MILESTONES: ‘1bigacehole’ Hits $9M in Career Earnings

Every week The PocketFives Milestone Report looks at the online poker players who are achieving career-best achievement or reaching new heights in the rankings
Ulmer Becomes The Ninth to Get to $9,000,000
TJ ‘1bigacehole’ Ulmer is now over the $9,000,000 in career earnings, putting him currently at #9 on the all-time earnings list. The former #1 player has been a PocketFives member for over 11 years and has reached a new plateau of success with his latest achievement.
Players Climbing Toward The Top-50
The top-50 threshold is always a competitive one and a few players are nearing that landmark achievement. Russia’s Andrey ‘drupalucker’ Chernokoz is up to #56 with a win in the PokerStars $320 Six-Max playing a role in that result. From Argentina, Rodrigo ‘sonmonedas’ Perez, is up to #54 in the world. Perez has three wins in July and is up to $880,000 in earnings after being a PocketFives members for just over two full years.
A few other players moving up in the top-100 are:
- Lorenzo Bazei from 71 to 70
- papan9_p$ from 73 to 67
- Deepincidurr from 103 to 83
- ZDARLIGHT23 from 101 to 92
More Millionaires Club Members
There are three PocketFives members who have reached $1,000,000 in earnings this past week with England, Russia and the Ukraine all represented.
- Alex ‘APJennings’ Jennings – The #95 ranked player in the UK, Jennings has over half of his career earnings on 888poker.
- Alexey ‘kawachi1984’ Chinarev – Chinarev plays near exclusively on PokerStars and recently to second in the Big 109 for over $15,000.
- Aleks ‘fNx_R’ Trofimenko – Trofimenko is ranked #2 in the Ukraine and has an all-time high ranking of #127 on PocketFives.