In an industry where award shows can often feel like the afterparty to players winning seven-figure scores at the felt, there are few major honours worth having outside winning poker tournaments. Poker players can be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame when they turn 40 – and not before – but perhaps the best honour of all is having your name on the trophy itself.

Think of the Chip Reese Trophy, the famous work of art awarded to whichever player takes down the Poker Players Championship in Las Vegas – or online this year – at the World Series of Poker.

Well, from next season, the World Poker Tour Main Event trophy will bear the name of one of the WPT’s most famous sons – poker legend and current partypoker Chairman, Mike Sexton.

The man himself was delighted to read that the famous cup he won himself in Canada just a few years ago will bear his name.