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It’s hard to believe that the month of September is already over. What a quick 30 days it was. For one PocketFiver, September was an especially profitable month. Carter ckingusc King won the September Monthly PLB race on PocketFives.com, amassing 4,014 points. He edged out two very well-known and very successful PocketFivers in the process: Number one ranked player Alex AJKHoosier1 Kamberis finished second in the September PLB and Peter number1pen Neff finished third. Let’s check out the results from last month in the PocketFives Leader Board race.

King’s biggest accomplishment in September was taking down the $5,200 buy-in PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event. He pocketed over $1.2 million in the process after a five-way chop and recorded a massive PLB score of over 3,000 for that alone. The tournament had an amazing $10.9 million in the prize pool. King also had an eighth place finish in the $100 rebuy on PokerStars for $8,200 during the month. In the end, winning the largest online poker tournament ever held was worthy in itself of taking down the PLB title.

Here were the top 10 scores by PocketFivers in September in the PLB race:

1. ckingusc, 4014.08
2. AJKHoosier1, 3696.04 
3. number1pen, 3006.55
4. TheRealPokerccini, 2992.57
5. charder, 2904.37
6. DuckU, 2861.95
7. djk123, 2859.32
8. BKiCe, 2798.93
9. PiKappRaider, 2797.34
10. ryanbluf, 2706.29

Alex AJKHoosier1 Kamberis raked in nearly $1 million in tournaments that are tracked for the PocketFives.com Rankings in September. He finished third in the WCOOP Main Event, piling up 1,709 PLB Points in the process. He was part of the five-way chop and pocketed $782,000. He finished sixth in the $200 rebuy on PokerStars at the end of the month for another $11,000. In the $100K Pro Bounty Guaranteed on Absolute Poker, he finished as the runner up on the 17th of the month for $21,800 and won the $150 buy-in $40,000 Guaranteed on Full Tilt Poker, adding another $30,000 to his wallet.

Peter number1pen Neff, who is fresh off a 10th place finish in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, finished in third in the September PLB race. The 37th ranked player on PocketFives.com finished third in the $10,300 buy-in High Rollers event during the WCOOP for $337,000. He also took third in the $215 buy-in Limit Hold’em event for $54,000. On September 22nd, Neff placed third in the PokerStars $100 rebuy for $12,760 and won the Nightly Hundred Grand on Full Tilt Poker two weeks earlier for $26,000.

Outside the top 10, number two ranked player Chris Moorman1 Moorman finished with 2,638 PLB Points, the 11th best over the course of the month. Jon PearlJammer Turner was right behind him with 2,561. Other top finishers included Squirrely1 (13th), JoeBlazenyc (14th), and Belabacsi (15th). There were a total of 41 PocketFivers with at least 2,000 PLB Points. August’s PLB winner, Kevin BeLOWaBOVe Saul, amassed a record 4,402 points last month.

No discussion of the September PLB race would be complete without mentioning Scott dorinvandy Dorin’s performance. He recorded the largest average score at 410. Dorin won the High Rollers Event (#5) of the 2008 WCOOP, cashing for over $600,000. He only has a total of six scores that counted towards the September PLB race, but still managed to finish in 16th overall with a score of 2,464.

Check out the contingent of past MPLB winners on PocketFives.com.