The online poker alias of ‘Lena900‘ is a name that regular PocketFives readers will be familiar with, mainly because the Swedish player can be seen to be battling it out in the highest stakes online poker tournaments have to offer week-after-week.

It was an action-packed Sunday with multiple six-figure scores and some of online poker’s biggest names taking their talents to big-money final tables.

It took a big week at the online tables by #1-ranked ‘lena900’ in order for him to hold on to his spot in the PocketFives.com Worldwide Rankings again this week.

After weeks of very little movement in the PocketFives Worldwide Rankings top 10, there has been some shifting of spots with two online grinders climbing their way into career-high rankings. At the top of the rankings remains Sweden’s ‘lena900’. While he didn’t manage any PLB qualifying cashes, “lena900” continues to pad his bankroll with a […]

The dog days of summer have hit the PocketFives Worldwide Rankings as nine of the top 10 players remain the same as last week. This includes another week at the top of the rankings for the Swedish powerhouse ‘lena900’.

If you follow the PocketFives.com Worldwide Rankings at all in 2018 then you know the story. This week it’s more of the same as the Swedish crusher ‘C Darwin2’ continues his reign as the only player to occupy the #1 spot in all of 2018.

It’s another week atop the PocketFives Rankings for the Swedish sensation, ‘C Darwin2’. He managed to, once again, put distance between himself and those who would challenge his #1 ranking by vaulting over the 11,000 PLB mark with his runner-up finish in Event #70 of PokerStars Turbo Series. The deep run added a monster 687.22 […]

Ever since Fabrizio ‘SixthSense19’ Gonzalez dropped out of the PocketFives Rankings top five, those spots have been held entirely by Swedish players. That’s not the case anymore though as Russian pro and former #1-ranked ‘veeea‘ moved up to #3. The only two players higher than him are ‘lena900‘ and #1-ranked ‘C Darwin2‘ – both Swedes.

For the fifth consecutive week ‘C Darwin2‘ continued to hold down the #1 spot in the PocketFives Rankings and the Swedish superstar has plenty of company from his fellow countrymen at the top of the rankings ‘C Darwin2‘ is one of seven Swedish players in the top 10 including the all of the top five.

The PocketFives Rankings have long been a playground for Swedish players. Just last week ‘lena900‘ moved back into the top spot for the fifth time in his career and now there’s six Swedes in the top 10 with another two knocking on the door.

Sweden’s ‘lena900‘ is back on top of the PocketFives Rankings after ‘girafganger7’ withdrew his name from the Rankings this past week. This marks the fifth time that ‘lena900’ has held down the number one spot in his career. ‘Girafganger7’ spent just one week holding down the top spot. Despite cashing 14 times this past week, […]

For the third consecutive month, and fourth time in five months, a Swedish player topped the PocketFives Monthly Leaderboard. ‘C Darwin2’ piled up 3,540.45 in the shortest month to win the Monthly PocketFives Leaderboard for the second time this year. Three finishes worth more than 500 PLB points each were the key to victory for […]

872.35 PLB Points. That’s how many Joao ‘joaosimaobh’ Simao received for taking down the PokerStars Mountain Series Denali event over the weekend. The Brazilian earned $167,000 officially for the win in the $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max Rebuy and was one of many players to score big in the last week.

In 2014, Martin Jacobson‘s life was changed forever after he won the World Series of Poker Main Event. The Swedish poker player received the second largest cash prize ever given out in the WSOP’s marquee tournament, $10 million, and was the first player from his home country to win it all.

Sweden is dominating the PocketFives Rankings. It’s not like this is anything new, as Swedes are typically staples of the top 10. However, this week, Swedes hold down the top four spots worldwide.