Cherish Andrews, David Coleman Earn 2024 GPI Player of the Year Honors
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Cherish Andrews and David Coleman dominated the tournament poker world last year. As such, they'll receive two of the most prestigious awards at the Global Poker Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.
Andrews, for the second time in three years, won the GPI Female Player of the Year race. Coleman beat Jesse Lonis by the slimmest of margins to claim the GPI Player of the Year award.
Han Feng Win will also receive a trophy for taking down GPI Mid-Major Player of the Year, another award Andrews nearly won but inevitably finished runner-up in a close race.
Coleman the Best in the World in 2024
Most GPI awards won't be revealed until the ceremony as the voting process hasn't begun. But the Player of the Year races are all determined by a scoring system that tracks tournament results throughout the year.
Coleman finished the year with 4,383.70 points, barely ahead of Lonis (4,374.38) and Adrian Mateos (4,312.44). Ren Lin finished in fourth place (4,074.93), while Mike Watson (4,026.29) rounded out the top five.
The newest GPI Player of the Year had a career year. He finished with over $5.2 million in live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob, more than doubling his previous combined output (by a lot). Coleman picked up his three largest cashes in 2024, including a $730,300 score in July for winning a $25,000 buy-in WPT Alpha8 Trifecta event.
The New Jersey native closed out the year with a bang, booking a $890,000 cash for sixth place in the WSOP Paradise $100,000 Triton Main Event. Doing so put him over the top and just ahead of Lonis, who also had a memorable year of poker.
2024 GPI Player of the Year Top 10 Standings
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Coleman | 4,383.70 |
| 2 | Jesse Lonis | 4,374.38 |
| 3 | Adrian Mateos | 4,312.44 |
| 4 | Ren Lin | 4,074.93 |
| 5 | Mike Watson | 4,026.29 |
| 6 | Punnat Punsri | 3,942.21 |
| 7 | Alex Foxen | 3,878.44 |
| 8 | Artur Martirosyan | 3,764.56 |
| 9 | Stephen Chidwick | 3,752.44 |
| 10 | Dylan Weisman | 3,729.00 |
Andrews Does it Again
Andrews also won a tight race — 3,115.65 points to 2,916.13 points — against Kristen Foxen, who is always in contention for GPI Female Player of the Year. The 2024 winner, a two-timer, like Coleman, needed some December success to get over the hump.
Andrews won a World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring at Harrah's Cherokee early in the month for $108,971. She then racked up another $40,000 worth of cashes before the month concluded that helped her hold off Foxen, who won it last year (and in 2017, 2018, and 2019).
The GPI Female Player of the Year award has become an annual battle between Foxen and Andrews. But there were others who came within striking distance, including Victoria Livschitz (2,649.56), Rania Nasreddine (2,541.39), and Maria Konnikova (2,266.71).
Andrews won three tournaments last year, finished in the money 36 times, and cashed for a career-best $829,863, bringing her lifetime live tournament cashes up to nearly $2.7 million.
2024 GPI Female Player of the Year Standings
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cherish Andrews | 3,115.65 |
| 2 | Kristen Foxen | 2,916.13 |
| 3 | Victoria Livschitz | 2,649.56 |
| 4 | Rania Nasreddine | 2,541.39 |
| 5 | Maria Konnikova | 2,266.71 |
| 6 | Jessica Vierling | 2,212.97 |
| 7 | Min Zhang | 2,040.57 |
| 8 | Angela Jordison | 1,984.53 |
| 9 | Meng Ling Lin | 1,967.06 |
| 10 | Nadya Magnus | 1,951.24 |
