Steven van Zadelhoff has reason to smile after winning the WCOOP Main Event on Tuesday for a career-best .6M score (PokerStars photo)

Winning the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event came with a career-best $1.6 million score for Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff but it also came with enough PocketFives Leaderboard points to move the Dutch grinder to #2 in the world.

The WCOOP Main Event win gave van Zadelhoff a whopping 3,303.79 points and moved him from #31 to #21. That score wasn’t his only qualifying cash this past week. He also took down a PokerStars Hot $109, picked up a smaller cash in WCOOP Event #66 (Low), and then finished runner-up in another $109 on PokerStars to earn a combined 484.62 points. He now sits 92.98 points behind ‘C Darwin2’, who held onto the #1 ranking for the 11th consecutive week.

A sixth-place finish in WCOOP Event #74 (High) was the only qualifying cash that ‘C Darwin2’ picked up this week. For that the Swede earned $17,891.54 and 247.40 points.

The other player to move into the top 10 was Laszlo ‘omaha4rollz’ Bujtas. The Hungarian went from #15 to #9 thanks to five qualifying cashes this past week for a total of 1085.8 points. In the process he not only cracked the top 10 for the first time in his career but also overtook Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth as the #1-ranked player in Hungary. Nemeth ended up at #10 in the world this week.

With van Zadelhoff and Bujtas moving into the top 10, two players had to move out and it turns out they are both former #1-ranked players. Fabrzio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez went from #9 to #15 while Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford fell from #10 to #12.

Just one week after taking down his first WCOOP title and moving into the #13 spot, Chris ‘Big_Huni’ Hunichen dropped to #25.

PocketFives Rankings Top 25

RANK PLAYER POINTS PREVIOUS
1 C Darwin2 9,258.81 1
2 Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff 9,165.83 31
3 lena900 9,039.33 2
4 Joao ‘joaosimaobh’ Simao 8,530.89 4
5 veeea 8,329.74 3
6 Sheater 7,709.56 7
7 Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren 7,667.62 5
8 Robin ‘inhoo’ Ylitalo 7,571.97 6
9 Laszlo ‘omaha4rollz’ Bujtas 7,218.32 15
10 Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth 7,205.65 8
11 DeathbyQuads 6,967.38 12
12 Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford 6,893.81 10
13 Ariados 6,871.30 11
14 Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard 6,843.83 23
15 Fabrzio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez 6,832.05 9
16 Roman ‘Romeopro’ Romanovsky 6,816.41 20
17 Apotheosis 6,802.00 19
18 Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar 6,795.23 14
19 Jonatan ‘Pot4teUS’ Hellman 6,755.48 17
20 nilsef 6,724.40 18
21 Nicolas ‘PokerKaiser’ Fierro 6,700.89 16
22 Ludovich ‘ludovi333’ Geilich 6,581.07 21
23 Kenny ‘SpaceyFCB’ Hallaert 6,477.64 29
24 Ramiro ‘rayastar’ Petrone 6,452.87 37
25 Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen 6,446.58 13