As 2019 draws to a close, 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 the year. In January, all eyes – and seemingly poker players – were on a tiny island in the Caribbean.

Stability reigns at the top of the PocketFives Rankings this week. The top five players in the world stayed the same as last week with Sweden’s ‘lena900‘ holding on to the #1 spot for the fifth consecutive week.

PokerStars SCOOP and partypoker Powerfest offered ROW players numerous opportunities to pick up PLB points for the May PocketFives Leaderboard. The best players in the world took advantage of the chances given to them and earned points along with hundreds of thousands of dollars for their time. ‘lena900’ did the most lifting in May with 7,135.57 points… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘lena900’ Wins May PLB Rankings After Monster SCOOP & Powerfest

The top-ranked player in Hungary, Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth, won over $500,000 on Day 5 of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker and in the process prevented Roman ‘RomeOpro’ Romanovsky from collecting an astounding third title of the series.

It’s only Day 4 of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker but Roman d’Rome0pro’ Romanovsky has already secured his second title of the series after defeating his friend Patrick ‘pads1161’ Leonard heads-up in Event #16 (High). Romanovsky took down Event #2 (High) for $123,935 just days ago and repeated his triumph yesterday after Leonard, and he agreed to a chop… Continue reading SCOOP: Four Days In, Roman ‘Rome0pro’ Romanovsky Bags Second Title

The first Monday of the 2018 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker saw 12 more events wrap up with Niall ‘Firaldo87’ Farrell picking up a second career SCOOP title.

While Sunday marked the beginning of both partypoker Powerfest and the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, the headlines instead went to ‘Bencb789‘, who came second in the 888poker $100,000 Sunday Whale for $23,680 and helped ‘Team BITBRYE‘ into an early lead against ‘Team Sweden‘ in their six-figure prop bet.

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.

888poker continued to create buzz in 2017 with online and live events a smashing success. The lobbies are always buzzing in one of the world’s largest sites. Tournaments can be found running during all hours of the day. Some players managed to pull in large sums from 888poker tournaments with PocketFivers chief among them. In… Continue reading Russian ‘msksevart’ Dominated 888poker in 2017

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

After adding his screen names back into his PocketFives profile late last week, Romeopro(pictured) reentered the top 10 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings. He sits at #8 right now and is closing in on $6 million in online MTT winnings.

If you haven’t heard, the 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is going on at PokerStars. In a $700 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Three-Stack event that took place over the course of two days, two PocketFivers went at it for the title: Patrick pleno1Leonard (pictured) and Roman Romeopro Romanovskyi.

Last month, Roman Romanovskyi (pictured), known as Romeoproon PocketFives, scooped his fourth PocketFives Triple Crown. He has now won one a year since 2012 and, this time around, took down the PartyPokerSaturday Major, WinamaxTop 50, and PokerStars $109 Rebuy. We caught up with the Kiev resident to talk about his latest claim to fame.

The battle for #1 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankingscontinued this week, as Nicolas PokerKaiserFierro (pictured) is once again the top dog, claiming the title from Fedor CrownUpGuy Holz. The two have jockeyed back and forth for the last month, each taking the #1 spot away from the other every time the Rankings have… Continue reading PocketFives Rankings: Battle Between PokerKaiser, CrownUpGuy Continues

We’ll start off this week’s PocketFives Rankings Update by wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas! No matter what your plans are, we hope you have a wonderful day! Now, let’s get to the business at hand. The PocketFives Rankingswere recalculated on Wednesday and Yuri Martins is once again your top-ranked player. He has over 600… Continue reading PocketFives Rankings Update: Romeopro, JMolloy Reenter Top 10