The nominees for the 2012 European Poker Awards have been announced, and it’s a who’s who of players who dominated the world of poker in 2011.
The most coveted prize is the player of the year award, which will go to one of six players. Here is the list:
–Jake Cody (England): Won the $25K heads-up event at the World Series of Poker, completing the live poker Triple Crown of winning WSOP, World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour events.
–Bertrand “Elky”Grospellier (France): Won a WSOP bracelet and two high-roller events on the EPT.
–Pius Heinz (Germany): Won the WSOP main event.
–Eugene Katchalov (Ukraine): Was the BLUFF player of the year, and won the super high-roller event at last year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
–Andrey Pateychuk (Russia): Won both a WPT and an EPT event in 2011.
–Sam Trickett (England): Won a $100K high roller event at the Aussie Millions and the Partouche Poker Tour main event, racking up more than $4 million in cashes along the way.
The awards will be given out on January 25th, at the Aviation Club de France.
Here are the other categories and nominees; a lifetime achievement award winner will also be announced at the proceedings:
Best Tournament performance
Jake Cody
Pius Heinz
Fabrice Soulier
Benny Spindler
Sam Trickett
Rookie of the year
Adrien Allain
Pius Heinz
Sam Holden
Oleksii Kovalchuk
Andrey Pateychuk
Europe’s Leading Lady
Liv Boeree
Victoria Coren
Nesrine Kourdourli
Barbara Martinez
Natalia Nikitina
Cecilia Pescaglini
Poker Staff Person of the year
Nicolas Fraïoli
Warren Lush
Edgar Stuchly
Kirsty Thompson
Simon Trumper
Rob Gardner Memorial Award for the poker personality of the year
Barny Boatman
Neil Channing
Bertrand “Elky”Grospellier
Tony Guoga
Jesse May
Internet Player of the year
Jude Ainsworth
Viktor Blom
Rui Cao
Chris Moorman
Ilari Sahamies
Best European Event of the year
EPT Londres
International Poker Open Dublin
Finale du Partouche Poker Tour
WPT Grand Prix de Paris
WSOPE Cannes
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