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10 August 2005
Andy Black Wins The William Hill
Poker Player Of The Month Award
Andy
Black is the latest recipient of the coveted
William
Hill Poker Room
European rankings player of the month
award.
His fantastic 5th place
finish in this years $10,000 buy in at the World Series of
Poker main event, earned the popular Irishman over $1.7
million in prize money and was voted the outstanding
performance in an exceptional month for European
poker.
Andy played his way
through a field of over 5600 players to take his share of
the historic $56 million prize pool. His $1.7 million prize
is the biggest single cash in WSOP history by a European
player.
Phil Quayle, Poker Room
Manager at William
Hill Poker Room
said "Andy's performance in the main event was an
outstanding one, with a little more luck in some of the
crucial pots at the final table, and European poker could
have been celebrating its latest and greatest bracelet
winner. This made Andy a deserving winner of the
WilliamHillpoker.com European Rankings Player of the Month
Award."
Other individual
performances of note came from the 2004/2005 European
Rankings number 1, Willie Tann, who claimed a bracelet and
$180,000 in the $1000 hold em event and Roland De Wolfe, for
his fantastic win in the WPT event in Paris, earning him
over 400,000 euro.
Previous winners of the
William
Hill Poker Room
European rankings player of the month award include Rob
Hollink, Paul Maxfield, Peter Gunnarsen and Lawrence
Gosney.
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Hill Poker Room is
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since 1934. The online poker room hosts in excess of 10,000
players daily and offers the widest range of cash tables,
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