A quick recap on the biggest poker news stories and highlights of 2013 which includes:

• Regulated online poker in three USA states
• Best poker operator of the Year
• WSOP & WSOPE
• Player of the Year
• Poker Hall of Fame 2013.

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.

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The final table for the World Series of Poker returns on 4-5 November, nine players battling it out for the title and millions for first place finish.

888 Poker JC Chan has his eye on the prize having the chipleader advantage starting out on the final table.

Watch all the action on ESPN2, the cards will be dealt from 16:30 Pacific Time with a fifteen minute delay from the live action. Poker fans can also watch the WSOP Live Streaming sponsored by 888Poker worldwide and Slotmania in US.

Commentary will be provided by Lon McEachern, Norman Chad with additional commentary by poker legends Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth.

Before the final table started two players were inducted into the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame, Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy.

US player Ryan Riess has been crowned the WSOP Main Event champion defeating Jay Farber heads-up.

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The 10 nominations for the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame are out with some big names on the final list including: Scotty Nguyen, Mike Matusow, Huck Seed, Tom McEvoy and Jennifer Harman.

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.

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World Series of Poker have announced two new members for the Poker Hall of Fame, Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington will now make up the 40 members in this elite group of poker ambassadors. The new members will be inducted in a ceremony just before the WSOP final table in November.

There are now 18 living members of the initial 40 members elected, only one or two new members are elected each year.

Eight poker players were nominated for this years Poker Hall of Fame which include Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman, Linda Johnson and Tom McEvoy.

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