With the 2024 WSOP currently ongoing, the WSOP has announced on Tuesday, July 2, the top finalists eligible for the 2024 Poker Hall of Fame. Just one will be inducted.
The list of 10 poker players was created after a two-week process of public nomination and a vetting of these nominations by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. The decision now falls in the hands of 32 living members who will allocate a ballot of 10 total points to determine who gets inducted.
The finalists are as follows:
- Barny Boatman
- Bill Smith
- Isai Scheinberg
- Josh Arieh
- "Miami" John Cernuto
- Kathy Liebert
- Matt Savage
- Mike Matusow
- Patrik Antonius
- Ted Forrest
The age requirement for being eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame is 40 years and above. Also, other criteria state that the player must have competed "against acknowledged top competition" and "for high stakes," while playing "consistently well" and "gaining the respect of peers." Additionally, the player must have "stood the test of time." For those in the industry but are not or were not professional poker players, they must have "contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting results." As of now, there are 61 people who have met those requirements.
All living Poker Hall of Fame members are invited to freeroll into this year's WSOP Event No. 95: $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em tournament which starts on Sunday, July 14, with the buy-in priced in honor of the Hall of Fame's founding year. This event will be open to all players. Each participating Hall of Famer will have a bounty corresponding to the year they were inducted into poker's most exclusive club.
The 2024 Poker Hall of Fame inductee will be announced during the event, along with the unveiling of the inductee's Hall of Fame picture at the WSOP Hall of Fame Poker Room, which opened inside Horseshoe Las Vegas last year.
Source:
https://www.wsop.com/news/2024/Jul/14020/THE-WORLD-SERIES-OF-POKER-ANNOUNCES--FINALISTS-FOR-POKER-HALL-OF-FAME.html
https://www.wsop.com/pokerhalloffame/
