‘Best Performance’ Nominees Announced for EPT Awards

The five finalists in the ‘Best Performance’ category were released today by the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour. In the upcoming EPT Awards on September 9th, this is one of the seven honors that will be awarded in Barcelona. This year’s category is based on the performance of the players in the EPT Season IV.

The five nominees for this category were all a champion in one of the events during Season IV and those nominees are:

Glen Chorny – This Canadian picked up the largest prize of the whole season when he won the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final in April. The entry fee of €10,000 attracted numerous players leading to a field packed with poker pros. His payout for the event was €2,020,000 and has had three other payouts in other live events.

Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier – He won the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure with a nice payout of $2,000,000. This resulted in him being signed to be one of the privileged Team PokerStars Pro’s. Bertrand is well known as an online StarCraft gamer who switched to poker. Mike McDonald – Another Canadian who toppled the field at the EPT German Open in Dortmund. Although scarcely old enough to play, he showed off his excellent poker skills to win the €933,000 top prize.

Jason Mercier –Jason was the winner of the EPT San Remo for a payout of €869,000. He was an online qualifier who beat a difficult lineup at the final table. Of the five nominated, Jason was the unlikeliest nominee. This was considered to be on e of the best final tables of the entire season.

Julian Thew – This regular on the EPT tour won €670,800 when he beat one of toughest lineups of the season. His win came at the EPT Baden Classic beating his previous best of 4th place at the 2005 Scandinavian Open.

Judges Victoria Cohen, John Caldwell, Lee Jones and John Duthie will attend the EPT awards and select the winner for this category.