PocketFives Rankings Update: blanconegro, lilachaa Crack Top 10

Dan · April 30, 2014

The PocketFives Online Poker Rankingswere recalculated today and, for the third straight week, Anton VnilaVaderHerrmann was the top player in the world. He continues to rack up cashes too, including an $11,000 haul for winning a PokerStars $320 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament one week ago and a $42,000 haul for taking down the site’s Bigger $55 two days before that. Herrmann has a 100-point lead over second place in the Rankings.

We have two newcomers to the top 10 this week. The first is Connor blanconegro Drinan (pictured), who entered at #8 worldwide, his highest position ever. Drinan has been on fire this week, winning the PokerStars Hotter $75 on Sunday for $27,000 and final tabling the Sunday Second Chance the same day for another $13,000.

The second newcomer to the top 10 this week was Alen lilachaaBilic, a recent PocketFives interviewee who won the iPoker Sunday Special ten days ago for $33,000 and took down the PokerStars Sunday 500 on April 13 for $79,000 officially. Bilic opened the month of April by earning an FTOPS jersey and is up to $1.3 million in tracked scores. We wouldn’t be surprised to see him crack the top five next week.

Sweden’s Yaya24, one of six Swedes in the top 12 of the Rankings, moved up seven spots after being ranked #19 last week. Yaya24 won the Full Tilt PokerT-Rex over the weekend for $25,000 and finished second in a Winamax W Series tournament earlier this month for $22,000.

Shooting up 31 spots this week, one of the biggest jumps of anyone in the top 100, was Canada’s Lockhurt(pictured), who settled at #52, his highest position ever. Lockhurt won the PokerStars $109 No Limit Hold’em Cubed for $23,000 on Sunday and final tabled the Bigger $162 on April 20 for $17,000. He is the top-ranked player in Newmarket, Ontario and plays as UncleAnte9on PokerStars.

Speaking of Canadians, Vancouver’s d.quangmotored from #86 to #57 on the strength of a victory in a PokerStars Carnival tournament for $30,000 nine days ago. He received his $2 million cash badge last week and can be found under the user name PrestonBankson 888 Poker.

Hungary’s breeth (pictured) debuted at #65 worldwide, the highest ranking of anyone entering the top 100 of the Rankings this week. He was ranked as high as #3 on PocketFives five years ago and won a PokerStars $109 No Limit Hold’em Turbo on Sunday for $19,000. On April 15, he final tabled the site’s Super Tuesday and reeled in $30,000. breeth is the #1 player in Hungary.

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

1. VnilaVader– 7,679 points
2. Flush_Entity – 7,562 points
3. lukethafluke – 7,439 points
4. Sheater – 7,428 points
5. moorman1 – 7,420 points
6. r4ndomr4gs – 7,299 points
7. huiiiiiiiiii – 7,079 points
8. blanconegro– 7,047 points
9. lilachaa– 6,861 points
10. brianm15 – 6,791 points