20 September 2013 (London, UK) – “And the award for the sickest 4-bet shove goes to…”
Voting is now open for the fourth annual British Poker Awards at www.thebritishpokerawards.com – an evening in which Bluff Europe Magazine, along with sponsors PokerStars.com, gets to honour the finest in UK poker.
An independent panel of experts, including PokerNews’ Matthew Pitt, PokerListings’ Barry Carter, “Voice of Poker” Jesse May, bloggers extraordinaire Jen Mason and Lee Davy, not to mention Bluff Europe’s very own Philip Conneller, have been working around the clock to bring you the nominees in 12 Readers’ Choice categories, but the rest is up to the public.
Categories up for online vote in these completely democratic awards include: Best Live Tournament Player, Best Online Tournament Player, Best Online Cash Player, Best International Player, Performance of the Year, Best UK Tournament and Poker Personality of the Year.
The venue and date for the star-studded ceremony will be announced shortly. For more information, and to vote for your favourite players, visit www.thebritishpokerawards.com.
Categories and nominees:
Readers’ Choice: Best Live Tournament Player
1. Matt Ashton
2. Stephen Chidwick
3. David Vamplew
4. Toby Lewis
5. Matt Perrins
6. Sam Trickett
Pros’ Choice: Best Live Cash Player
To be decided by peer vote
Readers’ Choice: Best Online Tournament Player
1. Chris “Moorman1” Moorman
2. Chris “NigDawG” Brammer
3. Charlie “Chaz_man_chaz” Combes
4. Andrew “stato_1” Hulme
5. Craig “mcc3991” McCorkell
6. Toby “810ofclubs” Lewis
Readers’ Choice: Best Online Cash Player
1. Alexander “Kanu7” Millar
2. Rob “Vaga_Lion” Akery
3. David “SexyGee” Gent
4. Ben “Milkybarkid” Grundy
5. Matt “MUSTAFABET” Ashton
Readers’ Choice: Performance of the Year
1. Matt Ashton
2. Matt Perrins
3. Barny Boatman
4. David Vamplew
5. Stephen Chidwick
Readers’ Choice: Best UK Tournament
1. ISPT Wembley
2. EPT London
3. UKIPT Nottingham
4. GUKPT Goliath
5. DTD Grand Prix
Readers’ Choice: Poker Personality of the Year
1. Jake Cody
2. Sam Grafton
3. Neil Channing
4. Liv Boeree
5. Sam Razavi
Readers’ Choice: Best International Player
1. David “Bakes” Baker
2. Dan “DJK123” Kelly
3. Viktor Blom
4. Daniel Negreanu
5. Marvin Rettenmaier
Readers’ Choice: Best Blogger
1. David Nicholson
2. Kara Scott
3. Dale Philip
4. Rupert Elder
5. Neil Channing
Readers’ Choice: Best social media user
1. Sam Razavi
2. Sam Grafton
3. The BetfairPoker Twitter account
4. Victoria Coren
5. Neil Channing
Readers’ Choice: Best Poker League
1. Champions Poker League
2. Discover Poker League4
3. Live Pub Poker League
4. Nuts Poker League
5. Poker Tree
6. RedTooth Poker
Readers’ Choice: Best live card room
1. DTD
2. The Vic
3. The Hippodrome
4. Aspers Stratford
5. G Casino Coventry
Best contribution to growing/promoting poker
Panel decides
Pros’ choice: Best Tournament Director
Decided by peer vote
Best poker software
1. HEM
2. PokerTracker
3. Flopzilla
4. NoteCaddy
5. PokerStove
Reader’s Choice: Best Poker Training Site
1. Run it Once
2. Poker X Factor
3. Cardrunners
4. Leggo Poker
5. DeucesCracked.com
Lifetime achievement
Panel decides
About British Poker Awards (www.thebritishpokerawards.com)
The British Poker Awards and the Irish Poker Awards are separate annual events created in order to honour the best poker players, leagues, clubs and tournaments in the UK and Ireland. Organised by Bluff Europe, in association with several other media outlets to ensure impartiality, nominees are chosen by a committee of journalists, before being put to public online vote. Players and industry figures are then invited to attend an awards presentation ceremony.
About PokerStars.com
PokerStars operates the world’s most popular online poker sites, serving a global poker community of more than 50 million registered members. Since it launched in 2001, PokerStars has become the first choice of the world’s top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere else and with the best security online. More than 100 billion hands have been dealt on PokerStars.com, which is more than any other site.
PokerStars.com and PokerStars.eu operate globally under licenses from the Isle of Man and Malta governments, respectively. PokerStars also holds separate government licenses in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Spain and Germany.
PokerStars is a member of The Rational Group, which operates gaming-related businesses and brands, including PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and the European Poker Tour. Rational Group entities in the UK and Isle of Man were collectively recognised as one of the UK’s best workplaces when they were awarded a top 25 position by the Great Place to Work Institute in its UK’s Best Workplaces – Large category in both 2012 and 2013.
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