Black Is William Hills Top Poker Player

Published: Friday, August 12, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

BLACK IS WILL HILL'S TOP PLAYER

Irishman is this month's winner

Irish poker whiz Andy Black is the latest recipient of the coveted William HillPoker European rankings (powered by Poker in Europe) player of the month award.

His fantastic 5th place finish in this years $10,000 buy in at the World Series of Poker main event, earned Black over $1.7 million in prize money and was voted the outstanding performance in an exceptional month for European poker.

Andy played his way through a field of over 5600 players to take his share of the historic $56 million prize pool. His $1.7 million prize is the biggest single cash in WSOP history by a European player.

Phil Quayle, Poker Room Manager at williamhillpoker.com said, "Andy's performance in the main event was an outstanding one, with a little more luck in some of the crucial pots at the final table, and European poker could have been celebrating its latest and greatest bracelet winner. This made Andy a deserving winner of the WilliamHillpoker.com European Rankings Player of the Month Award."

Other individual performances of note came from the 2004/2005 European Rankings number 1, Willie Tann, who claimed a bracelet and $180,000 in the $1000 hold 'em event and Roland De Wolfe, for his fantastic win in the WPT event in Paris, earning him over Euro 400,000.

Previous winners of the WilliamHillPoker.com European rankings player of the month award include Rob Hollink, Paul Maxfield, Peter Gunnarsen and Lawrence Gosney.