Who Are the Top Online Poker Players from Taiwan?
If you rank the countries of the world in terms of Average PLB score on PocketFives, the eighth nation you’ll come to is Taiwan. The Average PLB for players in Taiwan is 946 points. Overall, Taiwan is #58 in the PocketFives County Poker Rankings with a combined PLB score of its top 20 players of 17,034 points. Here are the top 10 players in Taiwan in terms of their PLB score:
10. amurophil – The seventh ranked player in Taipei, amurophil finished second in the PokerStars Sunday Second Chance in May 2010 for $37,000. He has 10 tracked wins in his profile on PocketFives.
9. zethfion – This Taiwanese player is known as Mr. NTD on PokerStars. He just joined PocketFives two weeks ago and is the sixth ranked player in Taipei.
8. rowley8 (pictured above) – Djonetime on Full Tilt Poker and 888 Poker. He is the fifth ranked player in Taipei and can be found at #5,442 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings.
7. billybeartku – Real name: Terry Fan. He final tabled the Full Tilt Poker Big Ben in May 2013 for nearly $10,000. On that site, you can find him playing under the user name yo soy un nit and on 888, he is known as grandma_love.
6. ynd (pictured, left) – Taiwan’s Kenny Shih made a deep run in the 2011 WSOP Main Event and finished in 18th place for $378,000. In 2012, he was part of a six-way chop of the PokerStars Sunday Million and raked in $80,000.
5. Rioyuehlee – Real name: Yueh Lee. Earlier this year, he won the gold in the PokerStars $8.80 Rebuy and took home $9,500. Lee joined PocketFives in October.
4. mrp1neapple (pictured, right) – Kai Sheng Yang won a WCOOP $215 No Limit Hold’em Eight-Max tournament this year for $280,000 officially. That tournament had a prize pool that nearly passed $2 million. Yang is the lone Taiwanese PocketFiver to record a six-figure score.
3. DoGGz – mMagic_Cards on PokerStars and the top ranked player in Taipei. He won the Big $109 for $25,000 last year. He has 56 tracked in the money finishes so far in November.
2. Spiili – TooRich4u4eva on PartyPoker. He has $351,000 in tracked scores and finished 15th in the Sunday Million two weeks ago for $5,900. Spiili has a half-dozen tracked wins since November 6.
1. yerlikaya – Ranked #1,156 worldwide. He cashed for $69,000 in a tournament on PartyPoker in August 2012 and final tabled the iPoker $250,000 Guaranteed three years prior for $20,000.
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