No matter how you look at it, Niklas ‘Lena900’ Astedt is one of the most dominant online poker players in the history of online poker. The Swedish superstar has hit the top of the Online Poker Rankings ten different times and spent a record 97 weeks in total at #1. On top of that, he […]

For the last six months, Brazilian Bruno Botteon has been on an absolute rampage on the online felt and on Thursday the #3-ranked player in the world took down a PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker title for the second time in his career.

Pascal ‘Pass_72’ Lefrancois made his way through a star-studded PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker final table on Tuesday to take home the second-largest score of his online poker career and fourth six-figure cash of the last month.

More PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) action took place on Tuesday, May 12, but the day was more about what’s to come than what happened. Only a few of the day’s events played to a completion, as several were two-day competitions that set up for big finishes on Wednesday.

Fifteen players ended their Friday night by winning a PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker title including four players who weren’t making their debut in the winner’s circle.

Bulgaria’s Rosen ‘dtminator’ Apostolov banked their first six-figure online cash after navigating through a 10,344 player-field in the PokerStars $109 Sunday Million for $108,027. Apostolov crushed their previous best score of $12k after a heads-up victory over Canada’s ‘Samuel Peace‘. Morocco’s ‘bibichov1989‘ claimed the bronze medal for $55,843, with the well-known name of Mike ‘goleafsgoeh’ […]

PocketFives.com world-ranked #1 Andras Nemeth had a Sunday to remember after the Hungarian cashed for over $450,000, following four final table appearances, and two gold medals.

World-ranked #2 Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth topped 872 entrants in this week’s PokerStars $530 Bounty Builder High Roller to win over $67,000. Hungary’s Nemeth defeated ‘patasss‘ heads-up to score victory and the final bounty prize for a combined cash of$36,227 + $31,121, with runner-up ‘patasss’ banking $25,823 + $5,667. Canada’s ‘D_DIGGLER99‘ took third place for $18,407 […]

Roman ‘SanityWaterline’ Romanovsky kicked off the GGPoker GGSeries 2 in the perfect way by taking down the Event #12: $400k Gtd $10,000 Super HR for $173,790. The world-ranked #5 defeated Men’s GPI #1 Alex ‘FkTheseGuysBro’ Foxen heads-up after 42 entrants created a $407,400 prize pool. Foxen took away $102,684 for his efforts, with ‘LaurisL91‘ taking the […]

Winning the PocketFives April PLB Leaderboard was none other than worldwide #1 ‘lena900,’ who banked 4,541.07 points. Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth finished in second, less than 100 points behind, and ‘hellohellohello‘ was third but a bit further off in points.

Brazil’s Thomas ‘tomnelz1’ Nelz secured his biggest online cash to date after victory in the PokerStars $109 Sunday Million for $110,747. After last week’s edition saw the lowest number of entrants take part since the revamped $109 buy-in was set, the numbers picked up this Sunday as 11,480 entrants created a $1,148,000 prize pool. When […]

Movers & Shakers takes a look into those PocketFives members that have made big moves in the top 100 of the online poker rankings.

partypoker’s POWERFEST continued to bring in big numbers on Thursday as 18 new tournaments took place and over $3.4 million in total prize pools were up for grabs.

The final Sunday of online poker action in 2018 saw former PocketFives.com #1 ranked player Patrick ‘pads1161’ Leonard bank over $112,000 after he achieved both a Gold and Silver medal finish.