Earlier this week the 15th edition of the annual European Poker Awards ceremony took place at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel in Monaco to reward leaders in the industry and poker players. Independent voting juries and expert award nomination panels decide most of award winners, while the 'Player of the Year Award' winner is decided based on the European players' GPI Player of the Year leaderboard scores.Below are the 2015 nominees and winners (in bold).
GPI EUROPEAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2015
- Fedor Holz
GPI EUROPEAN FEMALE PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2015
- Liv Boeree
JURY AWARD - SPECIAL INDUSTRY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
- Neil Stoddart
MEDIA PERSON OF THE YEAR
- Frank Op de Woerd
- Lee Davy
- Neil Stoddart
- Remko Rinkema
INDUSTRY PERSON OF THE YEAR
- Edgar Stuchly
- Hermance Blum
- Luca Vivaldi
- Rob Yong
- Thomas Lamatsch
BREAKOUT PLAYER OF THE YEAR
- Charlie Carrel
- Dzmitry Urbanovich
- Fedor Holz
- Rainer Kempe
TOURNAMENT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
- Adrian Mateos Wins the 2015 EPT Grand Final Main Event
- Barny Boatman wins second career WSOP bracelet at WSOP Europe
- Fedor Holz Wins WPT Alpha8 Las Vegas
- Mustapha Kanit wins EPT Barcelona 10K High Roller
EVENT OF THE YEAR (BUYIN UP TO €2,000)
- Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona
- Norwegian Championships Norway Cup
- PokerListings Battle of Malta
- WPT500 at Dusk Till Dawn
EVENT OF THE YEAR (BUY-IN OVER €2,000)
- EPT Barcelona Main Event
- EPT Grand Final Main Event
- EPT Prague Main Event
- WSOP Europe Main Event
POKER INNOVATION OR INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
- Norwegian Championship broadcast (sports style)
- PokerStars Play Along App - Interactive Poker on TV
- PokerStars using superstars (athletes) for global campaign
- WSOP Europe remote Twitch broadcasts
MOMENT OF THE YEAR
- Dzmitry Urbanovich wins Crazy Pineapple tourney at EPT Malta - 4th win of series
- Epic hand between Mateos and Lodden at EPT Grand Final
- John Gale returns from three years off (because of brain tumor) to win WSOP bracelet #2
- Pierre Neuville qualifies for the WSOP November Nine - after declaring he wasn't done
POKER MEDIA CONTENT OF THE YEAR
- "The Future of Poker in the Post-Boom Era" - Sam Grafton blog
- "The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Defeat" - Neil Stoddart's picture captures Montury consoling Messina at EPT Malta
- "Devilfish: A Friend with a Heart of Gold" - article by Jesse May and Mickey May
- Remko Report, PokerNews Podcast, August 2015 - Eli Elezra talks time in Israeli Army and high stakes with legends
source: http://europeanpokerawards.com/european-poker-awards-2015-award-winners/
