Thu, 09/22/2011 – 07:14 – PokerPages Staff

Rafi ‘rafaelamit’ Amit’s high stakes cash game hot streak was snapped by ‘!P0krpartyi’ on Tuesday in an action packed evening on the world’s largest poker site, PokerStars.

Amit has been on fire recently and became the biggest winner online in 2011 on Monday but he could not stop a rampant ‘!Pokrpartyi’ in mid-week. The unknown alias burned through a staggering 6,204 hands in one huge $50/$100 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max session.

‘!P0krpartyi’ took Ben ‘Sauce123′ Sulsky, Sami ‘Lrslzk’ Kelopuro, Davin ‘mTw-DaviN’ Georgi and Amit to the cleaners and eventually logged off after over fifty hours with a substantial $405,000 upswing. ‘!P0krpartyi’ has now won almost $500,000 online since July.

Renowned live tournament player Benny ‘towliestar’ Spindler also dominated for the third night in succession. Spindler played over 2,200 hands at the PLO stakes and added another $191,000 to his bankroll. The German is now up $651,000 for the calendar year.

Amit had a rare foray into the losing column on Tuesday as he donated $127,000 in total to his opponents. Despite that downswing, the Israeli is still the biggest winner this year with profits of $1.45 million.

Sulsky has struggled for form for several months now and he could not get anything going as he bled $67,000 in various games. Rob ‘Vaga_Lion’ Akery (-$55,000), Niki ‘RealAndyBeal’ Jedlicka (-$45,000) and ‘Barbara42′ (-$49,000) also struggled on the virtual felt.

‘!Pokrpartyi’ and Spindler were the biggest winners by some margin but ‘socutiesf’ (+$47,000), ‘tuff_shark’ (+$84,000) and ‘Zypherin’ (+$71,000) also enjoyed lucrative evenings on PokerStars.

Tue, 08/02/2011 – 01:46 – PokerPages Staff

Team PokerStars Pros Liv Boeree and Vicky Coren are among the names who have been nominated for a 2011 British Poker Award, it was announced at the weekend.

The second annual British poker Awards are set to take place during the ‘Poker in the Park’ festival at Hanover Square in London in September where those in attendance will celebrate the many successes of the ‘Brit pack.’

2011 World Series of Poker bracelet winners Jake Cody and Matt Perrins feature in the ‘Best Tournament Player’ and ‘Best Mixed Game Player’ sections respectively while Sam Trickett gets nods in the ‘Best Cash Game Player,’ ‘Best Tournament Player’ and ‘Best Social Media User’ categories.

Trickett will be up against Boeree and Coren in the ‘Best Social Media User’ category while the two leading ladies in British poker will also do battle with Kara Scott, Luke Schwartz and Roland de Wolfe for the ‘Poker Personality of the Year’ award.

Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier and Jason Mercier lead the voting in the Best International Player. The prolific Erik Seidel, three time 2011 WSOP runner-up Phil Hellmuth and online high stakes cash game sensation, Tom Dwan, also feature on that list.

“This isn’t about self-congratulatory back-slapping. It’s about honoring the players who have done us so proud on the world stage,” Bluff Europe Editor Philip Conneller said on the poker awards website where poker fans can now cast their votes.