Weekly RankingHero Highlights

A hot summer contest on RankingHero this week - our community voted for Top 3 hottest players and unsurprisingly, @Liv Boeree was the absolute favorite :) Poker's own cover girl is as smart and generous as she is beautiful, and we hope many will be inspired by the charitable cause she is promoting together with @Philipp Gruissem and @Igor Kurganov - Raising for Effective Giving.

Check out the entries under the #M2top3 hashtag (make sure you switch your language settings to Francais in order to see the submissions by our French-speaking members).

This week we honored three young stars of #GermanPoker :

George Danzer Only Exception in Total US Domination in WSOP 2014 Stats

Will the Next Triple Crown Go to Youngest Triple Bracelet Winner Dominik Nitsche?

Ole Schemion Took Home a Million+ Cash on his First Trip to Vegas

Our birthday boy - KidPoker @Daniel Negreanu turned 40 on Saturday and threw a huge party in Las Vegas (check out his dance moves ;)

We've had #MTGpoker news as well - Magic:The Gathering World Champion @Andre Coimbra's engagement to Katerina Malasidou, as well as @Manuel Bevand's nomination for 2014 Most Inspiring Player!

We'd love to hear from you on the 'For or Against Headphones in Tournament Poker' debate and if you are in the pro-headphones camp, please share your favorite poker playlist with us :)

Welcome to @Nicholas Galtos and @Nicolas Feyssat to mention just a couple of players who joined the RankingHero community this week and congratulations to all of our members who cashed in WPTN Brussels - @Georgi Kostalevski and @David Bruet to mention just a few! GG and GL in your next live events!

Special thanks to our lovely moderator @Elena RKH and all the contestants in the weekly mission - hope to see you soon in the photo gallery dedicated to the RankingHero patch in action! Thanks to @SuitedAce @Socius and all the other members sharing interesting and fun poker links and info :)

Counting on you all to spread the RankingHero news on Facebook and wishing you loads of good poker times in the coming week!

Yours truly,

@Annie RKH 

#RKHweekly 

Happy Birthday Fabian Quoss!

A very happy birthday and lucky year to @Fabian Quoss and congratulations on topping the Germany 6-month Earnings Ranking!

The #GermanPoker community is a formidable force on the world live poker scene and the most successful one in Europe in terms of live earnings. Fabian has long been right up there with the likes of @Tobias Reinkemeier @Philipp Gruissem and @Ole Schemion but in the past 6 months he has shot up to the very top, with $2,405,791, bringing his total live earnings to $5,559,355. 

The just turned 32-year-old Fabian was born in Nuremberg, Germany and lives in London. He started playing live events as a student in Germany and one of his finest poker achievements and a major cash of $427,912 dates back to 2009, when a bracelet was within his hand's reach and he finished second in a $5,000 buy-in event at 2009 WSOP.

The next career highlight came in 2010 when Fabian won the English Poker Open triumphing over a field of 193 players - “I’ve finally won a tournament! It’s my fourth heads up and I’ve lost the first three. The final table had a pretty high level of play, even compared to my WPT final table. It was pretty tough.”

In the year 2013 - that Fabian has called 'unlucky' because he didn't win a title - he made FOUR final tables. Then a title and two important cashes in 2014 alone nearly doubled up his career winnings: the 2014 PCA High-Roller Event victory and the 5th place in the Aussie Millions $250,000 Boutique Challenge.

"I feel that, after 2013, when luck wasn’t on my side, I kind of deserve it. In 2014 things will be different.”

And so they are indeed - GG and GL, Fabian :)