Nominations Announced For European Poker AwardsAviation Club De France's European Poker Awards Are Coming Soon |
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The 11th edition of the European Poker Awards takes place on Jan. 25 at the Aviation Club de France in Paris.
The awards feature nine categories; Rookie of the Year, Best Tournament Performance, Player of the Year, Casino Staff Person of the Year, Leading Lady of the Year, Rob Gardner Memorial Award for the Poker Personality of 2011, Internet Player of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, and a new addition – the Best Event of the Year. This new category will reward the event marked by the quality of its organisation, its field, or its prize pool.
Fighting it out for Player of the Year are Jake Cody, Bertrand Grospellier, Pius Heinz, Eugene Katchalov, Andrey Pateychuk, and Sam Trickett.
Nominations for Internet Player of the Year include Jude Ainsworth, Viktor Blom, Rui Cao, Chris Moorman, and Ilari Sahamies, while Liv Boeree, Victoria Coren, Nesrine Kourdourli, Barbara Martinez, Natalia Nikitina, and Cecilia Pescaglini are all in the running to become Europe’s Leading Lady.
World Series of Poker main event champ Pius Heinz shows up in two other categories – in Best Tournament Performance the German is up against Benjamin Spindler, Fabrice Soulier, and once again Sam Trickett and Jake Cody; and in Rookie of the year Heinz takes on Adrien Allain, Sam Holden, Oleksii Kovalchuk, and Andrey Pateychuk.
The remaining categories see Neil Channing and ElkY among other familiar names up for Poker Personality of the year, and the European Poker Tour London takes on World Series of Poker Europe Cannes and other prestigious events for Best European Event of the Year.
The Lifetime Achievement award winner will be announced on Jan. 25.
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