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Join Date: Feb 7th, 2007 |
Jun 1st, 2012 By: Dan |
JAKoon1985 Runner-Up in WSOP $3K Heads-Up NLHE/PLO The quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals of Event #3 of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) a $3,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha tournament, panned out at the Rio in Las Vegas on Thursday. Leif Force, who finished 11th in the Main Event in 2006 for $1.1 million, took home the gold bracelet in Event #3 this year and collected another $207,000. He's now up to nearly $1.6 million in career WSOP earnings after beating Jason JAKoon1985 Koon (pictured) heads-up. |
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Join Date: Aug 23rd, 2007 |
May 30th, 2012 By: Dan |
Big Huni Scoops Third PocketFives Triple Crown It took PocketFives member Chris Big Huni Hunichen (pictured) all of three days to score his third online poker Triple Crown. On May 15th, he knocked out the first two legs by winning the $109 No Limit Hold'em Turbo on PokerStars as well as the $40,000 Guaranteed Super Tuesday on iPoker for a combined haul of $20,000. Then, three days later, victory was his in a $100 tournament on Ongame for $3,100. He's one of eight Triple Crown winners we've had in May and sat down with PocketFives to recap his big week. |
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Join Date: Jan 20th, 2011 |
May 29th, 2012 By: Dan |
Blackk Recaps 888 Poker Sunday Challenge Win Earlier this month, Russia's Alexandr Blackk Trofimov (pictured) continued his assault on the upper echelons of the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings by taking down the 888 Poker Sunday Challenge. The $90 buy-in, one rebuy tournament runs once per week on Sundays, has a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, and shelled out a first place prize of $23,000. He stands at #31 worldwide after being as high as #24 earlier this year. |
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Join Date: Jul 1st, 2007 |
May 24th, 2012 By: Dan |
ryanghall Captures $2 Million Cash Badge It's not easy being Ryan ryanghall Hall (pictured). The Canadian online poker player from Ontario had to be a bounty in today's PocketFives Open on WPT Poker. Players were gunning for him left and right and ultimately Ireland's gerryf23 bounced him from the $11 buy-in community event. He was invited to be a bounty in the first place in celebration of a brand new graphic in his PocketFives profile, the $2 million cash badge, which he officially scored on May 15. |
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Join Date: May 10th, 2006 |
May 23rd, 2012 By: Dan |
2012 WSOP Preview with Chris Moorman (moorman1) It's hard to believe we're just a few days away from the start of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The 2012 WSOP schedule kicks off on Sunday, May 27 with the traditional $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em event. On Monday, May 28, the first open tournament takes place, a $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event. |
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Join Date: Dec 20th, 2006 |
May 20th, 2012 By: Dan |
Shaun Deeb Wins Fifth SCOOP Title Early Sunday morning, longtime PocketFives member Shaun shaundeeb Deeb (pictured) captured his fifth PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) title, extending his own record for the most ever. He told PocketFives in an exclusive interview following his victory, "Once I get deep, I just know I'm going to win. I have the craziest confidence that I'll make the right decisions and not get coolered or bad-beated." |
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Join Date: Nov 1st, 2006 |
May 19th, 2012 By: Dan |
JLizard Joins PocketFives Training Staff Brand new to the PocketFives Training team is Walt JLizard Wright (pictured), a Costa Rican resident who has been a member of the PocketFives community for the last six years. Wright has laid claim to an amazing half-dozen Triple Crowns, good for the fifth most in the history of PocketFives, and amassed over $2.5 million in tracked cashes, including nearly $900,000 on PokerStars alone. |
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Join Date: Sep 27th, 2006 |
May 17th, 2012 By: Assassinato |
Poker Hand Analysis with Assassinato and andressoprano What follows is a unique conversation between PocketFives Training instructor Alex Assassinato Fitzgerald (pictured) and Andres andressoprano Pereyra about a hand that came up at a No Limit Hold'em tournament table. You can learn from pros like Fitzgerald by visiting PocketFives Training. Top-level MTT training starts at just $30 per month. |
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Join Date: Dec 20th, 2006 |
May 13th, 2012 By: Dan |
Shaun Deeb Picks Up Second 2012 SCOOP Stud Title The 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, has been very kind to longtime PocketFives member Shaun shaundeeb Deeb (pictured). In the first twenty 2012 SCOOP events, Deeb has recorded not one, but two tournament titles, both in Stud. His latest win came by virtue of taking down the high-stakes version of SCOOP Event #19, $2,100 Triple Stud, for $45,000 on Saturday night, which marked his third career SCOOP victory. Deeb became just the second person ever to win three SCOOP titles. |
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Join Date: Aug 20th, 2007 |
May 12th, 2012 By: Dan |
D Ro Final Tables PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy Last week, David D Ro Rowan (pictured) came away with a third place finish in the weekly PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy. The tournament drew more than 1,200 players and well over $400,000 was given out, nearly double the event's guarantee. Rowan collected $41,000 as his reward and is nearing an amazing $2.5 million in tracked cashes in his PocketFives profile. How'd he do it' PocketFives virtually traveled to his home to find out. |
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Join Date: Nov 4th, 2007 |
May 11th, 2012 By: Dan |
Bonified (Andy Ward) Breaks Down PartyPoker Pokerfest Main Event Win The most recent PartyPoker Pokerfest Main Event was monumental for Andy Bonified Ward (pictured). The United Kingdom resident became a "bona fide" champ and walked away with $216,000. The $640 buy-in tournament was one of the richest held on PartyPoker in recent memory. We caught up with him to discuss his big breakthrough. |
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Join Date: Feb 28th, 2010 |
May 10th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
TheSquid Inks the Competition in SCOOP Event #2 There have been several mammoth tournaments held so far during the 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP. And, believe it or not, there have been a few of them that didn't feature PokerStars pro Viktor Isildur1 Blom at the top of the leaderboard. Among those flying high so far is Sam TheSquid Grafton (pictured), who recently won a PocketFives Triple Crown and was part of a five-way chop of the high-stakes version of SCOOP Event #2. |
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Join Date: Sep 4th, 2009 |
May 5th, 2012 By: Dan |
Finland's tohveli Final Tables Ongame $100K The April 22nd running of the Ongame $100K was monumental for Finland's Mikael Andersson (pictured), who goes by tohveli here on PocketFives. Not only did he record his largest tracked cash on PocketFives (although he won the same tournament for nearly $30,000 before PocketFives tracked Ongame), but it also meant the first time in a while we can remember interviewing a Finnish online poker player. |
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Join Date: Oct 16th, 2008 |
May 3rd, 2012 By: John Douglas |
Denmark's Troubaduren Final Tables PokerStars Sunday Million On the third weekend of April, the nation of Denmark rejoiced as Daniel Sorensen (pictured), better known as Troubaduren on PocketFives, final tabled the PokerStars Sunday Million for $112,000. Denmark has been a hotbed for poker as of late, with Mickey mementmori Petersen winning EPT Copenhagen, Frederik BRINK Brink winning EPT Madrid, Jannick Wrang winning EPT Campione, Morten Lihn winning WPT Vienna, and Martin MartinBHansen Hansen winning a PartyPoker Pokerfest event. |
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Join Date: Feb 3rd, 2009 |
May 3rd, 2012 By: John Douglas |
MartinBHansen = PartyPoker Pokerfest Champion The fourth event of PartyPoker's Pokerfest saw over 500 players turn out for a $530 No Limit Hold'em tournament. The $250,000 guarantee was passed by $8,000 and when all was said and done, Denmark's Martin MartinBHansen Hansen (pictured) came away with the win and walked off with $54,000. He didn't stray too far, however, as PocketFives was able to catch up with him to celebrate the big win. |
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Join Date: Jan 20th, 2006 |
May 2nd, 2012 By: Dan |
lucky_scrote Chops PokerStars Sunday 500 On April 22nd, U.K. player Daniel lucky_scrote Carter (pictured) made his mark on the online poker world. How' Carter chopped the PokerStars Sunday 500 heads-up and walked away with $65,000. As a result, he's achieved his highest position ever in the PocketFives Online Poker Player Rankings at #583 worldwide and is the top dog in all of Gloucestershire. PocketFives caught up with Carter for a victory lap of sorts. |
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Join Date: Sep 27th, 2006 |
Apr 28th, 2012 By: Dan |
PocketFives Training Instructor Assassinato Wins First Triple Crown The one-year anniversary of Black Friday meant mixed emotions in the poker community. Many pros are still separated from their bankrolls, but for Alex Assassinato Fitzgerald (pictured), April 15th featured the opening tournament victory of his first Triple Crown. He'd ultimately win a $55 buy-in tournament on PartyPoker, the Merge $60,000 Sunday High Roller, and the Titan Poker $30 Rebuy within a week. |
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Join Date: Dec 22nd, 2006 |
Apr 28th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
It's Time to Shine In late 2006, Ireland's Cathal shinerrr Shine (pictured) signed up for a PocketFives account. Since then, it's been all uphill, as Shine has recorded over $1.2 million in tracked cashes, risen to #370 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings, and finished in the money on eight sites we follow. He's the #6 player in the Sortable Poker Rankings for Ireland and tops in his hometown of Tralee. |
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 sosickJoin Date: Oct 3rd, 2010 |
Apr 23rd, 2012 By: Dan |
That's So Sick One of the perks of watching televised poker is getting to hear the phrase "so sick" multiple times. Whether stemming from a bad beat, a tough decision, or a well-timed call, "so sick" is used relentlessly on poker TV shows. For PocketFives member sosick, who hails from Poland, "so sick" is a way of life. He goes by Pawel in the real world and won last week's PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $104,000. |
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Join Date: Jun 15th, 2009 |
Apr 22nd, 2012 By: John Douglas |
Hungary's noirduck Chops PartyPoker High Roller for $26,000 Last weekend, Hungarian online poker player noirduck (pictured) chopped the PartyPoker High Roller heads-up with fellow PocketFiver Cathal shinerrr Shine. His reward for an afternoon of hard work was $26,000 following the two-way deal in a final table that featured members of PocketFives in the top eight spots, including four of our site's top 100. So what does it take to chop the PartyPoker High Roller' PocketFives went straight to the source to find out. |
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Join Date: Jan 1st, 2007 |
Apr 22nd, 2012 By: Dan |
rfohrenbach Claims Second Triple Crown In the first five days of April, Mexico's Ricky rfohrenbach Fohrenbach (pictured) claimed his second online poker Triple Crown. He's been a card-carrying member of PocketFives for the last five years and has generated nearly $2.5 million in tracked cashes. He's an American transplant whose largest tracked tournament cash came in June 2010 in the PokerStars Sunday Million for over $80,000. |
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Join Date: Mar 2nd, 2009 |
Apr 21st, 2012 By: John Douglas |
Luck of the Irish: EMSGAWA9 Cracks Top 100 in P5s Rankings When the latest calculation of the PocketFives Online Poker Player Rankings took place on Wednesday, Ireland's Jono EMSGAWA9 Crute (pictured) popped up at #96. It marked his first appearance in the top 100 worldwide and came in part due to having the 90th best Sliding PLB tally in the shire. He just topped $1 million in tracked cashes and sat down with PocketFives to celebrate his big accomplishment. |
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Join Date: Feb 23rd, 2006 |
Apr 20th, 2012 By: Dan |
Russell Carson (rdcrsn) Wins Fourth Triple Crown Only seven players have ever amassed more than four Triple Crowns here on PocketFives. Doing so is no easy feat, as a person needs to win three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Poker Rankings in the same seven-day period. PocketFives Training instructor Russell rdcrsn Carson (pictured) recently grabbed Triple Crown #4 and could soon join that elite list of players. |
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Join Date: May 24th, 2010 |
Apr 14th, 2012 By: Dan |
Yay for Yaya24 Last weekend, Sweden's Yaya24 came away with the win in the Microgaming €100,000 Guaranteed. The weekly tournament, which takes place on sites like 32Red, drew 485 players in its last go-around and 50 finished in the money. If you've never played in the event, it's a €110 No Limit Hold'em Rebuy, and Yaya24's reward for coming away with the victory in it was €25,000. He bluntly admitted in an exclusive interview with PocketFives, "To win a big Sunday tournament is always a big deal." |
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Join Date: Jan 10th, 2008 |
Apr 11th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
lobbylud Breaks Down PokerStars $100 Rebuy Chop On March 18th, a four-way deal ended matters in the PokerStars $100 Rebuy, which sported over 1,000 players on that fateful day and shelled out a prize pool of $340,000. Each player involved in the chop banked $31,000, while Kevin lobbylud Parkes (pictured) officially came away with the win and booked a $35,000 payday. He's just $21,000 shy of his $1 million cash badge here on PocketFives and spoke to us about his monumental score a few weeks after the fact. |
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Join Date: Sep 22nd, 2011 |
Apr 10th, 2012 By: Dan |
N1, RLOG Ross RLOG Loggie (pictured) shot up to #99 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings this week, his highest position ever. The online poker player from the United Kingdom had been rewarded for some stellar play as of late, highlighted by a final table in the PokerStars Super Tuesday in late March. RLOG was certainly super in that $1,000 buy-in tournament, as he pocketed nearly $70,000 for his second place finish. He had taken fourth in the Super Tuesday three weeks prior, so needless to say, it's been a pretty profitable tournament for him. |
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| pavasareja Join Date: Jan 16th, 2012 |
Apr 10th, 2012 By: Dan |
Lithuania's pavasareja Banks $166K in PokerStars Sunday Million Lithuania has been a steady riser in the PocketFives Country Rankings. The Baltic nation was up two spots last week, jumping from #21 to #19 worldwide helped in part by a tidal wave of recent scores. Among those Lithuanian poker players that have made waves is pavasareja, who goes by the name Aleksas and chopped the PokerStars Sunday Million in late March. |
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Join Date: Feb 21st, 2007 |
Apr 8th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
AKBigFish Wins PokerStars $100 Rebuy In late March, Brian AKBigFish James (pictured) struck a deal in the weekly PokerStars $100 Rebuy. His reward was a $55,000 payday after chopping heads-up with PokerStars member jaybeastie, who earned $51,000. The tournament generated a field of over 1,000 players and a $334,000 prize pool was divvied up. The American transplant now living in sunny, sandy Costa Rica spoke with PocketFives about his largest tracked score to date. |
