Only one player has held the #1 spot for more weeks than Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy, but while ‘lena900’ has had 10 turns as the #1-ranked player for 97 weeks, Josephy had one run that lasted an astonishing 74 weeks. That level of success has made Josephy a longstanding favorite of the PocketFives community and his […]

Monday’s World Championship of Online Poker action was dominated by the conclusion of the $100,000 Super High Roller event and when all was said and done, poker fans were mostly talking about the guy who didn’t win, rather than the guy who did. Former #1-ranked PocketFiver Fedor ‘CrownUpGuy’ Holz ended up finishing second to ‘bencb789’ […]

“Every single one of us should strive to discover his reason for being, his Ikigai.” That’s the sticky you’ll find when you look at Fedor ‘CrownUpGuy’ Holz‘s Twitter feed. And for Holz, poker might not be the path to his Ikigai.

There were nine players who laid claim to the title of #1 in the PocketFives Rankingsin 2015. Plus, there were 14 lead changes during the year, which means there was plenty of movement atop of the Rankings. Let’s take a look back at the #1 ranked players of 2015.

Germany’s Fedor Holz went into Day 7 of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event in 19th place with 4.645 million chips. If he had won the whole thing, he wouldn’t be the youngest to ever do so – that honor belongs to Joe Cada, who was a month shy of 22 years old […]

Over the weekend, Fedor CrownUpGuyHolz (pictured) won the Full Tilt Sunday Major for $41,000. The feat itself is impressive, as Holz defeated a field of 664 entrants and a top ten that featured four members of the PocketFives community. What’s more impressive is the fact that Sunday marked the second time Holz had won the […]

The battle for #1 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankingscontinued this week, as Nicolas PokerKaiserFierro (pictured) is once again the top dog, claiming the title from Fedor CrownUpGuy Holz. The two have jockeyed back and forth for the last month, each taking the #1 spot away from the other every time the Rankings have […]

It’s that time of the week again. The PocketFives Online Poker Rankingshave been updated and Fedor CrownUpGuyHolz (pictured) has reclaimed the #1 spot in the world after a seven-day hiatus. Helping push him over the top were a fifth place finish in the Sunday Supersonic for $15,000 on March 8, a second place finish in […]

For the second time in his career, CrownUpGuy(pictured) is the #1 ranked player on PocketFives. This time, he moved up four spots on the week thanks to a final table in the PokerStars Sunday Supersonic that was worth $15,000 and 207 PLB Points, the metric used to determine the Rankings.

It’s Wednesday, which means the PocketFives Online Poker Rankingshave been recalculated. This week, we have a new #1 player in the world, Yuri Martins (pictured). The Brazilian has a brisk 8,433 PLB Points, which represents a commanding 742-point lead over second place. Martins was last ranked #1 in October and this is his second stint […]

With impressive result after impressive result, we suppose it was only a matter of time until CrownUpGuy(pictured) became the #1 player in the PocketFives Poker Rankings. This week, he moved up two spots and officially became the new top dog on our site. His poker resume is quite impressive, as the Austrian won the WCOOP […]

For the third straight week, Canada’s p0cket00(pictured) sits atop the PocketFives Poker Rankings, this time with a PLB score of 7,758 points. He holds a razor-thin 18-point lead over second place, but is enjoying his second stint in the top spot this year and his longest reign at #1 since late 2011.

The end of 2014 has been mighty kind to Austria’s Fedor CrownUpGuyHolz (pictured). On the last weekend of September, he took down the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event for $1.3 millionfollowing a six-way deal. The following Sunday, he was back at it, winning the Full Tilt Sunday Majorfor another $38,000. And, in case you were caught […]

We had a fair amount of movement within the top 10 of the PocketFives Rankingsthis week, including a 17-spot jump by longtime member Big Huni(pictured), who cracked the top 10 at #8 in the world. Hunichen won the PokerStars $109 NLHE Turbo on Tuesday for $10,000 after taking down the site’s Big $55 seven days […]

We haven’t seen a run like Fedor CrownUpGuyHolz’s (pictured) in some time. He hit it big last month in the WCOOP Main Event, winning it after a six-way chop for a staggering $1.3 million, one of the highest payouts ever logged by a PocketFiver. Last weekend, he took down the Full TiltSunday Major for another […]