Saturday night at the PokerGO studio located at ARIA Casino was part of a gala evening that welcomed a poker crème de la creme from around the world. After a one-year break, this imaginary Oscars were presented, with guests and spectators accompanied by Jeff Platt and Drea Renee. “It's great to see you all live again! After 23 months, we are here together to celebrate the best that the poker world has brought us,” Platt started the entire parade.

In addition to the 18 announced categories, in which the decision was made among four nominees, another seven awards were presented during the evening, among which were traditionally the winners of the GPI rankings, the breakout player of the year of this GPI ranking and a special charity award. Once again, other personalities were thought of than just players, so reporters, photographers, tournament directors and bloggers and podcasters took home the award.

Many title defenders were found among the winners, Jamie Kerstetter won for the second time in a row in the Best Twitter Personality category, as did Paul Campbell, who again became the best tournament director. Another trophy to his collection was won by Brad Owen, who won a triumph in the category of the best vlogger (in 2019 he triumphed in the category of people's choice - poker personality).

However, the most inflected name belongs to a 27-year-old native of Bosnia, Ali Imsirovic, who in 2019 won the GPI breakout player of the Year award. We are all well aware of the great qualities and achievements of this young man, who this year won the PokerGO Tour Player of the Year in addition to the GPI Player of the Year title, but he also won the Player's Choice: The thoughest opponent category and was able to beat players such as Michael Addamo, David Peters and Stephen Chidwick.

Nadya Magnus became the women's player of the year, Adam Friedman  won the best performance at the final table, Ben "Spraggy" Spragg got the best streamer award, the best event was again the WSOP ME, and Enrique Malfavon's snapshot of the year from the bubble burst at the WSOP ME won the photograph of the year.

Complete list of winners:

The best tournament director

• Paul Campbell
• Justin Hammer
• Ray Pulford
• Andy Tillman

Best performance at the final table

• Koray Aldemir, WSOP Main Event
• Jeremy Ausmus, WSOP PLO High Roller
• Daniel “Jungleman” Cates, WSOP 50K Poker Players Championship
• Adam Friedman, WSOP 10K Dealer’s Choice 6-Max Championship

GPI Breakout player of the year

• Christopher Brewer
• Kyna England
• Johan Guilbert
• Vanessa Kade

Player's choice - thoughest opponent

• Michael Addamo
• Stephen Chidwick
• Ali Imsirovic
• David Peters

Twitter personality

• Will Jaffe
• Jamie Kerstetter
• Kitty Kuo
• Kevin Mathers

Best vlogger

• Jaman Burton
• Ryan Depaulo
• Brad Owen
• Ethan “Rampage” Yau

Best streamer

• Kevin Martin “kevinmartin”
• Benjamin Spragg “Spraggy”
• Jonathan Van Fleet “apestylespoker”
• Lex Veldhuis “LexVeldhuis”

Poker personality

• Tony Burns
• Jack Effel
• Mori Eskandani
• Matt Savage

Best event

• Seminole Hard Rock Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Opening Event
• World Series of Poker Main Event
• Wynn Mystery Bounty (Summer 2021)
• Wynn Millions

Best podcast

• Poker in the Ears (James Hartigan, Joseph Stapleton)
• The Chip Race Poker Podcast (David Lappin, Dara O’Kearney)
• The Doug Polk Podcast
• The Heart of Poker

Broadcaster

• Jamie Kerstetter
• Ali Nejad
• Jeff Platt
• Joseph Stapleton

Live reporter

• Merom “Mickey” Doft
• Timothy Duckworth
• Chad Holloway
• Christian Zetszche

Media content - written

• Lance Bradley (Canada) for PocketFives: Isai Scheinberg: His Company, His Legacy, and How Black Friday Impacted Both
• Alex O’Brien (Germany) for BBC: How a $10k poker win changed how I think
• D’Arcy Maine (USA) for ESPN.com: While battling brain cancer, Michael Graydon lives World Series of Poker dream
• Charles Rabin (USA) for Miami Herald: From immigration ‘cage’ to newest poker champ at Hard Rock. An Afghan refugee’s luck turns
   

Media content - photo

• Antonio Abrego (USA) for PokerGO: Adam Friedman defeats Phil Hellmuth for 3rd straight WSOP 10K Dealers Choice title
• Hayley Hochstetler (USA): The End of an Era
• Enrique Malfavon (USA) for PokerGO: The WSOP Main Event Bubble Bursts
• Danny Maxwell (Ireland) for PokerNews/WSOP: Brandon Shack-Harris and his umbrella at WSOP

Media content - video

• Paul Guyer & Andrew Neeme (USA): The Villain Who Stole Christmas
• Last Call Pokeridokumentii (Finland)
• Jeff Platt (USA) for PokerGO: “Stand Up for Me, Please!”
• Remko Rinkema (Netherlands) for PokerGO: Run it Back with Stefanie Ungar
• Run It Once: Meet The Jungleman
   

People's choice – Best hand

• Daniel “Jungleman” Cates (USA) gets Leng to fold in 50K PPC
• Doug Polk (USA) makes epic fold vs. Phil Hellmuth on High Stakes Poker
• Nicholas Rigby (USA) pulls monster bluff during late stages of WSOP Main Event
• Quads over Quads on Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event (Chang Liu vs Ugur Secilmis)
   

People's choice- Best trophy

• Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup
• MSPT South Dakota State Championship
• Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship
• WPTDeepStacks Gold Coast

People's choice – Poker personality
 

• Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert
• Greg “Greg Goes All In” Liow
• Jonathan Little
• Masato Yokosawa

Which winner made you happy and to whom did you wish the award?