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Join Date: Nov 4th, 2010 |
Apr 5th, 2012 By: Dan |
Heads-Up with WSOP November Niner, 888 Pro Sam Holden Starting on April 9th on the Poker Channel, 888 Poker sponsored pro Sam SamDMND Holden (pictured) will star in a documentary about poker and his life. A camera crew followed Holden across the world from the U.K. to the United States last year during the 2011 WSOP November Nine, where Holden finished in ninth place. PocketFives was fortunate enough to get an exclusive interview with Holden about this extremely unique poker experience. |
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Join Date: Jul 5th, 2011 |
Apr 3rd, 2012 By: Dan |
Brazilian Poker Players, Unite! On March 25th, Sao Paulo's dowghsantos took second in the PokerStars Sunday 500, banking nearly 100,000 Brazilian Real, or $54,000. He just earned his $500,000 cash badge and is one of the most jubilant interviewees we've ever featured in a front page article. Well, if you were an up-and-coming poker player who has made two Sunday 500 final tables in a half-year, you'd be fired up too. |
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Join Date: Feb 26th, 2007 |
Mar 30th, 2012 By: Dan |
jdpc27 Wins bwin $100,000 Guaranteed, Nearing Top 20 in Rankings Number 25 in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings means you're only five spots away from cracking the top 20. But for J.D. jdpc27 Wheeler (pictured), a return to the top 20 is just the first step towards reclaiming what was once his: being #5 worldwide. Wheeler held the near-#1 mark in our Rankings in the final month of 2011. Last weekend, he took down the bwin $100,000 Guaranteed for $25,000 and edged out a pool of 549 players. The same day, he won the 888 Poker Deep Stack for another $25,000. |
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Join Date: Apr 14th, 2008 |
Mar 26th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
inhoo Scores Second Triple Crown, Four Tourney Wins in Four Days In the month of March, inhoo (pictured) has been on fire. He's already up to over $100,000 in tracked online poker winnings, one Triple Crown, and four major tournament titles. Oh, and he took the first two-and-a-half weeks off to visit Thailand. It's just another day at the office for the Swedish online poker pro, who sits at #30 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Player Rankings and has been a card-carrying member of our community since 2008. |
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Join Date: Jan 25th, 2008 |
Mar 26th, 2012 By: Dan |
p0cket00 Final Tables Microgaming €100K on Back-to-Back Weekends March 11th and 18th were blockbuster Sundays for Sebastian p0cket00 Sikorski (pictured), who resides in Canada and final tabled the Microgaming €100,000 Guaranteed each day. Let's not forget that Sikorski is a former #1 player in the PocketFives Rankings and that he has over $4.3 million in tracked online tournament cashes to his credit. Maybe the finishes were really just standard for Sikorski, or maybe his game is firing on all cylinders right now. To figure it out, we went straight to the horse's mouth for an exclusive interview. |
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Join Date: Nov 13th, 2006 |
Mar 25th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
fbg1919 Runner-Up in PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $76,000 The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up takes place every weekend and features a half-million dollar guaranteed prize pool. Last weekend, on March 18th, a parade of 3,280 players showed up, boosting the purse to $656,000, and when all was said and done, Tudor Purice, better known as fbg1919 here on PocketFives, took second place for $76,000. This Romanian poker player lapped $500,000 in tracked cashes in the process. |
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Join Date: Apr 7th, 2010 |
Mar 25th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
Denmark's MortenVM Finishes Second in PartyPoker High Roller Two weeks ago, Morten MortenVM Mortensen (pictured), who hails from Denmark, finished second in the $530 buy-in PartyPoker High Roller for $23,000. The tournament, which is also run on sites like WPT Poker, carries a $100,000 guarantee, which was smashed on that fateful day when 304 players turned out. Mortensen fell heads-up to OjanViskaSyn, who reeled in nearly $40,000 for the win, and the top 40 finished in the money. |
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Join Date: Feb 4th, 2009 |
Mar 24th, 2012 By: Dan |
Poland's Slayer_pol Wins Second Triple Crown On March 14th, Poland's Slayer_pol took down a $109 buy-in tournament on 888 Poker. While the cash itself was good for $2,400, it also meant his second online poker Triple Crown. In the previous week, he had taken down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Poker Rankings and earned yet another award. He's at #180 worldwide and sits at #2 in the Sortable Poker Rankings for his European home. |
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Join Date: Sep 24th, 2009 |
Mar 22nd, 2012 By: John Douglas |
shevmouse Rehashes Sunday Warm-Up Four-Way Chop On March 11th, the Netherlands' shevmouse (pictured) was part of a four-way chop of the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. Once as high as #50 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings, shevmouse can currently be found at #413, but he is quickly gaining steam once again. With a $72,000 bankroll boost in tow, shevmouse was bounced in third place from the PokerStars tournament, which he played in under the screen name Bandano. |
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Join Date: Apr 24th, 2007 |
Mar 17th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
Heads-Up with Matt Kay (ch0ppy) In mid-2007, Matt ch0ppy Kay (pictured) signed up for PocketFives. Since then, the Canadian has been on a tear. He stands at #58 in our Online Poker Rankings and owns a Triple Crown, which he booked in late 2010. He just passed $3.5 million in tracked cashes and in 2008, the Waterloo product could be found as high as #7 worldwide. The Canuck has contributed 200 posts to the community and opened the month of March by winning the PartyPoker $200,000 Guaranteed for $57,000 on the 11th. |
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Join Date: Sep 12th, 2007 |
Mar 17th, 2012 By: Dan |
Sadan Turker (the_snail03) Wins PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy Last weekend, London native Sadan the_snail03 Turker (pictured) was part of a four-way chop of the PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy. He ultimately came away with the win in the 1,000-player tournament and posted a $60,000 payday. Turker nearly grabbed a bracelet at last year's World Series of Poker (WSOP) and, like the rest of the PocketFives community, is anxiously awaiting the start of this year's festivities. We tracked down the Brit to discuss his latest success story. |
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Join Date: Sep 14th, 2008 |
Mar 11th, 2012 By: Dan |
Ding Dong, Wedding Bells are Ringing It has been quite some time since PocketFives sat down with David Doc Sands Sands (pictured). Following Black Friday, Sands, an American poker pro, was forced to rethink his career. We caught up with him a week removed from his second place finish in the World Poker Tour's L.A. Poker Classic for $806,000, a tournament that featured a final table stacked with decorated poker players, while he was parading down the West Coast of the United States scouting potential wedding sites. |
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Join Date: Oct 31st, 2010 |
Mar 10th, 2012 By: Dan |
Hakuna Matata: Lion King Wins 888 Sunday Challenge It means no worries for the rest of your days. In the final days of February, PocketFives member Dimitri van Leent (pictured), who is better known as Lion King on our site, took down the 888 Sunday Challenge. There were over 800 runners in the online poker tournament, which allows one rebuy and dished out a prize pool of $116,000. Simba's namesake is on the cusp of cracking $600,000 in tracked scores here on PocketFives and hails from the Netherlands. |
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Join Date: Oct 11th, 2009 |
Mar 6th, 2012 By: Dan |
And the Newest PocketFives Training Instructor Is... ThaSquirrel There's a brand new instructor at PocketFives Training, which provides some of the top MTT instruction to the online poker community. Malta's ThaSquirrel (pictured) has joined the fray and recently released a video series that focuses on key hands during the Big $22. The second part of the series was published on Tuesday and covers concepts like bet-sizing, stack sizes, equity, ranges, and hand reading. |
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| tonkaaaa Join Date: Sep 26th, 2010 |
Mar 4th, 2012 By: Dan |
tonkaaaa Breaks Down PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Runner-Up Finish In the middle of February, PokerStars took the liberty of running two Sunday Warm-Ups in a single day. With nearly $1.6 million given away between the two tournaments, plenty of PocketFives members threw their hats into the ring, including Parker Talbot (pictured), who affectionately goes by the name tonkaaaa on our site. We sat down with Talbot to talk about his memorable Sunday. |
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Join Date: Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Mar 3rd, 2012 By: Dan |
shfourshank Records Back-to-Back Triple Crowns The month of February was mighty kind to Espen shfourshank Sorlie (pictured), who brought home a pair of Triple Crowns to his home nation of Norway. His first came after winning the PokerStars.fr Minuit Express for $3,100, a $50 buy-in tournament on Ongame for $3,200, and the PartyPoker $10,000 Guaranteed Speed for $4,900. The three wins combined for 388 PLB Points and while most players would take a break, Sorlie did exactly the opposite. |
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Join Date: Mar 19th, 2009 |
Feb 27th, 2012 By: Dan |
mementmori Wins EPT Copenhagen Main Event He has eight online poker Triple Crowns to his credit, the third most among members of PocketFives. He was once ranked as high as #2 worldwide and has an outstanding $4.6 million in tracked cashes in online poker MTTs. So what do you give a guy who has everything' How about a victory in the Main Event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour’s stop in Copenhagen' That’s exactly what happened to Mickey mementmori Petersen (pictured) over the weekend. |
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Feb 26th, 2012 By: Dan |
1banditpanda Cracks Top Five of PocketFives Rankings When the most recent update of the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings was released on Wednesday, Romania’s 1banditpanda stood pat at #5 worldwide. He’s been on a tear as of late and, accordingly, has the fourth best PLB tally worldwide to go along with the 11th best Pro Poll score. 1banditpanda has not one, not two, but three Triple Crowns to boot, an award that requires a player to emerge victorious in three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Rankings within a week. |
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| PetjeXL Join Date: Jan 21st, 2012 |
Feb 21st, 2012 By: John Douglas |
PetjeXL Relives PokerStars TCOOP $109 Cubed Chop Several members of the PocketFives community made waves during the recently completed PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, or TCOOP. Representing the Netherlands in the inaugural TCOOP series was Robin PetjeXL van Gils, who was part of a three-way chop of Event #17, a $109 Cubed tournament that featured over 3,300 players. |
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Join Date: Aug 2nd, 2006 |
Feb 20th, 2012 By: Dan |
KJulius10 Breaks Down PokerStars Sunday Million Victory On February 12th, U.S. nomad Kyle KJulius10 Julius (pictured) came away with a win in the PokerStars Sunday Million. There were actually two Sunday Million tournaments that took place that fateful day, and Julius was rewarded with a bankroll boost of nearly $180,000 for finishing first in the second go-around. The supplemental Sunday Million of the day brought out 5,671 entrants and offered up a prize pool of $1.1 million. Right before Black Friday, Julius could be found as high as #14 in the PocketFives Rankings, and currently stands at #139. |
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Join Date: Sep 29th, 2007 |
Feb 19th, 2012 By: Dan |
Illini213 Takes Down PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Two weeks ago, Steve Illini213 Barshak, who now calls Costa Rica home, came away with a victory in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. On a day that saw two of each PokerStars Sunday Major played, Barshak beat a field of over 4,100 players to bank $131,000. The Warm-Up wasn’t chopped and finished with a heads-up battle between the American transplant and Poland’s Woher90. PocketFives caught up with Barshak to break down his latest accolade. |
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| gnat777 Join Date: Aug 3rd, 2010 |
Feb 17th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
gnat777 Wins Second Triple Crown On the first day of February, Aleksandr gnat777 Gnatenko started the month off on the right foot by getting the final win needed for his second online poker Triple Crown. The award came in a big way, as Gnatenko took down the PokerStars Big $162 for $18,000 and over 300 PLB points. Prior to that, he had won the $10,000 Guaranteed on PartyPoker for $3,700 and the $17,500 Guaranteed Turbo on the Merge Gaming Network for $4,400. |
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Feb 2nd, 2012 By: John Douglas |
LiroLa Final Tables Sunday Majors on Back-to-Back Weekends On January 15th and 22nd, Rafael Monteiro (pictured), better known as LiroLa on PocketFives, recorded final tables in Sunday Majors on back-to-back weekends. One of them was even for a win to boot. On January 15th, Monteiro and 3,600 other poker players entered the weekly PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and vied for a $734,000 prize pool. When the smoke cleared, Monteiro took third place, the highest finishing spot for a PocketFiver, and walked away with $60,000. |
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Jan 30th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
T.J. Ulmer (1bigacehole) Wins PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy Black Friday changed the lives of poker players from around the United States. Among them was T.J. 1bigacehole Ulmer (pictured), who relocated to Montreal, Canada in order to continue playing online poker. The decision paid off, as in recent weeks, Ulmer walked away with a $67,000 bankroll boost for winning the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy. Down the stretch, he contended with several brand name PocketFives members, including Mike timex McDonald and Kenny Hixx Hicks, both of whom made the top 10. |
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Jan 30th, 2012 By: Dan |
weavel, Gettin Daize Finish 1-2 in PokerStars TCOOP Main Event On Sunday, the eyes of the online poker community were fixated on the Main Event of the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, or TCOOP. The 49th event of the first ever TCOOP, and the series’ finale, brought out a field of nearly 3,400 players in a $700 No Limit Hold’em tournament. When the smoke cleared, two PocketFives members cashed in for nearly $700,000 total, David weavel Emmons (pictured) and Chris Gettin Daize Oliver. |
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Jan 29th, 2012 By: Dan |
Ari Engel Takes Second in Ongame $100K Seven years ago, and eight months after our community launched, Ari Engel (pictured) joined PocketFives. His results since then have been consistently impressive, as he’s registered about $2.5 million in tracked tournament cashes and ascended all the way to the top spot in the prestigious PocketFives Rankings. Engel was forced out of Las Vegas following Black Friday and now resides in Toronto, Canada, where he continues to enjoy a high level of success. |
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Jan 27th, 2012 By: Dan |
