As we move into 2020, PocketFives takes a look back at the year that was in poker news, going month-by-month through the biggest and most important stories of 2019. November involved two big pieces of news involving Daniel Negreanu, and then, of course, we got the launch of legal online poker in Pennsylvania.

Russian online poker crusher and the current #8-ranked player in the world Arsenii ‘josef_shvejk’ Karmatckii edged out Swedish superstars ‘DeathbyQuads’ and ‘C Darwin2’ for the top spot on the PocketFives Monthly LeaderBoard for the month of November.

Markku ‘markovitsus’ Koplimaa had himself a very busy – and very fruitful – July as took down the PocketFives Leaderboard for the month. Koplimaa picked up 2,601 PLB points through his 20 qualifying cashes to win the Monthly PLB for the first time in his career.

Brazilian poker players continue to put up fantastic results as the 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker marches towards its final weekend of action, but one player stood out on Monday. Guilherme ‘guilherme12’ Decourt took down two SCOOP events to become the first player this year to win twice in a single day.

As the 2018 World Championship of Online Poker heads into its final weekend of action, the action continued on Thursday with Linus ‘LLinusLLove’ Loeliger taking down one of the biggest buy-in tournaments for nearly $588,000. Other highlights of the day included Joao ‘Naza114’ Vieira, Mike ‘SirWatts’ Watson and Arseniy ‘josef_shvejk’ Karmatskiy each picking up titles.… Continue reading WCOOP: Linus ‘LLinusLLove’ Loeliger Wins $25K High Roller for $588K

While Sunday was the start of the 2018 World Championship of Online Poker, Monday was the first day with multiple titles awarded and millions of dollars in prize pools being awarded. The biggest winner from the 15 events that played to a winner was Romania’s ‘jah1923‘ who scored an outright win in Event #4 Medium… Continue reading WCOOP: Romania’s ‘jah1923’ Takes Down Sunday Million SE for $193K

Just three days after ‘hello_totti‘ took down the PokerStars Thursday Thrill the PocketFives #3-ranked player achieved a fine finish to his week by picking up a career-best top score and first PokerStars Sunday Million title after defeating ‘Pthelegend‘ heads-up to win $160,888. Those two wins could be enough to propel the Russian player to the… Continue reading SUNDAY MAJORS: ‘hellohellohello’ Wins Sunday Million, May Be New #1

When it comes to playing live poker one of best advantages about entering a Six Max event is the extra legroom at the table, but when it comes to the online felt that bonus doesn’t have as much sway with players… However, the latest 888poker XL Inferno Six Max tournaments still brought in the crowds… Continue reading XL Inferno: ‘Mrpiink’ Playing Red Hot Poker on Way To Six Max Win

‘Bencb789’ was the big winner across this week’s Sunday Majors after collecting $62,582, which included victory in the PokerStars $215 Sunday Warm-Up for $51,562. The well-known MTT player and coach outlasted a field of 1,704 entrants and defeated Andrew ‘eastwest_27’ Theriault heads-up to take the majority of the bumper $340,000 prize pool.

No PocketFiver enjoyed more success on 888poker in March than Russia’s ‘josef_shvejk‘, even though is month actually represents opportunity lost.

Comin on the heels of his runner-up finish in the XL Blizzard Mini Main Event, Roman ‘Romeopro’ Romanovsky put together a dominant February on 888poker to be the top-earning PocketFiver on the site.

PocketFives Rankings saw no change this week, but two players cracked the top 10 – one of them for the first time in his career. Russia’s ‘josef_shvejk‘ moved from #13 to #8, marking his career-best ranking, while Sweden’s Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar climbed from #12 to #7 – just three spots off of his previous best.… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘Greenstone25’ and ‘josef_shvejk’ Invade the Top 10

Every week The PocketFives Milestone Report looks at the online poker players who are achieving career-best achievement or reaching new heights in the rankings

Even before Ivan Demidov made the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, Russia was a burgeoning poker powerhouse. That has translated to the online game where a few of the nation’s finest have been in and currently reside inside the PocketFives worldwide top-10. Without further adieu, PocketFives is proud to introduce the… Continue reading RANKINGS: Talented Russian Top 10 Headlined by World #5 ‘veeea’

Romanian ‘Dannyz0r‘ captured the PokerStars Sunday Million this week for a $143,420 payday. . ‘Ekmalian‘ earned a six-figure cash reward of $100,646 after coming in second place in that tournament, while ‘limonadik586‘ and Rodrigo ‘Terao90’ Terao collected $70,630 and $49,566 for their respective third and fourth place finishes.