Breakout Player
Dejuante “DJ” Alexander
Michael Del Vecchio
William Alex Foxen
Artur Papazyan
Tournament Performance
Scott Blumstein (WSOP Main Event)
Darren Elias (WPT Fallsview)
Bryn Kenney (PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Super High Roller)
Doug Polk (WSOP One Drop High Roller)
Moment of the Year
70-year-old John Smith makes back-to-back WSOP 10K Heads-Up finals
Ema Zajmovic becomes first female player to win open event on World Poker Tour
Vanessa Selbst’s Full House loses to Gaelle Baumann’s Quads early in the WSOP Main Event
Tom Dwan makes his return to America, stars on Poker After Dark reboot on PokerGo
Event of the Year
Super High Roller Bowl (ARIA Las Vegas)
partypoker MILLIONS North America (Playground Poker Club Montreal)
Poker Masters Event #1 (ARIA Las Vegas)
World Series of Poker Main Event (Rio Las Vegas)
Mid-Major Circuit
Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT)
RUNGOOD Poker Series
WPTDeepStacks (WPTDS)
World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC)
Journalist of the Year
Drew Amato
Lance Bradley
BJ Nemeth
Steve Ruddock
Jessica Welman
Broadcaster of the Year
Nick Schulman
Joseph Stapleton
Lon McEachern
Ali Nejad
Media Content
Adrian Moreno in tears after Little One for One Drop win; days after losing his friend (Drew Amato, photo for WSOP.com)
Dead Money: A Super High Roller Bowl Story (PokerCentral documentary)
Poker Brat: The Phill Hellmuth Story (Phil Hellmuth, published by D&B Publishing)
Resilience Defined: Sheddy Siddiqui Raising his Two Boys #ForCathy (Lance Bradley, article for PocketFives)
Podcast
PokerCentral Podcast (Brent Hanks, Will O’Connor, Remko Rinkema)
PokerNews Podcast (Brent Harrington, Sarah Herring, Matt Parvis)
Poker Life Podcast (Joe Ingram)
TwoPlusTwo Podcast (Terrence Chan, Ross Henry, Adam Schwartz)
Video Blogger
Joe Ingram
Daniel Negreanu
Andrew Neeme
Doug Polk
Poker Streamer
Jeff Gross
Bill Perkins
Jason Somerville
Jaime Staples
Parker Talbot
Industry Person
Tony Burns
Sean McCormack
Adam Pliska
Matt Savage
Poker's Biggest Influencer
Cary Katz
Daniel Negreanu
Doug Polk
Matt Savage
Additional APA honors to be awarded at the ceremony are:
2017 GPI American Player of the Year: Bryn Kenney
2017 GPI Female Player of the Year: Kristen Bicknell
Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poker
Charitable Initiative
Jury Prize
PocketFives Legacy Award
People’s Choice Award for Poker Personality of the Year
The People’s Choice Award for Poker Personality of the Year, the only award determined by popular vote instead of by committee, is back this year after being absent from the docket the last two years. Voting is still open to the public here.
