Simon "C Darwin2" Mattsson Once Again is the Top Dog in the PocketFives Rankings
May 02,
2024 Jason Glatzer
For the second 📈 time this year, Sweden's Simon "C Darwin2" Mattsson
climbed into the No. 1 ranked online poker player in the world, 📈 according to the
PocketFives Worldwide Online Poker Rankings.
The Swede previously held the top spot for
seven weeks this year from 📈 Feb. 10 to March 30 prior to fellow countrymate Niklas
"lena900" Åstedt becoming the top dog for four straight weeks 📈 before Mattsson now took
over once again.
Mattsson, who is closing in on an impressiveR$4 million in online
tournament cashes according 📈 to PocketFives, climbed into the top spot with the help of
strong performances in three tournaments. First the online poker 📈 phenom shipped the
Fight Night: High Roller -R$100,000 Gtd on partypoker forR$24,057 on April 20 before
recording two final-table performances 📈 in big tournaments on April 24, including taking
third place in TheR$120,000 Mega Deep on 888poker forR$15,971 and snagging fifth 📈 place
in the Super High Roller:R$100,000 Gtd on partypoker forR$19,338.
Two other players
also passed Åstedt, who now dropped to fourth 📈 place in the rankings. Brazil's Joao
"joaosimaobh" Simao climbed to second place, his highest ranked position in his online
poker 📈 career in no small part due to a victory in theR$215 Sunday 2nd Chance,R$175K Gtd
on PokerStars forR$37,620 on April 📈 24.
Meanwhile, Sweden's "Ariados" jumped into third
place helping the country secure three of the top four spots in the rankings. 📈 "Ariados"
impressively shipped two big tournaments on PokerStars under the screenname "Sasuke234"
last week including taking down theR$215+R NL Hold'em,R$35K 📈 Gtd forR$12,728 on April 24
before finishing on top of theR$109+R NLHE [Turbo],R$12K Gtd forR$5,303 on April
26.
American poker refugee 📈 Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen, who was the top ranked player for
five weeks early last year, rounded out the top 📈 five spots in the rankings with the
help of winning the Fight Night: High Roller -R$100,000 Gtd on partypoker forR$20,863
📈 on April 26. Hunichen, who plays online poker from Costa Rica, is now approaching
onR$10 million in combined live and 📈 online tournament cashes with almostR$8.5 million
in online cashes according to PocketFives and overR$1.2 million in live cashes
according to 📈 The Hendon Mob.
Russia's Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov who has been consistently
been in the top ten spots of the PocketFives Worldwide 📈 Online Poker Rankings all year
long, including being ranked in the top spot for three weeks from Jan. 20 to 📈 Feb. 10,
resides in sixth place just a few points behind Hunichen.
Not too far behind Vezhenkov
is Greece's Damianos "damourinio" 📈 Aslanidis in seventh place, followed by Spain's Oscar
"MendaLerenda" Serradell who now lives in the United Kingdom in eighth place, 📈 Russia's
"hellohellohello" in ninth place, and American Joel "jbrown8777" Brown who now lives in
Canada in tenth place.
Here is a 📈 complete look at the top 10 in the PocketFives
Worldwide Online Poker Rankings:
Place Player Country Points 1 Simon "C Darwin2"
📈 Mattsson Sweden 7,236 2 Joao "joaosimaobh" Simao Brazil 7,176 3 Ariados Sweden 7,029 4
Niklas "lena900" Åstedt Sweden 7,027 5 📈 Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen Costa Rica 6,910 6
Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov Russia 6,688 7 Damianos "damourinio" Aslanidis Greece 6,667 8
📈 Oscar "MendaLerenda" Serradell United Kingdom 6,547 9 hellohellohello Russia 6,520 10
Joel "jbrown8777" Brown Canada 6,504
*Special thanks to PocketFives for 📈 information
used in this article.
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