Moving up one spot this week in the PocketFives Country Poker Rankingswas the lucky nation of Ireland. Boasting a combined PLB score of its top 20 players of 73,308, Ireland has laid claim to five Triple Crowns. We have 826 registered members from the European island nation and also get a considerable number of visitors from Ireland every month. With that in mind, we thought it would be worthwhile to review the top 10 players in Ireland according to the number of PLB Points they have.

10. MrTimCaum (pictured) – Steve O’Dwyer is a highly successful live and online poker pro who recently final tabled the EPT London Main Event for $219,000. According to the Hendon Mob, he has eight six-figure live tournament scores to his name.

9. SuitedAcesBaby – The #2 ranked player in Dublin, SuitedAcesBaby took down the PokerStars Big $162 last month and pocketed $22,000. He is on the verge of passing 2,000 tracked in the money finishes in his PocketFives profile.

8. danceofthefdead – The top ranked player in Cork, danceofthefdead took down the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy last September for $79,000, the largest score we’ve logged for him.

7. Laois Hammer – Irish Iron on Full Tilt. He has multiple wins in the PokerStars Hot $33 and Hot $75. He is also on the cusp of scoring his $500,000 cash badge.

6. BIGMICKG – The lone registered PocketFiver from Ashbourne, Mick Graydon won the PokerStars.fr Night on Stars last week for $11,000 and was once ranked as high as #32 worldwide. You can now find him at #399.

5. Jaymo – deyrzuited on PokerStars and Dlishfinest on Full Tilt. He is the top ranked player in Longford and won the PokerStars Big $162 last month for $24,000.

4. mully_85 – Emmett Mullin won the PokerStars Big $162 in November and January for a combined haul of $43,000. He has over $1.4 million in tracked cashes and has been a member of PocketFives since mid-2007.

3. dinos622 – One of three registered PocketFivers from Clonmel. He has had a fairly eventful 2013 on PokerStars, where he won the site’s Bigger $162 for $47,000, finished second in the Bigger $109 for $37,000, and won the Hotter $16.50 for $17,000.

2. danloulou (pictured) – The owner of over $2.3 million in tracked scores, danloulou is the top ranked player in Dublin and won an FTOPS $100 Cubed event in March for $45,000 and a jersey, defeating a field of nearly 800 players.

1. j.thaddeus – Over 1,400 PLB Points ahead of danloulou is j.thaddeus, who has recorded the largest online MTT cash of any Irish PocketFiver, a $963,000 haul for winning the 2009 SCOOP Main Event. He is one of only a handful of PocketFivers to pass $4 million in tracked cashes.

Here are the PLB scores for each of the top 10 ranked players in Ireland:

1. j.thaddeus – 5,969.88
2. danloulou – 4,511.69
3. dinos622 – 4,417.89
4. mully_85 – 4,214.46
5. Jaymo – 3,946.08
6. BIGMICKG – 3,889.29
7. Laois Hammer – 3,840.67
8. danceofthefdead – 3,803.48
9. SuitedAcesBaby – 3,730.04
10. MrTimCaum – 3,726.03

See what’s brewing in PocketFives’ Ireland poker community.

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