As players begin to arrive in Las Vegas for the 56th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) , we’ve spoken to a rare WSOP bracelet holder who has also won an EPT Main Event and WPT Main Event. Triple Crown winner Roberto Romanello pulled the $500,000 bounty in the 2024 Mystery Bounty event only to… Continue reading 15 Bigs: Roberto Romanello The Welsh Wizard Takes on Our Poker Posers

February may seem like forever ago, but it wasn’t too long ago that the second month of 2018 saw the names of Chris ‘moorman1’ Moorman, Mike ‘goleafsgoeh’ Leah, and Viktor ‘isildur1’ Blom capture the headlines. Below are PocketFives’ top five stories from February 2018, plus a look back at the February’s Monthly PLB winner.

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

For a brief moment, Sameer ‘ender749’ Singh thought that earning his first PocketFives Triple Crown was going to be easy. “I was the chip leader in the €10K Championship on partypoker with five left. I had a big chip lead and I thought ‘I could just close this out right now.’ If I win it,… Continue reading Sameer ‘ender749’ Singh Persists To Earn First Online Triple Crown

Every Sunday The PocketFives Milestone Report looks at the online poker players who are achieving career-best achievement or reaching new heights in the rankings Winning a PocketFives Triple Crown is pretty difficult and puts a player into rare air in the online poker tournament scene. In 2014 it’s happened only 14 times and Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’… Continue reading THE MILESTONES: Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren Grabs Two Triple Crowns

While players from Brazil have been making waves in the ongoing PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, players from Sweden have continued to dominate records on PocketFives. The latest: the largest PocketFives Triple Crown points-wise since September at 873 PLB Points coming from Sweden’s ‘lena900‘.

Five years ago, Ireland’s Dara ‘Doke’ O’Kearney won his very first PocketFives Triple Crown. Six months later, he did it again, his second Triple Crown of 2011. He won one more in May 2013 and another two years later. On April 17, he polished off another milestone: Triple Crown number five.

For the first time in more than two years, Sweden’s ‘Sheater‘ won a PocketFives Triple Crown. And this one was a milestone, as it marked the fifth won by the longtime online poker player who is nearing $7 million in career winnings. And amazingly, two of his Triple Crown qualifying wins this time around came… Continue reading ‘Sheater’ Wins Fifth PocketFives Triple Crown

There were a total of 97 PocketFives Triple Crownsawarded in 2015. Before we tell you who won, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page about what a Triple Crown is. In order to get one, a player must win three MTTs across three sites we track for the PocketFives Rankings within the same… Continue reading PocketFives Awards 97 Triple Crowns in 2015

Nico PokerKaiserFierro (pictured) has been tearing apart the online poker community this month. We’re not even three weeks into June and the Chilean has already piled up 10 online MTT wins and two PocketFives Triple Crowns. And he still has two weeks left in the month to improve upon those numbers.

Seriously? This author came home from a delicious Mexican lunch only to see an e-mail from the agent of Chris Moorman1Moorman (pictured) saying he had won his 25th PocketFives Triple Crown. I think it’s safe to say that Moorman is not human.

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.

Only three players have ever recorded more than 10 PocketFives Triple Crowns: Chris moorman1Moorman, who has a record 24; Peter BelabacsiTraply, who has 11; and Nico PokerKaiser Fierro (pictured), who just earned his 13th, good for the second most all-time.

Earlier this month, Sam TheSquidGrafton (pictured) earned his ninth PocketFives Triple Crown. The award requires a person to take down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Rankingswithin seven days. As he put it, “I’m following in the footsteps of the master, moorman1,” who has a record-setting two-dozen Triple Crowns,… Continue reading TheSquid on Triple Crown #9: “Following in the Footsteps of the Master”

Watch “The Sound of Music,” which is set in Austria, if the title of this article is confusing. On January 11, a little more than a week into the new year, Austria’s neverfoldQ5(pictured) took down a $33 No Limit Hold’em Cap tournament on PokerStars. He scooped $2,800 and, perhaps more importantly, registered the first leg… Continue reading The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Triple Crowns