One of online poker’s most popular players, ‘girafganger7,’ scooped the 2019 PocketFives February PLB title. Girafganger7’s February included 124 cashes for $454,604 in prize money and a leaderboard-topping 4,867.51 points.

January was another massive month for Ukranian online poker superstar Roman ‘Romeopro’ Romanovsky who put in maximum volume to finish the month with the 2019 January PLB crown.

The PocketFives Milestone Report looks at the online poker players who are achieving career-best achievement or reaching new heights in the rankings. It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in on the progress of some of the PocketFives community and, in the past month or so, there have been plenty of new major milestones to […]

Movers & Shakers takes a look into those PocketFives members that have made big moves in the top 100 of the online poker rankings. The most high-profile moves in the rankings belong to two very notable players, Steve ‘MrTimCaum’ O’Dwyer and Alex ‘SploogeLuge’ Foxen, but the biggest move within the top 100 was that of Arturs ‘ARTSchGamble’ Scerbaks.

The #1-ranked player in Uruguay also topped the October PLB race. ‘kofi89’ used consistent results and a single mammoth victory to accumulate 4,383.78 PLB points, more than 1,000 above the closest competitor, to take the monthly title.

“Poker still gives me a thrill from time to time. All deep runs, even if it’s a small tournament, like $3,000 for first, the competition of getting to the final table gives me a thrill even though it’s something I do every day.”

The #1-ranked player in the world, ‘C Darwin2’, added another accolade to his resume by ending the year by winning the 2017 PocketFives Leaderboard. The yearly PLB differs from the Sliding PLB, which helps determine the weekly rankings, in that it takes the top 100 PLB point scores of the calendar year for any player […]

PocketFives.com current Worldwide #5-ranked player Robin ‘Inho’ Ylitalo found himself atop the payouts at the end of Thursday’s slate of XL Eclipse tournaments over on 888poker. The 13-event grouping brought with it over $350,000 in guarantees as the poker series has now completed one-third of its scheduled 197 events.

The PokerStars Sunday Million saw a four-way final table chop over the weekend as ‘Dimitri005‘ took home $132.437 as a result of an official first place finish, while PocketFives member ‘SokyrkoDima‘ of the Ukraine earned a career online tournament best $110,851 in the runner-up position. ‘Wh0AndBeni‘ finished third in that event for $87,717 and ‘Akyllas1‘ […]

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 888 Poker XL Inferno continued Monday with a number of players taking home final table cash prizes ahead of the event’s final weekend. The #2 ranked online tournament player in the world, ‘inhoo‘ of Sweden, was victorious in the $160 buy-in “Crocodile” tournament and collected $6,418 followed by PocketFives member ‘kellerassel007‘ of Germany who […]

There were just six PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker final tables on tap Wednesday and none bigger than the conclusion of the Super Tuesday Special Edition, but it was also a big day for two of Ireland’s top-ranked players. The 1,408-player field of Event #12 High ($1,050 NLHE Super Tuesday SE) got down to […]

Eight wins. Thirty top-ten finishes. 2,981.55 points. And that was just one month. The scores have been calculated. We’ve made a list. We’ve checked it twice. ‘lena900‘ won the PocketFives Monthly Leaderboard, or MPLB, in January with a total of 2,981.55 PLB Points. He led the second place total belonging to Bryan ‘bparis’ Paris by […]

The PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker rolled on like a runaway freight train on Thursday, with four more events and four more winners. This time around, a top-50 ranked player earned his second TCOOP title.

It has been a busy month of August on PocketFives. In fact, two of our longtime members, one of whom is ranked #1 worldwide, won PocketFives Triple Crowns. They were the 73rd and 74th Triple Crowns awarded this year.