In late May, Belgium’s ‘girafganger7‘ quietly removed his screennames from his PocketFives account and in the process gave up his control of the #1 spot on the PocketFives Rankings, allowing the Swedish players to eventually take over the top five spots.

He’s back this week though and has retaken the #1 spot and left six Swedish players in the top 10 looking up at him.

Girafganger7‘ had three big scores this week that added to his PLB points total. He won a PokerStars $109 Six Max Hyper Turbo for $3,872 and 139.33 points, a PokerStars Big $215 for $9,184/218.17 and then finished runner-up in the PokerStars Fat Thursday for $10,923/188.92. His 10,768.36 total points puts him 1,459.04 ahead of the #2 player in the world, ‘lena900’.

Lena900‘, who has held the #1 spot five different times in his career, is currently in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker and hasn’t posted a single online cash since June 8.

C Darwin2‘ sits #3 after adding to his PLB total with a runner-up finish in the PokerStars PLO Sunday Grand for $15,645/194.60. ‘Inhoo‘, at #4, is also in Las Vegas and has not recorded a single online cash since June 18. Same storyline for #5-ranked ‘Ariados‘ with no cashes since June 6.

Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren has yet to join his fellow countrymen in Sin City though. He put up three cashes big enough to add to his PLB score. He won the partypoker High Roller on for $11,817/200, finished sixth in the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $12,811/186.93 and then took down the partypoker Heavyweight Weigh-in for $3,833/130. He’s now got a 189.11 cushion between himself and #7-ranked Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez.

The only player in the top 10 this week that wasn’t there last week was another Swede, Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar. Korsar moved up one spot from #11 to #10.

Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford and ‘Sheater‘ were the two players to drop out of the 10 this week, falling to #11 and #12 respecitvely.

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RANK PLAYER POINTS PREVIOUS
1 girafganger7 10,768.36 (NR)
2 lena900 9,309.32 1
3 C Darwin2 9,184.43 2
4 inhoo 9,037.99 3
5 Ariados 8,633.56 4
6 Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren 7,859.17 5
7 Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez 7,670.06 7
8 Nicolas ‘PokerKaiser’ Fierro 7,591.52 6
9 Andres ‘probirs’ Nemeth 7,570.27 8
10 Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar 7,067.45 11