Since the GPI Leaderboard determines some of the winners, we already know that Ole Schemion will receive the Player of the Year title and we also know that the Best European Female Player will be Liv Boeree, but there are still plenty of interesting categories including the Tournament of the Year and the Breakout Player of the Year.
The event will be held at the Portomaso Marina Hilton Hotel on March 25 and it is organized by the head of the GPI, Alex Dreyfus, who recently organized the first American Poker Awards.
Dreyfus hopes that the change in location (the EPA has always been held in France so far) and the date (during EPT Malta) will result in bug publicity and that even more players than usual will attend.
Some of the awards are already determined by the GPI Leaderboard, so we know that Ole Schemion will once again win the Player of the Year title, but we also know that Liv Boeree will receive the Best Female Player title.
The other 9 categories each have 4 nominees, while the Best Poker Ambassador and the Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced by the organizers.
Best European Player
Ole Schemion
Best European Female Player
Liv Boeree
Rookie of the Year
George Danzer, Dominik Panka, Oliver Price, Jack Salter
Best live tournament performance
Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Martin Jacobson, Davidi Kitai, Dominik Panka
Tournament of the Year (<€2.000 buy-in)
Battle of Malta, Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona, Eureka Poker Tour Prague, WPT500 Dusk Till Dawn
Tournament of the Year (>€2.000 buy-in)
EPT Barcelona, EPT Prague, EPT Vienna, Master Classics of Poker Amsterdam
Poker Innovation of the Year
Expresso (Winamax), Shark Cage (PokerStars), Unibet stand-alone client, WPT500 on new markets
Charity of the Year
Helping Hands Charity Tournament, REG Charity, Right to Play Foundation, WPT UK Charity Raffle
Poker Industry Person of the Year
Hermance Blum (WPT), Edgar Stuchly (EPT), Leon Tsoukernik (King’s Casino), Rob Young (Dusk Till Dawn owner)
