PocketFives Rankings Update: overthetop43 Cracks Top 10 for First Time

Dan · January 15, 2014

It’s Wednesday, which means a brand new release of the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings. We’ll start this week with overthetop43, who calls Germany home and reached the top 10 for the first time ever, up three spots. He has $1.8 million in scores in his profile, including a massive quarter-of-a-million dollar hit for winning a SCOOP $1,050 No Limit Hold’em event in May. In October, he final tabled the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up twice for over $130,000 combined.

overthetop43 won a WinamaxW Series tournament over the weekend for $37,000 and has a total of 7,056 PLB Points, 700 less than Sheater, who holds the top spot in the PocketFives Rankings for the third consecutive week. overthetop43 rules the roost in the Germany pokercommunity and plays on Full Tilt Pokerunder the screen name paradoxpoker.

The top 10 of the Rankings was relatively unchanged otherwise. Sheater holds a 400-point edge over second ranked Chris Big Huni Hunichen, meaning he’s likely poised for another week in the top spot. Sheater final tabled the PokerStars $215 Rebuy earlier this month for $11,000 and has four tracked victories so far this year. He is one of three Swedes in the top seven worldwide.

Griffin Flush_EntityBenger (pictured), a former #1 ranked player on PocketFives, moved up 17 spots to settle at #15 worldwide this week. Benger won the PokerStars Sunday 500 over the weekend for $74,000 and 643 PLB Points officially. It was his third largest tracked cash to date, trailing only a runner-up finish in the Full Tilt $750,000 Guaranteed in 2011 for $112,000 and a third place finish in a WCOOP event the same year for nearly $100,000.

Sweden’s eisenhower1moved up 19 spots to #26 worldwide this week following a weekend in which he won the Saturday Six-Max on Full Tilt for $11,000 and took third in the PartyPoker $200,000 Guaranteed on Sunday for $14,000. The two scores were worth a combined 446 PLB Points and inched him closer to $5.3 million in tracked cashes.

One of the biggest jumps of the week inside the top 100 went to Toby 810ofclubs Lewis, who moved up 54 spots from #96 to #42. Lewis took third in the Winamax W Series High Roller for $48,000 on the same day as taking second in the PokerStars.fr Night on Stars for $10,000. Lewis has been part of the PocketFives community since late 2009 and is the fourth ranked player in the UK.

Finally this week, we’ll talk about Lithuania’s Laurynas Levinskas, or LaurisL91. He entered the top 100 at #72, his highest position ever in the Rankings. He has had a productive start to 2014 including a Sunday 500 final table for $20,000 and wins in the PokerStars $109 Quad and $215 No Limit Hold’em Turbo for $13,000 combined. Levinskas is the top ranked player in Lithuania.

Here are the top 10 players in the PocketFives Rankings this week along with the PLB score for each:

1. Sheater– 7,759 points
2. Big Huni– 7,367 points
3. inhoo – 7,365 points
4. brianm15 – 7,350 points
5. mindgamer – 7,211 points
6. Vinkyy – 7,176 points
7. lukethafluke – 7,159 points
8. moorman1 – 7,115 points
9. jdpc27 – 7,113 points
10. overthetop43– 7,056 points