Hall of Fame 2009 candidates: favorites
Ronald Norris |
US players are welcomeWe started to talk with you about poker Hall of Fame. I introduced you 6 candidates to join this poker society. You know already about outsiders and middle-class favorites. And now it is time to talk about favorites. These guys have very good chances to become members of poker Hall of Fame.
Guru of professional poker Doyle Brunson said once:” Different sports hall o fames are arranged for sportsmen who have got a lot of memories but nothing to wait for”. If poker Hall of Fame jury agrees with Old Texas Dolly 30-years old Phil Ivey and Daniel Negranu do not have big chances to be accepted to this highly-respected society. They are just too young for this club. Ivey and Negranu are great players, they really deserve to be in the Hall of Fame and no doubt they will be accepted but not in 2009.This year number one Hall of Fame 2009 candidates are Mike Sexton, Erik Seidel and Barry Greenstein.
Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton was a professional ballroom dancer. Then he started to play poker and became World Poker Tour host. He is very famous and experts say that Sexton is a part of professional poker as well as World Poker Tour brand. Mike Sexton earned $3.8 million playing poker. He holds 1 WSOP bracelet and he has won WSOP 2006 Tournament of Champions. Sexton is a voice of WPT and respected representative person of Party Poker. Thanks to him Party Poker is very popular nowadays. Importance of his input in the development of Party Poker software can scarcely be overestimated. Sexton is also famous for his charity. He makes donations to different charitable institutions quite often.
Poker experts say that Mike Sexton is a number one Hall of Fame 2009 candidate. His chances to be accepted to the Hall of Fame are rated as 4 to 1.
Erik Seidel
Erik worked on Wall-street in New York for long time. Probably his experience in the field of economics helps him to win poker games. His achievements include 8 WSOP bracelets and the WPT title. He has already collected $9.8 million prize money and it is a serious result.
Seidel is a true pro of poker. He reads concepts of all kind of pokers well. Unlike other players he doesn’t specialize on Texas Holdem tournaments only. Moreover Seidel earned a lot of money in Melbourne , Australia at Down Under.
Erik is an opened and versatile person. He publishes notes on Twitter quite often and his commentaries are very emotional. He played in a movie once. He had walk-on part in “Sharper” and was a bluffing poker player.
Poker fans do not know much about Erik’s private life. He tries to keep his perfect reputation clean and there are no dark rumors about him.
His chances to be accepted to the Hall of Fame are rated as 8 to 1.
Barry Greenstein
This ex-programmer is a successful poker pro with 3 WSOP bracelets and 3 WPT titles. During his long career he won $7 million prize money.
Barry started to play card games when he was a kid. He has got wonderful genes for poker. His parents were keen on playing cards and Barry adopted their hobby.
He is 55-years old now and Greenstein is a real shark of Texas Holdem poker.
Barry Greenstein likes to play cash-games with biggest limits at Bobby’s Room in Bellagio. He is a real threat for poker players. This guy is not the easiest opponent and he proved it many times. Barry Greenstein is also famous for his charity. People even call him “Poker Robin Hood”.
His chances to be accepted to the Hall of Fame are rated as 8 to 1.
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