16 October 2013 (London, UK) – Organisers of the British Poker Awards (www.thebritishpokerawards.com) have announced that this year the annual awards ceremony will be held on 12th November, with the venue to be announced early next week.
Last year the awards were held aboard the HMS President on London’s Victoria Embankment, and Sam Trickett cleaned up; the Retford native scooped three awards, Best Cash Game Player, Best Tournament Player and Player of the Year.
Voting for the 2013 awards is now live at www.thebritishpokerawards.com and will be open until the night before the awards, as the public get to choose the top players in a number of categories from Performance of the Year to Personality of the Year.
“We wanted to find a date that didn’t clash with any major tournament so that all the players will come – after all, it’s their night and it’s nothing without them, said Bluff Europe Editor-in-Chief Michael Caselli.
“We’re also very close to finalising the venue, which we will announce very soon, so watch this space.”
The nominees for The British Poker Awards have been chosen by an independent panel, and the ceremony itself will be sponsored by the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars.com.
About The 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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