Player of the Month: Card Player Netherlands editor Anton Pieter Wink takes down the Unibet Open Budapest.
Quote of the Month: Padraig Parkinson on the European Poker Awards — “John Lennon once described the Eurovision Song Contest as a night out for middle-aged pop fans. If he’d lived and got into poker, I’d love to see what he’d have made of this carry on.”
Story of the Month: The Berlin poker robbery made not just poker media headlines but mainstream press headlines around the world .
Hand of the Month: Anton Peiter Wink’s final hand at the Unibet Open Budapest, “Wink beat Peder Skaj from Sweden heads up when having raised 100,000 on the button and facing a raise of 300,000 he called. The flop came Q
9
3. Skaj moved all in and Wink called after reflection with the nut-flush drawing A 8 against the Swede’s J 10
. A 10 on the turn shot Skaj into the lead but the K on the river saw the Dutchman hit his draw and win the tournament.
Picture of the Month: Berlin poker robbery (above).
