MERCIER HITS POKER TOP

Jason Mercier, the American poker star has rested on top of the GPI (Global Poker Index) 300 succeeding the creation of a modified scoring system.

Jason Mercier, the twenty five year old Team PokerStars Pro finished the year 168.5 points in front of French poker pro Bertrand Grospellier, but went down to 163.28 over Erik Seidel, the fellow American star.

With Jason, who has 3015.08 points, being likely the world’s most reliable championship poker player during the last three years or so, Jason has doubtlessly benefited from the Global Poker Index’s decision to bring in a 4th scoring result within periods of time one, two and three.

8 times WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelet champion and Las Vegas man Seidel, in the meantime, went up one place to the 2nd position on the Global Poker Index with 2851.80 points to go 46.05 clear of Triple Crown champion Bertrand Grospellier (2805.75).

The top 5 is made out by 4th positioned Eugene Katchalov, of Ukrain, who has 2656.33 points and Trickett (2,582.47), the 888 Poker sponsored pro. None of these players did anything goo in the rankings, though Trickett dropped 100.56 points and Katchalov lost 113.49 points.

It will really be fascinating to watch how these switches affect the rankings over the forthcoming weeks as last Wednesday the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure began, as did the WPT (World Poker Tour) Ireland that was gained by the Englishman David Shallow.

In addition, the 2010 and 2011 WSOP $ 10000 No-Limit Hold’em main events sink down times, so there is all posibility that we will see some hugr changes in the Global Poker Index 300, particularly from those who ended high up in the championships.

Eric Faulkner, the chief information officer, told that the Global Poker Index model will be reviewed every 6 months and corrected where necessary to ponder the changing landscape of live championship poker.

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Focus on: Josh Arieh

Josh Arieh is a pro poker player from the United States, which was born in New York in 1974. He is a participant in poker tournaments since 1999, he is married and he has three kids.

His most well known participation at a World Series event was from 2004, when he finished on the 3^rd place during the Main Event. He is also known for the Limit Texas Hold’em title he got at the World Series in 1999 and for the Pot Limit Omaha 2^nd place he got in 2000. During the WSOP 2005, he managed to get another bracelet, at Pot Limit Omaha. He also had many other victories at different tournaments and he also has plenty of appearances at televised final tables. He is known as a high limit poker player that is quite tough.

As far as his personality goes, he is known for being a bully at times, verbally attacking other players when he wants to force hands. While many people respect him and he has many friends in the community, he also made plenty of mistakes at the poker table, thanks to his personality. He made mistakes during the World Series as well, on two occasions, but later apologized for his behavior.

Ariesh has two bracelets at the World Series. The first one came in 1999, when he took home the Limit Hold’em $3,000 title, with a cash prize of $202,800. The second time was in 2005, when he took home a cash prize of $381,600, by winning the Pot Limit Omaha $2,000 event.

He managed to cash in at a number of tournaments and his winnings from live tournaments reached $5.7 million in 2010. At that point, his World Series wins had brought him a total of $3,436,897.

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