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The Poker Hall of Fame is a group of poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 players who have played poker well against top competition for high stakes over a long period of time. Originally established by the Horseshoe Casino, membership is now awarded by Harrah's World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
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While the above are the official criteria, some members have been inducted for other reasons.






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The Poker Hall of Fame is a group of poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 players who have played poker well against top competition for high stakes over a long period of time. Originally established by the Horseshoe Casino, membership is now awarded by Harrah's World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
.

Requirements


The requirements for the Poker Hall of Fame are:

  1. Player must have played high stakes.
  2. Player must have played against acknowledged top competition.
  3. Player must have played well consistently and gained the respect of his peers.
  4. Player must have stood the test of time.


While the above are the official criteria, some members have been inducted for other reasons. Edmund Hoyle, for example, never played a game of poker in his life, but he was the first card player to standardize rules. Wild Bill Hickock was the most famous poker player prior to poker's recent popularity. He was not known for playing top competition, but rather in the way he died. Hickock is one of three Hall of Famers to have died while playing poker. While playing a hand where he had been dealt two aces and two eights, now known as "a deadman's hand", Hickock was shot in the back three times. The other two inductees to die while playing poker were Jack "Treetop" Straus and Tom Abdo
Tom Abdo

Tom Abdo was a poker player inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1982. He died after suffering a heart attack while playing....
. Both suffered heart attacks while playing high stakes poker.

Prestige


Being admitted to the Poker Hall of Fame is considered one of the biggest honors in poker. In his acceptance speech, T.J. Cloutier declared, "It's one of two things I've always wanted to win." Barbara Enright considers her induction as a "lifetime achievement honor."

The Award


Prior to being acquired by Harrah's Casino, R.S. Owens and Co was commissioned to design an award for Poker Hall of Famers. The award was an 8 inch tall piece of glass with a hand of cards sandblasted at the bottom, the winners name, and the words, "Poker Hall of Fame" in a circle. The circle had a gold emblem bonded to the glass and had Binion's Horseshoe Casino logo in it. There was a gold plated base with three gold-plated stacks of chips.

Membership


Members of the Poker Hall of Fame include (with year of induction):
  • Johnny Moss
    Johnny Moss

    Johnny Moss was a long-time gambler and professional poker player....
    , 1979
  • "Nick the Greek" Dandolos
    Nick the Greek

    Nicholas Andreas "Nick the Greek" Dandolos was a professional gambler and high roller.Dandolos was the son of wealthy parents. He attended the Greek Evangelical College and earned a degree in philosophy....
    , 1979
  • Felton "Corky" McCorquodale
    Corky McCorquodale

    Felton "Corky" McCorquodale was a professional poker player, noted as the person who introduced Texas hold 'em to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1963. Since then, the game has become one of the most popular poker variants in history....
    , 1979
  • Red Winn
    Red Winn

    Red Winn was an all-around poker player. He was a member of the original inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979....
    , 1979
  • Sid Wyman
    Sid Wyman

    Sidney "Sid" Wyman, was a famous poker player and hotel owner in Las Vegas, Nevada.Wyman was co-owner of several Las Vegas casinos including the Sands, Riviera, Royal Nevada and The Dunes....
    , 1979
  • "Wild Bill" Hickok
    Wild Bill Hickok

    James Butler Hickok , better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and reconnaissance, along with his reputation as a Marshal, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized....
    , 1979
  • Edmond Hoyle
    Edmond Hoyle

    Edmond Hoyle , also known as Edmund Hoyle, is a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his generally-perceived authority on the subject; since that time, use of the phrase has expanded into general use in situations in which a speaker...
    , 1979
  • T. "Blondie" Forbes
    Blondie Forbes

    T. "Blondie" Forbes was a poker player and road gambler who was the 1980 inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame.Notes...
    , 1980
  • Bill Boyd, 1981
  • Tom Abdo
    Tom Abdo

    Tom Abdo was a poker player inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1982. He died after suffering a heart attack while playing....
    , 1982
  • Joe Bernstein
    Joe Bernstein (poker player)

    Joe Bernstein was a poker player and road gambler known for being a dapper dresser. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1983....
    , 1983
  • Murph Harrold
    Murph Harrold

    Murph Harrold was a poker player who was regarded as the best Lowball_#Deuce-to-seven players ever. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1984....
    , 1984
  • Red Hodges
    Red Hodges

    Red Hodges was a poker player who is considered to be one of the best seven-card stud players ever. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1985....
    , 1985
  • Henry Green
    Henry Green (poker player)

    Henry Green was a road gambler and poker player from Alabama. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1986.Notes...
    , 1986
  • Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson
    Puggy Pearson

