PocketFives Rankings Update: Big Week for Big Huni

Dan · November 26, 2014

Another week, another update to the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings. This week was a big one for longtime PocketFiver Chris Big Huni Hunichen (pictured), who moved up five spots to #4 in the world and is knocking on the door of #1. He has 7,569 PLB Points, 266 shy of being ranked #1 for the first time ever.

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Hunichen’s movement came as a result of a heads-up chop in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up over the weekend in which he took home $89,000. The field numbered over 3,100 entrants and Hunichen logged his third largest cash to date. He final tabled a WCOOP Super Progressive Knockout in September for almost $80,000 officially and just passed $7 million in tracked online tournament winnings.

Knocking on the door of the top 10 worldwide this week is Romeopro, who moved up 13 spots to #11. He has had a productive last four days, taking down the 888 PokerTwister, the PokerStars Big $55, and the Full Tilt T-Rex for $23,000 combined. We’re reasonably confident he’ll crack the top 10 when the Rankings are recalculated next week.

Peru’s Diego Ventura Chunga, known on PocketFives as Die Ventura, rose 22 spots to settle at #49 in the world on the strength of a final table in the Sunday Million over the weekend for $29,000. He has $1.4 million in career online tournament winnings and his current ranking is his best ever.

Across the Pacific from Peru in New Zealand is asjbaaaf, who moved up 19 spots and landed at #56. He has three wins in the last seven days and reached an all-time high of #21 worldwide on PocketFives last year. asjbaaaf is the top-ranked player in New Zealand.

Finally, we wanted to single out Austria’s king2173, who debuted in the top 100 at #76. He won the PokerStars $109 NLHE Turbo on Tuesday for $9,100, one of five in the money finishes that day. He is the fifth-ranked player in the poker mecca of Austria with $2.2 million in career winnings.

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

1. p0cket00 – 7,835 points
2. PokerKaiser – 7,740 points
3. CrownUpGuy – 7,638 points
4. Big Huni – 7,569 points
5. Yuri Martins – 7,563 points
6. pleno1 – 7,420 points
7. vicenfish – 7,304 points
8. joaomathias – 6,937 points
9. jbrown8777 – 6,932 points
10. r4ndomr4gs – 6,906 points