Global Poker Awards Step Aside for 2026 as GPI Shifts Direction

According to GPI and THM President Eric Danis, the team’s size made the annual project increasingly difficult to sustain.

For a group that continues to grow other products and rankings, sacrificing that much operational time has become hard to justify. Danis also noted the improbable run the team has had, producing ceremonies everywhere from France to the Sunset Strip.

If you had told a younger me that I’d be part of a team organizing awards ceremonies… I wouldn’t have believed you.