Worst WSOP Final Table Ever

[Kyle Stark]

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I'd have to disagree on 2002. Rosenbloom, Gardner and Shipley are all top players.
I don't know that 2004 was any better. You only really had one name player going in..Harrington.

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Josh Arieh?

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He's had some good efforts since, but you can't say he was a name player going in.

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No he was literally the best player you never heard of, similiar to Allen Cunningham before this year...and of course I'm talking about the "general poker public" not people in the know.

[sdplayerb]

Cunningham had been at least one WPT final table, he was known before this year. better known than Arieh was going into last year.

[billyjex]

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I'd have to disagree on 2002. Rosenbloom, Gardner and Shipley are all top players.
I don't know that 2004 was any better. You only really had one name player going in..Harrington.

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Josh Arieh?

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He's had some good efforts since, but you can't say he was a name player going in.

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Having a bracelet before that final table isn't too shabby.

[webmonarch]

Your avatar is awesome. I'd say about 95% of this forum could be in Erin Ness's position if they had a pretty face and a vagina.

[TripKings]

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He's had some good efforts since, but you can't say he was a name player going in.

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He won a WSOP Braclet - limit hold 'em in 1999 - and got a second to Chan in 2000. So he had, what, 50% of all the braclets at the 2004 final table? Do you have to have been on tv since 2003 to be a "name player"? I guarantee you that Greg Raymer knew of him prior to the final table.

-TripKings

[Gabe DV]

wasn't al kruk (2004) also at 2 other final tables at the world series?

[Jeremy517]

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I'd have to disagree on 2002. Rosenbloom, Gardner and Shipley are all top players.


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Also, Rosenblum was a 2+2er.

May need to wait a couple years to pass judgement on the recent massive field Main Events and the final tables.

[HamJam]

Any reason you left it at 7? If you make it 9 which is generally referred to as the final table then 2005 adds Matusow and 2002 Minh Ly.

[ChrisMonkeymaker]

If I kept it at nine then I would have to include Matusow for 2005 and both Minh Ly and Tony D for 2002. 2005 would still be bad because Matusow, as good as he is, would not be enough to lift the group above the historically low level that they are in. But Ly and Tony D would have too positive an effect because Tony D has often been named the greatest heads up NL player in the world while Ly is a highly respected very high stakes player, and that wouldn't be good because I really really want to make 2002 the worst ever. Thus, the top seven instead of top nine.