Who Are the Top Online Poker Players from Poland?
Sitting at #10 worldwide in PocketFives’ Country Poker Rankingsis Poland, which has a combined PLB score of its top 20 players of 89,202 points. In fact, Poland is only 140 points shy of overtaking Denmark for the #9 spot on the leaderboard. Poland has about 800 registered PocketFives members, is one our most heavily trafficked countries in the world, has total winnings of over $56 million, and is home to a player with one of the largest online MTT cashes in the history of online poker. Here are its top 10 players according to PLB score:
10. TryToExploit (pictured) – The second-ranked player in Podkarpackie, he won the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy and Sunday Supersonic in the second half of 2012 for $100,000 combined.
9. sosick – He has one of the largest cashes by any PocketFiver after taking part in a three-way chop of the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Main Event for a colossal $700,000. He was once ranked as high as #20 worldwide on our site.
8. Bloczek – The #8 player in Poznan, he won the PokerStars Sunday Storm for $36,000 and finished second in the Big $109 for $46,000 on the same day last December. Those two cashes were worth over 1,000 PLB points total.
7. Chester20o – The top-ranked player in Wroclaw, he took down the Sunday Supersonic on the second-to-last day of 2012 for $46,000. He has $1.3 million in cashes and can be found at #215 in the world on PocketFives.
6. danking – He has a profile picture of Michael Jordan and is the top-ranked PocketFiver in Podkarpackie. He reached #185 worldwide in the Rankings this week, his highest position ever.
5. dulek – This Polish player owns a $158,000 score for taking second in the Sunday Million in late 2012 and also an $80,000 haul for final tabling a WCOOP event last year. You can find him as dulek_jason on PokerStars and moreno61 on Full Tilt.
4. TranquilMind – He has victories in the PokerStars Sunday Second Chance, $320 Saturday Super Knockout, and PartyPoker High Roller, just to name a few. He rules the roost in the Polish province of Mazowieckie.
3. dadowiec – Was ranked as high as #6 worldwide last year. He is the top-ranked player in Poznan and won a WCOOP Big Antes event last year for $90,000 officially. Ten days prior, he finished second in a WCOOP Second Chance tournament for $88,000.
2. Raaadzio91 (pictured) – The #1 player in Krakow, he has final tabled just about every Sunday Major you can name, including the Sunday 500, Sunday Warm-Up, and Sunday $100 Rebuy. The Sunday Million is next…
1. Pyszalek – The lone Polish player in the top 100 worldwide in the Rankings, Pyszalek was the runner-up in a SCOOP $2,100 NLHE event two years ago for $80,000. He had four online scores of at least $36,000 in 2011.
See who else has been making waves by checking out our Poland poker community.
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