Jacobo Fernandez Wins Card Player World Series of Poker Player of the Year

At the end of 53 World Series of Poker events, we have a winner of the Card Player World Series of Poker Player of the Year title. Despite a multiple bracelet summer by John Phan and Erick Lindgren's bracelet win and third-place finish in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, a player relatively unknown to casual fans, Jacobo Fernandez, walked away with the honor of being the most consistent player of the long, hot, busy summer. It should be noted that Card Player's points criteria differ from the World Series of Poker's in determining the WSOP Player of the Year. Thus, Fernandez was Card Player's winner, while Erick Lindgren was the WSOP's.

Fernandez was an ironman at the 2008 WSOP, cashing seven times for a total of $657,829. He fought his way to three final tables, including a second-place finish in a $1,500 pot-limit hold'em event, a fourth-place finish in a $5,000 no-limit hold'em event, and a third-place finish in the action-packed $1,500 pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event that tallied an amazing 1,350 rebuys among the 320 entrants.

Fernandez, from Hollywood, Florida, is originally from the Dominican Republic. He started traveling the tournament circuit in early 2007, and since then he has accumulated more than $1.3 million in tournament winnings. At the 2007 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, he made the televised final table and finished in third place for more than $607,000.

Fernandez also placed himself in the top 10 of the Card Player Player of the Year race. After busting out of the WSOP main event, he continued his hot run by making the final table of a Bellagio Cup event to move up to seventh place. While Fernandez has developed a reputation for having a silent but deadly game (he rarely ever says a word at the table), you can bet that he'll be on the radar of many more professionals after his impressive body of work this summer.