The World Poker Tour was back at Gardens Casino in Southern California for the second time in Season XVII, this time for the WPT Gardens Poker Championship. Six players remain from the 253-entry field, and it was Frank Stepuchin who bagged the chip lead. Stepuchin was joined at the official final table by Shannon Shorr, […]

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.

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. 

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.