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Aug 27 2008, 08:11 AM
This week's P5s Rankings update features United Kingdom's Chris Moorman, who goes by the name moorman1 online. On Wednesday August 27th, Chris became the top ranked online tournament player in the world due to his extremely consistent results in high stakes tournaments. His recent 2nd place finish in the PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand on August 18th added another impressive cash to his list of scores. Within the last year, Chris has won the Full Tilt Poker $1k Monday for $82,750 and the Absolute Poker $100k Guaranteed Pro Bounty event. Moorman1 is #1 overall in PocketFives Leaderboard points and is ranked #3 worldwide in the Pro Poll.
There was more movement in the Top 10 this week as James P0KERPR033 Campbell of UltimateBet moved up to #5 worldwide; enjoying the benefit of his $157k windfall earlier in the month. Dutch superstar Johan busto_soon Van Til is up one spot to #7 while Joe ender555 Ebanks moves up five to #8 after winning over $100,000 in online tournaments over a span of 36 hours in early August. Hunter Frey of Texas, who goes by the name the_Hunt_D online, is now ranked #10 worldwide. Fan favorite Steve gboro780 Gross (pictured) made online poker headlines in August, and is up eight to #11. He placed 2nd in the Full Tilt $1k Monday for $64k last week, and won the Stars Nightly Hundred Grand the week before for another $33,600. Anthony holdplz Spinella is up four to #19.
Loose aggressive tournament specialist Kevin BeL0WaB0Ve Saul moves up 27 to #29 after posting sensational results (two scores of over $100k) in the FTOPS IX earlier this month. Chris SLOPPYKLOD Klodnicki (pictured) continues to dominate online poker tournaments after taking home $591,869 for 12th place at this year's World Series of Poker Main Event. Gary GB2005 Bogdanski has reached a total of nine final tables so far in August; winning the Full Tilt $100 rebuy and the PokerStars $20k Pot Limit Omaha tournaments. He is now ranked #44 - up six spots from last week. Benjamin Waters took down the Stars $250k Guaranteed ($500+$30 buy-in) this past Sunday for $91k, and is up 18 to #46 this week. Ben has had a lot of recent success on Stars, including a win in the $1k Super Tuesday for $80k in July and a first place finish in the Nightly Hundred Grand for $26k in June.
Duffy08, winner of the AbsolutePoker Weekly $150k Guaranteed, climbs 12 to #61 this week as jagz7 moves up to #68 worldwide. Jamie TheNew Robbins (pictured) is new this week at #70 following his $67,600 cash for first place in the Stars $100 Sunday rebuy. Four time Triple Crown winner Jeremy Chipsteela Menard is up 20 to #80, Roothlus is up 16 to #81, and Hixx moves up 14 to #85. Australian xMONSTERxDONGx is new at #94, THAY3R returns at #95 and ChuckSty rounds out the Top 100 online tournament players in the world.
Be sure to check out the P5's Rankings next week for continued coverage of the world's best online tournament players. For information on how the P5's Online Tournament Player Rankings are calculated, visit our Rankings FAQ page.
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