However, that idiom just doesn’t apply to Jason Koon. If nice guys do indeed finish last, this is a terrible pick. GPI POY Jason Koon’s tournament results, which include a recent $500,000 win in the PokerGo Tour Championship, largely speak for themselves. And so Lance Bradley, Jeff Walsh, and Tim Fiorvanti each put together their own compelling arguments for their favorites in five categories for 2023 – GPI Player of the Year, WPT Player of the Year, WSOP Player of the Year, GPI Female Player of the Year, and the breakout star of 2023 (with less than $1 million in lifetime earnings, according to The Hendon Mob). That conversation expanded beyond the GPI, to the World Poker Tour, and World Series of Poker winners, and even went so far as a hunt for 2023’s biggest breakout star. That got the WPT editorial staff to thinking about who could win those awards in 12 months’ time.
Within the last few days, WPT announced Chad Eveslage as its Season XX Player of the Year, and the Global Poker Index officially named its Player of the Year winners for 2022 – Stephen Song (x2) and Cherish Andrews, along with almost 80 regional winners.
