Cherish Andrews, Stephen Song Are the 2022 GPI Poker Players of the Year
Last yr was a right yr for several international poker stars, but perhaps to the highest degree of all for Cherish Andrews and Sir Leslie Stephen Song. The deuce ended the yr inwards exceptional style, culminating inwards a Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year (POY) honor for each.
Both players had successful years before turn upward the heat in the net stretch. The GPI races were tight, but strong performances inward Dec pushed them forward and allowed them to slug their tickets to the top.
Poker fans canful anticipate to ascertain the deuce winners find their awards at the Fourth Global Poker Awards ceremony. The PokerGO Studio at the Aria inward Las Vegas testament host that event, but the particular date hasn’t yet been revealed.
Andrews Beats Expectations
For several years, the GPI Female POY sounded ilk a disordered track record as Kristen Foxen (nee Bricknell) took the title of respect from 2017-2019. She and then moved over for Alexis Gavin inward 2020 and Nadya Magnus inward 2021.
Andrews, who earned her first of all unrecorded tourney hard cash inward 2008, didn’t yet come along on the lean until 2021. She moved upwardly the charts through the yr before subsidence inward at 19th inward the net standings.
This year has been often better. Roy Chapman Andrews was inwards sec localise behind Angela Jordison as the Dec tournaments began, but quickly moved ahead.
Jordison was in front, with 2,483 points, when Roy Chapman Andrews found her sparkle and found paydirt inwards tercet tournaments. Among these were a $259,200 payday for 2d shoes at the $10,100 NLHE High Roller inward the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship and $131,912 for taking pull down the $1,100 NLHE WPT event.
Those wins came on consecutive years and followed a $78,045 gage she won for 6th shoes at the $3,000 NLHE WPT event. With those results, she leapfrogged o'er Jordison inwards the GPI points leaderboard, trouncing her past nearly 200 points.
Andrews has at present earned o'er $1.48 gazillion in live salamander events, according to Hendon Mob. $758,513 of that came inward 2022 and, at that value of improvement, 2023 is sledding to live an unbelievable year.
For her part, Foxen continues to execute super substantially at the tables. She ruined 7th lastly twelvemonth and 5th this year.
A Song And group A Dance
Song has appeared on the GPI charts yearner than Roy Chapman Andrews and has consistently moved up. He made it as luxuriously as 25 shoemaker's last year, but his performances at the tables this year go down him apart.
Most poker game followers would feature likely not paid any attention to Song when 2022 began, but that changed before long after. When his figure began appearing repeatedly as he picked upwardly cash in unity spunky after another, it was knockout non to notice.
Last year, Song won over $2.2 billion as he cashed inwards 44 live events. He claimed two first-place finishes – I inwards Oct at the Wynn Fall Classic and another in Dec at the WPT World Championship.
The run for the GPI POY awarding was extremely close, with Song battling X Hendrix, Jeremy Ausmus and Tchad Eveslage. Between the four, the last detachment in points was simply 69.
Song also had another faithful race, the GPI Mid-Major POY. For that, he was upward against Jordison, but his final pushing inward December ensured he took that title, as well. Since his foremost cash, Song has earned over $5.5 one thousand thousand at live events.
Elsewhere, Stephen Chidwick took the Card Player POY award. In qualifying events cobbler's last year, he picked upward o'er $6 1000000 inwards tournaments that saw him accept first-class honours degree station on numerous occasions.
Chidwick joins Daniel Negreanu as the only II to win the Card Player POY accolade twice. However, Chidwick, with over $44 trillion in lifetime earnings, will always live known as the for the first time side player to win the award. He completed that feat inward 2019.