Global Poker Index, CEO, Alex Dreyfus has agreed to reintroduce a European Poker Award category for best Online Player of the Year after a former winner called for its inclusion.

The 2016 European Poker Awards (EPA) will include a category for Online Player of the Year, after former winner Andreas Torbergsen took to Twitter to voice his displeasure at the category being missing from the 2014 ceremony.

Andreas Torbergsen spoke. Alex Dreyfus listened. The advent of social media has closed the gap between company owners and customers. The same is true in poker. Over the past years I have seen the big three poker tournament organizers interact with their customers through this channel to great effect. It has just happened again.

In 2010, Andreas ‘Skjervoy’ Torbergsen won the EPA for the Best Online Player of the Year. In 2014 there isn’t even a category for online players. Torbergsen decided to create a poll to see what his twitter follower’s thought of the omission. The answer was a 92% yes vote for an online poker award (36 people voted).