Three barrels of pure value including Steven ‘SvZff’ taking down another major online tournament; a triple winner on 888Poker, and Bryn Kenney to end the year as the main man. 

Poker rankings don’t typically mirror the success of our major tournament winners, but that could change if Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff continues to shake up online poker rooms like Charlie Parker did to jazz clubs.

As frustrated and skint parents begin throwing themselves off the top of Christmas trees like a strange breed of lemming, the winner of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event, and $1.6m first prize, is looking likely to end the year as the world number one online multi-table tournament (MTT) player.

Over the weekend, the man with the fiercest beard in poker took down partypoker’s $250,000 Guaranteed Title Fight. The $215 buy-in attracted 1,050 entrants, and SvZff beat the lot to capture the $43,000 first prize after the hosts had to fork out a $40,000 overlay.