Poker Awards 2007: Player of the Year

Ste05

Get your nominations in for this one.

It can be anyone you want, Live, online, Irish, Lebanese, whatever.

Who in your opinion was the best Poker player last year.

I have a feeling this may get out of hand so I think I'll just say whoever you nominate must be seconded by someone else.

Nominations close on Friday 21st December 2007 at ~13:00

Only Aces

I nominate Nicky Power

Ste05

Only Aces wrote: »

I nominate Nicky Power

As the best player in the World last year?

You should really open up a nicnicnic fan club, cos that's quite a compliment.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Annette Obestrad

El Stuntman

Raymond Wong

Hectorjelly

Patrick Antonius

DublinDutch

Online: Busto_Soon and Vietcong01

Live: Julian Thew

Ste05

DublinDutch wrote: »

Online: Busto_Soon and Vietcong01

Live: Julian Thew

Gonna have to ask you to pick just one...

CaptainNemo

Jerry Yang obviously

YULETIRED

El Stuntman wrote: »

Raymond Wong

that's just wong.:o


I pick. Hector Jelly , he knows things about clothes that a hetro man shouldn't know and makes 1600 dollars an hour. That is awesome . Plus he shares all his knowledge with apparent retards. (maybe they count cards for him in return)

There is nobody cooler or more worthy. HECTOR JELLY....best player in the known milky way.

ianmc38

Willie Clynes

YULETIRED

ianmc38 wrote: »

Willie Clynes

that is results based thinking if ever there was..

Only in the top 10% in the world at the moment. A very discerning nomination though. You are a lot cleverer than I thought.

I just need Bops and HJ to coach me so I can ying and yang my way to super stardom.

Lafortezza

ianmc38 wrote: »

Willie Clynes

2nded

Killme00

Annette Obestrad

nicnicnic

Only Aces wrote: »

I nominate Nicky Power

hehe tks mum, Im stuck between Brian Townsend and mrflash oh wait hang on I forgot about Nicky O' Dee

Van Dice

Cole South (CTS) by a distance

cooker3

Mantis01

DublinDutch

Ste05 wrote: »

Gonna have to ask you to pick just one...

Busto_Soon with over more 700K just on pokerstars tourneys:eek:

DublinDutch

El Stuntman wrote: »

Raymond Wong

I only know Steve Wong

Captain Tom

Van Dice wrote: »

Cole South (CTS) by a distance

sorry to pry but im just curious as to why you would pick CTS over other high stakes players. didnt he step up to nosebleed get crushed and drop back down like 3 or 4 times this year?

ditpoker

Hectorjelly or NickyOD...


The Game: Poker Theory
The Format: Heads up for houses
The Buy-In: PRIDE

ah screw it... i nominate Lloyd.

eagle eye

I would like to nominate the late and great Chip Reese.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

eagle eye wrote: »

I would like to nominate the late and great Chip Reese.

I dont think he won anything big in 2007?

nicnicnic

Gus had a good year I nominate Hansen

RoundTower

second nicky power.

nicnicnic

RoundTower wrote: »

second nicky power.

thirded FTW

Moro Man

Alan Kelleher.......


[for him] Winning the Macau Main Event was probably one of the greatest poker achievements of all time;)

The phrase at the time was...... "It would be easier for a Camel to Pass Through the Eye of The Needle than it will be for Big Al to get back into the Macau"

phantom_lord

DublinDutch wrote: »

Busto_Soon with over more 700K just on pokerstars tourneys:eek:

well that's him out so.

LuckyLloyd

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Goodluck2me

Brian McFadden, crushing the 5-10 in London I heard.

Trippie, 1st runner up.

Flushdraw

goodluck2me wrote: »

Brian McFadden, crushing the 5-10 in London I heard.

Trippie, 1st runner up.

We've missed you around these parts lately Joe...

MrPillowTalk

Shouldnt Ivey just win this every year.

ianmc38

Cheif Brody or Mick the Lip

RedJoker

Captain Tom wrote: »

sorry to pry but im just curious as to why you would pick CTS over other high stakes players. didnt he step up to nosebleed get crushed and drop back down like 3 or 4 times this year?

Watch his videos on cardrunners.

2nd CTS.

Sparky1808

Annette Obestrad

phantom_lord

Captain Tom wrote: »

sorry to pry but im just curious as to why you would pick CTS over other high stakes players. didnt he step up to nosebleed get crushed and drop back down like 3 or 4 times this year?

really? he posted a sick monthly graph at 50/100 for 1m which was just a straight line up a couple of months ago, i honestly thought he was a winner at those stakes for ages.

cooker3 wrote: »

Mantis01

who?

Ste05

phantom_lord wrote: »

who?

Good question...

mewso

CaptainNemo wrote: »

Jerry Yang obviously

I nominate God.

LuckyLloyd

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RichieLawlor

Sylvester deserves at least a nomination

phantom_lord

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

My nemesis. Lolz.

ah ok, http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54383147&postcount=13239

Captain Tom

phantom_lord wrote: »

really? he posted a sick monthly graph at 50/100 for 1m which was just a straight line up a couple of months ago, i honestly thought he was a winner at those stakes for ages.

i used to read his blog all the time and remember him moving up and down fairly frequently, the first time being very early in the year IIRC. right after he bought that really sick car he went on a huge downswing and had to grind 10/20 for like 2-3 months.

having said that he's clearly an extremely sick player. i was just wondering why VD would choose him over other HS regs who have played nosebleed more consistantly.

Norwich Fan Rob

marty smyth, prolific online winner, irish open winner, and hopefully ladbrokes poker million winner on friday .

rag2gar

Norwich Fan Rob wrote: »

ladbrokes poker million winner on friday .

Final tabled this last year which a lot ppl forget too

dannydiamond

rag2gar wrote: »

Final tabled this last year which a lot ppl forget too

I remember, but that was last year.
Marty has had a great year and fair play to him but for me,big up the little norwegian girl.

eagle eye

Best player of the year is a wide ranging subject. its hard to pick out one based on form, but the dragon has been hot this year.

Phil Hellmuth broke the bracelet record this year(in case anyone hasn't heard:D)

And Jerry Yang came from being the short stack at the ft to winning the big bracelet(i know i know, it was god really, and he let everyone know:D:D)

But seriously, the performance of Michael Muldoon this year have to be the best of the year. He is able to read the cards or something, he always seems to win the big pots. :D:D

And what about an award for best poker tour.
I vote for the cpt, the most generous tour, with so much respect for their customers that they guarantee a prize pool, i mean how many times has there been an overlay in their tournaments?:D:D:D:D

badbeatcentral

Online: How about allinstevie, Irish guy who's been crushing online in the 2nd half of 2007

Live: Jon Little had 4 Final Tables in 10k events with a 1st and a 2nd

kincsem

Annette Obrestad (sister to Annette Obestrad mentioned twice above)

I looked up pocketfives.com to see the rankings for Ireland.
Can anyone identify the boards players here.
BTW I'm ranked 45th in Ireland and I almost never play.
If I play its for a dolla a game. Statistics :rolleyes:

Rank…Username______Points

1……ubsolute______3219
2……boogey77______2063.5
3……shinerrr______1707.67
4……Rattled77_____1382.37
5……MarkT1234_____946.7 ..... Mark McKeever
6……hughescon_____935.44
7……Conno!!y______914.23
8……trocaire______870.9
9……ollieboy1_____853.5 ..... Oliver Boyce
10…ragorder______771.52
11…LAPPIN________733.06
12…steppp________579.7
13…vivner________572.85
14…Goobaggage____487.06
15…Jimmyj12______479.97
16…danloulou_____442.22
17…HardcorePawn__376.52
18…Homer07_______264.28
19…Gemo07________259.2
20…Charco________245.16
21…nicnicnic_____234.31 ..... nicky power
22…Neverholds____227.99
23…Funkymonk_____215.66
24…Pete PH_______215.61
25…jerro_________214.91 ..... Colm Carty
26…TheDiamond____202.89
27…boro83________194.98
28…PokerGimp_____176.72
29…jacQues_______149.25
30…chips12354____143.37
31…ChrisNI_______130.82
32…ACEZALLIN_____127.95
33…TheConArtist__122.01
34…Anthony1234___121.21
35…Jargonator____105.35
36…samwise113____104.8
37…beethreekay___98.95
38…cooey_________94.08
39…pmarrsouth____84.6
40…bad_boy_les___65.08
41…petrassi______54.19
42…rossonero_____37.52
43…Amadamn_______33.16
44…doboy11_______32.13
45…kincsem_______30.31
46…bluboy01______29.18
47…depowly_______24.76
48…sgtbilko77____21.68
49…AaronOC_______18.95
50…narcBliss_____16.6
51…freeworld777__12.94
52…fkit__________11.42
53…Nuts102_______9.91
54…bizwhizkid____9.04
55…zeireke_______7.02
56…redeyejedi____6.98

As far as I know this is only players registered on pocketfives.com.
No good player would register there, obviously.

HighFinance

Nominate: Alex Kravchenko. Mainly for consistency and demeanor.

Alex Kraftwerchenko more like.

b.

Macspower

eagle eye wrote: »

And what about an award for best poker tour.
I vote for the cpt, the most generous tour, with so much respect for their customers that they guarantee a prize pool, i mean how many times has there been an overlay in their tournaments?:D:D:D:D

seemingly in sligo the only have about 10 players every time...... well it's what I was told every time I asked about the prizepool..."sure there was only xx in Sligo last week and we still paid out the 10k" :rolleyes:

back on topic... I dont really keep up to date with the world players all that much but I kinda like hellmuth and I'll give him a seconding

PokerPissTaker

Kieran Walsh...............After all if you read his blog he's never played a hand wrong or lost a hand Pretty impressive