Rachel Nordtomme is a lock for first ballot induction into our Girls on the Rail Hall of Fame...voting starts next week.
Nominees for the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame have been announced. Not sure who we’re voting for yet–or if we’re voting for any of them.
Here’s the list, along with some thoughts on each:
:: Chris “Jesus” Ferguson – Has a Main Event win, five bracelets, is a Full Tilt founder, but hasn’t done much lately…or enough yet. :: Barry Greenstein - Probably five more years of relevance away from a vote. :: Jennifer Harman-Traniello – Not done enough yet. Plus didn’t she get elected into the Woman’s Poker Hall of Fame? Isn’t that enough for one year? :: Dan Harrington – On the fence with Dan last year, still on the fence this year. :: Phil Ivey - Tough one. If you vote for Ivey, you have to vote for Seidel. Feels like it’s postponing the inevitable not voting for Ivey at this point, but probably another couple of years away. However, anyone that doesn’t vote for Ivey is a racist. :: Linda Johnson – Can see her getting the sentimental, “she’s such an ambassador!” vote. Not sold on her yet. Intrigued though. :: Tom McEvoy - He might be a posthumous electee. Probably deserves more credit than he gets. Probably not getting a vote. Feels like he should marry Linda Johnson or something. :: Daniel Negreanu – Had he pulled out a win in the WSOP-E Main Event or a bracelet over the past two years, would probably be in the discussion. Not this year though. :: Scotty Ngyuen - Getting our vote. He’s done enough. :: Erik Seidel – Tough one. Biggest “on the fence” guy for us. Definitely deserves election into the Twitter Hall of Fame though.
What do you think? Has Ivey done enough? Who is a lock? Who would you vote for?
Full write-up coming later, but this week’s ep featured entrepreneur and Full Tilt red pro Jason Calacanis discussing his experience on the PokerStars Big Game and some insight on how he’d have handled managing the UltimateBet super-user cheating scandal.
On that note, Calacanis was followed by Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles, who shared his UB thoughts plus discussed his Coolio controversy.
Finally, the show wrapped with Tom Dwan talking about his latest Durrrr Challenge.
All that, plus Jess Welman‘s headline. Watch the above vid for more.
4:45 – 15:16 – Poker Headlines with Jess Welman, including the latest with the Durrrr Challenge, poker players petitioning Commerce Casino, updates from the WPT London, EPT Villa-whatever and WSOP-C and the latest on the Sorel Mizzi multi-accounting allegations.
15:17 – 19:59 – Interview with Jason Calacanis begins.
20:00 – 26:34 – Jason talks about his appearance on the Big Game, including one particular hand with Daniel Negreanu, and what other poker shows he may appear on.
26:35 – 31:14 – We ask Jason how he would have handled the UltimateBet super-user scandal if he was running UB right now.
31:15 – 33:30 – Poker Metaphor Signifying You Have To Act Quickly Round with Jason.
33:34 – 53:29 – Interview with Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles about his beef with Joe Sebok over the UltimateBet scandal and the Naked Coolio controversy.
53:30 – Interview with Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. Topics discussed include playing on UB, the Durrrr Challenges with Patrik Antonius and Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates, his WSOP bracelet prop bets and how it doesn’t suck to be a rich, young, online poker player with a hot girlfriend.
Jay Leno more or less invalidates everything we believe in humor and entertainment. He’s the biggest name in late-night, despite being infinitely less funny than CoCo and Letterman. His safe, obvious jokes play to an audience of people we’ve never met in our life. Seriously, don’t know anyone who watches his show. Then again, same goes for The Big Bang Theory, Castle, and According to Jim. Who are you people?!
Anyway, if his smarmy, back-stabbing, humorless persona wasn’t irritating enough, chalk up his ridiculous take-the-other-side argument against online poker regulation with Rep. Barney Frank as another reason to dislike.
Since most guys never fantasize about having a hot girl dress up as a sexy nurse, flight attendant, or cowgirl, you probably will have no interest in these Candice SwanepoelVictoria’s Secret photos at all. None. Whatsoever. In fact, who cares about poker news.
:: Tilt needs to change Gus Hansen‘s password and not tell him already. [link]
New episode of This Week in Poker broadcasting live online today at 4pm PT / 7pm ET.
Big show today with Tom “Durrrr”Dwan joining us to talk about his Durrrr Challenges with Patrik Antonius and Daniel “Jungleman12″ Cates, Todd “DanDruff” Witteles Skype-ing in to fire back at Joe Sebok about the UltimateBet scandal, and This Week In co-founder and newly minted Full Tilt Poker red pro Jason Calacanis joins us in the studio to talk about his appearance on Fox’s the Big Game.
And as always, we’ll discuss all of the latest poker news with the Tina Fey of poker Jess Welman.
Go ahead and submit Qs now via Twitter using hashtag #twipkr. You can also ask them live during the show in the Ustream chat box.
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