WPT
Enterprises Announces Professional
Poker Tour (PPT) Players
WPT
Enterprises, Inc. is pleased to announce
the field of approximately 200 players
that will be invited to join the Professional
Poker Tour (PPT) in its first season.
Selections were made on criteria recommended
by the Player nominated PPT Advisory Committee,
future selection guidelines have also
been established. For more information
on this criteria or the "Future Rules"
please click here.
There
are no restrictions on players' ability
to play in other tournaments or leagues.
Based on pre-approval, players may wear
sponsorship logos that comply with the
rules of the PPT.
We
look forward to working together with
the poker player community to bring meaningful
sponsorship into the sport - for players
and the league alike. The first PPT event
will be held at Foxwoods during the World
Poker Finals on November 9th and 10th
-- with the final table filming on the
19th. WPTE will be putting up $500,000
for each of the five events in PPT Season
I.
Players
Qualified for 3 Years
| Arieh,
Josh
Baldwin,
Bobby
Bechtel,
Jim
Benvisitsi,
Tomer
Benyamine,
David
Berman,
Lyle
Brecher,
Steve
Brenes,
Eric
Brunson,
Doyle
Chan,
Johnny
Cloutier,
T.J.
D'Agostino,
John
Darden,
Paul
Dastmalchi,
Hamid
De
Knijff, Martin
Dougherty,
Brad
Elezra,
Eli
Esfandiari,
Antonio
Farah,
Samy
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Flack,
Layne
Francisco,
Noli
Furguson,
Chris
Furlong,
Noel
G,
Tony
Gerasimov,
Kirill
Goehring,
Alan
Gordon,
Phil
Greenstein,
Barry
Habib,
Hasan
Hamilton,
Russ
Hansen,
Gustav
Harrington,
Dan
Hellmuth,
Phil
Helppi,
Juha
Ivey,
Phil
Jett,
Chip
Johansson,
Christer
Johnston,
Barry
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Juanda,
John
Judah,
Mel
Karagulleyan,
Chris
Kinney,
Michael
Laak,
Phil
Lederer,
Howard
Liebert,
Kathy
Lindgren,
Erick
Matloubi,
Mansour
Matros,
Matt
McEvoy,
Tom
Meehan,
Jim
Moneymaker,
Chris
Moore,
Roger
Mortensen,
Carlos
Negreanu,
Daniel
Nguyen,
Men
Nguyen,
Scotty
Pearson,
Puggy
|
Pham,
David
Phillips,
Paul
Plastik,
David
Preston,
"Amarillo Slim"
Raymer,
Greg
Reese,
Chip
Rose,
Ron
Rosenkrantz,
Jose
Seed,
Huck
Seidel,
Erik
Seif,
Mark
Shoten,
Charles
Sunar,
Surinder
Ulliott,
David
Vahedi,
Amir
Varkonyi,
Robert
Watkinson,
Lee
Williams,
David
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Players
Qualified for 2 Years
Brecher,
Steve
Forrest,
Ted
Grijalva,
Richard
Hoeppner,
James
Lester,
Jason
Rosenblum,
Russell
Players
Qualified for 1 Year
|
Alspach,
Dan
Awada,
Joe
Barton,
Don
Baxter,
Billy
Beevers,
Joe
Bigler,
Chris
Bjorin,
Chris
Bloch,
Andrew
Bloom,
Tony
Boatman,
Ron
Boatman,
Ross
Bonetti,
John
Bonyadi,
Farzad
Boubli,
Jan
Brenes,
Humberto
Brindley,
Roy
Brunson,
Todd
Bush,
Garry
Caro,
Mike
Cassidy,
Joe
Cernuto,
John
Chiu,
David
Clarke,
Paul
Colclough,
Dave
Cordovez,
Diego
Costa,
Peter
Cousineau,
Tony
Cuningham,
Allen
Deeb,
Kassem
Demetriou,
Harry
Duarte,
Billy
Duke,
Annie
|
Enright,
Barbara
Esposito,
John
Faltinsky,
Ron
Feduniak,
Bob
Feduniak,
Maureen
Fischman,
Scott
Fitoussi,
Bruno
Flaton,
Ken
Franklin,
Tom
Friedman,
Prahlad
Gazes,
Bill
Gazes,
Kristy
Giang,
Chau
Goldstein,
Ken
Goldstein,
Stan
Gregorich,
Mark
Gresch,
Joseph
Grey,
David
Hansen,
Thor
Harman,
Jennifer
Haveson,
Brian
Hayden,
Melissa
Hennigan,
John
Hinchcliffe,
Chris
Hoff,
Robert
Holland,
Randy
Hua,
Can Kim
Hufnagle,
Tommy
Ibrahem,
Mohamed
Jacobs,
Tom
Jaffrey,
Allyn
James,
Kenna
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Jensen,
Randy
Johnson,
Linda
Jones,
Jesse
Kabbaj,
John
Kaplan,
Gabe
Kastle,
Casey
Keller,
Thomas
La,
Meng
Laing,
Mike
Le,
Hon
Lent,
Gary
Leonidas,
Toto
Levi,
David
Longson,
O'Neil
Lund,
Tuna
Luong,
Dee
Luske,
Marcel
Ma,
Tony
Magriel,
Paul
Marmorstein,
Phillip
Matusow,
Mike
McKelvey,
Carl
McManus,
Jim
Mehrmand,
David
Ng,
Evelyn
Nguyen,
Minh
Nguyen,
Phi
O'Dea,
Donneca
Oppenheim,
David
Parkinson,
Padreig
Perry,
Ralph
Phan,
Young
|
Ramdin,
Victor
Reyes,
Cecilia
Rice,
Shawn
Roberts,
Ben
Rodman,
Blair
Rokach,
Lucy
Salem,
Lee
Schoenfield,
Adam
Sexton,
Mike
Shirey,
Hilbert
Shulman,
Barry
Shulman,
Jeff
Song,
Kevin
Stonum,
Al
Tann,
Willie
Tomko,
Dewey
Tran,
JC
Tran,
Jimmy
Tran,
Mimi
Tsiprailidis,
Chris
Turner,
Robert
Van
Patten, Vince
Vaswani,
Ram
Vinh,
Vinny
Violette,
Cindy
Waggoner,
Marsha
Waterman,
Dennis
Williamson,
Robert
Wolfe,
Paul
Zolotow,
Steve
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