Peter breeth Turmezey of Hungary (pictured) spent his second week atop the overall PocketFives Leader Board (PLB) rankings. Peter has had very significant online poker tournament scores in the last months of '08; including a victory in the PokerStars Sunday Million for $196,000. He also has wins in the Stars "Sunday 500" for $91k and the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl for $72,100. PocketFiver breeth is still ranked relatively low on the Pro Poll at #6 and will likely need a higher Pro Poll ranking from his online tournament peers to overtake the top ranking in the world. High volume player shaundeeb moves up one to #5 this week after winning the Stars Nightly Hundred Grand on Thursday for $21,500 and rivermanl is up two to #7 worldwide.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.
Felipe improved Montenegro of Costa Rica (pictured) moves up six to #26 thanks to his consistent results in high stakes online poker tournaments in recent months. One month after taking down the Titan Poker $250k Guaranteed for $55k, Felipe took down the Stars $100 rebuy for $36,000. Illinois' chicagocards1 is now ranked #29 worldwide and Johan busto_soon van Til of The Netherlands begins to work his way back into the top 10 this week as he ascends 17 to #31 after winning the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl a week ago for almost $80,000. Nick agriffrod Mitchell's outright victory in the FTOPS X $1k event for $322,500 in November has been enough to propel him another five spots to #36.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.
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