Top Poker Pros Out in Force for British Poker Awards Bounty Tournament

21 February 2014, London, UK (Press Release) – Guests at this year’s British Poker Awards (www.thebritishpokerawards.com) will be treated to a drinks reception, the awards ceremony, and the chance to lock horns with poker’s elite.

The awards ceremony takes place at London’s famous Hippodrome Casino on March 3rd, and begins in the casino’s Heliot Lounge at 6.00pm. The ceremony itself takes place at 7.00 in the Matcham Room, with 18 awards to be handed out including the prestigious Player of the Year title.

After the winners have been announced, a special tournament will be laid on by British Poker Awards organisers Bluff Europe Magazine and The Hippodrome Casino. A number of award nominees will take part, along with British Poker Awards attendees.

Top poker pros including PokerStars Team Online member Mickey Petersen and Run It Once pro Sam Grafton will have bounties on their head. Whoever knocks them out will earn a satellite seat to the Hippodrome’s Spring Classic tournament, and the ultimate winner will earn themselves a seat into the Spring Classic itself, worth £250.

There will also be cash games running for any poker variant imaginable, from No Limit Hold’Em to Open Face Chinese and everything in between. With many of the game’s stars at the Hippodrome, attendees will have the chance to pit their poker wits with some of their idols.

“It’s not very often poker enthusiasts can say that they’ve even played against a top pro, let alone knocked them out of a tournament,” said Michael Caselli, editor-in-chief of Bluff Europe.

“With cash tables running all through the night, we’re sure this year’s British Poker Awards will be an event to remember.”

Organised by Bluff Europe Magazine and sponsored by PokerStars.com, The British Poker Awards will hold its awards ceremony at the Hippodrome Casino on March 3rd. The ceremony will include live music provided by The Dukes of Mayfair. Members of the public wishing to attend and be in with a chance of playing in the bounty tournament can buy tickets directly from the Hippodrome website.

The British Poker Awards: Voting is Live

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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