WSOP Tournament of Champions Update

As an idea the TOC great but its become more a popularity contest rather than a tournament based on merit. The Top 20 was released recently and some are lets be honest there because they are a name rather than being deserving winners.

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

T.J. Cloutier serious sympathy votes must have came in for the pro who recently flogged his 2005 $5,000 No Limit Hold’em bracelet because he went broke.

Howard Lederer’s name being in the top 20 is stupid. I dont rate him as a NLH player and he’s done little in poker (bar the business side) since the turn of the century. He has no bracelets since 2001 and that was a PLO event and his other bracelet came in 2-7 draw. Honestly it shows the amount of FTP Fanboys around. Fucking railbirds are ruining the idea of the TOC.
The same can be said of Barry Greenstein as much as I love Ace on the River (great read) does not deserve to be in this list.

Phil Hellmuth, will the brat do anything probably not… he’ll probably have aces cracked and we’ll all have to listen to him ranting again… it is entertaining though.

The same can be said for Chris Ferguson. The man even with divine power can’t win a game and plays far too tight/weak to keep up in modern poker.

Heres me hoping for Sammy Farha for the win… or Phil Ivey the man is SICK