    Walter Clyde Pearson was an United States professional poker player.Pearson grew up in Tennessee in a large family with nine siblings. He got his nickname "Puggy" from a childhood accident that left him with a disfigured nose at the age of 12....
    , 1987
  • Doyle Brunson
    Doyle Brunson

    Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
    , 1988
  • Jack "Treetop" Straus
    Jack Straus

    Jack Straus was an American professional poker player.Straus began playing in World Series of Poker events in the early 1970s. Straus finished in fourth place in the 1972 Main Event....
    , 1988
  • Fred "Sarge" Ferris
    Sarge Ferris

    Fred "Sarge" Ferris was an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker WSOP bracelet in deuce-to-seven draw.He won his bracelet at the 1980 World Series of Poker, winning $150,000....
    , 1989
  • Benny Binion
    Benny Binion

    Lester Ben "Benny" Binion was a well known American casino owner and poker enthusiast....
    , 1990
  • David "Chip" Reese
    Chip Reese

    David Edward Reese , more commonly known as Chip Reese, was an United States professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, Ohio....
    , 1991
  • Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston
    Amarillo Slim

    Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. , known as Amarillo Slim, is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the 1972 World Series of Poker....
    , 1992
  • Jack Keller, 1993
  • Julius Oral "Little Man" Popwell
    Little Man Popwell

    Julius Oral "Little Man" Popwell was a well-known poker player.Popwell is one of the most famous poker players from the first half of the 20th century....
    , 1996
  • Roger Moore
    Roger Moore (poker player)

    Roger Moore is a professional poker player.Moore grew up the son of sharecroppers. He quit school in the eighth grade and soon afterwards entered into military service....
    , 1997
  • Stu Ungar
    Stu Ungar

    Stuart Errol Ungar was a professional poker and gin rummy player, widely considered to have been the greatest Texas hold 'em and gin rummy player of all time....
    , 2001
  • Lyle Berman
    Lyle Berman

    Lyle Berman is a professional poker player and business executive....
    , 2002
  • Johnny Chan
    Johnny Chan (poker player)

    Johnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player....
    , 2002
  • Bobby Baldwin
    Bobby Baldwin

    Bobby Baldwin is a professional poker player and casino executive.When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980 and then Phil Hellmuth in 1989 and Peter Eastgate in 2008....
    , 2003
  • Berry Johnston
    Berry Johnston

    Berry Johnston is an United States professional poker player. He is best known as the 1986 World Champion, but he has also won four other WSOP bracelet at the World Series of Poker in addition to cashes and wins in many other tournaments throughout his career....
    , 2004
  • Jack Binion
    Jack Binion

    Jack Binion is an American casino operator. Jack is the son of legendary casino magnate Benny Binion and worked for his father at Binion's Horseshoe, a casino and hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada....
    , 2005
  • Crandell Addington
    Crandell Addington

    Crandell Addington is an entrepreneur and poker player who is best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker.Addington, known as "Dandy" because he was always well-dressed in a suit, During the 1960s he played the poker circuit in Texas leading him in 1969, to win the Texas Gamblers Convention in Reno, Nevada; it was there...
    , 2005
  • T. J. Cloutier
    T. J. Cloutier

    Thomas James Cloutier is a professional poker player from Albany, California. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006....
    , 2006
  • Billy Baxter
    Billy Baxter (poker player)

    William E. Baxter, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006.Born in Augusta, Georgia, Baxter started his gambling career like many others of his age by gambling in the pool halls....
    , 2006
  • Barbara Enright
    Barbara Enright

    Barbara Enright is an United States professional poker player, motivational speaker, and Editor-in-Chief of Woman Poker Player magazine.Enright began playing poker at home at the age of 4, playing draw against her older brother....
    , 2007
  • Phil Hellmuth
    Phil Hellmuth

    Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
    , 2007
  • Dewey Tomko
    Dewey Tomko

    Duane "Dewey" Tomko is an United States former kindergarten teacher turned professional poker player, based in Winter Haven, Florida.Tomko is chiefly noted as the runner-up in the World Series of Poker $10,000 betting Texas hold'em main event in both 1982 WSOP and 2001 WSOP ...
    , 2008
  • Henry Orenstein
    Henry Orenstein

    Henry Orenstein is a poker player and entrepreneur who resides in Verona, New Jersey. He won the $5,000 Seven-card stud tournament at the 1996 World Series of Poker , earning $130,000 by beating fourth-place T....
    , 2008


See also

  • World Poker Tour Walk of Fame


External links

  • Accessed March 3 2008