Being passionate about two things doesn’t always lead to being successful in both of those endeavors. Sure, Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders found success playing both football and baseball, but that’s the exception, not the rule.

Over the weekend, Canada’s p0cket00(pictured) took down the 888 Poker Whalefor a healthy $46,000. There were 402 entrants at $600 a pop, which sent the prize pool to almost $240,000. He moved up 15 spots in the PocketFives Rankings as a result and used to be #1 last year.

A few weeks ago, Lockhurt(pictured), who calls Ontario, Canada home, won the PokerStars Sunday 500 outright and earned $70,000. There were almost 800 entrants that day and Lockhurt beat out a final table that included five other PocketFivers. It was the fourth largest cash we’ve tracked for him.

Last month, Canada’s Alexandre Fournier (pictured), known as fournnon PocketFives, was part of a four-way chop of the PokerStars Sunday Million. His reward was $98,000, far and away his largest online poker cash to date, and, as a result, he has zoomed to #536 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings.

Earlier this month, Justin Ouimette(pictured) came away with the win in the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl, outlasting a field of 573 entrants en route to a $24,000 payday. It was his second largest tracked cash overall and his largest on Full Tilt. He is one victory shy of 100 for his career and told us, […]

If you play games like Crazy Eights and Winner, you might know of a card game called Big Two. We’re not going to get into the nitty-gritty details, but the goal is to run out of cards before everyone else does. For Canada’s modzillapl(pictured), an early start in Big Two helped propel him to a […]

Today is this author’s birthday. Yes, hold your applause and direct all gifts to the PocketFives business address. Two weeks ago, Mike Bartholomew (pictured), who is known as AAcademiKKon PocketFives, won the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl for $25,000, defeating a field of nearly 600 entrants just two days before his birthday. We caught up […]

Canada’s Dong Guo leaped into the poker scene on the game’s biggest stage during the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event. He entered Day 6 of the biggest poker event of the year with 3.8 million in chips, which was at the time 17th place out of 79 players remaining. He ultimately busted in […]

How did you get started in poker? Did you find the game because of a friend? Did you randomly run across it on television? Did your family play around a kitchen table? For Roundelay(pictured), who calls Newfoundland, Canada home, the cancellation of the 2004-2005 NHL season was enough to steer him to the game we […]

The classic poker cliché “a chip and a chair” runs pretty true for Edmonton’s aznxray(pictured), who stormed to a win in the 888 Poker Sunday Challenge despite being down to just five big blinds when four players remained. It was his third Sunday Challenge win all-time, which is pretty impressive considering the tournament drew 1,000 […]