The British Poker Awards: Voting is Live

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