Poker on the BRINK It took all of two days for Frederik Brink (pictured), who goes by the user name BRINK here on PocketFives, to score an online poker Triple Crown. If you’re not familiar with the award, a Triple Crown requires a person to bink three online poker tournaments with at least a $10,000 prize pool across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Rankings within seven days. And, as we said, Brink needed all of 48 hours to accomplish the task. PocketFives caught up with the Danish poker pro and former Aussie Millions Main Event second place finisher ... |
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Jan 24th, 2012 By: Dan Katz |
MIT Offering College Course on Poker Bots Remember when you were in grade school and a couple times a year, the teacher let you play games for an entire class period' Wouldn’t it be grand if that happened at an institute of higher learning' This month, CardRunners instructor Will TheDreamer Ma is teaching a course on poker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is a second-year PhD student. |
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Jan 22nd, 2012 By: Dan |
You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party On the second Sunday of 2012, the PartyPoker $200,000 Guaranteed brought out a field of 1,391 players. As a result, the prize pool of the $215 gala was 50% larger than its guarantee at nearly $300,000 and the top 99 players walked away with some dough. For Romania’s Valentin busto23 Vornicu (pictured), the tournament marked his very first Sunday Major win and a $59,000 bankroll boost for good measure. He’s up to over $125,000 in tracked scores, owns a WSOP Circuit gold ring, and spoke with PocketFives about what the win means to him. Oh ... |
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Jan 19th, 2012 By: Dan |
Kevin Howe (scarface2911) Final Tables PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Eleven days ago, the United Kingdom’s Kevin scarface2911 Howe (pictured) came away with a fourth place finish in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. Howe’s reward was $41,000 and he watched as the remaining three players forged a deal guaranteeing each of them at least $81,000. While he called the three-way chop immediately following his exit “frustrating,” Howe still vaulted to #52 worldwide in the PocketFives Poker Rankings, his highest mark to date, on the strength of having the 43rd best PLB tally. |
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Jan 17th, 2012 By: Dan Katz |
Brendon Rubie (BrendonR) Wins 2012 Aussie Millions Opening Event The 2012 Aussie Millions is underway at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia and, right off the bat, a PocketFives member is making waves. Brendon Rubie (pictured), known as BrendonR here on the site, won a $1,000 + $100 AUD No Limit Hold’em event, the opening tournament of the annual festival. Rubie outlasted 945 entrants to win an Aussie Millions gold ring and a cash prize of $200,000 AUD (approximately $207,000 USD). |
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Jan 16th, 2012 By: Dan |
weavel Recaps Runner-Up Finish in PartyPoker $100K High Roller On the second Sunday of 2012, Mexico’s David weavel Emmons (pictured) took second place in the PartyPoker $100,000 Guaranteed High Roller following a two-way chop. His reward was nearly $30,000 in real money and his second largest tracked score to date. He shot up to #25 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings last week and has seemingly flown under-the-radar up until this point. When we talked to Emmons, he was fresh off spending a day at the beach in Cabo San Lucas and needless to say, we were quite jealous. |
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Jan 14th, 2012 By: Dan |
szusza84 Chops PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy Last weekend, Hungary’s Janos szusza84 Toth (pictured) chopped the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy. A field of 999 players turned out for the tournament and after rebuys and add-ons were accounted for, a prize pool of $331,000 was up for grabs. The two-way deal saw selinantis officially come away with the win and land $57,000, while Toth collected a healthy $48,000 payday and finished in second place. He’s on the verge of cracking $3 million in tracked online poker earnings and is at #92 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Player ... |
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Jan 14th, 2012 By: John Douglas |
KJulius10, The-Toilet Finish 2-3 in PCA Main Event Kyle KJulius10 Julius (pictured, image courtesy PokerStars) and Faraz The-Toilet Jaka both joined PocketFives in the second half of 2006. Both have over $2 million in tracked online poker earnings and both own a Triple Crown. Oh yeah, and both have previously cracked the top 30 of the prestigious PocketFives Rankings. Coincidence' Maybe. On Friday night, Julius and Jaka finished 2-3 in the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. |
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Jan 13th, 2012 By: Dan |
And the First Triple Crown of 2012 Goes To The very first online poker Triple Crown of 2012 went to the nation of Australia, as Trent Ahurazor Jones (pictured) took down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Poker Player Rankings in a week. In actuality, Jones needed all of two days to accomplish the feat, as he won the PartyPoker $10 Rebuy and a $100 tournament on bwin on the same day for a combined $7,800. The next day, his Triple Crown quest was complete with a chop in the PokerStars Big $55 for a healthy $16,000 and first place. |
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Jan 12th, 2012 By: Dan |
Sweden's Srslyfu Wins Ongame $100,000 Guaranteed On the very first day of 2012, poker players took to the felts for the first Sunday Majors of the year. On sites like bwin, the Ongame Network $100,000 Guaranteed was in high gear, as a field of 487 players turned up to create a prize pool that topped $110,000. In the end, Sweden’s Srslyfu came away with the win in the $108 buy-in tournament and banked $21,000. He has rocketed all the way up to #631 worldwide in the Sliding PLB and is #6 in his home country. |
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Jan 7th, 2012 By: P5s Staff |
Doke Wins Second Triple Crown In the final days of December, Dara O’Kearney (pictured), who goes by Doke here on PocketFives, walked away with his second online poker Triple Crown. If you aren’t familiar with the award, a PocketFives Triple Crown requires a player to win three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Rankings within the same seven-day period. We had a half-dozen Triple Crown winners in December and so caught up with O’Kearney to congratulate the Irishman on his second title. |
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Jan 7th, 2012 By: Dan |
How to Chop the PokerStars Sunday Million Seven Ways On the first day of January, Shane shaniac Schleger (pictured) got the 2012 calendar year started off on the right foot by taking part in a seven-way chop of the PokerStars Sunday Million. That’s right, the weekly tournament, which attracted about 7,300 players on January 1st, was chopped seven ways. Schleger took home $84,000 and finished in seventh place when all was said and done, a feat stirring enough for us to chase down the longtime PocketFiver for an interview. |
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Jan 4th, 2012 By: P5s Staff |
The Luck of the Irish Strikes Again Holding down the fort as the top ranked player in Ireland on PocketFives is Dan danloulou Smyth (pictured). His recent performances are so strong that he vaulted up to #79 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings this week after being ranked as high as #119 on December 21st. Smyth was trying to qualify for the World Poker Tour’s stop in Dublin when we sat down to discuss the Irish poker scene, how he became a winning player, and the unique challenges that come with holding down a spot in the top 100 of the Rankings. |
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Jan 2nd, 2012 By: Dan |
Ben Lamb Edges Out Chris Moorman for 2011 CardPlayer POY Tulsa, Oklahoma native Ben Benba Lamb (pictured), a member of the 2011 WSOP November Nine, edged out decorated PocketFiver Chris moorman1 Moorman for CardPlayer’s 2011 Player of the Year title. CardPlayer posted the results on Monday showing that Lamb ended up with 6,036 points, about 150 ahead of Moorman’s 5,875. Lamb recorded $5.3 million in tracked earnings in 2011, $4 million of which came after a third place finish in the WSOP Main Event. |
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Dec 28th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Heads-Up with Griffin Benger (Flush_Entity) On December 20th, Griffin Flush_Entity Benger (pictured), the top player in the Poker Rankings, took down the PartyPoker $10,000 Guaranteed for $3,300. Three days later, he emerged victorious in two contests on the Ongame Network site Betfair for over $12,000 total. On December 24th, his very first Triple Crown was complete after Benger won the PokerStars $12,000 Guaranteed for $5,200. For good measure, he took down the PokerStars $22,000 Guaranteed on Christmas Day for $7,700. That’s a lot of wins in less than a week. |
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Dec 27th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
NigDawG Wins PocketFives Triple Crown So far, the month of December has brought five new Triple Crown winners. The award requires a player to win three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings within a seven-day period. Post-Black Friday, the award has been a rarity, so we sat down with one of its newest recipients, Christopher NigDawG Brammer (pictured). The top-ranked PocketFiver from the U.K. scored his very first Triple Crown and booked 433 PLB Points in the process. |
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Dec 27th, 2011 By: Dan |
gray31 = Online Poker High Roller The 10th anniversary of PokerStars brought with it a variety of high-stakes tournaments with life-changing prize pools. One event held during the festivities was a $10,300 buy-in 10th Anniversary High Roller tournament that drew a star-studded field of 187 players. The final nine featured some of the top names in online poker, including Grayson gray31 Ramage (pictured), who finished in second place for $289,000 and was one of five players to walk away with six-figure paydays. |
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Dec 27th, 2011 By: Dan |
RenRad 01 Wins PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $154,000 In mid-December, one of the fastest risers in the PocketFives Poker Rankings, Mark RenRad 01 Darner (pictured), came away with the win in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. His reward for winning the tournament un-chopped was a big one, $154,000. The field was nearly 5,000 players strong and almost $1 million was paid out to the top 720 finishers. Darner, who was once ranked as high as #3 worldwide, can currently be found at #17. We sat down with him to walk through his largest tracked cash to date and his first six-figure haul. |
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Dec 26th, 2011 By: Dan |
Living and breething the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy We hope every member of the online poker community had a very Merry Christmas. Now that your bellies are full of food and you’ve gotten your fair share of stories from the in-laws, it’s time to redirect your attention back to the wonderful world of poker. One player who had a happy holiday season this year was Hungary’s breeth (pictured) who came away with a win in the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy in mid-December for $85,000. We caught up with him to discuss his recent achievement and spread a little holiday cheer. |
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Dec 19th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Czech Republic's lubos1980cz Recaps PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Chop We’ve written about two big finishes in Sunday Majors by players from the Czech Republic today. First, we talked about Jakub Sedrick Dobiáš, who final tabled the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Storm and walked away with $32,000. The same day, December 11th, fellow Czech player Lubos lubos1980cz Dvorak (pictured) stamped out a chop in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, walking away with $73,000 and officially taking second place. Needless to say, everything’s coming up Czech. |
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Dec 19th, 2011 By: Dan |
Sedrick Final Tables PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Storm The December 11th running of the $11 buy-in PokerStars Sunday Storm was part of the site’s 10th anniversary celebration. The guaranteed prize pool of the Sunday Storm was upped to $1 million and at least $150,000 was allocated to the winner. After registration had closed, the tournament mustered an impressive field of 116,000 players and a $1.1 million prize pool. The Czech Republic’s Jakub Dobiáš (pictured), who goes by Sedrick here on PocketFives, survived to see a fifth place finish, which came with a bankroll boost of $32,000. |
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Dec 18th, 2011 By: Dan |
I Drastiq I Final Tables PokerStars $100 Sunday Rebuy There are nine members of PocketFives who call Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada home. The lakefront community rejoiced last weekend as one of its own, Jamil I Drastiq I Wakil, final tabled the PokerStars $100 Sunday Rebuy for $34,000. Although it was a healthy payday, Wakil has actually done better, as in May, he won the $750,000 Guaranteed on Full Tilt for $123,000. PocketFives caught up with the Canuck to get the inside scoop on his latest claim to fame. |
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Dec 18th, 2011 By: Dan |
Gabriel Otranto Chops Sunday Million, Sunday 500 on Same Day To open the month of December, Brazil’s Gabriel Otranto (pictured) kicked it into high gear by chopping the PokerStars Sunday Million and Sunday 500 on the very same day. After the final cards were dealt, he took second in the former for $149,000 and was the runner-up in the latter for $56,000. All told, he raked in over $200,000 following his two deals and etched his name in the annals of poker history. We caught up with Otranto, who has a tiny three-month-old child to contend with as well, to break down his monstrous Sunday. |
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Dec 17th, 2011 By: Dan |
Illini213 Runner-Up in Ongame ChampionChip Last weekend, a field of nearly 1,300 players assembled for the Ongame Network’s ChampionChip, which doled out cash to the top 220 finishers. Taking second place in the tournament was a familiar face to the PocketFives community, Steve Illini213 Barshak, who banked $26,000. Now hailing from Costa Rica, Barshak has won the PokerStars Sunday Kickoff and Big $109 in the last three months for a combined haul of $44,000. He can be found at #19 worldwide in the prestigious PocketFives Online Poker Rankings. |
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Dec 9th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
telks New #1 in PocketFives Online Poker Rankings There’s a new sheriff in town. Mike telks Telker (pictured) ascended to #1 in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings this week. He rose three spots in Wednesday’s Rankings release and owns the fourth best Pro Poll tally and PLB score in the land. It’s a big achievement for the Triple Crown winner and world traveler whose volume has remained relatively limited. We managed to hunt him down to congratulate him on his latest achievement. Remember, to this point, Telker had been ranked no higher than #3 worldwide. |
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Dec 7th, 2011 By: Dan |
The Big Dog Continues to Growl There’s something to be said for longevity in poker. Our industry is arguably one of the toughest on the body and mind, making any player who can continue to find success day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year somewhat of an enigma. Take Canada’s Casey bigdogpckt5s Jarzabek (pictured), who has been a member of PocketFives since 2006 and just passed $4.4 million in tracked cashes. |
