The list includes: Daniel Negreanu, Chris Bjorin, Humberto Brenes, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, Huck Seed, Bruno Fitoussi, Bob Hooks, Ted Forrest and Jack McClelland.
Nominees were selected through public nomination and the PHOF Governing Council will select up to two finalists to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame 2014.
Inductees will be announced just before the final table of the 2014 World Series Main Event on the November 10th.
Certainly an interesting year for poker with a brighter outlook for 2014 especially for online poker in the USA.
Donkey of the Year award goes to Sheldon Adelson for his hypocritical anti-gambling campaign, the award is passed on from Howard Lederer who held the position for two consecutive years.
Player of the Year was none other than PokerStars legend Daniel Negreanu.
The annual Poker Hall of Fame welcomes two players into an elite group of poker pros or contributed to the game of poker.
The two players who are chosen for the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame 2013 will be inducted just before the final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event.
In total there are only 40 members that make up the PHOF and only 18 players who are still alive.
Update: The two members of the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame are Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy.
The show was originally presented by Full Tilt Poker prior to Black Friday, it’s just a question of time before another network steps in to sponsor the show.
The writers of the show Jay Rosenkrantz & John Wray plan to release the series in HD DVD version.
The remaining players will be completing for the title and a WSOP bracelet, this may be a first bracelet win for Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansen who has made it so far against a playing field of 103 which included some big names such as Daniel Negreanu, Huck Seed, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth.
The 2010 World Series of Poker Europe main event has already began with two days of late registration at the Casino at the Empire in London.
