Ali Nejad and Drea Renee to Host Global Poker Awards on PokerGO

Today, Poker Central announced its hosting duo for the first annual Global Poker Awards, hosted at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Long-time commentator and host of shows such as Poker After Dark, Super High Roller Bowl, and the Super High Roller Club, Ali Nejad will be flanked by Drea Renee, the host of Deep Issues on PokerGO and the 411 on Poker Central.

On Friday, April 5th at 8:00 pm ET, a total of 20 trophies will be awarded as players, industry personalities, and media members from 10 different countries are nominated. A total of 13 awards were subject to a shortlist from which a 130-member panel selected the eventual nominees who can be found on the list at the bottom of this article.

The first edition of the Global Poker Awards are presented by PokerStars and sees many former American and European Poker Award winners on the list of nominees.

Lance Bradley, Mori Eskandani, Joe Ingram, Cary Katz, Lon McEachern, Andrew Neeme, Daniel Negreanu, Matt Savage, Nick Schulman, Jason Somerville, Jaime Staples, Remko Rinkema and several events and organizations are up for awards after having previously been successful in either America or Europe.

Drew Amato, Sarah Herring, Lance Bradley, Remko Rinkema, Justin Bonomo, and Lex Veldhuis are nominated in two categories this year. Poker’s power couple Alex Foxen and Kristen Bicknell will receive the GPI Player of the Year awards during the ceremony and for Bicknell this means back-to-back Female Player of the Year honors.

Here’s an overview of the categories with nominees in alphabetical order.

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