PocketFives

PocketFives
languages	English
operator	Lance Bradley
user	over 170,000
Registration	optional
On-line	January 2005
https://www.pocketfives.com/

PocketFives is a US website that lists the top online poker tournament players , updated weekly .

history

PocketFives was founded in January 2005 by Vanderbilt University graduates Cal Spears, Adam Small and Riley Bryant. The name of the website goes back to the poker starting hand 5 ♥ 5 ♦ . After five years, the website already had more than 100,000 members. PocketFives is now the largest online poker database and has been cooperating with the Hendon Mob Poker Database and the Global Poker Index since December 2013 . Since 2016, the PocketFives Legacy Award has been presented once a year as part of the Global Poker Awards (until 2017 American Poker Awards ) for the lifetime achievement of a player. Previous winners have been Cliff Josephy , Ari Engel and Chris Moorman .

mode

In order to appear in the world rankings, a player must register and enter the nicknames under which he plays on various online poker platforms. For every tournament that a player finishes in the prize categories, he is assigned a number of points, which is calculated using the following formula:

${\displaystyle \mathrm {Punktzahl} =\mathrm {(Preispool)} ^{1/2}\cdot \mathrm {(Platz)} ^{-3/5}}$.

The prize pool is the total prize money of the tournament in US dollars and the place is the final placement on which the player finished the tournament. The calculation is therefore independent of the prize money won, provided the player has reached the money ranks. After three months the number of points for a tournament is reduced to 75% of the value, the same after six months to 50% and after nine months to 25%. One year after the tournament success, the score will be set to zero. For a player his best 40 results are decisive, which are added up to the so-called "Sliding PLB", where PLB stands for PocketFives Leaderboard . The ranking is updated every Saturday.

As all online tournament earnings of a player are displayed on the website, PocketFives is used as a reference for this in the press by default.

World number one

Conor Beresford has been leading since May 16, 2020

Niklas Åstedt was world number one for the longest at 98 weeks

At 74 weeks, Cliff Josephy was the longest uninterrupted world number one

58 different players, including a woman with Annette Obrestad and two German-speaking players with Stefan Jedlicka and Fedor Holz , have been at the top of the world rankings since the first ranking on January 17, 2005. The Briton Conor Beresford has been in charge since May 16, 2020 .