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Nov 27th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Masakik86 Wins PocketFives Triple Crown Members of went five months this year without recording a Triple Crown. The award requires a person to win three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Online Poker Rankings in the same seven-day period. With the shutdown of Full Tilt, the industry lost a major tournament site and so the number of Triple Crowns went the way of the dodo. On November 7th, Canada’s Masakik86 (pictured) finally broke through, winning one and snapping a five-month drought. |
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Nov 26th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
4betUr3bet Breaks Down Sunday Warm-Up Chop A couple of weeks ago, Austria’s 4betUr3bet came away with a three-way chop in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. He officially took third place for $77,000 after striking a deal with TTycho and Casey bigdogpckt5s Jarzabek, the latter of whom took down the Sunday Major that day for $83,000. It was the Austrian’s largest tracked cash to date and the largest score of his career. Accordingly, we caught up with him to discuss his country’s latest claim to fame. |
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Nov 23rd, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
DSRasmussen Recaps Runner-Up Finish in PartyPoker Pokerfest Tourney In the final days of October, Denmark’s DSRasmussen came away with a second place finish in a $215 PartyPoker Pokerfest tournament. The event drew over 1,600 players and the Dane’s runner-up showing was worth $37,000. 2011 marked the very first installment of Pokerfest, which came your way on one of the industry’s longstanding sites. caught up with DSRasmussen to talk about his largest tracked cash to date. |
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Nov 13th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
O Canada! ryanghall Wins PokerStars $100 Sunday Rebuy In the October 30th running of the PokerStars $100 Sunday Rebuy, Canada’s Ryan ryanghall Hall (pictured) came away with a win and boosted his home country’s GDP by $55,000. The un-chopped tournament drew exactly 900 players, who created nearly a $300,000 prize pool. Amazingly, this cash isn’t the largest for the 259th player in the PocketFives Poker Rankings, as his largest intake came in August 2008 in a $300 Rebuy FTOPS event. |
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Nov 13th, 2011 By: Dan |
Norway's dmond Finishes Second in PokerStars Sunday 500 The final Sunday of October meant a cash windfall for Norwegian poker player dmond (pictured), who took second in the PokerStars Sunday 500 for $54,000. It wasn’t his largest cash tracked by PocketFives, but it still earned him well over 400 PLB Points and helped vault him to #159 in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings, his highest position ever. We caught up with this rising star, who you can find perusing the felts under the screen name d-mon-d on PokerStars. |
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Nov 9th, 2011 By: Dan |
Pius Heinz Wins 2011 WSOP Main Event Around 3:15am ET on Wednesday morning, Pius Heinz (pictured) became the first World Series of Poker Main Event champion from Germany. After a timely double up, Heinz put an end to the longest heads-up match in the last 10 years at the WSOP. Providing an early congratulations to Heinz was ESPN’s Andrew Feldman, who Tweeted, “Congrats to Pius Heinz, 2011 WSOP Main Event champ & now $8.7 million richer. He eliminated Staszko after an epic heads-up battle.” |
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Oct 31st, 2011 By: Dan |
DJ Pattiecake Final Tables PokerStars Sunday 500 Twice in October During the month of October, Chris DJ Pattiecake Lovett (pictured) final tabled the $500 buy-in PokerStars Sunday 500 twice. Yes, not once, but twice did Lovett make his way to the final table of the challenging Sunday Major under the screen name run dat game and came away with about $50,000 in cash to show for it. Lovett can be found at #567 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings and finished second in the PokerStars Big $109 for $13,000 in October as well. We sat down with him to recap his monumental stanza. |
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Oct 28th, 2011 By: Dan |
bigdogpckt5s Posts Back-to-Back PokerStars Sunday Major Chops Longtime PocketFives member Casey bigdogpckt5s Jarzabek (pictured) has been on a tear over the last two Sundays. On October 16th, Jarzabek was part of a three-way chop of the PokerStars Sunday 500 that saw him rake in $43,000 and officially take second place. One week later, he was up to his old tricks again. This time, Jarzabek was part of a three-way deal in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and officially recorded the win for $83,000. We caught up with the Canuck to get the inside scoop on his recent dominance. |
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Oct 24th, 2011 By: Dan |
Andrew Chen (achen) Breaks Down PokerStars Sunday Million Chop On October 16th, Andrew achen Chen (pictured) was part of a five-way chop of the PokerStars Sunday Million. He came away with $112,000 and, perhaps more importantly, his first six-figure online score. Lest we forget that Chen has experienced a considerable amount of success in the live poker world, including a win in the NAPT Bounty Shootout in the Bahamas in January for $263,000. He has nearly $1.8 million in live earnings and sat down with PocketFives to discuss his latest claim to fame. |
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Oct 23rd, 2011 By: Dan |
inheritance1 Recaps PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Chop On Saturday, we featured an article on PocketFives about Kyle knet Knecht chopping last weekend’s PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. Today, we’re going to bring you the other side of the coin. PocketFives sat down with inheritance1, who hails from Edmonton and raked in $107,000 in last week’s Sunday Major after chopping heads-up with Knecht. After all, you only record your first six-figure score once. |
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Oct 22nd, 2011 By: Dan |
Pipedream17 Shoots Up to #2 Worldwide in PocketFives Rankings Mike Pipedream17 Dietrich (pictured) has been one of the fastest risers in the PocketFives Rankings. Currently, the Canadian can be found at #3 worldwide, up one spot on the week, and is knocking on the door of top ranked Chris moorman1 Moorman. Dietrich’s impressive poker resume includes more than $3.6 million in tracked online poker earnings, including nearly $2.4 million on PokerStars alone. |
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Oct 19th, 2011 By: Dan |
moorman1, Pipedream17 Leapfrog p0cket00 in PocketFives Rankings For the past several months, it’s been a two-dog fight for the top spot in the PocketFives Rankings between Chris moorman1 Moorman and Sebastian p0cket00 Sikorski. Each week, the pair has flip-flopped at the top. When the leaderboard was recalculated today, Moorman stood tall above the pack, once again supplanting Sikorski. However, there’s a newcomer in the midst, as Mike Pipedream17 Dietrich (pictured) could play spoiler. |
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Oct 15th, 2011 By: Dan |
tom44411 Enters The Well It’s been a while since anyone on has taken the plunge into “The Well.” The what, you ask' If you’re not familiar with the well, I’ll leave it to Steve gboro780 Gross to explain it: “A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says, ‘On any day except Tuesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer.’ The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down, ‘Why not on Tuesday'’ A voice from in the well shouts back, ‘Because on ... |
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Oct 14th, 2011 By: Dan |
sluglife Wins Betfair GSOP $200 NLHE Cubed Event One week ago, Ireland’s Marc sluglife Macdonnell (pictured) came away with the win in the Betfair Grand Series of Poker’s $200 No Limit Hold’em Cubed tournament (Event #15). Macdonnell, who can be found at #442 worldwide, boosted his bankroll by $44,000 in the process. He’s captured another $200,000 in tracked earnings on PocketFives and sat down with us to discuss his latest claim to fame. By the way, you can find Macdonnell on Betfair under the screen name Chickenimo. |
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Oct 3rd, 2011 By: dhubermex |
Tournament Review for October 3, 2011 PocketFives member p3rc4 from Oslo, Norway was the biggest winner in major online poker tournaments over the weekend, taking down the PokerStars Sunday Million outright for over $200,000 upon outlasting nearly 6,600 opponents. |
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Oct 2nd, 2011 By: Dan |
How to Chop the WCOOP Main Event with goleafsgoeh The Main Event of the 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) ended in a five-way chop that saw Canadian Mike goleafsgoeh Leah (pictured) finish in third place for an amazing $560,000. Hailing from Toronto, Leah recorded the largest cash of his poker career and his third online tournament finish of over $100,000. caught up with Leah to break down the score of a lifetime. |
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Oct 2nd, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Playing at a higher wattage than the Rest There are nearly 1,000 registered members in Australia. The country, which is among the most popular for visitors to the online poker community, currently boasts Andrew higher wattage Watson (pictured) at #5 in its Sortable Rankings. Watson is tops in his hometown of Wollongong, owns a pair of Triple Crowns, and can be found at #59 in the Online Poker Rankings. Needless to say, his profile badges are quickly adding up. |
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Sep 19th, 2011 By: dhubermex |
Tournament Review for September 19, 2011 Mike telks Telker (pictured) was the largest winner in major online poker tournaments over the extended weekend, taking down the PokerStars $1,000+50 NLHE Event #42 outright for $353,100 after refusing a heads-up chop. Fellow member johnea6 placed 5th in that event for just under $100,000. |
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Sep 14th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
goleafsgoeh Wins WCOOP $320 Badugi Event The lone Badugi event on the 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) schedule panned out on Tuesday. The tournament, the 27th to kick off, drew a field of 292 players and resulted in a prize pool of $87,000. When the smoke cleared, longtime poker pro Mike goleafsgoeh Leah (pictured) emerged victorious from the pack and took home a top prize of $17,000. |
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Sep 13th, 2011 By: Dan |
BIG_NEMO Wins WCOOP $320 Stud Event members continued to roll in PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) events on Monday, as Canada’s BIG_NEMO pulled away from the pack of a $320 Stud tournament (Event #24). One of the smaller WCOOP events held so far, the contest drew 337 players, doubling its $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. BIG_NEMO hauled in $19,000 for the win and claimed second place in the site’s TLB. |
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Sep 12th, 2011 By: dhubermex |
Tournament Review for September 12, 2011 The 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued over the weekend with the marquee $500+30 and $200+15 NLHE events. PocketFiver Mutha Flushaa was victorious in the $100+9 Sunday Rebuy tournament for $80,300 followed by heißtercamp in 2nd for $58,300 and rolandbauer in 3rd for $44,200. Russia's borvik cashed for $116,400 for 4th place in the WCOOP Event #21 ($200+15 NLHE) following a five-way final table deal as overthetop43 placed 7th for $36,500. |
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Sep 11th, 2011 By: Dan |
Mike McDonald (timex) Wins Epic Poker League Main Event The second Epic Poker League Main Event panned out in recent days and, when the smoke cleared, Mike timex McDonald (pictured) came away with the win and pocketed a healthy $782,000 first place prize. The field of the $20,000 buy-in tournament numbered 97 and McDonald, one day prior to his 22nd birthday, became just the second Epic Poker League Main Event champion ever, joining the embattled Chino Rheem. |
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Sep 10th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Norway's Donald Wins PokerStars WCOOP $215 PLO Six-Max Event Norwegians, rejoice! PocketFives member Anders Donald Berg (pictured), who hails from your beloved nation, came away with the win on Friday in a $215 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max event (#16) held as part of the ongoing PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP. A bounty of $61,000 went to Berg, a member of Team PokerStars Online who trumped a field of nearly 2,000 players and recorded his largest tracked online poker tournament cash to date. |
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Sep 9th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Brink Wins PokerStars WCOOP $215 Razz Event The 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP, is in full swing. Members of the PocketFives community have made themselves known throughout the ongoing series, which continues for another two weeks on the world’s largest online poker site. In the interim, PokerStars will host our 17th PocketFives Open. On Thursday, Denmark’s Brink came away with a WCOOP jersey in a $215 Razz event (#15). |
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Sep 9th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Poker Refugee Profile: Matt Stout (All In At 420) Black Friday caused many online poker players from the United States to rethink their chosen profession. While some in the industry have taken up residence in brick-and-mortar casinos, this isn’t an option for everyone. Consequently, many online grinders have picked up and moved to other countries. To assist these players in the grueling process of relocating, PocketFives recently launched Poker Refugees, whose client list includes poker veteran Matt All In At 420 Stout (pictured). |
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Sep 8th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
extasyman Wins PokerStars WCOOP $1,050 NLHE for $216,000 The 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP, rolled on in recent days. The ninth event, which spanned two days’ time, saw Romania’s extasyman (pictured) come away with the win in a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em tournament for $216,000. A total of 1,237 players turned out, with 65 surviving to see Day 2 on Wednesday. Visit PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, for more details on the ongoing WCOOP as well as a complete schedule. |
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Sep 5th, 2011 By: dhubermex |
Tournament Review for September 5, 2011 The 2011 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off over the weekend on PokerStars, and PocketFiver AshTheDonkey took home $430,000 for his outright victory in the $10,300 NLHE Event #2. Fellow member ImaLuckSac placed 3rd in that event for $235,000 and skilled g earned $175,000 for his 4th place performance. The United Kingdom's anonymous_fish was awarded $100,000 for 6th place, SenorPokes cashed for $60,000 in 8th place and kingsofcards rounded out the final table in 9th for $40,000. |
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Jul 21st, 2011 By: Dan |
Phil Collins (USCphildo) Discusses WSOP November Nine Heading into the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event November Nine weekend in 100 days, member Phil USCphildo Collins (pictured) will hold the fourth largest stack at 23.89 million, or about 48 big blinds. Collins, who resides in Las Vegas and is one of three Americans at the final table, has been a member of the online poker community since 2007 and will now vie for a monstrous first place prize of $8.7 million. |
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Jul 2nd, 2011 By: Dan |
