Dermot Blain has completed a hat-trick of Global Poker Index player of the year awards after finishing top of the Irish 2014 leaderboard, having also topped the rankings in 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n
The 30-year old from Sligo started 2014 strongly with a victory in a \u20ac1,100 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha event at European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville in January for \u20ac20,200 and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the JP Poker Masters in Dublin during April for an additional \u20ac23,080.<\/p>\n
Blain’s biggest score of the year was \u20ac200,900, his reward for winning the \u20ac5,300 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Eight-Handed event at the EPT Grand Final. <\/p>\n
The popular pro then headed to Las Vegas for the 2014 World Series of Poker where he reached the money four times including a 316th place finish in the Main Event before stopping off for the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in September, where he cashed in a $1,650 side event, his last score of 2014.<\/p>\n
2014 GPI Irish Player of the Yea<\/b>
\n1 (311) Dermot Blain 1530.34
\n2 (598 ) Marc MacDonnell 1124,38
\n3 (709 ) Gavin O’Rourke 1017.32
\n4 (723 ) Jude Ainsworth 1007.34
\n5 (727 ) Daniel Wilson 1000.24
\n6 (802) Andrew King 948.92
\n7 (823 ) Kevin Killeen 936.67
\n8 (931 ) Eoghon O’Dea 878.55
\n9 (1192) Daragh Davey 764.60
\n10 (1316) Peter Murphy 713.58
\n* World standings in brackets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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