Awesome Hank
Poker player of year trophy is given to a person who has an outstanding year in poker tournaments online and offline. Winning one online poker tournament is a tremendous achievement but winning 6 in a year is just great. In 2009 Harrison Gimbel took the title of best player of the year because he won 6 poker tournaments online and offline. His winning for the whole year was around 3 Million dollars. That is a big margin for someone who is still a teenager at 19.
Gilber321 is his nickname in poker tournaments online. From early teenage years he was involved in playing poker with his brother who was 15 at the time. They started playing within friends from $10 to $20 buy in. Harrison won his biggest cash prize of $57,377.50 in PokerStars weekly tournament for coming second and his buy in was $1000. He said he was never an online cash player and has always been in love with the live tournaments. As he is still in his late teenage years he still doesn’t have enough experience on playing live poker tournaments. He says his poker idols are Dario Minieri and Phil Ivey and his favorite game is NLHE MTTS. He goes down to his local chinese restaurant every week as he loves chinese food.
The list of the tournaments he won in 2009 are listed below. The Nightly Hundred Grand, $22,000 guarantee (1r+1a), $33,000 guarantee (1r+1a), $40,000 guarantee, $33,000 guarantee (r+1a) and $55+R NL Hold’em [$40,000 guaranteed]. In June 2009 he won the 2009 Florida State Poker Championships. Recently in 2010 he went home with 2010 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure Main event title. Other players should definitely watch out for this young man he has already climbed up fast in short period of time.
He also finished in top 3 and top 2 5 times each in ten other tournaments in 2009. He is also going to be participating in tournaments of rakeback deals and full tilt poker in coming months.
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Posted in Gambling · May 24th, 2010 · Comments (0)
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