Only one player has held the #1 spot for more weeks than Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy, but while ‘lena900’ has had 10 turns as the #1-ranked player for 97 weeks, Josephy had one run that lasted an astonishing 74 weeks. That level of success has made Josephy a longstanding favorite of the PocketFives community and his… Continue reading #1 Number One: Holz, Beresford, Gross All Chasing Josephy in Clubs

For as long as ‘C Darwin2‘s current run at the top of the PocketFives Rankings has lasted a new challenger emerged each week, rising up the rankings with the hopes of knocking the Swedish superstar off the throne. Even after a week where he picked up no qualifying cashes, ‘C Darwin2’ still held off every… Continue reading RANKINGS: #1 ‘C Darwin2’ Just Won’t Let Anybody Catch Him

Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff is the #3 player in the Worldwide Rankings and #1 overall in his adopted country of Malta. The island off the coast of Europe is home to other poker players who call the former European Poker Tour stop their home away from home. The mixed bag of cultures makes for an… Continue reading Dutchman Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff Leads Maltese Rankings

The Dutch poker community is one with legacy. Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff won the 2017 WCOOP Main Event and carried on the tradition of online success built by Noah Boeken and PokerStars team pro Lex Veldhuis. The new generation is talented and the evidence is proved by the current top-10 online rankings of players from… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘Etxnl01’ Tops Strong Dutch Contingent

Swedish superstar ‘C Darwin2‘ can really do no wrong these days. He won the December PLB. He won the 2017 PLB. He started 2018 as the #1-ranked online poker player in the world and this past week he actually added to his lead.

‘C Darwin2’ is the #1 ranked online poker player in the world and locked up the Monthly PLB title for a second consecutive month in December. It was a close race to end the year. ‘C Darwin2’ edged out worldwide #2 Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff by only 55 points and managed to escape with a… Continue reading ‘C Darwin2’ Goes Back-To-Back to Win December PLB Race

There was very little change in the top five spots in the PocketFives Rankings this past week, with ‘C Darwin2’ continuing to hold down the top spot thanks to more than 10,000 PLB points. Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff hasn’t moved from #2 and wasn’t able to improve much on the 800-point gap between his current… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘C Darwin2’ Stays #1 Thanks to Super High Roller Win

The celebrations are over for Steven van Zadelhoff and now the 2017 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event champion is getting back to the thing he loves best; grinding. That doesn’t mean that he didn’t take some days off after winning $1.6 million though. The champ knew he had to celebrate it. “There… Continue reading New Challenges Await WCOOP Main Event Champ Steven van Zadelhoff

After 18 weeks looking up the PocketFives Rankings and seeing other players ahead of him, Sweden’s ‘lena900’ took over the #1 spot this week, passing two players in the process. Wins on 888poker and partypoker over the last seven days earned ‘lena900’ just over $51,000 and 624 PocketFives Leaderboard points. He beat out 422 other… Continue reading RANKINGS: ‘lena900’ Takes #1 Spot from ‘C Darwin2’

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

Winning the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event came with a career-best $1.6 million score for Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff but it also came with enough PocketFives Leaderboard points to move the Dutch grinder to #2 in the world.

This week, Steven van Zadelhoff (pictured), known on our site as SvZff, moved up to #4 in the world in the PocketFives Rankings, his highest position ever. Some of his recent momentum came after he took down the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Upand Winamax High-Rolleron the same day, an incredible accomplishment. Consequently, van Zadelhoff is knocking on… Continue reading Heads-Up with #4 Ranked SvZff

Steven van Zadelhoff (pictured), aka SvZffon PocketFives, is up to #4 worldwide in our Online Poker Rankingsthis week. In mid-November, he won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and Winamax High Roller on the same day for almost $100,000 total and just lapped $3.5 million in online tournament winnings.

In September, Malta’s Steven SvZffvan Zadelhoff hit $3 million in career online tournament scores. He is the third-ranked player in the European nation and plays as Viktor on Full Tilt Poker. He has several sizable scores to his credit, including a runner-up finish in a 2007 FTOPS event for $247,000 and a Sunday Million victory… Continue reading “I’m Not Gonna Stop Until I’ve Earned Myself a House in Amsterdam”