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Mike Sexton Leads Nominees for American Poker Awards

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The poker industry has spoken and the nominees have been revealed for the third annual American Poker Awards, presented by the Global Poker Index and PokerStars.

A selection of about 70 industry insiders spent the past week sending in nominations and the top four vote-getters were selected as finalists.

Mike Sexton leads the way with three nominations. The longtime World Poker Tour commentator and industry luminary is up for Tournament Performance of the Year, Poker Moment of the Year and Media Content of the Year. The first two are for his historic victory at WPT Montreal, while the last one is for his latest book, Life's a Gamble.

Other multiple-award nominees include Ari Engel (Breakout Performance of the Year and Tournament Performance of the Year), Maurice Hawkins (Breakout Performance of the Year and Tournament Performance of the Year) and Lance Bradley (Media Person of the Year and Media Content of the Year).

The PokerNews team picked up two nominations. Sarah Herring was named a finalist for Media Person of the Year and the PokerNews Podcast is a finalist for Podcast of the Year.

Voting for the awards will take place Feb. 23 in Beverly Hills, with winners determined by a jury of industry experts. The winners will receive their trophies at a ceremony that same night at 8 p.m. local time.

Here's a look at all of the nominees:

AwardNominees
Tournament Performance of the YearKristen Bicknell, WSOP $1,500 Bounty
 Ari Engel, Aussie Millions Main Event
 Maurice Hawkins, WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event
 Mike Sexton, WPT Montreal
  
Moment of the YearGriffin Benger vs. William Kassouf, WSOP Main Event
 Jason Mercier's WSOP heater
 David Peters wins GPI Player of the Year in final event
 Mike Sexton mounts comeback to win WPT Montreal
  
Breakout Performance of the YearAri Engel
 Maurice Hawkins
 Ankush Mandavia
 Sam Soverel
  
Event of the YearSeminole Hard Rock Poker Open
 Super High Roller Bowl
 WSOP Main Event
 WPT Five Diamond
  
Mid-Major Circuit of the YearHeartland Poker Tour
 Mid-States Poker Tour
 WPTDeepStacks
 WSOP Circuit
  
Industry Person of the YearTony Burns
 Jack Effel
 Sean McCormack
 Matt Savage
  
Media Person of the YearLance Bradley
 Sarah Herring
 Joe Stapleton
 David Tuchman
  
Podcast of the YearFull Contact Poker (Daniel Negreanu)
 Poker Life Podcast (Joe Ingram)
 PokerNews Podcast (Sarah Herring, Matt Parvis, Donnie Peters, Remko Rinkema, Rich Ryan)
 TwoPlusTwo Podcast (Terrence Chan, Ross Henry, Adam Schwartz)
  
Media Content of the YearBob, Charlie and a Life-Changing WSOP Main Event Journey (Lance Bradley)
 Life's a Gamble (Mike Sexton)
 Stu Ungar��s Last Chance Gone Wrong (Matt Showell)
 Twitch coverage of Aussie Millions (Jason Somerville)
  
Twitch Streamer of the YearKevin Martin
 Jason Somerville
 Jaime Staples
 Parker Talbot
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