After two years of falling one spot short of victory, 'lena900' finally managed to conquer the PocketFives Yearly Leaderboard.

The online poker alias of ‘Lena900‘ is a name that regular PocketFives readers will be familiar with, mainly because the Swedish player can be seen to be battling it out in the highest stakes online poker tournaments have to offer week-after-week.

For the past two years, ‘Lena900’ has just been pipped to the top of PocketFives.com Yearly PLB by his compatriot ‘C.Darwin2‘, but 2018 was the year this all changed as ‘Lena900’ took the glory in five major festival events to sit at the summit of online poker.

‘Lena900’ finished 2018 with a total PLB score of 29,952.68, and had a clear gap over runner-up ‘C.Darwin2’ with 26,992.73.

‘Lena900’ recorded seven of his top ten online cashes over the past 12 months which included three victories. On May 16th, he reached the final table of the partypoker Powerfest $10,300 #53-SHR: $2M Gtd [Championship Event – PKO] event which came with a staggering $430,047 first-place prize. The Swede battled his way to a heads-up match against partypoker ambassador Kristen ‘Krissyb24’ Bicknell, and ultimately was the last player standing to pick up his biggest online score to date. But his day wasn’t done with the Swede picking up a second PokerStars SCOOP title of the year as well in the #39-High: $1,050 NLO8 [6-Max] event.

Fast forward to September and ‘Lena900’ added a second partypoker Powerfest title to his name as well as a PokerStars WCOOP victory. The Swede came through a 194 player-field to win the Powerfest $5,200 #062-SHR: $1M Gtd [Championship Event] for $203,900, as well as picking up the gold medal in the WCOOP-27-M: $530 PLO [6-Max] for $58,228. And just over a week later, there was to be another Powerfest Championship Event final table for ‘Lena900’, after he achieved a third-place finish in the event #095-SHR for $157,560.

Back in 2014, ‘Lena900’ helped kick-start his online career with a fourth-place finish in the prestigious PokerStars Sunday Million and turned $215 into $81,366. Well in 2018, he was able to go one place better and ended November with a bronze medal worth $80,555.

A sensational second half of 2018, helped propel ‘Lena900’ up to second place on the Online Poker All-Time Earnings Leaderboard with over $13.6m and closed the gap on Chris Moorman who leads the way with $15.6m.

As for ‘Lena900’s closest rivals, ‘C.Darwin2’ outlasted a field of 122 players to win the PokerStars High Rollers 07: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max], $1M Gtd event for $267,406, and also took down the PokerStars Turbo Series 70: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller] for $161,411. A silver medal came in the 888 Poker XL Eclipse #32 – $1,000,000 Gtd Main Event for $135,000, after ‘C.Darwin2’ was pipped to the title by 2018 PLB fourth-place finisher Roman ‘Romeopro’ Romanovsky who banked $187,500 for victory.

PLB third-place finisher ‘hellohellohello‘ from Russia beat his best online score three-times throughout 2018, which included victory in the PokerStars Sunday Million for $160,888 during August.

Also securing their place in the top ten was Hungary’s Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth, Latvia’s ‘DamageAP‘, Argentina’s Ramiro ‘ramastar88’ Petrone, ‘Girafganger7‘, Sweden’s ‘Ariados‘, and the U.K.’s Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard.

Nemeth took down the PokerStars SCOOP-14-H: $25,000 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller] for an eye-watering $576,087, with Romanovsky taking the silver medal for a cool $442,299.

‘DamageAP’s top score came in the Powerfest #002-HR: $500K Gtd [PKO] event after defeating a 358 player-field to bank $94,546.

Petrone started the year fantastically when he took down the Powerfest #48-H: $1M Gtd Main Event for in February $195,720 and followed it up with a second Powerfest title in September, as well as a SCOOP and WCOOP title.

Fellow high-stakes crusher ‘GirafGanger7’ saw 2018 reward him with another WCOOP title after he won the WCOOP-55-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO] for $55,846.

‘Ariados’ had a day to remember on February 4th after a third-place finish in the PokerStars $215 Sunday Million 12th Anniversary $10M Gtd event saw them turn $215 into a career-best $539,554. The Swede followed up this result with several five and six-figure scores including a Powerfest title.

And completing the top ten was former world ranked #1 Leonard, who had an imposing end to the year with multiple scores in the PokerStars Winter and High Roller series, having earlier won three Powerfest titles including the #46-High: $1M Gtd NLH event for $207,978.

Username Points Biggest Score Average Score
1 lena900 29,952.68 1,414.21 299.53
2 C Darwin2 26,992.73 1,104.54 269.93
3 hellohellohello 24,909.33 1,091.60 249.09
4 Romeopro 21,906.06 1,043.16 219.06
5 probirs 21,783.32 1,581.14 217.83
6 DamageAP 21,684.83 707.11 216.85
7 Ramiro 21,602.44 1,086.29 216.02
8 girafganger7 21,588.41 603.32 215.88
9 Ariados 20,215.49 1,635.79 202.15
10 pleno1 20,177.75 1,009.95 201.78