The World Series of Poker has opened public voting for the 2023 Poker Hall of Fame class of nominees.
“Players and fans alike are encouraged to submit their nominee of choice, alongside a brief explanation describing why their nominee should be chosen for the honor.”
Nominees should be submitted online, and will probably be accepted via June 18. The high 10 vote-getters will then be reviewed by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council to ensure all match the factors.
The standards for being inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame are as follows:
• Be a minimum of 40 years outdated
• Played for top stakes towards acknowledge high competitors
• Played persistently effectively, gaining the respect of friends
• Stood the check of time
• Or, for non-players, contributed to the general development and success of the sport of poker, with unimaginable constructive and lasting outcomes
The 2023 inductee will probably be chosen by the 31 residing members of the corridor and introduced on Thursday, July 13 throughout the annual Poker Hall Of Fame Bounty occasion on the WSOP.
Last 12 months, the dignity went to the late Layne Flack, who turned the 61st member general. The six-time bracelet winner handed away in 2021 and beat out 9 different nominees together with gamers Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Brian Rast, Josh Arieh, Kathy Liebert, Michael Mizrachi, Mike Matusow, in addition to PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg, WPT Director Matt Savage, and WSOP commentating duo Lon McEachern and Norman Chad.
Here is a take a look at all present members of the Poker Hall of Fame:
Name | Inducted |
Johnny Moss | 1979 |
Nick “The Greek” Dandolos | 1979 |
Felton “Corky” McCorquodale | 1979 |
Red Winn | 1979 |
Sid Wyman | 1979 |
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok | 1979 |
Edmond Hoyle | 1979 |
Blondie Forbes | 1980 |
Bill Boyd | 1981 |
Tom Abdo | 1982 |
Joe Bernstein | 1983 |
Murph Harrold | 1984 |
Red Hodges | 1985 |
Henry Green | 1986 |
Walter Clyde “Puggy” Pearson | 1987 |
Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson | 1988 |
Jack “Treetop” Straus | 1988 |
Fred “Sarge” Ferris | 1989 |
Benny Binion | 1990 |
David “Chip” Reese | 1991 |
Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston | 1992 |
Jack Keller | 1993 |
Julius Oral Popwell | 1996 |
Roger Moore | 1997 |
Stu “The Kid” Ungar | 2001 |
Lyle Berman | 2002 |
Johnny “The Orient Express” Chan | 2002 |
Bobby “The Owl” Baldwin | 2003 |
Berry Johnston | 2004 |
Jack Binion | 2005 |
Crandell Addington | 2005 |
T.J. Cloutier | 2006 |
Billy Baxter | 2006 |
Barbara Enright | 2007 |
Phil Hellmuth | 2007 |
Dewey Tomko | 2008 |
Henry Orenstein | 2008 |
Mike Sexton | 2009 |
Dan Harrington | 2010 |
Erik Seidel | 2010 |
Linda Johnson | 2011 |
Barry Greenstein | 2011 |
Eric Drache | 2012 |
Bryan “Sailor” Roberts | 2012 |
Scotty Nguyen | 2013 |
Tom McEvoy | 2013 |
Daniel Negreanu | 2014 |
Jack McClelland | 2014 |
Jennifer Harman | 2015 |
John Juanda | 2015 |
Carlos Mortensen | 2016 |
Todd Brunson | 2016 |
David “Devilfish” Ulliott | 2017 |
Phil Ivey | 2017 |
John Hennigan | 2018 |
Mori Eskandani | 2018 |
Chris Moneymaker | 2019 |
David Oppenheim | 2019 |
Huck Seed | 2020 |
Eli Elezra | 2021 |
Layne Flack | 2022 |
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