Tomgus456 of Stockholm, Sweden had an outstanding year of 2008; headlined by his Stars Sunday Million win earlier this year for nearly $220,000. He won the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl on the last day of November to boost his worldwide ranking and he currently sits at #15 in the world. Another rising superstar, govshark2, is up three to #17 while Ryan ryanbluf Karp advances 11 spots to #22 on the strength of his PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand and $70k Guaranteed victories in December. D1rtyR1v3r climbs six to #24.
Ryan gutshtallin Welch is up six to #37, while Jonathan xMONSTERxDONGx Karamalikis of Australia rises six to #49. Mossified84 is up 23 spots to #59 after winning both the $100 and $10 rebuy tournaments on PokerStars a week ago for a combined total of $27,700. Jeffrey YoungSupremacy Hakim of Canada had a victory in the Stars $100 rebuy earlier this month along with a runner up performance in the PartyPoker $50k Guaranteed Saturday event yesterday and is up 17 to #64 accordingly. PocketFiver bounatirouIMO is new to the online poker tournament rankings this week at #80 and flywiithme enters at #86. Former WSOP Europe Main Event champion Annette Annette_15 Obrestad of Norway re-enters the rankings this week at #93, Pist0nH0nda is new at #98, and Allanon is now ranked #99 in the world at online tournament play.
Be sure to check out the P5s Rankings next week for continued coverage of the world's best online tournament players. For information on how the PocketFives Online Tournament Player Rankings are calculated, visit our Rankings FAQ page.
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