Breakout Poker Star Angela Jordison Is a GPI Double-Bridesmaid as Cherish Andrews and Stephen Song Crush December
A race to the finish
Angela Jordison was a revelation final year. The Oregonian ended 2021 with a flourish and came into 2022 with a fire in her belly. On the cusp of a popular double, in November she was atop the Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings for each Mid-Key and Female Player of the Year. Despite posting some large outcomes in December, even so, her kick finish was no match for those of the exceptional Cherish Andrews and Stephen Song.
$470,000 in prize income and virtually 1,000 GPI points to snatch victory from Jordison
An extraordinary trio of side event results for Andrews at the WPT World Poker Championship at Wynn Las Vegas propelled her into best spot. In the space of just 5 days, she came in sixth in the $3,000 event, second in the $ten,000 Higher Roller, and initial in the really final $1,one hundred occasion for a combined $470,000 in prize income and nearly 1,000 GPI points to snatch victory from Jordison. Unsurprisingly, she also picked up the WPT Player of the Festival title. 
Song had an equally outstanding December and he needed it to clinch not a single but two GPI leaderboards. In the WPT Prime Championship, he outlasted five,429 other players, defeating the impressive Lara Eisenberg heads-up to win $712,650, the lion’s share of the whopping $5,267,one hundred prize pool. The 422 GPI points Song accrued from that outcome had been enough to put him just above Jordison at the top of the Mid-Key leaderboard and Adam Hendrix at the best of the overall Player of the Year Standings. 
All guns blazing
An Omaha money game grinder, Jordison originally discovered poker from her father, flying beneath the radar for much of her poker profession. That would alter in 2015, when she produced headlines at the Spring Poker Round Up in Oregon when she completed an unlikely three-peat, winning the first three events of the festival. 
Reduce to late 2021 and Jordison took down a Venetian Deepstack, following it up with a fifth spot finish in the MSPT Minnesota for a then-career very best $48,444. Those results whet her appetite for tournaments, and she went into 2022 all guns blazing. 
all of a sudden place her in the mix in each the GPI Mid-Key and Female Player of the Year rankings
It was a somewhat slow commence to the year with a bunch of min-cashes, but a huge Las Vegas campaign in June and July culminated in six WSOP cashes and three other scores, which includes a third-spot finish in Occasion #18, $1,000 No Limit Hold’em, and a Day five deep run 175th-spot finish in the Principal Event. Jordison immediately followed that up with a fifth-spot finish in MSPT Iowa, a outcome which all of a sudden put her in the mix in both the GPI Mid-Significant and Female Player of the Year rankings. 
3 a lot more final tables came in August with a third-place outcome in the WSOP Circuit (WSOPC) Harrah’s Cherokee Primary Occasion, a sixth-spot finish in the WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee Higher Roller, and then a side occasion win in the WPT Legends of Poker in Los Angeles. 5 far more cashes came in September and October, but then she had yet another big outcome in November at the WSOPC Choctaw Durant, finishing fourth in the Major Event for a new profession greatest $96,595. 
A extended December
The heater was true and Jordison identified herself going into December on defense, enjoying a lead on each leaderboards, but fending off challenges from a chasing pack all playing a jam-packed December schedule. In the end, the last-ditch heroics from Andrews and Song proved too a lot to withstand and they passed her on every leaderboard in the course of the WPT World Championships. 
Andrews was now out of attain, but Jordison had a single shot to pull off an unlikely post-Christmas buzzer-beater for the Mid-Main crown. 643 players took their seats at the MSPT Venetian and only a best-two finish would garner enough points to pip Song. 
Extraordinarily, with her back to the wall, Jordison produced the final table. With seven left, her pocket kings did a enormous hold versus Richard Alati and for a moment it seemed like it could be a fairytale story. Sadly, it wasn’t to be as she crashed out in fifth position for $31,355 and 204 GPI points, 41 fewer than essential to overtake Song. 
The winner does not take it all
Speaking exclusively to VegasSlotsOnline News, Jordison reflected on the year that was: 
“I began 2022 as a money game player. I ended it flying from cease to cease, grinding tournaments, fighting for player of the year. I pushed myself much more than I ever thought attainable. I came up brief on some ambitions but soared past others,” she mentioned.
I didn’t think I had it in me to compete at that level, but I shocked myself”
“With every single deep run I felt more confident,” Jordison added. “There have been times when I laughed and instances when I cried. My household supported me one hundred% and my friends rallied in my corner, pushing me each step of the way. I didn’t think I had it in me to compete at that level, but I surprised myself and I can not wait for 2023!”
As opposed to in other endeavors, in poker, the winner does not take it all. There is plenty of prize income to go about and while Jordison might feel like she came up brief on some targets, she still had a marquee year which nobody can take away from her. She cashed 29 instances on the live circuit for nearly $600,000, tripling her lifetime tournament earnings. 
When it comes to leaderboards, however, it is typically only the winner that gets remembered. Andrews and Song both did anything extremely unique to win the Female and Mid-Significant leaderboards, respectively. Song’s accomplishment was so great, in reality, that it earned him that most coveted prize, the GPI Player of the Year, generally reserved for the highest of high rollers. 
Apt recognition
According to the GPI, each Andrews and Song will be invited to accept their trophies at the Worldwide Poker Awards ceremony at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA in Las Vegas – broadcast exclusively on PokerGO. There will be considerably fanfare for these two players in the coming weeks and rightly so. They are two of the game’s most luminous rising stars. 
I would suggest, even so, that when it comes to the 2022 GPI Breakout Player Award, it is double-bridesmaid Jordison who should find herself in the winner’s circle. Once in a while, great poker ambassadors emerge, and she is one particular of them. Her wit, her tenacity, her warmth and her infectious enthusiasm for the game beguiles every person she meets. She represents the best of us and such an honor would be apt recognition of a most conspicuous and eye-catching year on the live felt. 
It also feels apt to give Jordison the final word: 
“2022 was a whirlwind. I discovered so a lot about myself and the game this last year. I am very grateful for the experiences. I love poker and the poker community and I’m proud to be a component of it. I believe I created my dad proud.”