Portugal's Rui ‘RuiBouquet’ Bouquet took the top spot on the 888poker Top Earners List for January 2020.

PocketFivers looking to start 2020 off on the right foot headed over to 888poker to take advantage of the online site’s value-heavy tournament schedule.

From mid-stakes to micro grinders, members of the PocketFives community picked up big-time scores and racked up wins to help build their bankrolls for what looks to be another great year on 888poker.

Thanks to a deep run in one of 888poker’s marquee events, Portugal’s Rui ‘RuiBouquet’ Bouquet ended up in the #1 spot on the 888poker Top Earners list for January.

Bouquet worked his way through the 824-entry field of the January 12 edition of the $109 buy-in $100,000 Sunday Sale Mega Deep to finish as the runner-up for an 888poker career-high cash of $16,495.

The five-figure score came on the heels of weeks worth of grinding on the site. Bouquet, a mid-stakes grinder, was putting in plenty of volume on the site and recording cashes nearly every day in the first two weeks of January. In total, he notched 15 cashes in the month for earnings totaling $18,912.

His play on 888poker has helped propel him to be the #192-ranked player in the world and #3-ranked player in all of Portugal. Bouquet adds the over $18,000 to his career lifetime total of over $1.05 million in earnings.

The UK’s ‘pszemula’ finished the month just $821 behind Bouquet, earning $18,091 in January.

‘pszemula’ put together a string of 17 cashes to start off the year, including six four-figure scores. He got off to his fast start in January by booking a pair of victories in one of 888poker’s most popular daily tournaments. First, on January 6, ‘pszemula’ faded the field in the $109 buy-in $10,000 Mega Deep to win $3,273. Just two days later, he binked a win in the very same tournament or another $3,275.

‘pszemula’ finished in the top three in eight of his 17 cashes and now sits less than $50,000 away from reaching the $1.5 million mark in career online earnings.

The third spot on the Top Earners list belongs to Brazil’s Vinicius ’vinimiranda7’ Miranda. Miranda, playing under his 888poker screen name ‘RegRastafari’, picked up $14,911 in earnings on 17 cashes.

The Brazilian had six four-figure results in January. His spotlight score took place on January 20 in the $33 BIG Fish when he outlasted a field of 328 entries to book a win and take home the $2,514 first-place prize.

Miranda made the podium in eight of his 17 cashes, four of which were outright wins. Miranda currently sits at #194 in the worldwide rankings and has climbed to #44 in all of Brazil.

888poker Top Earners of January 2020

PLAYER EARNINGS CASHES WINS
RuiBouquet $18,912.51 15 0
pszemula $18,091.95 17 2
vinimiranda7 $14,911.38 17 4
Belabacsi $14,180.94 12 4
tdr01 $13,103.80 3 0
LIk3az0mbY $12,478.27 46 1
Gil3000 $10,146.13 27 1
505 $10,110.10 19 0
Kaktus26rus $9,904.13 44 1
plush0 $9,9826.01 14 1

‘JR Smoker’ decided to buckle down and put in maximum volume in the first month of 2020 and it landed him atop the Most Cashes list with 89 in-the-money finishes. Of those 89 cashes, four of them were outright victories and helped the small-stakes grinder to $2,493 in total earnings.

888poker reg Stephen ’sizzlinbetta’ Reynolds also put his nose to the grindstone in January picking up 81 cashes, good for second on the list. Reynolds added $1,776 to his already impressive $2.362 million in lifetime earnings.

Russia’s ’smooke28’, who appears on this list in tenth place last month, rounds out the top three with 60 total cashes. The micro-stakes savant collected $1,135 in total earnings as he continues his climb to $700,000 in total lifetime earnings.

888poker Top 10 Cashers of January 2020

PLAYER EARNINGS CASHES WINS
JR Smoker $2,493.04 89 4
sizzlinbetta $1,776.27 81 3
smooke28 $1,135.90 60 1
Durval Santos Silva Neto $1,848.86 59 3
llxandell $2,036.14 57 1
Capitolo 6 $1,088.74 51 2
AnimaleGO $2,208.70 49 0
steveysee $1,206.40 48 2
LIk3az0mbY $12,478.27 46 1
REBAYMEDONK $1,462.90 45 5

There may be no better feeling in poker than closing out a tournament and no one enjoyed that feeling more in January than Russia’s ‘FENOMENICO’ who took down 11 tournaments in 36 cashes. Grinding at the small stakes, the Russian picked up $1,591 during the month and added that to his $516,000 in lifetime earnings.

Russia’s ‘Oleg_Smok’ and ‘REBAYMEDONK’ from the Republic of Moldova both took down five tournaments to wrap up the top three First Place Finishers.

888poker Top 10 First-Place Finishers January 2019

PLAYER EARNINGS CASHES WINS
FENOMENICO $1,591.68 36 11
Oleg_Smok $955.61 34 5
REBAYMEDONK $1,462.90 45 5
JR Smoker $2,493.04 89 4
vinimiranda7 $14,911.38 17 4
Belabacsi $14,180.94 12 4
BLaaZeKuSH $6,157.16 39 4
TIGHTasYrSis $8,206.43 17 3
Andrejsssss $788.59 37 3
ds10jqka $1,921.08 14 3