2025 Fans Choice Awards

APL Million – Southport Sharks (QLD)

The Australian Poker Schedule (APS) once again presented the annual 2025 Fans Choice Awards, an online survey celebrating players, staff, and others within the poker community. The awards expanded across thirteen categories, with nominees selected by fans and voting also carried out by the community.

This year, winners were presented at a special formal live awards night held in mid January at a venue in Queensland. All nominees were invited to an evening of celebration, complete with drinks and light refreshments. The awards night was live streamed on the Australian Poker Schedule YouTube channel.

APS’s ongoing goal remains to make this event completely free each year for all nominees. We thank everyone who expressed interest in sponsoring or supporting the event and helped make the night possible.

The awards were presented on Monday January 19th, 2026 at Queen B’s Poker, Beenleigh, Queensland.

Hosted by: Liam Murray

The live stream commenced at 7pm AEST (QLD time).

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2025 FANS CHOICE AWARDS CEREMONY

2025 FAN’S CHOICE AWARDS – WINNERS & NOMINEES

Player of the Year (6)
Higor Seibel – Kahle Burns, Nathanial Hutton, Johan Lees, Ángel Guillén, Jarryd Godena

Female Player of the Year
Ling Liu – Hannah Lee, Jennifer Cassell, Wyn Pham, Josephine Ting

Young Player of the Year
Liam Jehu – Troy Sweet, Jack Sweet, Oliver Corrie, “Swaine” Hoi Ching Leung

Business Reg of the Year
Mishel Anunu – Robert Spano, Andrew “Maddog” Shanahan, Michael Brahim, Martin Ward

Series of the Year
APL Million (Southport Sharks) – WPT Prime (The Star, Gold Coast), Australian Poker Open (Doltone House), Sydney Millions (Kings Room St. Georges Leagues Club), APT Sydney (Bella Vista Hotel)

Minor/Regional Series of the Year
Mixed Games Academy Summer Mix (Wantima Country Club, Brendale/Brisbane, QLD) – Empire Evolution Festival (Wantima Country Club, Brendale/Brisbane, QLD), Southern Poker Tour Ambush in Adelaide (Pier Glenelg, SA), The Ville 600 (Townsville, QLD), Kings Poker – Kingdom Championships (Blackbutt Hotel, New Lambton/Newcastle, NSW)

Circuit Dealer of the Year
Pedro Mattos – Zara Andrew, Andy Wong, Jacob Faull, Ayaka Masuda

Local Dealer of the Year
Chris Fiddes – Teddy J Estrada, Johnny Reid, Oliver Corrie, Nelson Maccini (SA)

Circuit TD of the Year
Amanda Abernethy – Adam Burke,Dominik Parker, Alex Hansen, Brian Nguyen

Local TD of the Year
Patrick Russell – Peter Perceval & Diane Collins, Taylor Veltmeyer, Daniel Hamilton, Shannon Van Den Berg

Media Person of the Year
Chris Wadih – Jordan Bromley, Michael Colston (The Star), Jamie Hall, Phoebe Yan

Support Team Member of the Year (non dealer/TD)
Tayla Pickles – Josh Monk, Marc Liddell, Stephen Ibrahim, James Haycroft

Content Creator of the Year
Nelson Dong @nelsondong – Australian Poker Schedule, Poker Pulse Podcast, Rex Ly @razzaontilt, Travis Endersby @ThisIsATravisT (Twitch)

Thank you to every one of our fans that voted!

PREVIOUS YEARS

Congratulations to all of our 2025 winners and nominees, and thank you to all who voted and to everyone that attended the awards night.

The planning for the 2026 Australian Poker Schedule Fans Choice Awards has already begun.

If you would like to be involved through sponsorship of this event, please reach out as we continue to make this annual event even bigger and better in the future.

Thanks to all of our 2025 sponsors, Queen B’s Poker and staff who assisted with the room preparation, Pokershop for the sourcing of our amazing medals, and each of the Australian Poker Schedule’s partners throughout 2025-26.

Craig Abernethy, Founder, Australian Poker Schedule.