ender555 Defeats moorman1 in WSOP NLHE Six-Max Championship It was an exciting day to be a member of the online poker community on Thursday, as Joe ender555 Ebanks (pictured) and Chris moorman1 Moorman went toe-to-toe for the title in Event #46 of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed Championship. A total of 474 players showed up and Ebanks walked away with his first gold bracelet. All six players at the final table were members of . |
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Jun 30th, 2011 By: Dan |
aakkari, oerockets Win WSOP Bracelets, P5ers Up to 18 Total It’s been a busy last couple of days at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Not one, but two members of the community captured bracelets, boosting our total to 18 through 46 completed events, a 39% success rate. The Main Event is on the horizon and starts next Thursday, July 7th. Let’s take a look back at Tuesday and Wednesday at the 2011 WSOP. |
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Jun 4th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
bukowski101 Discusses Black Friday Fallout It’s been nearly two months since the Black Friday indictments of April 15th. The online poker world has had a chance to digest the ramifications of the three largest U.S.-facing sites – PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker – leaving the market. Among those affected was Pennsylvania’s Kevin McColgan (pictured), who goes by the handle bukowski101 here on . We caught up with McColgan to discuss how Black Friday has affected his livelihood. |
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Jun 3rd, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
neverbluff67, EFro, Jovial Gent in Final 4 of WSOP $25,000 Heads-Up Event The $25,000 Heads-Up Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has seen its starting grid of 128 slashed all the way down to four. Members of the online poker community stand a relatively high chance of walking away with a bracelet, as Jake neverbluff67 Cody, Eric EFro Froehlich, and Yevgeniy Jovial Gent Timoshenko (pictured) all survived to the Final Four, which will play out this afternoon from the Rio in Las Vegas. |
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May 27th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Weekday Tournament Review for May 27th In a week that did not feature action from any major online poker tournament series, Nicolas PokerKaiser Fierro (pictured), the seventh player in the Rankings, took down the Full Tilt $1K Monday to the tune of $38,000. Fierro, the top ranked player in all of Chile, defeated a field of 163 players in the weekly tournament. |
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May 17th, 2011 By: Dan |
teamwispy Talks Online Poker Success Before the online poker world was turned upside down on April 15th, Jason teamwispy Helder was on a tear. He had turned in wins in a $300 buy-in Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) event for $213,000 in November and, four months later, blasted through the field of the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee for $135,000. Last September, Helder final tabled a $1,050 buy-in PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) tournament for yet another six-figure score, this time $104,000. |
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May 12th, 2011 By: Dan |
theczar19 Now #1 in PocketFives Online Poker Rankings He may have been booted from sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker because he’s from the United States, but Bryan theczar19 Piccioli (pictured) moved to #1 worldwide in the Online Poker Player Rankings this week. He’s one of only a few top players ever to hold both the #1 PLB score and #1 Pro Poll score in the land at the same time and sat down with us to discuss his most recent achievement. |
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May 10th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Allingomes Among EPT Grand Final Survivors with 32 Left A total of 32 players remain in the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Madrid on Day 3. As of about 4:00pm ET on Tuesday, the action was in Level 21, where the blinds were a healthy 8,000-16,000 with an ante of 2,000, and Simon Higgins led the way with a stack of 2.6 million. Among the survivors is Alexandre Allingomes Gomes (pictured), who has a middle-of-the-road stack of 606,000 and was still going strong. The finale of EPT Season 7 wraps up on Thursday. |
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May 9th, 2011 By: Dan |
bananazoo Wins Triple Crown, April Monthly PLB Race The month of April was mighty kind to Luke bananazoo Chiciak (pictured). Not only did the 30-day stanza mark his first Triple Crown, but it also featured his first Monthly PLB title. He now boasts five badges in his profile and has a total of $692,000 in tracked online poker earnings. caught up with its newest Monthly PLB winner to get the inside scoop on his recent tear. |
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May 7th, 2011 By: bertminatti |
The Well by Jim P0KERPR033 Campbell Online legend Jim P0KERPR033 Campbell (pictured) reached a remarkable milestone this year by surpassing $5 million in online tournament earnings. He's joined in the elite club by fellow PocketFivers Chris moorman1 Moorman, Steve gboro780 Gross, and most recently PocketFives Training instructor Russell rdcrsn Carson, so it's no surprise that Campbell is one of the most respected players in the online realm. |
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May 2nd, 2011 By: Dan |
ArielBahia Wins FTOPS XX Main Event A total of 4,666 entries were recorded in the Main Event of the 20th Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The $640 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry tournament, whose guarantee had been cut from $7.5 million to $2.5 million in the wake of Black Friday, boasted a healthy $2.8 million purse. In the end, Ariel ArielBahia Celestino came away with the victory and banked $346,000 following a four-way final table deal. Let’s check out who else excelled in this epic tournament. |
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May 1st, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
What's Next for Online Poker Pros' Chipsteela and The-Toilet After two weeks of American online poker players’ lives largely being flipped upside down, had a chance to run down two of the game’s most visible pros, longtime community members Jeremy Chipsteela Menard (pictured) and Faraz The-Toilet Jaka. Both joined the site within two months of each other back in 2006 and have seen the industry evolve considerably since then. Now, Menard and Jaka are contemplating their next steps. |
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Apr 25th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
professorpeanut Wins $200,000 Guarantee Just before the online poker world was flipped upside down, Josh professorpeanut Will (pictured) came away with the win in the $200,000 Guarantee. The CEREUS Network site has since cut the guarantee to $75,000 and no longer allows new U.S. players, but we caught up with Will to break down his landmark victory and wrote about it anyway. After all, how often is it that a five-figure payday lands in your lap' |
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Apr 25th, 2011 By: Dan |
tormos, Tokyo09 Chop FTOPS $322 NLHE Multi-Entry Event In the 24th event of the ongoing Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, two members of the community struck gold. The $322 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry tournament saw its field of 3,942 whittled down to just two, as in the end, tormos chopped heads-up with Toronto’s Michael Tokyo09 Le. The tournament did not meet its $1.25 million guarantee, but the two top finishers still raked in nearly $400,000 combined. |
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Apr 22nd, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
PokerKaiser Takes Second in FTOPS $109 NLHE Six-Max Rebuy Despite the recent upheaval of the industry in the United States, the 20th Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, rolled on in recent days and features a bounty of cash on the line this weekend. In FTOPS XX action so far, Chile’s Nicolas PokerKaiser Fierro (pictured) finished second in a $109 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Rebuy Multi-Entry tournament (Event #10) for $56,000. The un-chopped contest featured a field of 1,231 and the $84,000 first place score belonged to bv4ever. |
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Apr 22nd, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Whats Next for Online Poker Pros' RandALLin, benvo123, POTTER In the wake of the U.S. Department of Justice indictments of the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, all three sites have cut off U.S. players. Now what' sat down with several brand name online poker pros to ask what their next moves will be. Will they be heading to the nearest border' Will they be hitting up the live circuit' Will they be leaving the online poker industry forever' Or will they be playing on sites like Carbon Poker' |
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Apr 21st, 2011 By: bertminatti |
Russell "rdcrsn" Carson Reaches $5 Million in Online Tournament Cashes Canadian poker pro Russell rdcrsn Carson (pictured) has been playing poker professionally for five years. In that time, he's done something that only three other PocketFives members have been able to accomplish: reach $5 million in online tournament cashes. |
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Apr 11th, 2011 By: Dan |
Flush_Entity Recaps UB $1K Win Griffin Flush_Entity Benger (pictured) bested a phenomenally talented final table in the $1,000 buy-in $150,000 Guarantee. The tournament drew 154 players on March 30th and featured one of the most stacked final tables we’ve seen in recent memory. The group included the likes of Bryan Iknewwwit Leskowitz, Scott SCTrojans Freeman, Mike inissint Glasser, Eric whitE_mAmbA Ladny, Charlie chaz_man_chaz Combes, and Cliff JohnnyBax Josephy. |
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Apr 10th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
How the West Was Won Tim Tmay420 West (pictured) has owned the live poker world as of late. In a one-week span last month, he took down the $5,000 buy-in Wynn Classic Main Event for $318,000 after defeating Full Tilt Poker pro Annette Annette_15 Obrestad heads-up. He wasn’t done there, however. West then traveled even further west to San Diego, where he was the runner-up in the $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Regional Championship for $174,000. |
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Apr 7th, 2011 By: Dan |
bfizz11 Wins First Triple Crown For a brief period of time, Brian bfizz11 Fite (pictured) sat in the top 200 of the Online Poker Player Rankings. Now, the Las Vegas resident known for his sit and go skills holds down the 224th spot worldwide thanks in part to scoring a Triple Crown last month. Fite took down three five-figure prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Rankings in seven days and told us, “It’s something I’ve been grinding towards for a while, so it feels good to knock it out.” |
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Apr 6th, 2011 By: Dan |
darrenelias Final Tables PokerStars $100 Rebuy, Full Tilt $1M Guarantee The third week of March was quite profitable for member Darren darrenelias Elias (pictured). He powered through the fields of the PokerStars $100 Rebuy and Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guarantee that week for nearly $200,000 total following a pair of second place finishes. He’s up to over $2 million in tracked cashes and sat down with to recap his big seven-day period. |
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Apr 4th, 2011 By: Dan |
valek Recaps Five-Way PokerStars Sunday Million Chop In a March installment of the PokerStars Sunday Million, a five-way chop occurred. The final five players in the weekly $215 buy-in tournament devised a deal that saw each person walk away with at least $141,000. Taking the fifth spot in the Sunday Major was Marco valek Lang (pictured), who calls Montreal, Canada home. caught up with Lang to learn how the massive deal went down. |
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Apr 3rd, 2011 By: Dan |
Owning the Online Poker World for One Month There’s a reason that Zackattak13 is in the top 10 of the Online Poker Rankings. After all, he’s procured just about every profile badge we have. His latest came as a result of winning the February Monthly PLB title along with his second Triple Crown. He’s currently ranked #9 worldwide and has over $2 million in online poker earnings to date. Now that we’ve gotten his vital stats out of the way, let’s get his thoughts on his recent hot streak. |
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Apr 3rd, 2011 By: Dan |
DcHustler Wins First Triple Crown David DcHustler Cahill (pictured) is one of the most recent recipients of the Triple Crown. Cahill hails from Georgetown, Canada and cashed in on a Triple Crown by winning three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Poker Player Rankings within a week. |
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Mar 29th, 2011 By: Dan |
DNA2RNA Recaps MiniFTOPS $33 NLHE Multi-Entry Chop The 24th event of the recently finished Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series (MiniFTOPS) saw Daniel DNA2RNA Hirleman come away with a payday of $116,000 following a two-way chop with Full Tilt Poker member FiskenPPP. Over 33,000 entries were recorded in the $33 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry tournament and nearly 3,700 players landed in the money. It marked Hirleman’s largest online poker cash to date and it came on the same day as a win in the Full Tilt $150,000 Guarantee for $39,000. caught up with Hirleman to break down his big day. |
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Mar 24th, 2011 By: Dan |
paulgees81 Moves to #1 in Worldwide Poker Rankings It seemed like only a matter of time before Paul paulgees81 Volpe (pictured) ascended to the top spot in the Player Rankings. The second highest overall PLB score and the third largest Pro Poll tally were enough to boost Volpe this week to #1 worldwide, jumping over last week’s leader, Taylor taypaur Paur. caught up with Volpe shortly after he received the good news. |
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Mar 22nd, 2011 By: Dan |
bbbbb33 Wins First Triple Crown The month of March has been mighty kind to member bbbbb33 (pictured), who more commonly goes by the name Freddy on the site. Freddy took down three tournaments across three sites tracked for the Online Poker Rankings within a seven-day window for his first Triple Crown. He’s 44th in the Rankings and has over $3 million in tracked tournament earnings to his credit. We caught up with Freddy to recap his latest milestone. |
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Mar 17th, 2011 By: Dan |
Blair Hinkle Recaps FTOPS XIX Main Event Chop for $1.1 Million Blair blur5f6 Hinkle (pictured) has been rock solid throughout the course of his poker career. Three years ago, he booked a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet after blasting through the field of a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $507,000. In 2010, it was off to the races again, this time in a $1,060 buy-in event during the WSOP Circuit stop at Council Bluffs for $88,000. Now, he’s returned to prominence after chopping the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) Main Event for a colossal $1.1 million. |
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Mar 12th, 2011 By: Dan |
telks Recaps FTOPS $1,060 NLHE Multi-Entry Victory One of the biggest winners of the recently completed Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) was Mike telks Telker (pictured). The 56th player in the Rankings, Telker came away with the jersey in a $1,060 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry event (#27) for $408,000 following a two-way deal. Upon scoring his first FTOPS jersey, he told , “I was so pumped mostly because I had just won a sick FTOPS more so than because of the money.” |
