After Chris Ferguson finished atop of the World Series of Poker Player of the Year leaderboard with the World Series of Poker Europe to come, Lee Davy, wants the poker world to consider creating the moral police.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) stat-man Eric Danis stands below a large drape of Mike Gorodinsky, the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year. The media creates a human enclave, cameras and pens poised to record the moment for those not lucky to have made the trip to the greatest poker tournament in the world.

Gorodinsky is also in the crowd, much smaller than I imagined, and looking more like a man suffering delirium tremens than a coolness personified professional poker player.

After Danis releases his glowing tribute to the masses, he invites Gorodinsky to take the podium to begin Day 1c of the 2016 WSOP Main Event. I can’t think of a greater bastion to open the game than the man who proved to be the best of the best 12-months before.