As of August 29, 2020

space	User name	origin	player	first on	last time on	Weeks	series	profile
1	lena900		Niklas Åstedt	March 30, 2016	May 15, 2020	98	44	[1]
2	JohnnyBax		Cliff Josephy	Apr 18, 2005	17 Sep 2006	74	74	[2]
3	C Darwin2		Simon Mattsson	Feb 10, 2016	18th May 2018	67	20th	[3]
4th	gboro780		Steve Gross	Feb 25, 2009	17 Aug 2010	55	24	[4]
5	M8kingmoves		Chad Batista	22 Aug 2007	July 1, 2008	45	45	[5]
6th	cal42688		Calvin Anderson	5th Sep 2012	Nov 12, 2013	40	22nd	[6]
7th	Flush_Entity		Griffin Benger	Oct 26, 2011	May 20, 2014	32	18th	[7]
8th	p0cket00		Sebastian Sikorski	June 29, 2011	Dec 9, 2014	28	07th	[8th]
9	moorman1		Chris Moorman	Aug 27, 2008	Apr 15, 2014	24	05	[9]
	Poker Emperor		Nicolás Fierro	Sep 24 2014	25 Aug 2015	24	16	[10]
11	AJKHoosier1		Alexander Kamberis	Aug 6, 2008	Jan. 27, 2009	23	18th	[11]
12	SixthSenSe19		Fabrizio González	Oct 5, 2016	March 14, 2017	21st	15th	[12]
13	1_conor_b_1		Conor Beresford	May 16, 2020	4th Sep 2020	16	16	[13]
	eisenhower1		Christian Jeppsson	Sep 30 2015	Jan. 19, 2016	16	16	[14]
	Gettin Daize		Christopher Oliver	Aug 18, 2010	Dec 21, 2010	16	14th	[15]
16	Imper1um		Sorel Mizzi	Apr 18, 2007	Aug 21, 2007	15th	07th	[16]
17th	brsavage		Chris Savage	Jan. 17, 2005	Apr 17, 2005	13	13	[17]
18th	Jymaster0011		Jordan Young	Nov 24, 2010	May 10, 2011	12	06th	[18]
19th	Annette_15		Annette Obrestad	Jan. 31, 2007	Apr 17, 2007	11	11	[19]
	pessagno		Caio Pessagno	3rd July 2013	Oct 1, 2013	11	08th	[20]
	probirs		András Németh	13 Apr 2019	Sep 20 2019	11	08th	[21]
22nd	ch0ppy		Matthew Kay	July 18, 2012	Feb. 26, 2013	09	06th	[22]
	LarsLuzak		Sami Kelopuro	28 Sep 2019	6 Dec 2019	09	06th	[23]
	taypaur		Taylor Paur	June 23, 2010	March 22, 2011	09	07th	[24]
25th	djk123		Dan Kelly	July 2, 2008	Dec 29, 2009	08th	05	[25]
	lukethafluke		Lukas Berglund	Jan. 22, 2014	17th June 2014	08th	04th	[26]
	shaundeeb		Shaun Deeb	July 16, 2008	22 Sep 2009	08th	06th	[27]
	Sheater		Andreas Samuelsson	Dec 25, 2013	Apr 8, 2014	08th	04th	[28]
	Tmay420		Timothy West	Oct 25, 2006	Dec 12, 2006	08th	08th	[29]
	Yuri Martins		Yuri Dzivielevski	Oct 8, 2014	Jan. 20, 2015	08th	05	[30]
31	BeL0WaB0Ve		Kevin Saul	Dec 13, 2006	Jan. 30, 2007	07th	07th	[31]
32	Ari		Ari angel	Sep 18 2006	Oct 24, 2006	06th	06th	[32]
	Doc Sands		David Sands	Jan. 13, 2010	Feb 23, 2010	06th	06th	[33]
	Legends		Ilya Anazki	13th March 2013	May 28, 2013	06th	04th	[34]
	NigDawG		Christopher Brammer	Jan. 18, 2012	March 13, 2012	06th	04th	[35]
36	Big Huni		Chris Hunichen	Jan. 28, 2015	March 3, 2015	05	05	[36]
	pleno1		Patrick Leonard	13 Aug 2014	Nov 15, 2019	05	02	[37]
38	aguskb		Aaron Gustavson	26 Aug 2015	29 Sep 2015	04th	03	[38]
	joaosimaobh		João Simão	4th May 2016	5th july 2016	04th	02	[39]
40	CrownUpGuy		Fedor wood	Dec 10, 2014	March 31, 2015	03	01	[40]
	girafganger7		Bert Stevens	May 27, 2017	July 14, 2017	03	02	[41]
	Greenstone25		Johannes Corsair	7th Dec 2019	Dec. 27, 2019	03	03	[42]
	joaomathias		João Baumgarten	Jan. 21, 2015	4th Oct 2016	03	02	[43]
	paulgees81		Paul Volpe	March 23, 2011	Apr 12, 2011	03	03	[44]
	r4ndomr4gs		Andreas Berggren	May 28, 2014	July 1, 2014	03	02	[45]
	Romeopro		Roman Romanowskyj	23 March 2019	April 12, 2019	03	03	[46]
	veeea		Artem Weschenkow	Jan. 20, 2016	Feb 9, 2016	03	03	[47]
	VnilaVader		Anton Herrmann	April 16, 2014	May 6, 2014	03	03	[48]
49	Jovial Gent		Yevhen Tymoshenko	May 9, 2007	May 22, 2007	02	02	[49]
	mindgamer		Stefan Jedlicka	Dec 11, 2013	Dec 24, 2013	02	02	[50]
	norfair18		Mike Phillips	Apr 22, 2015	May 5, 2015	02	02	[51]
	telks		Michael Telker	Dec 7, 2011	Dec 20, 2011	02	02	[52]
	theczar19		Bryan Piccioli	May 11, 2011	May 24, 2011	02	02	[53]
54	1bigacehole		Timothy Ulmer	29 Aug 2012	4th Sep 2012	01	01	[54]
	brianm15		Brian England	Jan. 29, 2014	Feb. 4, 2014	01	01	[55]
	P0KERPR033		James Campbell	July 11, 2007	July 17, 2007	01	01	[56]
	StrungOut1		Michael Wasserman	Sep 2 2015	8 Sep 2015	01	01	[57]
	SvZff		Steven van Zadelhoff	23 Dec 2017	29 Dec 2017	01	01	[58]
	Vinkyy		Ondřej Vinklárek	Oct 23, 2013	Oct 29, 2013	01	01	[59]

