Cherish Andrews and David Coleman dominated the event poker world final 12 months. As such, they’re going to obtain two of essentially the most prestigious awards on the World Poker Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.
Andrews, for the second time in three years, gained the GPI Feminine Participant of the Yr race. Coleman beat Jesse Lonis by the slimmest of margins to assert the GPI Participant of the Yr award.
Han Feng Win will even obtain a trophy for taking down GPI Mid-Main Participant of the Yr, one other award Andrews practically gained however inevitably completed runner-up in a detailed race.
Coleman the Finest within the World in 2024
Most GPI awards will not be revealed till the ceremony because the voting course of hasn’t begun. However the Participant of the Yr races are all decided by a scoring system that tracks event outcomes all year long.
Coleman completed the 12 months with 4,383.70 factors, barely forward of Lonis (4,374.38) and Adrian Mateos (4,312.44). Ren Lin completed in fourth place (4,074.93), whereas Mike Watson (4,026.29) rounded out the highest 5.
The most recent GPI Participant of the Yr had a profession 12 months. He completed with over $5.2 million in dwell event cashes, in keeping with The Hendon Mob, greater than doubling his earlier mixed output (by rather a lot). Coleman picked up his three largest cashes in 2024, together with a $730,300 rating in July for successful a $25,000 buy-in WPT Alpha8 Trifecta occasion.
The New Yorker closed out the 12 months with a bang, reserving a $890,000 money for sixth place within the WSOP Paradise $100,000 Triton Essential Occasion. Doing so put him excessive and simply forward of Lonis, who additionally had a memorable 12 months of poker.
2024 GPI Participant of the Yr High 10 Standings
Andrews Does it Once more
Andrews additionally gained a good race — 3,115.65 factors to 2,916.13 factors — in opposition to Kristen Foxen, who’s at all times in rivalry for GPI Feminine Participant of the Yr. The 2024 winner, a two-timer, like Coleman, wanted some December success to recover from the hump.
Andrews gained a World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring at Harrah’s Cherokee early within the month for $108,971. She then racked up one other $40,000 value of cashes earlier than the month concluded that helped her maintain off Foxen, who gained it final 12 months (and in 2017, 2018, and 2019).
The GPI Feminine Participant of the Yr award has change into an annual battle between Foxen and Andrews. However there have been others who got here inside putting distance, together with Victoria Livschitz (2,649.56), Rania Nasreddine (2,541.39), and Maria Konnikova (2,266.71).
Andrews gained three tournaments final 12 months, completed within the cash 36 instances, and cashed for a career-best $829,863, bringing her lifetime dwell event cashes as much as practically $2.7 million.
