The Title Of The 2009 Poker Player Of The Year Was Given To

Poker player of the year is given to someone who has had a tremendous year in online and offline poker tournaments. Winning one online poker tournament in itself is a great achievement but winning more than 5 is outstanding. Harrison Gimbel of US won 6 tournaments online and offline in 2009. 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. He started playing poker since he was 13 with his brother who I 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 that he has never been an online player and has always been in love with the biggest 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 favorite poker players are Phil Ivey and Dario Minieri and his favorite game is NLHE MTTS. He enjoys chinese food and makes his way down to his local chinese restaurant every week.

As I said earlier he won 6 tournamets in 2009, I have listed the name of the tournaments he won below. The Nightly Hundred Grand, $33,000 guarantee (1r+1a), $22,000 guarantee (1r+1a), $40,000 guarantee, $55+R NL Hold’em $40,000 guaranteed and $33,000 guarantee (r+1a). In the summer of 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 had good finishes in ten other tournaments by finish 2nd 5 times and 3rd 5 times. He said he will be participating in many tournaments which includes rakeback deals and full tilt poker in next few months.