It seems that knocking ‘C Darwin2’ out of the #1 spot in the PocketFives Rankings might be impossible. After taking nearly two full weeks off of online play, ‘C Darwin2’ returned to the virtual felt this week and despite not recording a single qualifying cash, can still call himself the top-ranked player in the world.

Sitting right behind him – 177.54 PLB points to be exact – is fellow Swede and former #1-ranked ‘lena900’. He too got back in action this week after being in Barcelona for the PokerStars Championship event but. just like ‘C Darwin2’, didn’t record any qualifying cashes.

That wasn’t the case for Robin ‘inhoo’ Ylitalo though. Ylitalo moved up from #5 to #3 after winning the PokerStars NLHE Sunday Grand and the PokerStars Omania Five Card PLO High Roller for a total of $38,848 and 569.44 points. He’s now just 208.31 points out of first.

While Ylitalo moved back into the top three, the names in the top 10 remain identical to last week. Russia’s ‘veeea’ and Sweden’s Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren dropped one spot each to #4 and #5 respectively and Nicolas ‘PokerKaiser’ Fierro and ‘DeathbyQuads’ swapped the #8 and #9 positions.

The biggest mover in the Top 25 was Canada’s Doug ‘OU_dlanger610’ Lang. The top-ranked player in his country, Lang moved from #24 to #16 in the world after picking up five qualifying cashes for 898.37 points. Lang is now just 614.91 points out of the #10 spot – his previous highest ranking.

The only player to drop out of the Top 25 this week was Latvian Dainis ‘ex6tence’ Budovskis. He dropped from #25 to #28. Jordan ‘JWPRODIGY’ Westmoreland took the #25 spot, up one spot from #26.

RANK PLAYER POINTS PREVIOUS
1 C Darwin2 7,889.94 1
2 lena900 7,712.40 2
3 Robin ‘inhoo’ Ylitalo 7,504.09 5
4 veeea 7,475.47 3
5 Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren 7,240.36 4
6 Ariados 7,206.66 6
7 Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford 7,088.89 7
8 Nicolas ‘PokerKaiser’ Fierro 6,758.36 9
9 DeathbyQuads 6,753.25 8
10 Sheater 6,626.22 10
11 Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth 6,416.04 11
12 Jonatan ‘Pot4teUS’ Hellman 6,408.71 14
13 Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar 6,311.70 12
14 Kenny ‘SpaceyFCB’ Hallaert 6,089.69 15
15 Joao ‘joaosimaobh’ Simao 6,078.83 13
16 Doug ‘OU_dlanger610’ Lang 6,011.31 24
17 hellohellohello 5,962.94 17
18 Ludovic ‘ludovi333’ Geilich-Jonsen 5,937.75 18
19 Jerry ‘perrymejsen’ Odeen 5,928.55 20
20 Renato Almeida ‘bauruzito’ Prado Valentim 5,858.04 16
21 Ivan ‘Banicivan’ Banic 5,837.30 19
22 Chris ‘Gettin Daize’ Oliver 5,806.63 21
23 Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez 5,728.84 22
24 Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard 5,634.95 23
25 Jordan ‘JWPRODIGY’ Westmoreland 5,603.13 26