Voting open for PokerStars EPT Awards

Martin Jacobson - Jacobson has stormed through Season 7, making an astonishing THREE final tables including two runner-up finishes - EPT Vilamoura for € 297,985 and EPT Deauville for € 560,000 as well as fourth at the recent EPT Berlin event € 230,000. That’s well over €1 million earned in a single season.

Roberto Romanello - the popular Welshman touched everyone - players and media alike - with his wonderfully emotional response to winning the EPT Prague Main Event. He sobbed for over 20 minutes.

John O’Shea - the talented Irishman has had seven cashes this season including runner-up in the EPT Prague €10,000 event, runner-up in the EPT Vienna PLO tournament and 17th in the EPT London Main Event. Following Berlin, he was lying fourth in overall Player of the Year, second in the Omaha Award and fourth in the Mixed Game Award.

Galen Hall - the biggest cash of Season 7 goes to American Galen Hall for taking down the PCA Main Event for $2.3 million. The 24-year-old from San Francisco overturned a 5:1 chip lead to beat 21-year-old Floridian Chris Oliver after a final lasting more than nine hours.

Chris Oliver - the young American achieved a 316,000% Return on Investment - almost certainly the highest of Season 7 - after winning his seat to the 2011 PCA Main Event in a $320 rebuy event on PokerStars and converting it to a $1,960,000 runner-up finish. He also earned an astonishing 1,120 Online Qualifier of the Year Award points - virtually the maximim that anyone can win in one go.

Eugene Katchalov - Katchalov, who recently joined Team PokerStars Pro, scored three giant cashes in ten days after winning the 2011 PCA Super High Roller for $1,500,000, cashing in the Main Event for $ 28,000 and then finishing as runner-up in the 6-Max High Roller for $131,920 - totalling more than $1,600,000. He’s now lying sixth in the worldwide 2011 Money List.

Konstantin Puchkov - the Russian player has competed in at least seven EPT Main Events this season, finishing third at EPT Barcelona for €300,000 and 17th in Berlin. He has also been a prolific participant in EPT side events and has cashed in eight in season 7 including runner-up in the EPT Snowfest €1,000 event, fifth in the same event in Vienna and tenth in the EPT Deauville €2,000 event. He won his EPT Tallinn seat in a live satellite.

Luca Pagano - the prolific Italian Team PokerStars Pro added another four Main Event cashes to his tally in Season 7. He has now cashed a total of 18 times in EPT Main Events - breaking his own record time and time again. He is currently leading the EPT All-Time Tournament Leader Board ahead of fellow team-mate Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

Jose Barbero - when Team PokerStars Pro Jose “Nacho” Barbero won the £20,000 High Roller event at EPT London, it was his fourth major victory of 2010. He also won LAPT Lima in June, the inaugural PokerStars.net France Poker Series event in Beaulieu-Sur-Mer in May and LAPT Punta del Este in February.

David Vamplew - Scottish maths graduate Vamplew shot to fame in October when he won the EPT London Main Event for £900,000. Only a day later, he followed it up by winning the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Tournament of Champions against all the other Season 1 UKIPT winners.

Will Molson - at the 2009 PCA, Will Molson was runner-up to Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier in the $25,000 High Roller. The following year, he was runner-up AGAIN to American William Reynolds so even the most cynical were crossing their fingers for the young Canadian when it came to his third consecutive PCA High Roller final table this January. Thankfully he finally broke his “bridesmaid” curse, defeating Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez heads-up to win a first prize of $1,072,850.

Sami Aro - The Finnish online qualifier won his seat to the 2011 PCA in the Mega-Path satellite series after investing just 100 Frequent Player Points - and cashed for $23,500 - an 146875% ROI.