The 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event went from 1,286 players down to 354 on Tuesday Those left are deep in the money and guaranteed $34,845, and it’s Dean Morrone holding the chip lead entering Day 5. Former NFL star Richard Seymour was one of the big stacks to advance.

Sunday at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event saw 344 last-minute registrations put an exclamation point on the second-largest WSOP Main Event of all-time. The 8,569-player field means that sometime next week, one player will walk away with $10,000,000 and the title of World Champion. Day 2C saw the highly-anticipated arrival of Phil… Continue reading WSOP: Milliard Tops Day 2C, Hellmuth Arrives and Leaves Quickly

Just days after winning the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK £25,000 Super High Roller for £450,000, Steve ‘MrTimCaum’ O’Dwyer won first place in the series’ £10,000 High Roller. In this one, O’Dwyer bested a field of 105 entries and took home a first-place payday of £314,000. The combined haul from the two events saw O’Dwyer win… Continue reading Steve O’Dwyer Wins Again; Captures partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK High Roller Title

Steve ‘MrTimCaum’ O’Dwyer earned himself another huge payday on Tuesday when he took down the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK £25,000 Super High Roller for £450,000. O’Dwyer topped a field of 51 entries to score another trophy for his case and move to more than $24 million in career live tournament earnings. O’Dwyer’s 2018 may be… Continue reading Steve O’Dwyer Wins partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK Super High Roller for £450,000

Brazil’s Henrique Bastos Coutinho came through a 5,490 player field to bank $148,292 and become this week’s PokerStars Sunday Million champion. Playing under the alias ‘Galochina10‘ he was able to beat ‘it.happ3ns.‘ into second-place for $104,064, with ‘mrAndreeew‘ taking away $73,028 in third-place. The win for Coutinho meant he smashed his previous best recorded online cash of $10,244 by some margin.

In the limited amount of time post-World Series of Poker that has seen a more consistent schedule from the top players in the world, ‘C Darwin2’ continues to hold down the #1 ranking.

As if resubmitting his screennames last week and taking over the #1 spot in the PocketFives Rankings wasn’t good enough, Belgium-based poker pro ‘girafganger7’ added to his lead this week after posting three more qualifying cashes. His latest scores have helped him further separate himself from the group of five Swedish players directly behind him.… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘girafganger7’ Extends Lead; Swedish Contingent Fading

In late May, Belgium’s ‘girafganger7‘ quietly removed his screennames from his PocketFives account and in the process gave up his control of the #1 spot on the PocketFives Rankings, allowing the Swedish players to eventually take over the top five spots. He’s back this week though and has retaken the #1 spot and left six… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘girafganger7’ Back in Rankings, Takes Over Top Spot

For the first time in the post-Black Friday history of the PocketFives Rankings, the top five spots all belong to players from one country. Anybody who has been paying attention to the rankings for the last few years won’t be surprised at all to learn that it’s the Swedes who now go #1 through #5.

Don’t look now, but the PocketFives Rankings could be in for a shake-up over the next five or six weeks as a number of the top-ranked players have made their way to Las Vegas for the 2017 World Series of Poker, giving those not making the trip an opportunity to catch up or even pass… Continue reading RANKINGS: Little Movement This Week, But WSOP Starting to Impact Top 10

The PocketFives Rankings have long been a playground for Swedish players. Just last week ‘lena900‘ moved back into the top spot for the fifth time in his career and now there’s six Swedes in the top 10 with another two knocking on the door.

As the 2017 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker draws to a close, the PocketFives Rankings seem to be swinging back to a very familiar site – Sweden. Swedish players now make up six of the top 10 spots, including the top three, with ‘lena900‘ sitting on top for the ninth consecutive week. While SCOOP… Continue reading RANKINGS: Swedes Reign Supreme, ‘lena900’ Maintains Top Spot

One of the busiest two-week spans in the online poker tournament schedule is just hours away and Sweden’s ‘lena900‘ enters into it as the top-ranked online poker player in the world for the seventh straight week. ‘Lena900’ had four cashes big enough this week to add to his PLB points total. he finished fourth in… Continue reading RANKINGS: Swedes Cruising, ‘lena900’ on Top, Andreas Berggren Charging Hard

Just over a week out from one of the busiest periods on the online poker MTT schedule and the PocketFives Rankings continue to feature Sweden’s ‘lena900’ sitting quite comfortable at #1 with the usual suspects staring up at him. Two big runner-up finishes this past week kept ‘lena900’ on top. He finished second to ‘KumariOy’… Continue reading RANKINGS: Sweden’s ‘lena900’ Holding Strong at #1 Heading into SCOOP

Exactly one month ago Sweden’s ‘lena900’ climbed his way into the #1 spot on the PocketFives Rankings, passing Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez in the process. After a month of holding down the top spot without much competition, ‘lena900’ suddenly has Gonzalez approaching in the rearview mirror again. ‘Lena900’ cashed 24 times over the last week, but… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘Lena900’ Stays #1, but Fabrizio Gonzalez Trending Upward