The final results for the PocketFives January Monthly PLBare in. The award recognizes the person with the most number of PLB Points generated in January and, for the second time in his career, Brazil’s joaomathias (pictured) has won. He tallied 2,970.46 points during the month, leading the second place player by 100.

His largest score during January came in at 269.68 points after a third place finish in the PokerStarsSunday $109 Rebuy for $27,000. To open January, he landed in third place in the kickoff W Series event on Winamaxfor $23,000 and 263 PLB Points. Other highlights during the first half of January included a final table in the Full Tilt Super Sized Sunday for $11,000 and a runner-up showing in the Big $109 for $14,000.

During the second half of the month, joaomathias won the PokeStars $109 Cubed for $6,400, finished third in the Big $109 for $12,000, final tabled the Super Tuesday, won the PokerStars.fr Night on Stars for $6,200, and finished second in that site’s Sunday Six-Max.

Here’s how the top 10 finishers looked in January:

1. joaomathias – 2,970.46 points
2. Big Huni – 2,869.34 points
3. x_zola25 – 2,651.05 points
4. PokerKaiser – 2,545.29 points
5. rodrigorpv – 2,524.77 points
6. OU_dlanger610 – 2,497.62 points
7. Smeckten – 2,459.63 points
8. mjw006 – 2,397.16 points
9. inhoo – 2,386.34 points
10. neverfoldQ5 – 2,351.11 points

joaomathias’ first Monthly PLB title came in July 2011 and was worth 2,313 points. This is the 13th Monthly PLB win for the country of Brazil, which sits in fourth place in the PocketFives Country Poker Rankings. joaomathias is up to $5.6 million in career online tournament cashes and plays as TDurdenWAR on PartyPokerand TAGvsLAGon Winamax.

Congrats to joaomathias on his second Monthly PLB title!

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