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Mar 10th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Ukrainian gnat777 Snags Online Poker Triple Crown One of the first Triple Crown winners of 2011 was the Ukraine’s very own gnat777. He’s one of about a million people to call the city of Donetsk home and captured a Triple Crown by winning three online poker tournaments across three sites tracked for the Rankings within a seven-day period. Let’s see what he had to say. |
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Mar 8th, 2011 By: Dan |
Mike Leah (goleafsgoeh) Breaks Down $111,000 FTOPS Chop In the 19th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), Canada’s Mike goleafsgoeh Leah (pictured) chopped Event #14. The $216 No Limit Hold’em Cubed tournament fielded over 1,300 players and Leah banked $111,000. He officially took second place and his chopping partner, Specunder, cashed for $127,000 and the ceremonial FTOPS jersey. caught up with Leah to schmooze about his big day. |
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Mar 6th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
RenRad 01 Recaps FTOPS $216 NLHE Rush Poker Victory In the 20th event of the recently completed Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), Mark RenRad 01 Darner (pictured) stole the show and walked away with $95,000. The gigantic $216 No Limit Hold'em Rush tournament attracted well over 2,000 players and Darner edged out fellow member Daniel wildman75 Buzgon heads-up. caught up with Darner for the second time in as many months to break down his first FTOPS jersey. |
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Mar 2nd, 2011 By: Dan |
JAKoon1985 Discusses FTOPS XIX Chop for $458,000 It’s not every day that nearly a half-million dollars makes its way into your online poker account. However, for Jason JAKoon1985 Koon, six-figure scores have become somewhat the norm. Most recently, he chopped a $322 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry event held as part of the 19th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) for $458,000. The Las Vegas resident is on the verge of reentering the top 100 in the Online Poker Rankings and sat down with to rehash the chop of a lifetime. |
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Mar 2nd, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
wildman75 Scores Three FTOPS Final Tables In the 45 events of the recent Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), Daniel wildman75 Buzgon (pictured) reached the final table of three events. He was one of the big winners in the Main Event to the tune of $321,000. He also final tabled a $216 Limit Seven Card Stud High-Low Eight or Better contest for $12,000 and a $216 No Limit Hold’em Rush event for $61,000. |
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Feb 27th, 2011 By: Dan |
princessdonk Wins $200,000 Guarantee Late last month, Vanessa princessdonk Peng (pictured) picked up the win in the weekly $200,000 Guarantee on . Her victory was worth $45,000, the largest online poker cash we’ve tracked for the Nevada resident here at , and she’s at over $1 million in earnings from tournaments that count for the Online Poker Rankings. We caught up with one of the up-and-coming female stars of the game to recap her latest accolade. |
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Feb 25th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
sabby Recaps FTOPS $322 Seven-Game Jersey We all know that members of the online poker community have enjoyed a tremendous amount of success when it comes to No Limit Hold’em. However, PocketFivers have also come to dominate non-Hold’em games. Take the U.K.’s sabby (pictured), for example, who came away with the win in a $322 Seven-Game tournament during the recently completed Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) for nearly $40,000. caught up with sabby as he was being fitted for his very first jersey. |
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Feb 24th, 2011 By: Dan |
T Money Breaks Down Second Full Tilt Sunday Brawl Title On February 6th, Super Bowl Sunday, T Money (pictured) came away with the win in the weekly Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl. No chop occurred in the tournament, and no discussion of one was held. When it was over, T Money booked $111,000 for the win. You’ll remember that, back in August, he took home the bacon in the same tournament for $75,000. caught up with the New Yorker to break down his second Sunday Brawl victory. |
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Feb 22nd, 2011 By: Dan |
TheDecano Recaps UBOC Main Event Victory The sixth Online Championship, or UBOC, wrapped up in recent weeks. Coming away with the victory in the series’ Main Event was member TheDecano (pictured), who banked $231,000 for his efforts and made his home nation of Brazil quite proud. caught up with TheDecano to discuss his monumental cash. |
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Feb 18th, 2011 By: Dan |
and217 Wins Titan Poker $200,000 Guarantee Super Bowl Sunday was a profitable day for many members of the online poker community. Among them was Andras and217 Kovacs (pictured), who came away with the win in the $200 buy-in Titan Poker $200,000 Guarantee. Kovacs of Hungary walked away with $42,000. One week prior, he had final tabled the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $80,000. |
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Feb 18th, 2011 By: bertminatti |
Shane Schleger (shaniac) Joins PokerStars Team Online With every end comes a new beginning. As PokerStars announced that it had parted ways with several of its sponsored pros in recent weeks -- including Greg Raymer, Darus "BejoMas" Suharto and Julian Thew -- the site added 15 pros to its Team Online earlier this month. |
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Feb 17th, 2011 By: Dan |
JoeBlazenyc Breaks Down FTOPS $1,060 NLHE Six-Max Chop One of the largest fields of the 19th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) could be found in Event #4, a $1,060 No Limit Hold'em Six-Max contest. The tournament drew nearly 1,300 players and offered up a generous prize pool of $1.2 million. A three-way deal ended matters that saw longtime member Joe JoeBlazenyc Chaplin walk away with $177,000 and officially take third place. The FTOPS jersey went to max_zefir, who collected $186,000. |
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Feb 10th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
bparis Wins January Monthly PLB Title In January, Bryan bparis Paris (pictured) took home his very first Monthly PLB title. He amassed 3,824 PLB Points in the process, the most since Tyson POTTER Marks accumulated well over 5,000 back in September. Paris helped his cause by final tabling the Full Tilt Poker $100 Rebuy twice during the month for $85,000 total. In addition, he chopped the Sniper $80,000 Guarantee at the tail end of January and even booked a Triple Crown. caught up with Paris to recap his splendid month online. |
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Feb 8th, 2011 By: Dan |
M1cKmAcK Cracks Top 100 in Online Poker Rankings In last week’s release of the Online Poker Rankings, Mick M1cKmAcK Carlson (pictured) cracked the top 100. One week ago, he stood at #101 worldwide, his highest ranking to date, and finally got over the hump. Carlson is a two-time Triple Crown winner on whose largest online cash tracked by our site came in November, when he final tabled the Full Tilt Poker $100 Rebuy for nearly $40,000. We caught up with Carlson to discuss his debut. |
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wandigo Recaps UBOC $320 NLHE Ante from the Start Victory In one of the final events of the recently completed Online Championship, or UBOC, contributor Ken wandigo Coppens (pictured) came away with a commemorative watch in a $320 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Ante from the Start tournament (Event #24). His reward was $34,000 following a heads-up chop with member HAMAZRIYA3. caught up with Coppens to rehash the memorable evening. |
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Feb 3rd, 2011 By: Dan |
P0KERPR033 Logs 20 Online Poker Cashes in One Day January 24th was a memorable day for veteran member James P0KERPR033 Campbell (pictured). He booked 20 in the money finishes in tournaments tracked by for $88,000 total. The highlight of the day was a $74,000 haul for taking down the Full Tilt Poker $150,000 Guarantee and outlasting a rock solid final 25 in the process. caught up with Campbell before last weekend’s grind to rehash his monumental Monday. |
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cracker9ball Notches First Five-Figure Online Poker Score On January 22nd in the early morning hours, John cracker9ball Reynolds (pictured) started a thread in Poker Discussion right after his first five-figure score. The superlative came as a result of finishing as the runner-up in Event #12 of the Online Championship (UBOC), a $162 Sniper No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack contest, for $11,000. His thoughts read in part, “For all you guys wondering if it can be done, I was a losing player online 2004-2009. In March 2010, I joined P5s, started a poker chat, and joined some training sites. I am now a ... |
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tinga81 Recaps Chop in UBOC $162 Sniper NLHE Deep Stack Event In Event #12 of the sixth Online Championship, or UBOC, Eric tinga81 Hettinga (pictured) came away with $15,000 following a three-way chop of a $162 No Limit Hold’em Sniper Deep Stack tournament. We caught up with Eric to discuss his most recent five-figure score. |
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AshTheDonkey Wins Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan On January 16th, U.K. poker player Ash AshTheDonkey Mason brought home the bacon in the weekly Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan. The $200 buy-in tournament attracted a field of 1,266 players and Mason outlasted BadBankroll heads-up. In 2010, Mason was a two-time winner of the Full Tilt $75,000 Guarantee and sat down with to rehash his latest claim to fame. |
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Jan 21st, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
Zackattak13 Wins Online Poker Triple Crown The profile belonging to Zackattak13 here at just received a new badge. The New Yorker, who simply goes by “Zack,” grabbed a coveted Triple Crown after taking down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked by in a seven-day period. Zack didn’t need a week, however. Instead, he accomplished the feat in a single day for the rare 24-hour Triple Crown win. We caught up with him to break down this monumental achievement. |
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RenRad 01 Final Tables UBOC 6 Event, Wins Multi-Fifty The second event of the ongoing Online Championship, or UBOC, was a $320 No Limit Hold’em Sniper Deep Stack contest that distributed a prize pool of nearly $250,000. KILLERJESS defeated member Mark RenRad 01 Darner (pictured) heads-up to take away $55,000, while Darner earned $33,000 for his second place finish. caught up with Darner to rehash his score, which was his largest tracked for the Poker Rankings. |
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theVisionary Takes Down Titan Poker $200,000 Guarantee On January 16th, Neil theVisionary McFayden (pictured) came away with the win in the Titan Poker $200,000 Guarantee on the iPoker Network. His victory meant nearly $42,000 in real money and marked the latest accolade for the U.K. native, who already has a pair of Triple Crowns and over $1 million in earnings from tournaments tracked by . |
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moorman1 Wins 11th Triple Crown It’s difficult enough to win one Triple Crown. However, if you’re DoylesRoom Brunson 10 member Chris moorman1 Moorman (pictured), then winning the award is just another day at the office. On Tuesday, Moorman captured his 11th Triple Crown, the most ever recorded by a member of the online poker community, and pulled in nearly $50,000 in real money. The Brit sat down with to recap his most recent claim to fame and preview the 2011 Aussie Millions. |
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Mike Leah (goleafsgoeh) Chops Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee Over 4,000 players turned out for the January 9th Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee. Each won a satellite or put up the $200+16 buy-in and battled for a piece of the $809,000 prize pool. In the end, Mike goleafsgoeh Leah (pictured) chopped heads-up with Full Tilt member sasodiits and walked away with a $100,000 cash infusion. For the win, sasodiits pocketed $128,000 after $20,000 was left on the table to play for. |
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phatcat Wins PokerStars Sunday 500 The January 9th running of the weekly PokerStars Sunday 500 featured 896 players, but fell short of its half-million dollar guarantee. In the end, veteran PocketFives community member Shawn phatcat Luman (pictured) walked away with a $90,000 top prize and continued dominating the online poker scene six years after he first joined our site. Luman, who has over $3 million in earnings from tournaments tracked by , sat down to relive his Sunday 500 run. |
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Jan 15th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
SirCrafty Wins First Online Poker Triple Crown It took all of five days for member Sean SirCrafty Ripp (pictured) to come away with an online poker Triple Crown after taking down three tournaments across three sites within the same seven-day period. For Ripp, his journey to the top started on PokerStars, where he won the $22 Cubed on Christmas Day for $8,900. It was one of three four-figure scores that earned him his very first Triple Crown profile badge. |
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PokerKaiser Takes Down PartyPoker $250,000 Guarantee On the second day of 2011, Nicolas PokerKaiser Fierro (pictured) took down the PartyPoker $250,000 Guarantee.The Chilean poker player bested the field in the $215 buy-in tournament, which had a $263,000 prize pool up for grabs. Fierro walked away with $38,000 and, perhaps more importantly, got the new year started off on the right foot. He sits comfortably at #30 in the Rankings, down one spot from last week. We caught up with the Santiago resident, who plays under the handle JokerzFull on PartyPoker, to learn more. |
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Jan 9th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
pageh656 Recaps PokerStars Sunday Million Chop Last month, member Page pageh656 Harris (pictured) came away with the win following a three-way chop in the PokerStars Sunday Million and banked a colossal $249,000. The top spot was scheduled to pay $255,000, meaning that he nearly locked up first place prize money. Harris’ win in the weekly Sunday Major came on the heels of a victory in the kickoff event of November’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, for $117,000, giving him two six-figure scores in a two-month span. caught up with Harris to recap his amazing end to 2010 and ... |
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Jan 6th, 2011 By: Dan |
Jordan Young (Jymaster0011) Wins 2010 Yearly PLB, December Monthly PLB 2010 was a great year for member Jordan Jymaster0011 Young (pictured), the #1 player in the Online Poker Player Rankings. Young took home the Yearly PLB title for 2010, an award that featured DoylesRoom pro Chris moorman1 Moorman as its titleholder in 2009. Young finished atop the Monthly PLB leaderboard for December, an award he also won in August. We caught up with Jordan just days after the New Year to recap 2010. |
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Jan 4th, 2011 By: P5s Staff |
stanski Takes Second in PokerStars Sunday Million On December 19th, the PokerStars Sunday Million, the high-stakes weekly tournament offered by the world’s largest online poker site, drew a field stocked with 8,486 players. When the final cards had been dealt, Joe stanski Stanski came away with a runner-up finish and a $182,000 payday. As you might expect, Stanski was thrilled to capture his first six-figure payday and told he dreamed "about being heads-up in the Sunday Million so many times, but I never thought it would happen, especially since I was down about $35,000 lifetime in $215 ... |
