion.
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