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Chad Brown Named Bluff Magazine's Poker Player of the Year.


Chad Brown
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 is Bluff Magazine's Poker Player of the Year 2006

ATLANTA -- Chad Brown has been honoured with the Title of Bluff Magazine's Player of the Year 2006. Brown, a professional poker player who has been playing poker since boyhood, considers this one of his greatest achievements. In an upcoming interview with Bluff Magazine Bluff Magazine is an American magazine specializing in the game of poker. Separate editions are also published for Europe and Australasia.

The American edition began as a bimonthly in October 2004, and went monthly in August 2005.
, Brown commented on his title:

"This is an enormous accomplishment to be very proud of. To put this in context, if I was acting, it would be like I won an Oscar at the Academy Awards."

But Brown is no stranger to winning. His tournament history is, after all, what gained him this title. But Brown draws a distinction between being player of the year and being the winner of a major tournament. "It's not like winning a tournament. Anyone can get lucky one day and win a tournament. But all the best players in the world play all the big main events and the Player of the Year award Several sports leagues honor their best player with an award called Player of the Year. In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award. The awards with the "player of the year" phrasing include these.  is defined by (your achievements) in all the major tournaments."

Bluff's proprietary ranking system awards points to players who finish in the money in North American North American

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 poker tournaments with at least a $5,000 buy-in, where there are at least 100 competitors. Brown scored a total of 470.44 points throughout 2006, beating runner-up JohnnyBax by almost 30 points.

"Our Player of The Year is our highest player honor", said publisher Eric Morris Eric Morris may refer to:
  • Eric Morris (actor), an actor and acting teacher
  • Eric "Monty" Morris, a Jamaican musician
. "It is one of the few honors in the poker world which considers all major poker achievements throughout the year, transcending the boundaries of poker associations and tournament series."

Chad Brown's interview will appear in the April edition of Bluff Magazine, on Newsstands across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Australia.

About Bluff Magazine

About Bluff Magazine (www.bluffmagazine.com)

Bluff Magazine is America's Largest Poker Magazine. Printed and distributed nationwide. Bluff is available on newsstands, at poker events and locations, and by subscription. Poker enthusiasts eager to keep up with the fast-paced modern poker lifestyle read Bluff. Regular contributors to Bluff Magazine include: Jennifer Tilly Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958)[1] is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Biography
Early life
Tilly was born Jennifer E. Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles, California.
, Marcel Luske, Josh Arieh, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, and Annie Duke.
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