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xxunleashedxx Recaps Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan Win Earlier this month, Michael xxunleashedxx Gattozzi came away with the win in the weekly Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan. The day that Gattozzi took down the title, the Sunday Major brought in a field of 1,214 players and a prize pool of $242,000 was up for grabs. Gattozzi recorded his largest online poker cash to date in the process and told that he was down to a measly 2.5 big blinds early on after pocket tens cracked his pocket aces. |
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Jan 4th, 2011 By: Dan |
LeonP Books Over $100,000 in Online Poker Earnings in One Week member Dan LeonP Colpoys (pictured) made the final days of 2010 count. On December 19th, he finished second in the PokerStars $55 Rebuy for $29,000. Three days later, another five-figure bankroll boost was in the works, as Colpoys won the Full Tilt Poker $75,000 Guarantee for $24,000. One day before Christmas, the Massachusetts resident won the Full Tilt Poker $100 Cubed for $10,000 and then took fourth in the site’s Friday Night Fight on Christmas Eve. |
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Jan 2nd, 2011 By: Dan |
OU_dlanger610 Wins Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guarantee The last time we talked to Doug OU_dlanger610 Lang (pictured), he had just claimed a coveted online poker Triple Crown for winning three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked by in the same seven-day period. On December 19th, Lang won the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guarantee for $230,000. The $600+40 buy-in tournament attracted over 2,000 players and ended with Lang, the 54th player in the Online Poker Rankings, edging out missgrinder heads-up. |
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Dec 29th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
FouTight Previews January Low-Stakes PLB Competition On January 9th, a two-week Low-Stakes PLB Competition organized by member FouTight (pictured) will kick off. The event, which brings out many of the game’s rising stars, could feature more than 60 runners and counts the top 50 scores per team. Fourteen scores from an individual are permitted and the buy-in runs $100 a head. |
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Dec 27th, 2010 By: Dan |
D Ro Recaps $200,000 Guarantee Win On December 19th, member David D Ro Rowan came away with the win in the $200,000 Guarantee. The $200 buy-in poker tournament awarded $45,000 to its winner and Rowan closed out the 2010 calendar year with a bang. He told that the timing could not have been better: “I, only in the last month, have returned from a sort of mini-sabbatical. I had an awful WSOP, after which my girlfriend and I decided to split up, and then I had to deal with moving to L.A. and getting adjusted to a new city.” |
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Dec 17th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
apology7 Recaps Punta Cana Poker Classic As part of a recent Cake Poker leaderboard competition here on , members of the online poker community battled it out for a trip to the Dominican Republic to play in the Punta Cana Poker Classic. PocketFives member apology7 won the trip, worth $3,100, and survived to see the top 20 in the final standings |
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Dec 15th, 2010 By: Dan |
Jymaster0011 Takes His Turn in The Well In a recent thread in Poker Discussion, Jordan Jymaster0011 Young (pictured) opened the floor up for questions as part of his turn in “The Well,” following in the footsteps of other top members like DoylesRoom Brunson 10 member Steve gboro780 Gross. Young, who sits at #2 worldwide in the Rankings, divulged a pretty significant amount about of personal information and poker strategy in the process. Let’s check out what he had to say. |
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Dec 14th, 2010 By: Dan |
dhilton12 Recaps PokerStars Super Tuesday Win At the tail end of November, member David dhilton12 Hilton came away with the win in the PokerStars Super Tuesday, cashing for $81,000. The score was far and away his largest online to date and he defeated a field of 422 players in the $1,000 buy-in event. The Tennessee native has won over $700,000 in tournaments tracked for the Poker Rankings and sat down with us to recap his latest claim to fame. |
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Dec 12th, 2010 By: Dan |
Turko_man Relives Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee Chop In the second to last running of the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee in October, Luis Rodriguez Turko_man Cruz (pictured) chopped three-handed and walked away with just over $90,000. The Spaniard has been representing his motherland well and told what it felt like to come away with nearly $100,000 in a big-time Sunday Major: “The feeling is awesome. It’s great to accomplish something you have been working really hard on.” sat down with Cruz to relive his score. |
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Dec 2nd, 2010 By: Dan |
siola Recaps FTOPS Jersey Win In last month’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, Sam siola Iola (pictured) scored big in a $109 Pot Limit Omaha Rush with Rebuys tournament, coming away with the jersey and a $131,000 cash prize. The field numbered just over 1,000 and Iola bested a talent-rich final table that included 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Niner James Akenhead, a Full Tilt Red Pro. Iola owns the 51st spot in the Online Poker Rankings and sat down with us to recap his first FTOPS jersey. |
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Dec 1st, 2010 By: Dan |
JBT449 Breaks Down PokerStars Sunday 500 Win Two weeks ago, Josh JBT449 Bergman scored his largest online poker payday to date by virtue of taking down the PokerStars Sunday 500. The weekly $500+30 buy-in $500,000 guaranteed event attracts one of the toughest fields in the game and Bergman, the 62nd player in the Rankings, continued to build a case to enter the top 50. He’s steadily been inching his way up worldwide and told that he couldn’t be happier: “It feels amazing. I've been putting in a lot of volume lately and it feels great to see it finally pay off.” |
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Nov 29th, 2010 By: Dan |
Kory Kilpatrick (s00tedj0kers) Recaps Second FTOPS Jersey Win Event #11 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) saw 9,718 players enter an affordable $129 No Limit Hold’em Knockout tournament. At the end of the day, longtime member Kory s00tedj0kers Kilpatrick came away with his second FTOPS jersey and a smooth $155,000. |
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Nov 26th, 2010 By: Dan |
Brent Hanks (bhanks11) Breaks Down FTOPS HA Victory Brent bhanks11 Hanks (pictured) has plenty of wins during the course of his online poker career. In the recently completed Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, Hanks came away with the win in Event #17, a $216 Pot Limit Hold’em and Omaha tournament, for $47,000. |
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Nov 24th, 2010 By: Dan |
Joseph Cheong (subiime) Speaks Out on WSOP Main Event Taking third place in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event two weeks ago was Joseph subiime Cheong (pictured). His double up of eventual champion Jonathan Duhamel at the final table was one of the most talked-about hands of the tournament and Cheong, a member of the community since 2007, sat down with us to rehash that fateful pot. He also gave us the scoop on life after the Main Event. |
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Nov 19th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
doubledave22 Wins Full Tilt $150 Rebuy, Final Tables Sunday 500 Simultaneously November 14th was an especially lucrative day for member Dave doubledave22 D’Alesandro (pictured). Not only did he final table the PokerStars Sunday 500 for $50,000, which normally would have been a cause for celebration for anyone, but he also brought home the win in the Full Tilt Poker $150 Rebuy for another $76,000. Two tournaments and $126,000 later, D’Alesandro wrapped up a highly successful Sunday and sat down with to rehash his deep runs. |
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Nov 19th, 2010 By: Dan |
UhhMee Breaks Down FTOPS $216 NLHE Cubed Six-Max Victory PocketFives members were victorious in 18 of 34 events in the 18th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Among those who claimed a jersey is Ami UhhMee Barer, who hails from Vancouver. Barer’s win came in a $216 No Limit Hold’em Cubed Six-Max event and was worth $122,000. |
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Nov 18th, 2010 By: Dan |
T Money Cracks Online Poker Rankings Top 100 When the Online Poker Rankings were recalculated this week, New York’s T Money (pictured) fell from #100 worldwide to #111. The longtime member of the community was fresh off a two-month period in August and September that saw him win the full-tilt-poker Sunday Brawl for $75,000, final table a pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event for $64,000, and win the PokerStars $200 Rebuy for $35,000, among other top-tier finishes. sat down with T Money to discuss joining the upper echelons of the Rankings. |
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Nov 17th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Roothlus Comments on WSOP Main Event Final Table Among those railing the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event at the Rio this year was sponsored pro Adam Roothlus Levy (pictured). The veteran came within inches of being part of the November Nine festivities back in July and ultimately bowed out in 12th place for $635,000. In 2008, Levy took 48th in the Main Event for $135,000. He sat down with during the festivities at the Penn and Teller Theater to share his thoughts on this year’s $10,000 buy-in tournament. |
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Nov 16th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
sebbau Wins FTOPS $1,060 NLHE Six-Max Event for $274,000 Members of the community continue to dominate six-max events held during the ongoing Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. On Monday, Germany’s sebbau (pictured) came away with the win in a $1,060 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event (#16) for $274,000 and a coveted FTOPS jersey. Out of the four six-max tournaments held already during FTOPS XVIII, PocketFivers have come away with victories in three of them, or a 75% success rate. Overall, members of the online poker community have taken down eight of the 16 tournaments held, a 50% clip. |
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Nov 14th, 2010 By: Dan |
Make It Rain Discusses Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed Chop On the final day of October, Brendan Make It Rain Edmonds came away with the win in the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee following a heads-up chop with fellow online poker player eyes7475. The deal was worth $120,000, his second largest cash to date, and he told that he had a mountain of chips to work with throughout the Sunday Major, undoubtedly contributing to the win: “It’s nice to have chips in the biggest tournament of the day, but you never really try to get too excited about it or anything.” |
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Nov 13th, 2010 By: Dan |
UhhMee Breaks Down PokerStars Super Tuesday Final Table Appearance On October 19th, member Ami UhhMee Barer (pictured) lodged his largest online poker score to date after finishing third in the $1,050 buy-in PokerStars Super Tuesday. The Canadian banked $41,000 for his final table appearance, adding to an arsenal of poker scores that already includes runner-up finishes in the PokerStars $55 Rebuy for $31,000 and $100 Rebuy for $15,000. Barer admitted, “It feels good. I've been playing in most of the bigger buy-in tournaments, putting in good volume over the past few months, and I have had some success.” |
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Nov 7th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Jonathan Aguiar (FatalError) Breaks Down WSOP Main Event Final Table There are a bevy of PocketFivers in the house at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas, the site of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Among them is live tournament regular Jonathan FatalError Aguiar, who pulled in $16,000 from a pair of cashes this year at the WSOP. Aguiar, who has cashed in all three tournaments held as part of the PokerStars-sponsored North American Poker Tour (NAPT) in 2010, sat down with to dissect the Main Event and look ahead to NAPT Los Angeles. |
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Nov 4th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Kadabra Recaps Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl Win In mid-October, Alex Kadabra Keating came away with the win in the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl. The weekly $256 buy-in high-stakes bounty tournament drew a field of 2,739 players to create a prize pool approaching $500,000. Keating was one of three members of the online poker community to make an appearance at the final table and banked $111,000. He also came away with a victory in a $1,050 Rebuy No Limit Hold’em Turbo PokerStars SCOOP event in May for nearly a quarter of a million dollars. |
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Nov 3rd, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Jeff Forrest (jp4est) Wins WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals On Tuesday night, Jeff jp4est Forrest (pictured) became the newest World Poker Tour (WPT) champ after taking down the Foxwoods World Poker Finals. Forrest, 22 years of age, made a historic run in his first ever WPT event and banked $548,000. He entered the final table in second place on the leaderboard to Tom Kingsofcards Marchese, holding 81 big blinds, and ultimately came out a winner. Let’s take a look at the marathon final table, which stretched well over 200 hands. |
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Nov 3rd, 2010 By: Dan |
taypaur Wins PokerStars Sunday 500, Joe Cada Makes Final Table On October 24, Taylor taypaur Paur (pictured) added another major online tournament victory to his impressive resume by taking down the PokerStars Sunday 500. The $500+30 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed prize pool tournament attracted a field of 1,027 entrants and, when the smoke cleared, Paur bested a highly talented table that included 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Joe jcada99 Cada. Paur pulled down $88,000 for the win, while Cada landed in eighth place for just over $10,000. caught up with Paur to dissect his most ... |
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Oct 29th, 2010 By: Dan |
steponu Wins $200,000 Guaranteed Eight-hundred eighty players stepped up to the plate on October 10th in the $200,000 Guaranteed. The weekly tournament boasts a $200 buy-in and Ben steponu Volpe (pictured), who plays on under the handle Life_Donk, walked away $45,000 richer for his wear after outlasting the field. The tournament marked his first outright win in a Sunday Major. caught up with Volpe to rehash his gold medal performance. |
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Oct 28th, 2010 By: Dan |
maxxscam Wins Triple Crown, Final Tables Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl Last weekend, Canadian member maxxscam came away with a third place finish in the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl for $52,000. The deep run in the weekly Sunday Major came as a surprise to no one, as maxxscam was fresh off winning his second career Triple Crown by virtue of taking down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Poker Rankings within a week |
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moneyinbag Breaks Down Sniper $80,000 Guarantee Win On October 20th, Mike moneyinbag Aron (pictured) came away with a victory in the Sniper $80,000 Guarantee, a weekly tournament that boasted an overlay. Aron banked nearly $20,000 following the win, which saw him defeat online poker legend Eric sheets Haber heads-up. Aron calls Pennsylvania home and has been a contributing member of the PocketFives community for the last four years. We caught up with the new tournament winner to break down his score. |
