Who's The Top Dog In European Poker?
Published: Monday, February 28, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
WHO'S THE TOP DOG IN EUROPEAN POKER?
Will Hill to sponsor European rankings
In any sport, people always want to know who's top dog, and the phenomenal
rise in the popularity of poker has led to a strong demand among casual and professional
players alike for stats to decide just who is the ‘King of the Chips’.
In similar vein to golf’s PGA Order of Merit or the ATP Tour rankings
in tennis, European Poker now has a backer for it’s ‘league table’
following the announcement of a two-year deal by William Hill Poker.com with Poker
In Europe.com (in association with Poker Europa magazine), to back The William
Hill Poker European Poker Rankings.
Devised to rank the top performing
players on the European poker stage, there have been four previous winners: Pascal
Perrault of France in 2000, Marcel Luske of Holland in 2001 and 2003 and Gary
Bush of England in 2002. The current holder of the title for 2004 is Willie Tann
of England and the current leader is Englishman Julian Thew.
For 2005
there are currently 66 different ranking tournaments, with well over 300 individual
events. To help level the playing field, and not favour players able to play in
more tournaments than others, it was decided in 2003 that only a players' top
ten results would count towards the overall ranking list, and their top five results
would count towards the individual games lists (Holdem
Poker, Omaha Poker
and 7 Card Stud Poker).
Dan Taylor, Operations Director for Williamhillpoker commented; “William
Hill Poker is extremely proud to be the title sponsor of the European Rankings.
It is wholly appropriate to be backing the leader board for the best in Europe,
and will serve to further strengthen the williamhillpoker.com brand right across
the continent.”
Readers who want to check out the current rankings
for 2005 can do so at:http://www.pokerineurope.com/europeanrankings/index.php?year=2005
