Poker Central e Doug Polk Lideram Nomeações para American Poker Awards
O Global Poker Index anunciou os nomeados para o quarto American Poker Awards, apresentado pela PokerStars, irá ter lugar no dia 22 de fevereiro às 7 p.m. PT no Andaz West Hollywood em Los Angeles.
Os 102 membros do painel de nomeação, constituído por lideres da industria, profissionais de poker e membros dos media votaram para determinar os 54 nomeados em 13 categorias, dos 20 prémios que serão entregues na cerimónia.
O Poker Central foi o grande destaque ao receber 6 nomeações. Já Doug Polk lidera nas nomeações individuais ao configurar em 4 categorias que incluem Video Blogger, Poker’s Biggest Influencer, e Tournament Performance pela sua vitória no WSOP One Drop High Roller.
Outros nomeados incluem Daniel Negreanu (Biggest Influencer e Video Blogger), Joe Ingram (Video Blogger e Poker Life Podcast), Matt Savage (Biggest Influencer e Industry Person) e Lance Bradley (Journalist e Content).
De realçar que a PokerNews está também nomeada na categoria de Podcast of the Year pelo podcast com Brent Harrington, Sarah Herring, Matt Parvis.
Nomeados e Categorias dos American Poker Awards 2017
| Breakout Player | Dejuante “DJ” Alexander |
| Michael Del Vecchio | |
| William Alex Foxen | |
| Artur Papazyan | |
| Tournament Performance | Scott Blumstein (WSOP Main Event) |
| Darren Elias (WPT Fallsview) | |
| Bryn Kenney (PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Super High Roller) | |
| Doug Polk (WSOP One Drop High Roller) | |
| Moment of the Year | 70-year-old John Smith makes back-to-back WSOP 10K Heads-Up finals |
| Ema Zajmovic becomes first female player to win open event on World Poker Tour | |
| Vanessa Selbst’s Full House loses to Gaelle Baumann’s Quads early in the WSOP Main Event | |
| Tom Dwan makes his return to America, stars on Poker After Dark reboot on PokerGo | |
| Event of the Year | Super High Roller Bowl (ARIA Las Vegas) |
| partypoker MILLIONS North America (Playground Poker Club Montreal) | |
| Poker Masters Event #1 (ARIA Las Vegas) | |
| World Series of Poker Main Event (Rio Las Vegas) | |
| Mid-Major Circuit | Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) |
| RUNGOOD Poker Series | |
| WPTDeepStacks (WPTDS) | |
| World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) | |
| Journalist of the Year | Drew Amato |
| Lance Bradley | |
| BJ Nemeth | |
| Steve Ruddock | |
| Jessica Welman | |
| Broadcaster of the Year | Nick Schulman |
| Joseph Stapleton | |
| Lon McEachern | |
| Ali Nejad | |
| Media Content | Adrian Moreno in tears after Little One for One Drop win; days after losing his friend (Drew Amato, photo for WSOP.com) |
| Dead Money: A Super High Roller Bowl Story (PokerCentral documentary) | |
| Poker Brat: The Phill Hellmuth Story (Phil Hellmuth, published by D&B Publishing) | |
| Resilience Defined: Sheddy Siddiqui Raising his Two Boys #ForCathy (Lance Bradley, article for PocketFives) | |
| Podcast | PokerCentral Podcast (Brent Hanks, Will O’Connor, Remko Rinkema) |
| PokerNews Podcast (Brent Harrington, Sarah Herring, Matt Parvis) | |
| Poker Life Podcast (Joe Ingram) | |
| TwoPlusTwo Podcast (Terrence Chan, Ross Henry, Adam Schwartz) | |
| Video Blogger | Joe Ingram |
| Daniel Negreanu | |
| Andrew Neeme | |
| Doug Polk | |
| Poker Streamer | Jeff Gross |
| Bill Perkins | |
| Jason Somerville | |
| Jaime Staples | |
| Parker Talbot | |
| Industry Person | Tony Burns |
| Sean McCormack | |
| Adam Pliska | |
| Matt Savage | |
| Poker's Biggest Influencer | Cary Katz |
| Daniel Negreanu | |
| Doug Polk | |
| Matt Savage |
Prémios adicionais entregues nas cerimónia:
- 2017 GPI American Player of the Year: Bryn Kenney
- 2017 GPI Female Player of the Year: Kristen Bicknell
- Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poker
- Charitable Initiative
- Jury Prize
- PocketFives Legacy Award
- People’s Choice Award for Poker Personality of the Year
O People’s Choice Award para Poker Personality of the Year, o único prémio determinado pelo público, está de regresso este ano depois de ter estado ausente durante dois anos. Os votos ainda estão abertos ao público aqui.
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