After Shannon Shorr kicked off the week by winning his first-ever World Series of Poker gold bracelet, Bert ‘girafganger7’ Stevens got in on the act too, winning the biggest-ever WSOP Online Main Event for a score of $2.78 million in thrilling circumstances. With commentary from industry legends Jeff Gross and Ali Nejad, the GGPoker-sponsored event […]

It’s another trip at the top of the Online Poker Rankings for UK online pro Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard, who, thanks to a dominant end of 2021 and fast start in the New Year, is now enjoying his fifth reign at #1 in the world.

A who’s who of online poker superstars had a seat at the final table of this week’s GGPoker Super MILLION$ where Austria’s Claas Segebrecht toppled the 123-entry field to earn his first Super MILLION$ title and the $263,285 first-place prize.

In a week where there were subtle shifts of position in the top 25, the return of one of South America’s most successful online tournament grinders highlights this week in the Online Poker Rankings.

Niklas Astedt is in the winner’s circle yet again. The superstar Swede, winner of the #1 Number One contest, continued to add to his long list of accolades by taking down the 49th edition of the $10K GGPoker Super MILLION$ for $313,907. The victory extends Astedt’s current record as the tournament’s most profitable player with […]

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 […]

Online poker is a global game with players logging on and grinding from every part of the world. Every country has a #1-ranked player and here we take a look at some of those that lead the way in their home countries.

On a Sunday that saw the long-awaited $20m guaranteed partypoker MILLIONS Online tournament get underway, Alex ‘bigfox86’ Foxen, Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth and Jonathan ‘proudflop’ Proudfoot were among the day’s big winners, with world ranked #1 ‘Lena900‘ making a PokerStars Sunday Million final table appearance. 

partypoker ambassador Patrick Leonard won over $69,000 after he took down Event #83 High Roller: $1,050 NLHE 6-Max PKO. A $311,100 prize pool was created after 305 entrants took part, and at the final table of six was Leonard’s fellow partypoker teammate Joao Simao, who exited in 5fifh place for $8,387 + $6,695 (in bounties). ‘Garrin4e1‘ was […]

It’s yet another summer week without much movement in the PocketFives Worldwide Top 10 as Sweden’s ‘lena900’ continues to ride the wave he had been on for the past two months, retaining the #1 spot.

There’s not much movement in the PocketFives Worldwide Top 10 this week, as eight of the ten spots held steadfast from last week. The difference this week is it seems that the top tier players are slowly coming back to the tables after their post-spring series breaks.

The 2018 World Series of Poker got underway this week as players from all around the world flocked to Las Vegas to do battle in the live arena. But for the players who haven’t yet or will not be taking the trip to Nevada, there was still plenty to play for on the online felt […]

Former #1-ranked Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson won a record-breaking ninth PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker title on Day 6 of SCOOP and catapulted himself into the top spot on the overall series leaderboard.

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.

Once again, the top spot in the PocketFives.com Worldwide Rankings belongs to the super Swede ‘C Darwin2’.