Chris Moorman and Christopher Brammer both won their first WSOP bracelets this summer. (WSOP photo)

It took a while for the former #1-ranked players to get going at the 2017 World Series of Poker, but now that the Main Event is a little over two weeks away, the group of elite players is clearly hitting its stride. With 52 cashes and $2,561,302 in earnings through 46 events, the group still has a ways to go before matching the 2016 numbers of 110 cashes and $11,729,142 in earnings.

Christopher Brammer‘s first bracelet win this past weekend was the second bracelet won by former #1-ranked PocketFivers this summer. It also made him the highest earning member of the group so far this year.

Christopher Brammer

2017 WSOP cashes: 2
2017 WSOP earnings: $528,799

Brammer beat out 504 other players to win the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em (30 minute levels) and his first career bracelet. The win was worth $527,555. It was Brammer’s first WSOP final table appearance since two fifth place finishes in 2012.

Brammer’s only other 2017 WSOP cash was a 145th-place finish in the $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty for $1,244.

Shaun Deeb

2017 WSOP cashes: 7
2017 WSOP earnings: $195,198

While Shaun Deeb has yet to win a bracelet this summer, he’s managed to find the cashier’s cage seven times, the most of any former #1-ranked player. Of the seven cashes, just one was a final table. Deeb finished second to Ben Yu in the $10,000 Triple Draw Deuce to Seven event for $143,842.

His next biggest score came in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship where he finished 12th for $12,318.

Chris Hunichen

2017 WSOP cashes: 2
2017 WSOP earnings: $363,646

Chris Hunichen made it through 572 other players in the $5,000 Six Max No Limit Hold’em event only to lose heads-up with Russia’s Nadar Kazhmazov. The $358,677 score is Hunichen’s biggest at the WSOP. His previous was $229,575 for a sixth place finish in the 2013 Millionaire Maker.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko

2017 WSOP cashes: 3
2017 WSOP earnings: $228,746

In the same event that Brammer won, Yevgeniy Timoshenko finished third for $223,574, his third largest WSOP cash behind a 22nd place finish in the 2013 Main Event and a runner-up in the $25,000 Heads-up Championship in 2011. His other two cashes this summer were a 821st place finish in the Millionaire Maker and a 86th place finish in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event.