Move over Carlos Mortenson … Ana Marquez is now the top Spanish player in the world. Playing for almost three years now, the 26-year-old PokerStars pro is the 227th-ranked player on the planet … with some $355k in live tournament winnings … good enough to make her #1 in Spain, and #2 for the 2012 Spanish Player of the Year. Makes for an interesting poker follow and potentially interesting end-of-year race … and she’s cute to boot (not that it should matter, but hey).

Like many of us, she cut her teeth in the American poker underground … and totally quirky, current WSOP Main Event champ Greg Merson who provided her first real-money online stake. Read her story here. And see below how new names emerge as notables on the poker landscape.

LADIES GPI TOP 5

RANK			PLAYER	SCORE
1.	—		Vanessa Selbst	2390.65
2.	—		Melanie Weisner	1546.48
3.	—		Liv Boeree	1371.28
4.	—		Ana Laura Marquez Esteban	1179.05
5.	—		Maria Ho	1129.37

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SPAIN GPI TOP 5

RANK		PLAYER	SCORE
1.	—	Ana Laura Marquez Esteban	1179.05
2.	—	Tomeu Gomila	1104.68
3.	—	Carlos Mortensen	943.84
4.	—	Juan Garcia Cid	941.67
5.	—	Cesar Garcia	925.70

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