888 won Operator of the year 2013, Best Poker Operator 2013 as well as Best Casino Operator 2013.
888Poker has won Best Poker Operator for three consecutive years at the EGR awards and will no doubt be celebrating their achievements in the online gaming industry.
More than 700 online gaming operators were included in the nominations with awards given out for several categories including: poker, casino, sportsbetting, bingo, mobile products and many more.
888 Poker JC Chan has his eye on the prize having the chipleader advantage starting out on the final table.
Watch all the action on ESPN2, the cards will be dealt from 16:30 Pacific Time with a fifteen minute delay from the live action. Poker fans can also watch the WSOP Live Streaming sponsored by 888Poker worldwide and Slotmania in US.
Commentary will be provided by Lon McEachern, Norman Chad with additional commentary by poker legends Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth.
Before the final table started two players were inducted into the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame, Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy.
US player Ryan Riess has been crowned the WSOP Main Event champion defeating Jay Farber heads-up.
Negreanu just needed to make the final table of the High Roller Event to claim his 2013 POY title and managed to win the tournament and his 2nd WSOP bracelet for 2013.
This is Negreanu’s second WSOP player of the Year title, his previous title was won in 2004 a decade ago.
Negreanu started out on the final table with the lowest chip stack and found himself head-ups verses Brazilian player, Nicolau Villa-Lobos.
888 will offer the casino and poker software for Wynn Interactive, a similar deal which 888 have with Caesars Entertainment and the new WSOP online poker software which launched recently.
Wynn Interactive have applied for online gaming licenses to operate in Nevada as well as New Jersey with plans to offer regulated online poker in states where poker is legal.
The All American Poker Network was created by 888 Holdings earlier this year, the poker network will be exclusively for US poker players.
The November Nine players have outlasted a field of 6,352 players and having been playing the tournament all week long.
The final table players are: JC Tran, Amir Lehavot, Marc McLaughlin, Sylvain Loosli, Jay Farber, Ryan Riess, David Benefield, Michiel Brummelhuis and Mark Newhouse.
The final table returns in November this year as the 2012 WSOP Main Event was held in October due to US elections last year.
