The Global Poker Awards will be streamed on PokerGo on March 3, 2023. But what if someone put together awards for the worst of poker in 2022? Who would you nominate for awards that might include the following:

Worst Poker Player of the Year
Worst Female Poker Player of the Year
Worst Breakout Player of the Year
Worst Final Table Performance
Players' Choice for Easiest Opponent
Worst Twitter Personality
Worst Streamer
Worst Vlogger
Worst Industry Person
Worst Tournament Director
Worst Event
Worst Mid-Major Tour
Worst Broadcaster
Worst Podcaster

A few other awards I chose not to mirror, but feel free to add them.

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"Worst player behavior in a casino poker game"

should go to the guy who stabbed 4 people in a popular Washington state poker room.

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How about we don’t **** on poker content creators and people that are helping to grow the market

Yeah I agree, seems like a pretty mean spirited "award show".

I nominate ejames209 as the word poster of the year.

Worst break out player of the year would be Eric Hans Persson.

hell yeah

I nominate bdharrison as the worst poster of the year.

Joe Stapleton has to get a mention in one of these awards. The very worst presenter, commentator or whatever he is labeled as.

Yes Joe Stapleton is top favorite for Worst Twitter Personality among others, such as Worst Broadcaster

"Least Healthy Diet in the Poker Community"

Trooper's Pizza, Burgers, and Coffee Diet.

I actually think Stapes is pretty funny, though admittedly I haven’t listened to any broadcasts recently. I’ve always thought he could lose the Al-Qaeda terrorist beard though lol.

We already had these awards for online cash, Doug Polk was nominated worst midstakes reg.

he was cool in 2011 but the shtick has certainly worn off.

But he was really good for the game.

"hEs goT mOre RazZieS tHan a cAt aT a rAzZ cOnVEntIon"

He's somehow the more annoying version of Rick Reilly.

Yes Joe Stapleton is a disaster.

For the record, I love Joe Stapleton. I think the guy is hilarious.

I actually met him once in Toronto. We were at a PokerStars event at Real Sports Bar (best parties I've ever been too btw). I saw him at the bar with someone I assumed was his SO. I had to come over and say hi.

"Hey man! Funniest poker guy on TV."

I basically introduced myself then left immediately because I feel uncomfortable with celebrities. I've have some super awkward moments.

He was super nice and wanted to have a conversation but I GTFO ASAP LMAO

I wish I stayed for a bit.

Haha I agree with all of this except for the notion of Stapes being a celebrity. That part literally got a laugh out of me. Great dude, though.

Still, I can understand his being a divisive figure in the poker broadcasting space. He employs something of a dad-joke style to his commentary, which i enjoy but we already know how many poker players are just-the-facts types. It didn't work for Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football decades ago (even though I liked that, too), and it's probably a tough sell for a large portion of the audience today.

Besides, poker folks get caught up with an announcer's poker bona fides, maybe even more than in actual sports broadcasting. This works against Stapes in a way that doesn't with more accomplished players-turned-broadcasters (e.g. GOAT analyst Nick Shulman)

Watched televised poker for the first time in years yesterday. Stapleton tries way too hard to be funny (he's not) and adds nothing to the broadcast. It's almost as if he listened to some old Norm Chad WSOP shows and is trying desperately to mimic him.

For industry persons, its anyone who creates those scam poker courses that are thousands of dollars, and try to bring "rise and grind" nonsense to the industry.

Stapleton used to be cool but now he just stands on his proverbial pedestal and points out how immoral everyone else is except him

lol @ poker "content creators" growing the market. they are making poker worse and its not close.

How so? Is he actually doing this during broadcasts?

I don’t watch much tournament poker so I don’t catch much of him these days. Thought he was great in The Big Game, but that was well over a decade ago

I nominate Berkey for worst player still able to convince people to give him money for his BS S4Y stuff. Actually, I nominate him for all the worst categories.

Loved him during the big game. But yeah, it's not CONSTANT so maybe I shouldn't have said he ***just*** does it, but he has a tendency to berate whatever live chat is going on to not say this or that because it is (insert prefix)-ist and they should do better etc etc