PocketFives Rankings Update: 2 Weeks, 2 New Top Players

Dan · January 29, 2014

For the second straight week, there’s a new #1 player atop the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings. This time, it’s Costa Rica’s Brian brianm15England (pictured), who reached the apex of the Rankings for the first time ever. He was up three spots on the week and supplanted Sweden’s lukethafluke, who fell to #2 worldwide. England has $3.3 million in tracked scores in his PocketFives profile.

England finished third in the PokerStars$265 No Limit Hold’em Knockout three days ago for $10,000 and won the site’s $109 Cubed on January 21 for another $12,000. At the beginning of the month, England took down the Full Tilt Multi-Hundo for $17,000, his third and final five-figure cash of 2014 so far. England is up on lukethafluke by 115 PLB Points.

Also climbing high this week was Sweden’s Anton Herrmann, who is known as VnilaVaderon PocketFives. Herrmann jumped 11 spots to #6 worldwide after winning the 888 Poker Mega Deep over the weekend for $33,000 and a windfall of 369 PLB Points. He placed second in the PokerStars Super Tuesday on January 21 for $83,000 in cash plus 511 PLB Points. Herrmann has five scores of at least $10,000 since January 6, and players from Sweden occupy four of the top seven spots in the Rankings.

Moving from #38 worldwide to #18 this week was Nick fu_15 Maimone (pictured), who had a huge Sunday that included runner-up finishes in the PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy and Sunday Warm-Up for over $126,000 total officially. Maimone was ranked as high as #6 on PocketFives last year.

Denmark’s sifosis rose from #60 to #37, or 23 places, his highest slotting ever. He has four tracked wins in the last 15 days, bringing his mark up to 71 total, and owns $2.3 million in lifetime scores. He is the top ranked player in Denmark and has been a member of PocketFives since late 2012.

Kevin ImaLuckSac MacPhee has bounced around the Rankings for the last several years and sits at #61 this week, up 23 spots. MacPhee took second in a TCOOP $55 No Limit Hold’em event six days ago for $46,000 and final tabled the 888 Sunday Challenge two weeks ago for $10,000. MacPhee has 120 tracked wins.

Among newcomers to the top 100 this week, DaFace debuted highest at #68, his best mark ever. The Costa Rican won the PokerStars Sunday 500 over the weekend for $68,000 officially, a performance that netted him 618 PLB Points. He is the #6 player in Costa Rica and #1 in the capital of San Jose.

Finally, we want to single out BigMeech99, who calls Sweden home and has won three PocketFives Triple Crowns this month. Three! He reentered the top 100 this week at #78. We should have an interview with BigMeech99 in the near future.

Here are the top 10 players in the Rankings this week along with the PLB score for each:

1. brianm15– 7,632 points
2. lukethafluke– 7,517 points
3. mindgamer – 7,476 points
4. Sheater – 7,460 points
5. bparis – 7,410 points
6. VnilaVader– 7,379 points
7. inhoo – 7,230 points
8. moorman1 – 7,133 points
9. Vinkyy – 6,964 points
10. Big Huni – 6,950 points