2010 Nominations for Poker Hall of Fame
Recently the induction to the Women in Poker Hall of Fame was completed with poker babe Jennifer Harman making the grade. Now it is tome for the gender neutral and more acknowledged WSOP sponsored Poker Hall of Fame to take center stage. The nomination process was underway from July 1 to August 31 and WSOP has just released the names of the top 10 nominated individuals. They are Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Jennifer Harman-Traniello, Dan Harrington, Phil Ivey, Linda Johnson, Tom McEvoy, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen and Erik Seidel.
Of these, only Ivey and Negreanu have a realistic chance of induction. It would be criminal to put in Jennifer ahead of Annie Duke and one wonders why Annie is not on the list. Nguyen is too much the bad man of poker to be in the Hall of Fame. The rest are non runners.
Ivey is doing great things in poker. He is the youngest player to have won 8 WSOP bracelets, he has made almost $20 million in high stakes poker cash games at Full Tilt Poker and even has a poker room named after him. The four criteria for induction of poker players are they must have played poker against acknowledged top competition, played for high stakes, played consistently well gaining the respect of peers and stood the test of time. Ivey has been playing for 10 years now and the only question is whether that counts as having stood the test of time. If not this year then a few years down the line, but Ivey has booked a place in the Poker Hall of Fame.
Negreanu would have been the ideal candidate this year and his time is due with many of his peers like Phil Hellmuth already in the Hall of Fame. The only problem is that Negreanu seems to be losing the respect of his peers and his calling Annie Duke a f****** c*** in public will not help.
The 17 living Poker Hall of Fame members and a blue ribbon media panel will then cast votes to determine the class of 2010. The enshrinement ceremony will be held in concert with the Final Table of the Main Event of the WSOP in November in Las Vegas.
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