User:Balloonman/drv

A similar category (that I was unaware of when I created this category was deleted in a small CFD back in November. There were only a handful of !votes. The Nominator did so with the rationale that it was a non-defining characteristic. I think if you looked them, they consider it to one of the greatest honors in Poker. The nominator also argued that "The American hall of fame is awarded by a single casino." That doesn't matter. Everybody in the Poker recognizes the Poker Hall of Fame, as the official Poker Hall of Fame--- including ESPN Columnis Gary Wise. The deleting editor rationalized the deletion with, none "are regularly called "Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson" (or whatever) on TV broadcasts." Er, yes they are. In fact, WHILE writing this DVR, I was watching the WPT event at Foxwood (Aired 8-1-07), where they were talking about how Bradley Berman was the son of Poker Hall of Famer Lyle Berman---they didn't mention Lyle's 3 WSOP bracelets! Of the 35 inductees, there are only 12 that are still living and not all of them play tournament poker on a regular basis, thus he the admin probably simply hadn't seen any episodes where one of those 12 players made a final table. It should also be noted that a number of Hall of Famers never won a WSOP bracelet.

• Doyle Brunson — Five Decades of Poker and Still Going Strong! Allyn Jaffrey Shulman by Allyn Jaffrey Shulman Cardplayer Magazine 2004,
• Video of 2005 Doyle Brunson's show "Doyles Room"] where he is honoring 2005 inductees Jack Binion and Crandell Addington
• Amarillo Slim's Official page has a list of all poker hall of famers.
• When Chip Reese recently died, Cardplayer magazine noted that he "was the youngest member to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame." (As did Pokerlisting.com, Rounder Magazine, About.com, and many other sources.
• Phil Helmuth, mentions his induction into the Hall of Fame in the second sentence of his official webpage.
• Barbara Enright said that she considered her induction into the Poker Hall of Fame as "a lifetime achievement honor"