This week’s GPI update shows that there has not been a lot of movement over the past seven days in top 10 of the leaderboard. Jason Mercier still tops it with a total of 4,043.95 points, followed by Byron Kaverman with 3,987.89 points and Scott Seiver with 3,963.41 points.
In fact, Bryn Kenney and Dominik Nitsche are the only players who have moved a little over the past week. The first climbed one position and now ranks 7th with 3,648.60 points. As for Nitsche, he moved up four positions to take 8th place with 3,573.76 points.
Top 20 of the prestigious ranking welcomed poker pro Brian Rast. The player currently ranks 20th and has collected 3,238.74 points since the beginning of the calendar year.
Rast is probably best known as the winner of the first-ever Aria Super High Roller Bowl held at Las Vegas-based Aria Resort & Casino on July 2-4. He topped a field of 43 of the world’s best poker pros and several recreational high rollers to capture the impressive first-place prize of $7,525,000, his best live cash so far.
Rast’s career winnings currently amount to $15,583,717. He can boast of two WSOP gold bracelets and a number of cashes from various prestigious events, mostly high roller ones.
The player collected both his pieces of the coveted WSOP jewelry in 2011. He took the first one for topping the field of the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em for $227,232. Bracelet number two came only a few weeks later when Rast emerged victorious in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. He also captured a first-place prize of $1,720,328 for his triumph. After this summer’s edition of the Series, the player’s career WSOP winnings amount to a little more than $4.2 million.
Aside from his performance in WSOP events, Rast has appeared at the final tables of a number of high roller events and has emerged victorious in some of those. For instance, he won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller in December 2013 and scooped the amount of $1,083,500. Rast finished 3rd in last year’s edition of the same event. He added $755,370 to his poker bankroll. A sixth-place finish in the 2012 WSOP The BIG ONE for ONE DROP is also among his most notable achievements. The player collected $1,621,333 for his performance in the special event.
