WSOP Player of the Year Award in 2011
The Player of the Year award (POY) was first introduced in 2004 at the WSOP. The player who accumulated the most points on the WSOP Events in the given year wins the award. Every cashed player accumulates points on all tournaments and at the end these, points are summed up and the one with the most points wins the award. The first place gets 100 points, the second 75 and the third 60 and so on. Until now no one has won it twice so the question is, if will we see the first person win it the second time in 2011 or will there be a new winner, altogether the 8th Player of the Year?
This award is much respected, because even less skilled players can perform well on one tournament, but winning a POY needs a continuously high performance on many events. Winning this award of course means that the top players have to buy-in to many tournaments and sometimes even play simultaneously!
In the first year one of the most well known players, Daniel Negreanu won. In the following years the best of the best received this award, including Allen Cunningham, Erick Lindgren and Jeff Lisandro. With the POY award it cannot occur happen what happens sometimes with at the Main Event that someone has a great tourney, wins the bracelet but does not achieve anything else in his poker career. POY winners are all very well known, respected players (until this point).
Who wins the award in 2011? It is very hard to predict the winner. All the earlier winners have a chance but the difficulty of the prediction is not that easy. If I had to choose someone from earlier winners I would give my vote to Negreanu. He has been in the Top 10 many times and who knows on which of the Top10 places he finishes this year. No one knows before the events how to pros look forward to this year's tournaments. Some of them will play many tournaments while others might only play a few and try to win more with the many cash games going on in Vegas. The motivation differs from player to player and everyone shows interest on something else.
Since no one won this award twice, I want to introduce some of the players who might win POY at the end of the series. John Juanda has already been more than once in the Top10 of the standings at the end of the season and he is definitely capable of showing great performance again. It is also good to mention Phil Hellmuth. He has the most bracelets (11) and last year did not really work out for him, but who knows, 2011 might be his WSOP comeback with bracelets! For sure the Mizrachi brothers (Michael and Robert) have some influence on the final standing as well. They both have shown a very strong performance in the last years and if they can keep it up sooner or later one of them will finish first.
Negreanu, Juanda, Hellmuth, the Mizrachi's or someone else? No one knows but the WSOP 2011 starts at the end of May and a month later we will look at the standings and see how the predictions worked out.
The Player of the Year award (POY) was first introduced in 2004 at the WSOP. The player who accumulated the most points on the WSOP Events in the given year wins the award. Every cashed player accumulates points on all tournaments and at the end these, points are summed up and the one with the most points wins the award. The first place gets 100 points, the second 75 and the third 60 and so on. Until now no one has won it twice so the question is, if will we see the first person win it the second time in 2011 or will there be a new winner, altogether the 8th Player of the Year?
This award is much respected, because even less skilled players can perform well on one tournament, but winning a POY needs a continuously high performance on many events. Winning this award of course means that the top players have to buy-in to many tournaments and sometimes even play simultaneously!
In the first year one of the most well known players, Daniel Negreanu won. In the following years the best of the best received this award, including Allen Cunningham, Erick Lindgren and Jeff Lisandro. With the POY award it cannot occur happen what happens sometimes with at the Main Event that someone has a great tourney, wins the bracelet but does not achieve anything else in his poker career. POY winners are all very well known, respected players (until this point).
Who wins the award in 2011? It is very hard to predict the winner. All the earlier winners have a chance but the difficulty of the prediction is not that easy. If I had to choose someone from earlier winners I would give my vote to Negreanu. He has been in the Top 10 many times and who knows on which of the Top10 places he finishes this year. No one knows before the events how to pros look forward to this year's tournaments. Some of them will play many tournaments while others might only play a few and try to win more with the many cash games going on in Vegas. The motivation differs from player to player and everyone shows interest on something else.
Since no one won this award twice, I want to introduce some of the players who might win POY at the end of the series. John Juanda has already been more than once in the Top10 of the standings at the end of the season and he is definitely capable of showing great performance again. It is also good to mention Phil Hellmuth. He has the most bracelets (11) and last year did not really work out for him, but who knows, 2011 might be his WSOP comeback with bracelets! For sure the Mizrachi brothers (Michael and Robert) have some influence on the final standing as well. They both have shown a very strong performance in the last years and if they can keep it up sooner or later one of them will finish first.
Negreanu, Juanda, Hellmuth, the Mizrachi's or someone else? No one knows but the WSOP 2011 starts at the end of May and a month later we will look at the standings and see how the predictions worked out.
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