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The 2019 finalists, all whom remain eligible for induction include: Chris Bjorin, David Chiu, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Ferguson, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow and Huckleberry Seed. Chris Bjorin The 73-year-old Swedish-born poker pro, Chris Bjorin, sits second on Sweden’s all-time money list, only behind 2014 WSOP Main Event winner Martin Jacobson. Bjorin’s consistent. Those eight are Chris Bjorin, David Chiu, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Ferguson, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow and Huckleberry Seed. Whoever ends up being selected will be honored in a ceremony associated with the finish of the WSOP’s $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship in late December. Want poker news as it breaks? WPT Career Highlights Value Rank; Career Earnings: $150,485: 1,367: Cashes: 4: 1,371: Final Tables: 0: 12,424: Titles: 0: 13,301.

When we travel to the various World Poker Tour events, we often see the same faces turning up to each tournament. These grinders are known to us by sight and in name, but we can also pick out other lesser-known players from several hundred meters away.

As a rule, poker players will be sporting a hoodie, a rucksack, an iPad in hand and a pair of designer headphones with Dr Dre Beats seemingly being the headphones of choice for many – the lead image to this post shows two players from WPT National London in their trademark poker player gear.

Seated just behind our two iPad, Beats sporting heroes is a poker player who looks nothing like his fellow grinders, although he is a very talented one. Looking at Chris Bjorin you would never in a million years pen him as being a poker player. His combed grey hair, blue V-neck jumper and blue-and-white pinstriped shirt that is open at the collar make him look more like a businessman who is having a day off. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Bjorin is one of poker’s unsung heroes, one who isn’t interested in being in the limelight. Instead Bjorin prefers to “get it quietly” and he does get it, if by it you mean money! Bjorin, who is from Sweden but lives in London, has amassed almost $5,500,000 from live poker tournaments in his career and he is looking to add to that impressive total by going deep at WPT National London. At time of writing Bjorin is sat behind 26,700 chips, having added 1,700 chips during the first level of play.

Other notable chip counts

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Raul Paez – 35,200
Lucille Cailly – 25,300
Karl Mahrenholz – 25,000
Simon Deadman – 25,000
Gaelle Baumann – 24,600
Fabrice Soulier – 24,200
Ludovic Lacay – 23,400
Mark Inizan – 16,800

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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced the start of a brief window for the poker public to submit nominations for consideration to be the sole 2020 inductee into the Poker Hall of the Fame.

The PHOF’s public-nomination page for 2020 has been opened here, and only one entry per email address is allowed. The public-nomination window will remain open through Friday, December 11, 2020. Oddly, poker players and fans who choose to participate can submit multiple nominees, despite the WSOP’s announcement just two weeks ago that for the first time in 15 years, only one person will be inducted.

While it was always intended as a tool to generate public interest, the public-nomination phase remains largely a show pony, and there was some doubt that it would even be included in the PHOF’s accelerated and compressed 2020 induction schedule. A news release at WSOP.com announcing the 2020 nominations window was rushed online with numerous errors.

As always, the public-nomination results remain non-binding on the rest of the Poker Hall of Fame’s induction process. This year’s updated online nomination page notes:

“All submissions will be tabulated and the top 10 nominations will be reviewed by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council.”

However, the Governing Council routinely removes popular public nominees -- for example, PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg, on a perennial basis -- and replaces them with other poker-world figures.

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From there, an official finalist list is created and, this year, per the WSOP, “will include 8-10 individuals.” This year, the vote will be held solely among the 32 living members of the PHOF, with no mention of a poker-media contingent being involved. The 2020 announcement also fails to mention whether each eligible voter will receive 10 separate votes (as in recent previous years), or if this will be a simpler single-vote process in light of the sole-inductee framework of the 2020 process.

The WSOP does note that all eight of last year’s non-elected finalists remain eligible, having not been elected. Those eight are Chris Bjorin, David Chiu, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Ferguson, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow and Huckleberry Seed. Whoever ends up being selected will be honored in a ceremony associated with the finish of the WSOP’s $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship in late December.

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