The Czech Republic is up and coming in the live poker world. King’s Casino is the host of Europe’s biggest events and the upcoming partypokerLIVE MILLIONS event. Online poker is the lifeblood of the Czech Republic’s poker success and the top-10 is full of names familiar to the peak of PocketFives rankings.

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 fourth time in five weeks there has been a change at the top of the PocketFives Rankings but while change seems to be the constant at the top, it’s just two players going toe-to-toe. Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez pushed past ‘lena900‘ to retake the #1 spot thanks to a runner-up finish in the partypoker… Continue reading RANKINGS: Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez Bounces Back to #1

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but even when you’ve been playing poker for years you always need to be learning and improving, both on and off the tables. Just ask ‘Pappadogg‘ – a player who has just broke into the worldwide top ten rankings for the first time, currently sitting… Continue reading ‘Pappadogg’ Learns New Tricks and Breaks Into Top 10

It seems like there’s a heavyweight fight going on between two of the world’s best online poker players and at stake is the #1 ranking on PocketFives. Sweden’s ‘lena900‘ and Uruguay’s Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez have swapped the #1 spot yet again with ‘lena900’ sitting on top after another strong week that included two big wins.… Continue reading RANKINGS: Back and Forth Continues, ‘lena900’ Back at #1

Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez regained the #1 spot in the PocketFives Rankings last week and then went about making sure he did everything in his power to stay there this week. Gonzalez had two scores big enough this week to add to his PLB total, including the second biggest PLB Points grab of his career. Gonzalez… Continue reading RANKINGS: Fabrizio Gonzalez Still #1, ‘pappadogg’ Cracks Top 10

We have interviewed several players here on PocketFives who have won the Winamax High Roller. The most recent among them: Prague’s pappadogg (pictured), who took it down for $13,000. He’s primarily a cash game player, but has had a considerable amount of success in the tournament world as well, amassing $1.5 million in cashes in… Continue reading Kickboxing in Prague FTW