UK Player Rankings

At the end of last year, Roland de Wolfe walked away as our UK Player of the Year 2007 after a clear points victory over the rest of the field. However, we decided that points could not judge our four other categories alone, so we asked you to cast your vote. Thanks to everyone who took part – four people will be picked at random to receive some great prizes.

Newcomer of the Year

John Tabatabai 49%
Mazhar Nawab 23%
Ian Cox 19%
Roberto Romanello 9%

We thought this was going to be a closely fought category after players like Mazhar Nawab and Roberto Romanello had such great runs in the GUKPT. But, you just couldn’t argue with the fact that John Tabatabai came achingly close to winning the inaugural WSOPE.

Best WSOP Performance

Jon Kalmar 37%
John Tabatabai 28%
Ram Vaswani 26%
Stuart Fox 9%

Outstanding Performance of the Year

Jon Kalmar 32%
John Tabatabai 29%
Julian Thew 23%
Jeff Kimber 16%

Jeff Kimber and Julian Thew may have both won their respective ‘big’ events (World Heads-up Championship and EPT Baden) but you were understandably swayed by the WSOP performances of Kalmar and Tabatabai. It went right down to the wire, but Kalmar just pipped it at the post with is ‘zero to hero’ story.

Local Hero Award

Julian Thew 36%
Ian Cox 30%
Roberto Romanello 19%
Mazhar Nawab 15%

This category was full of strong contenders: Romanello and Nawab had impressed all year and the brilliant Ian Cox had shown remarkable consistency. But it would have been tough for Thew not to walk away with the award after winning the GUKPT Plymouth and coming secojnd in a side event when the tour went to London.