The World Series of Poker announced the 10 finalists for the 2021 class of the Poker Hall of Fame Tuesday afternoon. This year’s nominating process began on Sept. 30, with online voting open to the public through Oct. 14. The finalists are as follows: Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Chris Ferguson
Layne Flack
Ted Forrest
Bertrand ”ElkY” Grospellier
Mike Matusow
Michael Mizrachi
Matt Savage Isai Scheinberg Three of the ten candidates are first-time finalists, including Layne Flack, a six-time bracelet winner who passed away earlier this year. The other two first-time finalists are Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier and Michael Mizrachi. Grospellier is a triple crown winner, with a bracelet win and titles on the European Poker Tour and World Poker Tour. Mizrachi is a five-time bracelet winner, with a record three wins in the WSOP $50,000 buy-in mixed game event currently known as the Poker Players Championship. Mizrachi also has two WPT main tour titles to his name.The iconic commentary duo of Lon McEachern and Norman Chad, as well as high-stakes legend Patrik Antonius failed to make the list after being nominated for the accolade in 2020.Scheinberg and Savage were nominated as non-players again, while Elezra, Esfandiari, Forrest, Matusow and Forrest were nominated for their achievements on the felt for at least their second straight year.According to the WSOP, the criteria for induction is as follows:• A player must have played poker against acknowledged top competition • Be a minimum of 40 years old at the time of nomination • Played for high stakes • Played consistently well, gaining the respect of peers • Stood the test of time • Or, for non-players, contributed to the overall growth of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting resultsScheinberg is one of the more controversial non-players to be nominated for the Hall of Fame. The U.S. Government indicted Scheinberg in its slew of legal actions during Black Friday in 2011.The Israeli founded PokerStars and built it into the world’s largest online poker site. It was the online poker room that held the satellite that put 2003 WSOP main event champion Chris […]
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