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The Flying Dutchman, aka
Marcel Luske, was named “Texas Holdem Player of the Year” at the
European Poker Awards in Helsinki, Finland last week.
The title was given
in recognition of the success Luske had at the European poker
championship. Luske managed to overcome famous poker gurus Willie Tan,
Ram Vaswani, Dave Colclough and Lucy Rokach in Barcelona amongst six
final table appearances in Europe, to win the sought-after title.
This striking
tournament identified “Rookie of the Year” – this title was grabbed by
Finnish Jani Sointula who won in the Monte Carlo Millions.
Swede Martin De
Knijff received the award for “Best Tournament Performance”, having won
a $2.7m in the $25,000 Bellagio WPT event. Estonian Andres Burget won
the “Casino Staff Person” award for his development of poker in the
Baltic States. |
