Who Are the Top Ranked Players from Norway?
Up two spots this week in the PocketFives Country Poker Rankingsis Norway, which advanced from #22 worldwide to #20. The Scandinavian nation leapfrogged Israel and Romania in the process and has a combined PLB tally of its top 20 members of 66,031 points. Who are the players making waves in this community? Here are the top 10 PocketFivers in Norway in terms of PLB score:
10. DevilTruck – He has $3.3 million in lifetime tracked cashes in his PocketFives profile and in 2010 was ranked as high as #43 worldwide. DevilTruck final tabled the 2010 SCOOP Main Event for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
9. dmond– He just passed $1 million in tracked earnings and finished third in the PokerStars $109 No Limit Hold’em Turbo 2X Chance in February for $5,500.
8. Stilige_Mari – The #2 ranked player in Rogaland, he has multiple wins in the PokerStars $109 Rebuy under his belt as well as a victory in the PokerStars $50,000 Guaranteed in January 2011 for $20,000.
7. athilla– The #4 ranked player in Trondheim, Orjan Skommo took down the 888 Poker Mega Deep on April 7 and cashed out for $32,000. You can find him under the user name WhoAreYou9 on 888.
6. Espeen – He is just $42,000 shy of earning his $1 million cash badge. This player, who also calls Trondheim home, won the PokerStars $109 Rebuy on the last day of January and banked $13,000.
5. kanaris9 – One of two PocketFivers to record scores from Brumunddal, kanaris9 won the PokerStars $530 Monday Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max and $162 Sunday Six-Max for nearly $50,000 combined… in the last week.
4. ranil – The #2 ranked player in Trondheim, ranil closed out 2012 by taking down the PokerStars $215 No Limit Hold’em Turbo 2X Chance, Nightly Fifty Grand, and Big $162 – all in the last two weeks of December – for over $40,000 total.
3. MarkusG– The top ranked PocketFiver from Trondheim, MarkusG final tabled the Sunday Million at the end of 2011 for $57,000, his largest tracked online poker score to date.
2. Smurfehits – He is 10 days removed from a final table in the Sunday Brawl for $14,000. His big hit came in mid-2011 after a second place finish in the Full Tilt $1 Million Guaranteed earned him $149,000.
1. milldollbaby – Ranked #164 worldwide, milldollbaby won the PokerStars $109 Cubed and Full Tilt Tyrannosaurus Rex for $11,000 apiece in a two-day span in March.
See who else is making headlines by visiting our Norway poker community.
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