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The top 20 players of the annual Player of the Year competition at BLUFF Magazine have been announced a few days ago, and it did not really surprise anyone that Sorel Mizzi came out on top.
Mizzi has several final table finishes behind him from last year, and also a third place at the Aussie Millions Main Event. He was already leading the contest in March, not giving away this position to anyone in 2010. He continued to collect BLUFF points by winning several other tourneys and getting into the final table at almost every tournament he visited.
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Sorel Mizzi on the cover of BLUFF Magazine
Runner-up is Tom Marchese, behind with more than 500 points. Third place has been taken by Portugese businessman Fernando Brito, who won a couple of lower buy-in ’High Roller’ events at the EPT around the end of the year, getting just a few points ahead of David Peters.
Vanessa Selbst has won two major tourneys in 2010, and these awarded her with place five on BLUFF’s list. She was planning to go back to school in 2011, but I wouldn’t really recommend giving up poker now that she is doing so great.
2009 winner Jason Mercier took the 9th place this year, which is still pretty impressive.
And here are the top 20 online poker players from 2010, as listed by BLUFF Magazine:
1st: Sorel Mizzi - 1,777.77 points
2nd: Tom Marchese - 1,257.30 points
3rd: Fernando Brito - 1,060.53 points
4th: David Peters - 1,009.26 points
5th: Vanessa Selbst - 986.77 points
6th: Eric Baldwin - 943.92 points
7th: Dwyte Pilgrim - 896.23 points
8th: Chris Bjorin - 889.25 points
9th: Jason Mercier - 882.40 points
10th: Chris Bell - 879.63 points
11th: Joseph Cheong - 875.58 points
12th: Tomer Berda - 846.35 points
13th: Michael Mizrachi - 843.00 points
14th: Jose (Nacho) Barbero - 831.45 points
15th: Scott Clements - 786.67 points
16th: David (Bakes) Baker - 782.38 points
17th: Phil Ivey - 782.05 points
18th: Mclean Karr - 778.40 points
19th: Jonathan Duhamel - 765.95 points
20th: Juan Carlos Mortensen - 758.55 points