Weekly recaps, player rivalries, tournament highlights, and the stories behind the leaderboard.
11,786 tournaments, 904,613 cash sessions, 1,025 satellite seats — and a lot of questions about where the numbers come from. Here's the full tour of how everything is tracked, matched, and displayed, plus what changed this week.
The tournament leaderboard's newest top-five name has played a fraction of the volume of everyone around him. Inside a summer of Sunday Major dominance, the three-month race at the top, and who climbed and who faded.
3,145 tournaments and $1.47M in prizes since our last dispatch — and the game itself changed. Inside Phenom's new satellite economy, the arrival of PKOs, and the biggest scores of the summer.
While the spotlight chases nosebleed swings, dekciw quietly turned 1,249 low-stakes sessions into $7,196.30. This is the grind nobody claps for.
After four weeks and $1.3M in losses, Viktor Blom erupts for +$1,347,801 — his biggest week ever on Phenom. The $2K/$4K tables deliver justice, carnage, and a platform volume explosion.
Volker turns one session into $158K, Isildur1's four-week losses push past $1.3M, NRG's $258K reversal stuns, and a poker legend quietly logs on.
nft shatters the all-time rating gain record by 3x, a new name drops $163K at the Lunelle tables, and a 1996 Main Event champion is grinding mixed games on Phenom.
WoO storms back to the top of TournyTrack with the second-largest rating gain in history, NRG drops $240K on the nosebleed tables, and Isildur1 earns the Cash Grinder badge.
nft vaults from #4 to #1 with a 409-point rating surge, Isildur1 brings legendary high-stakes action to Phenom, and Icymorning crosses the $100K milestone.
WoO overtakes JAR444 for #1 on TournyTrack, Phenom's token migrates to Base with a live DEX pool, and lepu4ka grinds 137 sessions to a $20K week.
Stefan Burakov's $23,870 cash game week, a $27K single-session heater, and the race for TournyTrack supremacy continues.
From pre-Black Friday online legend to Phenom's first $10K profit badge holder. Jon Turner proves the old guard still knows how to crush.
A treasury that couldn't keep up, angry grinders, and a token model nobody asked for. Here's what happened.
Only 6.76 ability rating points separate the #1 and #2 ranked players. This is a tale of two fundamentally different approaches to tournament poker - and one of the most dramatic comebacks in TournyTrack history.