PNWGoforAwards2003

The 2003 GOFOR Awards In Hollywood, it’s the Oscars In Australia, the Logies In Europe…The Eurovision Song Contest. (Go TURKEY!) In Poker…there is one prestigious award…ONLY THE GOFOR AWARD………… It is designed and presented to those who have served poker the most, be it through regular tournament participation, internet articles, promotion of Australian Poker or by simply having your face in the frame next to a Poker Champion’s photo…. Price Waterhouse has tabulated the award votes, and the envelopes with the lucky winners’ names were hand delivered (hermetically sealed) to me by 2 Buddhist monks…(donkey courtesy Adelaide Zoo) So, without further ranting from this esteemed author…we will present the FIRST award……………..to… The player most likely to win a ruling argument at the table… ALEX HOROWITZ……. The player with more hats than than the Mad Hatter ALEX ROSSER The player who has never lost over a tournament weeks’ side action FRED SALIBA The Player most likely to beat all other SA opponents ANTHONY .D ….the RATTLER The Player with more Russian Poker stories than JK BILL MARCZAK The Player who will always bet when you check MIKE IVIN The Greatest Draw Player in Adelaide BOB RENSHAW The No Limit Holdem Hall of Fame Award SAM THE COLONEL KORMAN The Sweetest lady in the history of Crown Poker CARLENE BLAKE The All Class Award goes to CHARLES CUSCHIERI The No complaints…ever…award goes to CHRIS TOSCA The MR.LIMIT Award goes to COSI “ REBUY” IERACI The dealer turned player out of the blue award goes to DANNY “TAI-BO” THAI The Big Man With The Big Heart Award goes to DAVID THE BEANCOUNTER HATZIS The where are they now award goes to DARRYL “DAZZLER” LANYON The most popular player award goes to GEORGE “DOGMEAT”VASSILOPOULOS The permutation quotient algorithm award goes to DR. BOB CROSSMAN The ex-pat award goes to FAST EDDIE SCHWERDT The Mr. Omaha award goes to ERROL BAMFORD The prestige award goes to EUGENE “PORSCHE” JUCZENKO The Champion of the UNIVERSE award goes to LEO “ THE MECHANIC” BOXELL The 7-card Champions honor award goes to GARY S. BENSON The No.1 Heads Up threat award goes to GEORGE THE TASMANIAC MAMACAS The most intimidating vocal player award goes to SAM “ THE CHAMP” KHOUISS The Vegas Live Action Award goes to GARY “ GNU” BOXELL The most words, least sense award goes to GOFOR….( 5th year running) The Luckiest player alive award goes to GORDON “TILT”NEILSON The check raise award goes to JACK “ICE-CREAM” PANAGIOTOU The Mr. Consistency abroad award goes to JACOB “SON OF ALEX” HOROWITZ The Aces cracked most times award goes to MIKE THE PROF” COMER The Baptist of Poker award must go to the one and only JOHN “THE BAPTIST” BEAGLE The Mr.NiceGuy Award Dead heat…. JOHN HOMANN/JOHN MAVER The Larrikin award LARRY JONES The final table furniture award goes to LEE NELSON The kibitzer’s rabbit’s foot award goes to BEV BOXELL At this point in time, the lucky recipients are meeting at the Sebel Townhouse, Sydney. They are looking back at the successes of the past, and contemplating certain victory in the near future. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE 2003 AWARD WINNERS!!!!!!! Gofor