Bluff Reader’s Choice Awards
Bluff Magazine is one of the leading poker journals. Every year it announces a set of awards more related to poker personalities than to poker playing abilities. These are voted for by the readers of Bluff Magazine. The awards for 2011 were released last week and make for some interesting reading.
The online poker room PokerStars won awards in three categories. One was for the favorite online poker site. This was virtually a heads up between PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, with PokerStars garnering 51% of the votes and Full Tilt Poker getting 44%. Joe Stapleton of PokerStars won the award for the favorite poker announcer. He hosts The Big Game, which is a high stakes televised cash game. His co-host on the show, Amanda Leatherman (in picture), won the award for favorite hostess. Poker babe Amanda is ever the subject of discussion on poker forums. After her break up with poker player Joe Sebok, posters at poker forums tried to pair her up with Daniel Negreanu. A few months later there were detailed discussions on whether she had implants done for The Big Game complete with before and after pictures. Amanda polled 43% votes, beating poker babe Kara Scott who got 29% of the votes. Kara is the hostess for High Stakes Poker. High Stakes Poker had its revenge when it beat The Big Game for the favorite poker TV show.
An interesting award was for the funniest poker Twitter. Doyle Brunson won this hands down with 40% of the votes. Announcing this award Bluff Magazine wrote, “The Godfather of Poker isn’t afraid to fire off a blonde joke or two or take other pros to task on his Twitter feed.” His sexiest poker players list is still fresh in memory. More recently he wrote about the prop bet he had won for not kicking the bucket in 2010.
The favorite moment of 2010 was the most closely contested award. There was a difference of only five percent in the top three moments, all of which were from WSOP. Phil Ivey winning the eighth bracelet came first, followed by Tom Dwan’s loss in the heads up of $1,500 NL Hold’em to Simon Watt and Michael “the Grinder” Mizrachi winning the $50,000 Players’ Championship.
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