In 2015, nine members of the PocketFives community passed $7.5 million in career online tournament winnings. It started in January with Bryan bparisParis, who passed $7.5 million and is already up to $8.5 million, meaning he has amassed about $1 million in winnings in the last year. Paris’ 2015 included winning the PokerStars Sunday $109 Rebuy for $39,000.

One month later, Chris Gettin Daize Oliver reached $7.5 million in lifetime winnings. Oliver is now at $8.1 million and won the Bigger $162 on PokerStars last February for $39,000, his largest score of the year. He also took third in the MiniFTOPS Main Event in February for $37,000.

March saw Nico PokerKaiserFierro, from Chile, hit $7.5 million for his career. Fierro was ranked #1 on PocketFives for three different stretches in 2015 and amazingly won 11 Triple Crownsduring the year, the most of anyone. Fierro earned gold in the 888 Mega Deep in April of last year for $35,000 and continues to be the top-ranked poker player in Chile.

Chris Big Huni Hunichen was the next player to hit $7.5 million, doing so in May. Hunichen closed out 2015 by lapping $8 million and finished second in the Super Tuesday in November for $83,000, his largest cash of the year. Hunichen is currently the top-ranked player in Costa Rica and #42 in the world.

Eight days after Hunichen passed $7.5 million in online tournament winnings for his career, Jon PearlJammer Turner followed suit. He finished second in a SCOOP Triple Draw tournament for $31,000 in May, his largest score of the year, and was ranked as high as #3 on PocketFives back in 2008. Turner is currently the 25th-ranked PocketFiver in Mexico.

After a four-month summer break, eisenhower1 was the next PocketFiver to hit $7.5 million, doing so in September. Our current #1 ranked player, eisenhower1 recorded his two largest career cashes during the year: a sixth place finish in the SCOOP Main Event for $294,000 and a WCOOP No Limit Hold’em Cubed bracelet for $133,000. He has been ranked #1 worldwide since September.

On October 16, Nicholas Carrillo, aka rounder63, won the award. He finished third in the Sunday Supersonic for $32,000 in June, his largest score of the year, and amazingly has over 1,100 top-three finishes. Carrillo is the fifth-ranked player in Costa Rica and plays under the user name Hooodflatteron PartyPoker.

Five days after Carrillo hit $7.5 million, TJ 1bigacehole Ulmer did the same. Ulmer, who was last ranked #1 on PocketFives in 2012, turned in his largest score of 2015 in a TCOOP No Limit Hold’em Eight-Max event for $53,000. Ulmer is sitting at $7.7 million in online tournament winnings now and is ranked #57 in the world.

The final player to hit $7.5 million in career winnings during the year was Zackattak13, who did so four days into December. He has $6 million in winnings on PokerStars alone and is ranked #28 worldwide. He is approaching 10,000 in career in the money finishes and has been a member of PocketFives since 2007, our second year in business.

Out of the 21 players who passed $5 million in career cashesin 2015, 12 did so in the second half of the year. Five of those were formerly ranked #1 on PocketFives. Jordan Jymaster0011Young, who was the top dog on PocketFives in 2011, hit $5 million in mid-August, while Taylor taypaur Paur, who was also ranked #1 in 2011, followed suit in September. Paur won a WCOOP Second Chance event in 2015 for almost $100,000.

Mike telks Telker, who like Young and Paur was #1 in 2011, passed $5 million in November 2015. Telker won a WCOOP Second Chance tournament last year for $87,000, his largest score of 2015.

Yuri Martins, who hit $5 million in November, was also ranked #1 in January, while Christopher kid_bramm Brammer, who was last #1 in 2012, hit $5 million in August. Brammer is the owner of six PocketFives Triple Crowns and won the Super Tuesday for the second time in his career in August.