The $75,000 goal was hit a year later through the help of the poker community. She started the gofundme campaign back in 2020. Cleeton, co-founder of the training app Range Trainer Pro and manager of poker training site Learn Pro Poker, suffers from a severe form of spinal muscular atrophy.īrill was instrumental in getting Cleeton a new customized van to travel around the US, and most especially, to take part in the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP). She took home the Charitable Initiative Award for setting up a fundraising campaign to bring KL Cleeton to Las Vegas.

Vanessa Brill Wins Charitable Initiative Awardįrom now on, Brill will not only be known as the Postlegate whistleblower. In the end, his dedication and hard work all paid off.

In his acceptance speech, Imsirovic said he never thought he would achieve such a feat in poker, though winning Player of the Year was his goal from the start. He won a record-setting 14 tournament titles in addition to multiple in-the-money finishes, bringing his total earnings to more than $6 million. The Bosnian-American poker pro later went back to the podium to claim the award for Players Choice for Toughest Opponent, defeating poker elites David Peters, Stephen Chidwick, and Michael Addamo.Ģ021 was probably Imsirovic’s biggest year. At the start of the ceremony, he received both the GPI Poker Player of the Year and PokerGO Tour Player of the Year. Ali Imsirovic Bags Three AwardsĪli Imsirovic was the biggest winner of the night, bagging three awards.

Over 20 awards were given away throughout the night, with some of poker’s biggest names among the recipients. The ceremony was held at PokerGO Studio at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renee. After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Global Poker Awards returned on February 18, honoring the huge contributions of poker players, media personalities, content creators, and industry figures to the overall growth of the game.

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