'C Darwin2' Pads PocketFives Rankings Lead
Players from Sweden continue to reign over the rest of the online poker community. This week in the PocketFives Rankings, four of the top six players worldwide, and five of the top eight, hail from the Scandinavian country. And the #1 player, who calls Sweden home, just padded his lead over the pack.
‘C Darwin2‘ has 7,324 PLB Points, the measure used to determine the rankings, and doubled his lead from 200 points last week to 400 points this week. He has one big win this month, which came in the partypoker High Roller and was good for $15,000 and 236 PLB Points. He also has a dozen top ten finishes in February with 12 days still to go. This is his second week at the top of the PocketFives Rankings.
Second place belongs to Grayson ‘gray31’ Ramage, who moved up four spots. Ramage won the PokerStars $320 Six Max No Limit Hold’em for $8,800 on Tuesday and hit it big two weeks ago in the Sunday Million, officially finishing in second place for a blistering $131,000. That score followed a Turbo Championship of Online PokerHigh Roller win for almost $300,000.
Needless to say, Ramage has been a one-man wrecking crew over the last few weeks. Besides his Sunday Million second place finish and TCOOP victory, the Costa Rica resident has won the PokerStars $109 Rebuy, $109 Cubed, and Big $109 since the end of December and is just a few thousand dollars shy of passing $6 million for his career.
Another Swede, ‘Ariados‘, moved up five spots from #8 to #3 after a blockbuster Valentine’s Day in which he finished fifth in the Sunday 500 and won both the PokerStars.fr Sunday High Roller and PokerStars Bounty Builder for $40,000 total. The day before, he took third in the PokerStars Weekender and put back $10,000. This is the highest he has ever been in the rankings and ‘Ariados’ trails Ramage by one single, solitary PLB Point.
Also moving up this week was Bristol’s Oscar ‘MendaLerenda’ Serradell, who jumped five spots to #4 in the world, his best showing ever. Serradell has won the PokerStars Big $55 and $109 Rebuy in February as well as the site’s $25,000 Guaranteed. Those three victories raised his career win count to 130. Serradell is the top-ranked online poker player in the United Kingdom and trails ‘Ariados’ by just 14 points.
After reentering his screen names this week, Rui ‘RuiNF’ Ferreira rejoined the top 100 on PocketFives at #20. On January 29, Ferreira won a TCOOP $215 Rebuy for $81,000 to join the triple COOP club and also took down the site’s $320 No Limit Hold’em Six Max and $7,500 Guaranteed. Ferreira was ranked as high as #8 on PocketFives two years ago and is the top ranked player Portugal has to offer.
Greece’s Apostolis ‘apostolis20’ Bechrakis rose 25 spots to #47 in the world. He’s attempting to mount another run at the top 10 and his resume this time around includes February wins in the PokerStars Weekender and $55 No Limit Hold’em Hyper-Turbo. Bechrakis is $1,700 shy of hitting $3 million for his career and is the second-ranked player in his home country.
‘philroyal888‘, from the UK, moved up 37 spots to land at #51, his best showing ever. ‘philroyal888’ has had a stellar February, chalking up four wins. His largest cash, however, wasn’t a win. Instead, it was a bronze in the PokerStars Super Tuesday eight days ago for $52,000. He is at 1,061 career in the money finishes and is the seventh-ranked player in the highly competitive UK poker community.
Let’s stay in the UK and talk about London’s Vicente ‘vicenfish’ Delgado Zamorano. The Brit moved up 40 spots to #53 after winning the Sunday Second Chance over the weekend and pocketing $35,000. It’s one of five wins he’s had since the last day of January, raising his career total to 41. Delgado Zamorano was ranked as high as #6 in the world in 2014.
Finally, Hungary’s ‘breeth‘ reentered the top 100 at #94. He has one win this month – the 888 Crocodile on February 1 – but has generated nine top-10 finishes. Over his career, ‘breeth’ has won the Sunday Million twice, taken down the Sunday 500 once, and triumphed in the Sunday $109 Rebuy twice. Any momentum he’s found could easily result in a rapid climb up the Rankings.
Here are the top 10 players in the PocketFives Rankings this week along with the PLB score for each:
