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You Can Now Vote For Your Favourite Player In British Poker Awards

In September 13 the first ever British poker awards will be held at Fox Poker Club at 7.00pm. The success of poker players will be recognised in London poker festival from what they have achieved in last 12 years or even their career. Poker has a massive amount of fans from all around the World. Millions of people play online poker every day so millions of people would be voting on their favourite player or the best achievement of 2010.

Here are the categories of which the winner will be selected by the readers; best cash player, best tournament player, best international poker player, best online player, best poker league and best contribution to poker. Then the players themselves will vote on who the best all round player and the best new player is. Then the big one of Editor’s choice is the player of the year.

Here are the nominations for best cash player Neil Channing, Luke Schwartz, Ben Roberts, Ben Grundy, Richard Ashby and Bambos Charalambos.

Here are the nominations for best tournament player Sam Trickett, James Akenhead, Praz Bansi, JP Kelly, James Dempsey and Chris Moorman.

Best online player nominees are Lawrence Houghton, Chris Moorman, Luke Schwartz, Ben Grundy and Richard Ashby.

The nominees for the best international player are Patrik Antonius, Isildur1, Michael Mizrachi, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Sorel Mizzi.

The best poker league nominees are Masters Poker League, Live Poker League, Nuts Poker League, Redtooth Poker, APAT, The Poker Tree, Get Noticed Poker League, Champions Poker League and Poker in the Pub.

Now the best contribution to poker nominees and they are Jesse May, Anthony Holden, Victoria Coren, Tony Kendall, Simon Trumper and Marty Wilson.

Here are the reader’s choice nominees for best UK poker forum The Hendon Mob, SkyPoker, Gutshot, BlondePoker and Aworldofpoker.

Even you can get nominated in the future just start playing pkr Poker and full tilt poker online?

High Stakes Poker – Tom Dwan Annihilating The Competition

Tom “durrrr” Dwan seems to be making up for lost time by annihilating the competition on Full Tilt Poker.

Mcdpoker has been keeping a close eye on the high stakes action over at Full Tilt this week and “durrrr” put in countless hours at the tables this week, played over 7,070 hands and earned $969,145.

His victims included Gus Hansen, Niki Jedlicka and Patrik Antonius.

The sheer volume Dwan is able to generate in a week continues to leave his opponents in the dust. Cole South was the nearest high stakes player in terms of hands played but he had only 3,434.

For the year Dwan is now up an astounding $4.8 million.

Meanwhile Phil Ivey continues to be red hot online with another $931k in the bankroll after a busy week.

Ivey didn’t shy away from anyone taking on Dwan, South, NEKOTYAN, Jani Vilmunen, Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates, Observer84 and others while recording over 3,000 hands on the site.

The action was spread over a variety of games including $300/$600 Cap Pot-Limit Omaha, $2,000/$4,000 Limit Hold’em and even $500/$1,000 Cap No-Limit Hold’em.

To put things in perspective Ivey only won $352,319 over the entire six-week long WSOP. Ivey is now up $3.2 million in online poker alone this year.

Also winning hundreds of thousands this week were Cole South (+$343,742), Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates (+$285,628) and Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick (+$204,446).

Meanwhile NEKOTYAN had the dubious honor of being the hardest hit player this week.

NEKOTYAN, who is rumored to be Russian pro Vladimir Schemelev, lost $1.04 million or approximately everything he won by placing second in this summer’s WSOP $50k Player’s Championship.

Gus Hansen was also a big loser, racking up $484,456 in damage. Hansen now finds himself $794,667 in the hole in 2010.

We found a few recent videos of Dwan racking up the hands this week on Full Tilt courtesy of some of our friends over at youtube. hope you like them. Watch, learn and enjoy!

Dwan V Gohanounet

durrrr vs. Ziigmund Heads Up Battle

Tune in next week for more high stakes poker news from Full Tilt and PokerStars

How do I become a more aggressive poker player?

It may sound like a bit of a stupid question – obv just bet and raise more. But when I try to become more aggressive like you see on TV then I bust of tournaments very quickly, and people start to call my bets with high cards on the river!

How do these aggressive poker players like Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey do so well??

What’s makes a aggressive poker player? And how do I become a more aggressive poker player?

Thanks!