Jan

Nominations announced for the 5th Global Poker Awards

Three nominations for Caitlin Comeskey, Marle Spragg
First-time nominee Wolfgang Poker is also up in three categories
Final Four voting for Fans Choice Awards opens this week

LAS VEGAS, January 23, 2024 – Voting panel members in 16 categories have completed the voting process and nominees are now known for the 5^th Global Poker Awards:

Caitlin Comeskey, who won a Global Poker Award for Rising Star in Content Creation at last year’s ceremony, has been nominated in three categories –Short-Form Content Creator, Best Video Content, and Best X/Twitter Personality. Comeskey will go head-to-head in all three categories with Marle Spragg, who also earned three total nominations.

Content-creating phenom Alexander Seibt “Wolfgang Poker”, a newcomer to the Global Poker Awards, also received three nominations – joining Comeskey and Spragg in the Short-Form Content Creator Category, a new category for the 5^th Awards, Best Vlogger and Fans Choice for Poker Personality

Gregory Liow, aka “Greg Goes All In”, completes the Short-Form Creator category and joins Wolfgang in the Poker Personality category, along with Seth Moeller “SethyPoker” and Jonathan Rand “Slow Poker”.

Bin Weng will be presented with the GPI Poker Player of Year trophy on Awards night, Kristen Foxen will collect her mind-boggling FOURTH GPI Female Player of the Year award while Nick Pupillo will pick up the Mid-Major PoY title.

Game of Gold has been announced as the first award winner (other than the PoYs) – GGPoker will be presented with the GPI Award of Merit. Several other trophies are expected to be presented on Awards night, including The Hendon Mob Award and the Charitable/Community Initiative.

Previous GPI Award winners who are nominated this year include Stephen Chidwick, Alex Foxen, Will Jaffe, Jamie Kerstetter, Kevin Martin, Benjamin Spragg, Lex Veldhuis, and Brad Owen.

Final Four voting for the GPA Fans Choice Awards kickoff tomorrow (Wed 24 Jan) and conclude the following Wednesday. Fans will make their selections in four categories: Best Hand, Best Trophy, Best Live Stream, and Poker Personality. Anyone can vote in this final round, including fans who voted in the first round – only 1 vote per person/IP address.

Catch the Global Poker Awards live on PokerGO on Saturday, February 24^th, 2024!

5th GLOBAL POKER AWARDS NOMINEES (listed alphabetically)

PLAYERS CHOICE FOR TOUGHEST OPPONENT

Voted on by the Top 100 players on the GPI as of January 3, 2024

Stephen Chidwick
Alex Foxen
Isaac Haxton
Jason Koon

BEST FINAL TABLE PERFORMANCE

Padraig O’Neill, EPT Prague
Erik Seidel, WSOP Paradise Super High Roller
Daniel Sepiol, WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
Daniel Weinman, WSOP Main Event

GPI BREAKOUT PLAYER

Jans Arends
William Kopp
Samuel Laskowitz
Santosh Suvarna

BEST X/TWITTER PERSONALITY

Caitlin Comeskey
Will Jaffe
Jamie Kerstetter
Marle Spragg

BEST STREAMER

Kevin Martin “kevinmartin”
Benjamin Spragg “Spraggy”
Bert Stevens “girafganger7”
Lex Veldhuis “LexVeldhuis”

BEST VLOGGER

Jaman Burton “TheDrawingDeadVlog”
Corey Eyring “corey_eyring”
Daniel Negreanu “dnegspoker”
Brad Owen “BradOwenPoker”
Alexander Seibt “Wolfgang_Poker”

BEST SHORT-FORM CONTENT CREATOR

Caitlin Comeskey
Gregory Liow “Greg Goes All In”
Marle Spragg
Alexander Seibt“Wolfgang Poker”

BEST INDUSTRY PERSON

Ryan Beauregard
Mori Eskandani
Adam Pliska
Francine Watson

BEST TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR

Jack Effel
Ray Pulford
Matt Savage
Toby Stone

BEST EVENT

Irish Poker Open Main Event
World Series of Poker Main Event
WPT Prime Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas

BEST MID-MAJOR CIRCUIT/TOUR

Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP)
RUNGOOD Poker Series (RGPS)
World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC)
WPT Prime (WPTP)

BEST STAND-ALONE FESTIVAL/SERIES

Irish Poker Open
Malta Poker Festival
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Wynn Millions Poker Series

BEST BROADCASTER

Henry Kilbane
Ali Nejad
Jeffrey Platt
Nick Schulman

BEST PODCAST

Only Friends Podcast (Matt Berkey, Melissa Schubert, Landon Tice and friends)
Poker in the Ears (James Hartigan, Joseph Stapleton for PokerStars)
The Chip Race Poker Podcast (David K Lappin, Dara O’Kearney, Barry Carter for Unibet Poker)
Thinking Poker (Andrew Brokos, Carlos Welch)

BEST MEDIA CONTENT: WRITTEN

BEST MEDIA CONTENT: VIDEO

BEST MEDIA CONTENT: PHOTO

Matthew Berglund: “Inconsolable”
Hayley Hochstetler: “Weinman Wins”
Rachel Kay Winter: “Schulman Cool”
Danny Maxwell: “On the Bubble”

FANS CHOICE: POKER PERSONALITY

Gregory Liow “Greg Goes All In”
Seth Moeller “SethyPoker”
Jonathan Rand “Slow Poker”
Alexander Seibt “Wolfgang Poker”

FANS CHOICE: BEST LIVE STREAM

Hustler Casino Live
Poker at the Lodge
PokerGO
PokerStars Live
Triton Poker

FANS CHOICE: BEST HAND

FANS CHOICE: BEST TROPHY

Asian Poker Tour Taipei Lion Trophy
Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup
NAPT Las Vegas Main Event Trophy
Poker Dream Malaysia Dragon Trophy
World Series of Poker Main Event Bracelet

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Anthony Charter

PR & Communications Manager

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