Monday, May 21st, 2012
Blog > Sorel Mizzi wins Bluff Player of the Year
Now that 2010 has been and gone, a whole host of poker related awards have been given out, the latest being the prestigious Bluff Magazine Player of the Year award. The winner of this year’s title goes to Canadian superstar Sorel Mizzi.
The talented Canadian, who this year signed a sponsorship deal with online poker room Titan Poker, was in scintillating form throughout the past twelve months and is fully deserving of his Player of the Year gong. His first cash of 2010 came just eight days into the year when he finished fifth in the $5,000 Heads Up Challenge at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which netted him $17,600. After that he cashed a further 25 times, reaching 19 final tables and winning five tournaments outright, worth $1,895,430.
Mizzi, better-known as “Imper1um” and “zangbezan24” on the various online poker rooms he plays at, first burst onto the live poker scene in 2006 when he came 10th in the $5,000 Championship Event of the Aruba Classic and since then has gone on to win over $3,500,000 from live poker tournaments. Add this to the $2,500,000+ that he has won from online poker sites and Mizzi is fast becoming one of the most successful poker players of his generation.
His points total of 1,777 was the biggest haul since the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year award was first established and was more than 500 points more than the second placed Thomas “kingsofcards” Marchese, who won the CardPlayer equivalent of this award. Marchese himself had a fantastic year, his first on the live poker circuit, a year that saw him cash 16 times, reach 11 final tables and win two events outright for earnings of $2,114,491.
Making up the top five in the awards were Portuguese businessman Fernando Brito who was also crowned the European Poker Tour Player of the Year, youngster David Peters and Vanessa Selbst, the latter ending a great year by signing for one of, if not the best online poker room, PokerStars.
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