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Big name pros never to make a WPT final table

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  1. chavs chavs is offline

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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 4:17pm)

    Johnny Chan
  2. BUCKINATOR BUCKINATOR is offline

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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 4:27pm) in reply to chavs

    jennifer harman? not sure
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 4:28pm) in reply to BUCKINATOR

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  4. BDickinson BDickinson is offline

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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 4:35pm) in reply to BUCKINATOR

    Harman made it to a final table with Daniel Negreanu and Humberto Brenes. I believe she took 4th.
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 4:36pm) in reply to BUCKINATOR

    She's made a WPT FT.
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 4:40pm) in reply to murderer

    lmao
  7. chavs chavs is offline

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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 5:41pm) in reply to BudmansCom

    Hard to believe Chan has not made a WPT final table. Isn't he the best player in the world?
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  8. Mkind16 Mkind16 is offline

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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 6:00pm) in reply to chavs

    The reason many big names don't make WPT final tables anymore is becaus ethe playing fields are getting huge. In season 1, most tournys had btw 100-200 players. This season, it's 500-600. It's far more difficult to make it through those fields. Look at this season, the only big names to make final tables are Ted Forrest, Alan Goehrring, John D'Agostino, Kathy Liebert, Freddy Deeb, Johan Storakers, and Dan Harrington (though guys like Kenna James and Gavin Smith make their cases to become "big" names). Deeb is the only one to have won. The other winners so far this season have been Gavin Smith, Roland de Wolf, Al Ardibili, Alex Kahaner, and Minh Ly. As you can see, making it through these fields isn't so easy anymore.
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 6:34pm) in reply to Mkind16

    Minh Ly is definetly a big name pro. Well, maybe not big "name" as in household name, but to people who know poker, Minh Ly is definetly a widely known player. He plays the Big Game, and is a very solid tournament player.
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 6:49pm) in reply to alwaysdrowning

    I've heard Doyle mention Minh Ly before since he plays the big game, but he's not exactly a big name that everybody would recognize.
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 7:53pm) in reply to Mkind16

    Minh Ly will definitely be a big name player from here on out. Only one tournament has been on TV so far, but check out the stats...

    2nd to Doyle in that 6-handed WSOP tournament...

    18th in the Main Event... (yes, people have forgotten this)

    1st at the WPT Doyle Classic

    Not a bad 5 months. And he will get plenty of TV time here to come.
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    Oct 29th, 2005 (10/29/2005 10:10pm) in reply to 1.21Gigawatts

    biggest name ive seen on a final table is devin porter. the kid has skills and the youth to go with it. watch for him to dominate the wpt soon!!!!!
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    Oct 30th, 2005 (10/30/2005 12:22am) in reply to 1.21Gigawatts

    Anyone to forget about the Matusow/Minh Ly incident obviously wasn't following the Main Event. Haha.
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    Oct 30th, 2005 (10/30/2005 12:24am) in reply to RLilley

    And he has the best asain man hair in the business
     
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    Oct 30th, 2005 (10/30/2005 1:20am) in reply to Mkind16

    Yeah, but what is amazing is how many big names actually have *made it* to a final table. Chan is really the only one. Most everyone else you see on all the other shows have been there - many multiple times, and a bunch have won one. Definitely argues for their skills to me.
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    Oct 30th, 2005 (10/30/2005 1:37am) in reply to SaulGood

    Sammy Farha is another big name pro not to make it.
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    Nov 1st, 2005 (11/1/2005 1:52am) in reply to Jonahdog

    Robert Williamson.
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    Nov 1st, 2005 (11/1/2005 2:08am) in reply to chavs

    *edit* my bad

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    Nov 1st, 2005 (11/1/2005 2:56am) in reply to clizzark

    NEVER TO MAKE A WPT FINAL TABLE.
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