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Top Ten Texas Holdem Players of All Time

February 10, 2009

There are many great poker players and many people will have different opinions on their top ten poker players of all-time. I’ve been recently spending time constructing biographies of many of the worlds best poker players for a project and I now feel like offering up my top ten poker player list of all-time. I completely understand why people will have different choices due to a difference in opinion and that’s fine. Please share with us your top ten poker player list of all-time under this article so we can compare lists.

I won’t go into detail about why I have chosen each poker player to appear in my list, but they are all deserving. A lot more than ten poker players could battle for spots in the top ten, but I had to narrow it down and here is what I’ve come up with.

• Doyle Brunson
• Phil Ivey
• Phil Hellmuth
• Chip Reese
• Johnny Chan
• Scotty Nguyen
• Daniel Negreanu
• Gus Hansen
• John Juana
• Barry Greenstein

I’m more of a new school poker player so the majority of my list is poker players that have established themselves in the big name tournaments. There are many other players that could have been on this list, and when I write this list a couple years from now I’m sure it will have changed.

As some of the newer breed of poker pros continue winning tournaments and high stake games I can see my list changing from the old to the new. Players such as Erick Lindgren and Antonio Esfandiari will definitely be contenders for the top ten list as they age and become more established players. They’ve already proven they can beat the best now they just need some time in order to catch up to some of the older pros in bracelets.

Older players like Doyle, Hellmuth and Nguyen have all won a massive amount of bracelets which is why at this time they deserve to be on the list. You can’t just take live tournaments into consideration either because nowadays many poker pros are spending more time in the online poker rooms then anywhere else. The action is fierce and there are weekly tournaments with thousands of dollars to be won which draws in even the pros of poker.

There are many young guns coming up in the poker ranks that started in the online poker world and many are making serious noise. Tom Dwan is one online poker player who is young and a gunner. He’ll definitely be one poker player that I’ll be watching over the next five to ten years to see how he does. As we all know some players can be busts like Chris Moneymaker, but the ten players featured on my list all have one thing in common and that is that their all great poker players.