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Welcome to Part 2 of PokerNews' Breakout Players of 2011. In Part 1, Pius Heinz, Ben Lamb and Sam Trickett were among the players highlighted.

We'll be recognizing a few more players in Part 2. As a refresher of whom we've dubbed a "breakout player," the player had to have a minimum of $1 million in live tournament earnings, a major victory or combination of more than one minor victory had to have been obtained, and the player had to produce other top results throughout the course of the year that kept them in the topic of conversation. Lastly, of course, this should have been the...