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Tracy |
Published
Jul 18 2007, 08:49 PM
A name synonymous with his recent jump in the rankings, Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista (pictured right) has made his way to 6th position in PocketFives.com World Wide Rankings. Fresh off a 5th place finish in a WSOP event in which he took home $129k, Batista went on a run on the 15th of July, winning Full Tilt’s $1 Million Guaranteed for $212k and then taking 3rd in the Stars $100 Rebuy. He also took home over $2k in the Stars Sunday Warm Up, helping him total 1400 PLB points for the day. In addition to his 6th ranking overall, Batista sits atop the PLB for both the month of July and the year 2007.
After P0KERPR033 took over his top spot in last week’s rankings, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi regained the lead this week while also making a run in the WSOP Main Event. Mizzi’s #1 ranking in the Pro Poll helped him to reclaim his position, despite a low volume week online. P5s Triple Crown winner Steve “gboro780” Gross moved up a couple of spots this week to move him into the top 10 as well. Gross won the $55k Guaranteed on Full Tilt for $16k and final tabled the Stars Super Tuesday for $7K.
Each moving up two spots this week, Ari, phatcat, and YourTimeIsUp (pictured left) are now ranked 13th, 14th, and 25th respectively. Ari had four final tables last week including two wins on Full Tilt for a total of $10K. Shawn “phatcat” Luman’s success last week on one of Full Tilt’s $100 Rebuys landed him $22k along with 270 PLB points. March Monthly PLB winner YourTimeIsUp was able to cash in last week’s Stars Sunday Million to help take him into the top 25.
May PLB winner gotcha55 moved up eight places this week to 27th in the rankings. He cashed 10 times last week, making six final tables with two wins including a $13k cash in the Stars $45k Guaranteed. With a six spot hop, “dabears87” won a $50 buy in for over $10k on Stars for close to 200 PLB points. The same day he won Full Tilt’s $25k Guaranteed for over $8k and another 183 points.
Scott “emptyseat88” Fischman (pictured right), another monthly PLB winner, won big last Tuesday in the Stars Super Tuesday for over $75k. Fischman managed to score 530 points in his win and another 156 points in the Stars $150k Guaranteed, moving him up 12 spots to #39. Will “TheDreamer” Ma and Stephen “allinstevie” Devlin each leapt five spots this week, taking both of them into the top 50. Devlin succeeded in making the final table twice last week, cashing for $5k in Full Tilt’s $55k Guaranteed.
Sitting at #10 on the Monthly Leader Board, Wade “soggyvag2” Woelfel bounced up 12 spots in the rankings with some big scores on UB as he raked in $45k in their $200k Guaranteed tournament. AJKHoosier1 saw six final tables last week including a 3rd place finish in the Stars Nightly Hundred Grand for $11K, and he boosted his ranking to number 65. Sitting right behind M8kingmoves in this month’s leader board, djk123 has been dominating, and in the past week, he managed to add another 759 points to his monthly total.
Five players walked in the door of the top 100 this week as well. Chipsteela (pictured left), a North Carolina native, had three big cashes last week on Stars for a total of $30k and an introductory ranking of 85. Stu “THEDONATOR” Paterson, an online great, now ranks 95th after some nice cashes including a $4k score in the big Sunday tourney on Full Tilt and another in the Stars $100 Rebuy. Ship Happens had a very nice week, cashing 13 times, while A_Junglen won huge, winning the Sunday Million for $198k. JayPez is right there with these guys at 98th after having 11 cashes last week. Those cashes included a win in Full Tilt’s $20k Guaranteed Rebuy.
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