Cody Stanford, Mark Davis & Prissy Giroir Among 2025 Gulf Coast Poker Award Winners

Final 12 months, throughout the Gulf Coast Poker (GCP) Poker Gras, the winners had been revealed for the annual GCP Awards. The 2025 version featured a devoted get together and ceremony for the primary time whereas including 15 classes.

“Now that the GCP Tour has expanded, we have weighted leads to GCP occasions somewhat extra closely than we did previously,” GCP officers advised PokerNews. “Particularly, any award with GCP Tour in it refers to our occasions.”

With over $360,000 gained in 2025, Cody Stanford claimed “Participant of the Yr” honors. Coincidentally, he did what two different former POY winners – Joe Saleh and Joseph Hebert – did by successful the GCP Awards Principal Occasion at Caesars New Orleans the identical 12 months. Stanford’s victory, his second Poker Gras Principal Occasion title, was good for greater than $27,000 after he bested one other award winner Carl Masters (GCP Tour Senior of the Yr) heads up.

The primary time he gained the Poker Gras Principal Occasion, Stanford had gained Tour Participant of the Yr and truly beat that 12 months’s Participant of the Yr, Preston McEwen, in heads-up play.

Cody’s award was introduced by Will Souther, who organizes the Monkey Minions, an funding group that places gamers into the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Principal Occasion. This 12 months, and going ahead, Souther shared that the Participant of the Yr for that 12 months may have the choice to be a Minion and signify the group on the WSOP Principal Occasion in a $10,000 freeroll, although buyers would get a chunk of his motion.

Successful the 2025 GCP Tour Participant of the Yr was Mark Davis, who gained the award on the idea of his consistency of cashing a number of GCP occasions/sequence, successful GCP occasions, and cash gained at GCP occasions. It was one other GCP honor for Davis, a World Poker Tour (WPT) champ who beforehand gained GCP Participant of the Yr.

In one other improvement, the GCP’s conventional “Love of Poker Award” was renamed the “David Hendrix Love of Poker Award” after David “Atom Bomb” Hendrix handed away in 2025.

Hendrix, who was described as maybe essentially the most beloved member of the poker group within the South, gained the “Love of Poker Award” beforehand. This 12 months’s winner of the “David Hendrix Love of Poker Award” went to Prissy Giroir, who began a brand new Women poker group, the Women of GCP.

“It was a magical night time certainly. I used to be moved past phrases being named the primary recipient of the David Hendrix Love of Poker Award,” Giroir stated of the awards ceremony. “That was actually an honor … Thanks once more for all you do for all of us. You and Gene might have began this journey, however by the years, you’ve picked up a household alongside the best way. WE ARE GCP!”

Right here’s a have a look at all those that acquired honors on the 2025 GCP Awards: