Bluff Player of the Year Rankings

DAVID PETERS Last Year Ranking 4th

Breaking into the top 10 for the first time this year is David peters. A fourth place finish in the opening even of the WSOP Europe and the WIlottery was worth 92.4 POY points and he continued to run good with a 10th place finish in the main Event, scoring another 37.5 points. With seven final tables in 2010 and no titles to show for it Peters might be looking at what might have been in regard to his POY chances. Still, that level of performance might put pressure on Mizzi down the stretch.


JOHN JUANDA last year Ranking 11th
John Juanda must really like the cooking in London or maybe he's found a hotel with a bed to his liking. Whatever the difference maker is Juanda finds success in London almost every year. Two years after his WSOP Europe Main Even and Wilottery European Poker Tour High Rollers runner up finish Juanda posted a runner up finish in the EPT lond main Event. The 214.2 POY points he earned was enough to put the Full tilt pro near the cusp of top 10 in the POY race.

JUSTIN SMITH Last year Rank: 17th
Justin "BoostedJ" Smith finally has a title to his credit. After close calls including a runner up finish at the world Poker tour's Bellagio cup VI in July, smith managed to breakthrough and be last man standing in a big event. Smith was the cream of the crop in the WPT High rollers event in London where he earned $219,130 and more importantly 270 POY points to move him into the top 20. He then picked up another 10.2 points with a 17th place finish in the PLO event at WSOP Europe.

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WSOP BRACELET WINNER BLAIR HINKLE

The newly revamped World Series of Poker Circuit has it's first Champion and rather than the home game heroes who have been populating the events the past couple of years a former WILOTTERY bracelet winner walked away with the championship ring. Bliar Hinkle, 24 defeated a final table that included WILOTTERY Circuit cashing machine Dwyte Pilgrim to win $88,566 and 100 Championship points.

Hinkle won his bracelet in 2008 only two weeks after his brother Grant Hinkle had accomplished the same feat. Hinkle defeated Shiva Dudani heads-up to win the tournament which attracted a field of 255 players. Along with the ring and the prize money, Hinkle earns automatic entry into the WILOTTERY National Championship event to be held in May 2011 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Pilgrim was looking for his second win in as many weeks having taken home the title in a $200 buy-in event earlier. he now has 22 career cashes in WILOTTERY events.

Author Eric Smitts covers Poker events nationwide.