There are about seven weeks to go before the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, during the 41st WSOP.
Remember, this is the $1 million freeroll, where people could vote for any bracelet holder they wanted to see in the tournament and the WSOP would take the top 20 vote-getters and throw them into the field.
As of last month, here is the top 20:
Doyle Brunson
Johnny Chan
T.J. Cloutier
Allen Cunningham
Antonio Esfandiari
Sam Farha
Chris Ferguson
Barry Greenstein
Joe Hachem
Jennifer Harman
Dan Harrington
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Ivey
John Juanda
Howard Lederer
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
Greg Raymer
Huck Seed
Erik Seidel
The event also includes past TOC champions Annie Duke, Mike Matusow, Mike Sexton, reigning WSOP champion Joe Cada, reigning WSOPE champion Barry Shulman and two wild cards.
David Benyamine has been spicing up High Stakes Poker for years, yet he's absent from the TOC field.
What’s concerning is the lack of European WSOP bracelet winners on this list. With the exception of Hachem, everyone is an American.
I just can’t believe players like Roland de Wolfe, Jeff Lisandro, Peter Eastgate, Dario Minieri, David Benyamine and Annette Obrestad aren’t more popular. If anything, they’ve got more game than washed up T.J. Cloutier or Hachem.
You can still vote at wsop.com/TOC, so don’t waste time, let’s get some of our favourites into the tournament.
Daniel!
where is Dwan :O the list is nice, but I also think there are better or at least more attractive to watch players nowadays than Cloutier for example…Mizrachi, Hansen, Antonius etc. =)