Most successful players by online poker tournament prize money

All registered players are also listed on the website according to their accumulated income from online poker tournaments. The following table lists the 25 players that at least 10 million to US dollars have earned.

space	User name	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )	Cashes	profile
1	lena900		Niklas Åstedt	20,434,442	0.8567	[60]
2	Belabacsi		Péter Traply	17,919,925	29,665	[61]
3	moorman1		Chris Moorman	16,583,489	11,655	[62]
4th	apestyles		Jon Van Fleet	16,338,651	0.3895	[63]
5	C Darwin2		Simon Mattsson	16,036,151	0.6075	[64]
6th	Greenstone25		Johannes Corsair	15,010,969	0.8880	[65]
7th	1_conor_b_1		Conor Beresford	14,070,334	0.7178	[66]
8th	r4ndomr4gs		Andreas Berggren	13,672,014	11,862	[67]
9	Gettin Daize		Christopher Oliver	13,567,156	14,680	[68]
10	p0cket00		Sebastian Sikorski	13,412,241	10.177	[69]
11	LarsLuzak		Sami Kelopuro	12.898.157	0.1202	[70]
12	Sheater		Andreas Samuelsson	12,836,006	11,239	[71]
13	Big Huni		Chris Hunichen	12,651,669	0.6908	[72]
14th	Romeopro		Roman Romanowskyj	12,541,463	0.9791	[73]
15th	Poker Emperor		Nicolás Fierro	12,479,422	12,477	[74]
16	inhoo		Robin Ylitalo	12,395,127	0.8941	[75]
17th	Ariados		Jacob Rasmussen	12,370,636	0.4471	[76]
18th	bparis		Bryan Paris	12,018,339	17,526	[77]
19th	pleno1		Patrick Leonard	11,486,821	0.3635	[78]
20th	telks		Michael Telker	11,449,861	0.7152	[79]
21st	SvZff		Steven van Zadelhoff	11,109,331	11,326	[80]
22nd	hellohellohello		unknown	11,069,528	0.5498	[81]
23	emeriaa		Tomi Brouk	10,424,347	0.4949	[82]
24	Pudge714		Sam Greenwood	10.154.705	0.1913	[83]
25th	UhhMee		Amichai Barer	10.059.150	14,470	[84]
As of August 1, 2020

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PocketFives Statistics in the PocketFives database, accessed on September 3, 2017.
2. ↑ About PocketFives in the PocketFives database, accessed on September 3, 2017.
3. ↑ Global Poker Index partners with Pocket Fives on pokerfirma.com on December 5th, 2013, accessed on September 5th, 2017.
4. ↑ American Poker Awards - Lifetime Award for Mori Eskandani on pokerfirma.com on February 24, 2017, accessed on April 8, 2019.
5. ↑ PLB Formula FAQ in the PocketFives database, accessed on September 3, 2017 (English).
6. ↑ PocketFives FAQ in the PocketFives database, accessed on September 3, 2017 (English).
7. ↑ Online Poker Sunday: Mike 'MikeyGG3' Gentili wins 2 titles on Sunday at pokernews.com from August 1, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017.
8. ↑ # 1 Ranked Players in the PocketFives database, accessed on May 16, 2020.
9. ↑ PocketFives Leaderboard: All-Time in the PocketFives database, accessed on August 1, 2020.