Best tourney players today- Poll #2

[Whitewash]

This is meant to be a survey among 2+2ers who have followed the tournament trail the past few years to give our opinion on who the top tournament players are today.

Here are some guidelines for who you should base your vote on:

-Overall results in $2K and higher buy-in tournaments the past 3 or so years. The more significant the tournament as far as buy-in, talent of the field, and importance put on the event; the more the result should be weighed.
-Does he/she have overall rounded results in different types of tournaments such as WSOP and WPT?
-Is the person someone you feel confident will be making significant final tables in the near future, or is it someone who has made 2 huge final tables but that does not reflect how good you actually think they are?

Also, you can give up to 3 suggestions for who should be added next to the poll. The most suggested name will be added as an option to the next poll.


<u>The Results</u>

1. Allen Cunningham - (21/64 votes)

[jweezie2315]

Does Hellmuth not get respect because he is an ass? I can't stand the guy but he is still one of the best.

[Whitewash]

Hellmuth plays most of the deep stack, big buy in tournaments (at least on the west coast) and really hasn't done a whole lot in any of them in a while. I still think he's a very good NL tournament player but he really shouldn't be getting that many votes this early IMO.

[Turn Prophet]

Phil Ivey: 3 bracelets in 2002, deep into the ME in 2003 and 2005, 2005 bracelet, 3rd place in the 2006 HORSE championship (and a 2nd place finish in an Omaha 8OB event), Monte Carlo Millions and Turning Stone wins in 2004, something like 5 WPT final tables... probably has to get my vote.

[alphatmw]

wtf how many [censored] polls are there going to be. this seems like a great way to use 20 threads to come to no interesting conclusion.

[El Diablo]

White,

Two words. Jeff. Madsen.

[AlwaysAir]

I didn't think I could vote since i dont care much / am not good at MTTs - but one thing I have to mention is god Michael Mizrachi is a beast.

[RetiredAt22]

best player ever or recenlty? cause helmuth and chan are pretty damn good, but recently id give it to cunningham or iv

[Jazz June]

Over the last couple years, in no order:

Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu
Allen Cunningham
Scotty Nguyen
John Juanda
Erick Lindgren
Barry Greenstein
Michael Mizrachi
Alan Goehring
JC Tran
Nam Le
David Pham

I'd be interested to see, if anybody has these type of records, the number of tournaments each of these guys plays. Some of them never play the sub 10k buy in events anymore while some of them still do and do quite well at them. Also some people, Chip, Doyle and Johnny Chan come to mind, play relatively few events yet still have great results when they do play. If they played a fuller schedule they would be competing for things like POY.

[ShadowBJ21]

Now you definately have to add Joseph Hachem to the list!

Shadow