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Oct 26th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Michael Benvenuti (benvo123) Recaps WPT Festa al Lago Runner Up Finish In the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) stop at the Festa al Lago, Randal RandALLin Flowers came away with the win over fellow community member Michael benvo123 Benvenuti (pictured). Flowers became the youngest two-time WPT champ in history, while Benvenuti took home a half-million dollar consolation prize. The cash was Benvenuti’s second six-figure live score following a runner-up showing in the 2009 Caesars Palace Classic Championship Event in Las Vegas for $129,000. caught up with Benvenuti to break down his signature live cash. |
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Oct 25th, 2010 By: Dan |
hoodini10 Takes Second in PokerStars Super Tuesday In the October 19th edition of the $1,050 buy-in PokerStars Super Tuesday, Joe hoodini10 Udine (pictured) came away with $54,000 after taking second place. The weekly tournament boasts a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool and, with 375 players entering, Udine competed for a slice of a $375,000 purse. He has been a contributing member of the online poker community ever since the site’s first year in existence and has amassed over $3 million in tournaments tracked for the Poker Rankings, one of the highest totals out there. |
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Oct 25th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Randal Flowers (RandALLin) Breaks Down WPT Festa al Lago Win One of the major headlines from last week was member Randal RandALLin Flowers (pictured) taking down the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago in Las Vegas. The $10,000 buy-in tournament attracted 335 players and Flowers became the youngest two-time WPT champ in history at the tender age of 22. He bested fellow member Michael benvo123 Benvenuti heads-up and pocketed an $831,000 top prize. caught up with Flowers to break down his monumental live tournament score. |
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McNallyville Wins PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million On October 13th, Nevada’s Steve McNallyville McNally (pictured) came away with the win in the $320 buy-in PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million. Originally from Ohio, McNally got his start in the game at an early age after playing card games with his parents, who promptly took him to Las Vegas. Since then, he’s turned in deep runs in major tournaments like the PokerStars Super Tuesday and Full Tilt Poker $40,000 Guarantee. He established his largest score to date by virtue of a runner-up showing in the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee for ... |
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Oct 24th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Rupert Rehashes Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guarantee Chop Nearly 1,900 aspiring poker players entered last Sunday’s running of the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guarantee. The prize pool actually eclipsed $1.1 million and the top 261 players landed in the money. The event wrapped up with a three-way chop that featured Rupert Rupert Elder (pictured) coming away with $142,000 |
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Oct 23rd, 2010 By: Dan |
JBurleson Discusses UB $200,000 Guarantee Chop The October 17th running of the $200,000 Guarantee ended in a two-way chop featuring member Jeremy JBurleson Burleson (pictured). He went on a tear in the days immediately following the deal, final tabling the PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand and Full Tilt $1K Monday in successive days. The North Carolina native shot up to 138th worldwide in the Online Poker Rankings and holds over $2 million in earnings from tracked tournaments. We caught up with the American to rehash his chop in the weekly event. |
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Oct 23rd, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Australia's RAWKZ Wins Online Poker Triple Crown Chalk up another win for the Aussies. Liam RAWKZ O’Rourke came away with a coveted online poker Triple Crown after outlasting the fields of a trio of online poker tournaments. He actually took down four MTTs in the process, boosting his bankroll by over $40,000. virtually traveled to the “Land Down Under” to meet up with O’Rourke, a self-professed fan of the movie “Happy Gilmore” who has been influenced by multiple players in his home nation. |
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| BleedBlue33 Join Date: Jul 16th, 2007 |
Oct 20th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
BleedBlue33 Recaps Full Tilt $1K Monday Win In the October 11th installment of the Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday, Texas poker player Mark BleedBlue33 Leonard came away with the win and pocketed $75,000. This isn’t the first time that the 46th player in the Online Poker Rankings has experienced success, either. Three years ago, he tasted victory in a $1,060 buy-in event during the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTIOPS) for a quarter of a million dollars. sat down with Leonard to discuss the $1K Monday and the Texas Rangers' pending upset of the New York Yankees in the Major League ... |
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Oct 18th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Jason Koon (JAKoon1985) Wins PokerStars Super Tuesday Last week, Jason JAKoon1985 Koon (pictured) came away with the win in the PokerStars Super Tuesday. The $1,050 buy-in poker tournament that posts a $300,000 guarantee attracted a field of 410 players. members invaded the top 20, as 11 were part of the online poker community. Koon banked $78,000 for his efforts, outlasting Nick I Spew Chips Phillips heads-up. As if all this weren’t enough, Koon is in the midst of a monumental run in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago and enters Day 4 this afternoon with the fifth largest stack. |
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Oct 17th, 2010 By: Dan |
dipthrong Relives PokerStars Sunday Million Win Despite his real name being listed as “Retired for 2010” in his profile, Mark dipthrong Herm (pictured) is anything but. In fact, he won the PokerStars Sunday Million, the industry’s richest recurring tournament, outright last Sunday for a massive $229,000 cash prize under the moniker SHIPP ITT. As a result, Herm blew up in Wednesday’s release of the Online Poker Rankings, skyrocketing from 35th to 12th on the strength of holding the fifth best PLB score and fourth highest Pro Poll tally. caught up with Herm to relive his PokerStars ... |
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Oct 13th, 2010 By: Dan |
upay4mytreez Chops PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Last weekend’s running of the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, which drew 4,358 entrants for a prize pool of $871,000, ended in a three-way deal. Pete upay4mytreez Males (pictured) landed in second place when all was said and done, adding $92,000 to his online poker bankroll. First place went to PokerStars member el_rage, who cashed for $120,000, while third place and a $97,000 bankroll shot went to diphazz. Males calls Michigan home and owns over $500,000 in earnings from tournaments tracked for the Poker Rankings. |
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Oct 12th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
JIMMYKIMMEL Wins Online Poker Triple Crown Award One of the newest Triple Crown winners on is Nobbi JIMMYKIMMEL Tanaka (pictured). In the online world, he takes on the handle of the former “Man Show” host and current late night television icon. In order to capture a Triple Crown, a member must take down three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Online Poker Rankings within a seven-day period |
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| skanky980 Join Date: Oct 1st, 2007 |
Oct 11th, 2010 By: Dan |
skanky980 Recaps UB $200K Guarantee Chop In the final running of the $200,000 Guarantee in September, skanky980 ran over the competition and walked away with $32,000 following a three-way deal. The field numbered just over 900 players and the top 90 on the leaderboard pocketed cash. For skanky980, who hails from Oregon, his chop in the $200,000 Guarantee marked his second deep run in a month in the online poker tournament; on the final Sunday in August, he chopped the same event heads-up for $39,000. sat down with skanky980 to break down his dominance of the $200,000 Guarantee. |
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Oct 11th, 2010 By: Dan |
POTTER Recaps WCOOP Main Event, Monthly PLB Titles In recent days, Tyson POTTER Marks (pictured) came out on top of the field in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event, cashing for an amazing $2.2 million. The $5,200 buy-in tournament drew 2,443 players and offered up a healthy prize pool of $12.2 million, one of the largest ever seen in the online poker world. The stacked final table saw each player walk away with at least $112,000. To top it off, Marks also took down the Monthly PLB for September, helped in large part by the 3,495 PLB point boost from the WCOOP ... |
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| szusza84 Join Date: Dec 12th, 2007 |
Oct 8th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
szusza84 Wins PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million In the September 22nd cycle of the PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million, Janos szusza84 Toth (pictured) came away with a victory for the nation of Hungary, which saw its Gross Domestic Product grow by $46,000. The tournament drew 773 players, falling short of its guarantee, but five members of the final table appear in the top 150 of the Poker Rankings. Toth can be found at #84 worldwide on the strength of a Triple Crown win and numerous final tables of major tournaments. virtually traveled to Hungary to catch up with this rising poker star. |
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Oct 7th, 2010 By: Dan |
Bolivar Palacios (Ramux) Makes Third LAPT Final Table In the recently completed Main Event of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Rosario stop, Bolivar Ramux Palacios made his third LAPT final table. He finished as the runner-up to Martin Sansour in the $5,000 buy-in Argentinean tournament and walked away with $188,000. The Chilean and longtime member has become a force to be reckoned with on the PokerStars-sponsored tour |
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Join Date: Oct 28th, 2006 |
Oct 4th, 2010 By: Dan |
Tony Dunst (Bond18) Hired as WPT Raw Deal Host Longtime contributor Tony Bond18 Dunst (pictured) has joined the World Poker Tour (WPT) broadcast team as its “Raw Deal” host. You can catch him on broadcasts of Season 9 WPT tournaments, which will begin airing in January on Fox Sports Net. Dunst beat out big-time poker talent en route to becoming the first ever “Raw Deal” host, including fellow players Joe JoeSebok Sebok, Bryan badbeatninja Devonshire, and former Full Tilt Poker pro Clonie Gowen. |
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Oct 4th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Hixx Recaps CEREUS Poker Network $100,000 Guarantee Win On September 19th, West Virginia member Kenny Hixx Hicks (pictured) came away with the win in the CEREUS Network’s $100,000 Guarantee. The tournament, which can be found on both and Absolute Poker, has a $500 buy-in. For the win, Hicks earned $32,000 and outlasted a field of 247 players. Hicks has amassed over $2 million from tournaments that are tracked for the Rankings, where he sits at 204th worldwide. caught up with the Sunday Major winner to recap his big day. |
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Oct 4th, 2010 By: Dan |
Portugal's cmpjo Breaks Down PokerStars WCOOP Chop for $260,000 In one of the first events of the recently completed PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), Portuguese poker player Carlos cmpjo Oliveira came away with $260,000 following a two-way chop in a $215 No Limit Hold’em event. The tournament passed the 12,000-player mark, which resulted in a $2.4 million prize pool, one of the largest of the tournament series. As a result of the WCOOP chop and other top-tier in the money finishes, Oliveira dominates the Sortable Poker Rankings for his home country, sitting in second place behind ... |
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Oct 3rd, 2010 By: Dan |
David Sesso (Blue Knight4) Breaks Down $300,000 WCOOP Cash One of the biggest paydays of the 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP, went to member David Blue Knight4 Sesso. The new Calfiornia resident was awarded close to $300,000 in Event #60, a $215 No Limit Hold’em tournament that guaranteed $1.5 million. Nearly 12,000 players had registered to create a prize pool of $2.3 million. For Sesso, who just celebrated his one-year anniversary of signing up an account on , the WCOOP bracelet meant his first six-figure score following a four-way deal. |
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Oct 2nd, 2010 By: Dan |
gittindrunk Discusses PokerStars WCOOP Big Antes Chop Joel Shulruf, known in the world of online poker as gittindrunk, joined four years ago. He’s become one of the most popular poker players in the community and has recorded over $1 million in career cashes in tournaments tracked for the Online Poker Player Rankings. During this year’s PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP, Shulruf walked away with a win in the $215 No Limit Hold’em Big Antes tournament (Event #50) for $91,000 following a three-way deal |
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Oct 1st, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Russell Carson (rdcrsn) Comments on September Poker Success The month of September was kind to Canadian member Russell rdcrsn Carson (pictured). In his career, he’s built over $4 million in earnings from Poker Rankings-eligible tournaments and has become one of the most decorated players to grace the community |
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Sep 29th, 2010 By: Dan |
Australian Jonathan Karamalikis (xMONSTERxDONGx) Wins Poker Triple Crown What do you give a person who has absolutely dominated the live scene in Australia' How about a major online poker accolade' Jonathan xMONSTERxDONGx Karamalikis is fresh off a win in the 2010 Victorian Poker Championship High-Stakes Event for $89,000 and also took down the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour’s (ANZPT) High-Roller tournament in April for $108,000. To open the 2010 calendar year, Karamalikis scored another six-figure live cash in the Aussie Millions No Limit Hold’em Bounty Event for $113,000. Now, you can add a Triple Crown to ... |
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Sep 27th, 2010 By: P5s Staff |
Iridium Enters Online Poker Rankings Top 100 In the September 22nd update of the Online Poker Rankings, Paul Iridium Dewald (pictured) entered the Top 100 at #92. It marked his first entry into the top 100, a milestone that he’s achieved in part by owning the 84th best PocketFives Leader Board (PLB) score in the world. Dewald went on a tear in August to fuel his run in the Rankings, final-tabling the PokerStars Sunday Million and Second Chance events for a combined payday of $200,000. sat down with the Colorado resident to recap his recent success. |
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Sep 27th, 2010 By: Dan |
Kyle Julius (KJulius10) Breaks Down Full Tilt Poker $1M Guarantee Chop The largest score of the September 19th weekend for a PocketFives member went to Kyle KJulius10 Julius (pictured), who walked away with $163,000 from the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guarantee after a four-way chop. Julius actually cashed for more than the winner of the event, PokerStars player justgobroke, and shot up 14 spots to #31 worldwide in the Poker Player Rankings. Accordingly, he holds the seventh best PLB Score in the land at over 7,600 and sat down with to recap his latest milestone. |
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