Poker: Who would you most want to see at a 9-person table?

• Leonardo

  

  If you could make a nine-person, tournament style final table, who would you pick? You can determine whatever the first place prize is for your happiness.
  
  Mine (not necessarily their seat number):
  1. Phil Ivey
  2. Phil Hellmuth Jr.
  3. Howard Lederer
  4. Doyle Brunson
  5. Daniel Negreanu
  6. Mike Matusow
  7. Johnny Chan
  8. Chris Ferguson
  9. Erik Siedel
  
  
  Second table:
  1. Allen Cunningham
  2. Ted Forrest
  3. Barry Greenstein
  4. Scotty Nguyen
  5. Jennifer Harman
  6. Joe Hachem
  7. Antonio Esfandiari
  8. Dan Harrington
  9. John Juanda
  
  
  Third table:
  1. Phil Laak
  2. Annie Duke
  3. Erick Lindgren
  4. T.J. Cloutier
  5. Juan Carlos Mortensen
  6. Men Nguyen
  7. Gus Hansen
  8. Patrik Antonius
  9. Sammy Farha
  
  
  Fourth table:
  1. Todd Brunson
  2. Hoyt Corkins
  3. Dewey Tomko
  4. Layne Flack
  5. Bertrand Grospelier
  6. Huck Seed
  7. Chau Giang
  8. Freddy Deeb
  9. Daniel Alaei
  
  
  Others:
  David Chiu
• End of Line

  

  I'd throw Phil Laak on the first table.
• Leonardo

  

  channelsurfing.net
  
  About four channels down is a nothing but poker channel and they don't show the stuff you see on ESPN all the time. Right now is the Monte Carlo Millions from two years ago.
  
  Here's the site from the channel (dunno if you can just type that in and it come up or not):
  http://channelsurfing.net/watch-poker-channel.html
• karen lotz

  

  sounds good as long as Shana Hiatt is involved somehow
  
  
• Timber

  You did not leave room for yourself... only nine seats
• 2kool4skool

  

  This is based very little on who's the best, mostly based on what I think would be the most entertaining.
  
  Ivey
  Helmuth
  Negreanu
  Matusow
  Durr
  Brunson
  Ferguson
  Laak
  Esfandiari
• hrspeedmerchant

  I think you'd definitely have to include Dan Harrington.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  I would like to sit at a table like that if someone was staking me, but if I'm putting my own money up I would rather play at a table with 9 idiots.
• detectivegibbles

  Cleveland Buck wrote: I would like to sit at a table like that if someone was staking me, but if I'm putting my own money up I would rather play at a table with 9 idiots.

  Usually I would agree with you, but when you are playing with 9 idiots that call every pre-flop raise with a 3-8 off suit, and then hit 3-8-8 on the flop vs your pocket rockets, what can ya do?
  
  I would much rather play against people that know how to play, meaning correctly fold when you have a shitty hand, or at least attempt a real bluff.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  detectivegibbles wrote:

  Cleveland Buck wrote: I would like to sit at a table like that if someone was staking me, but if I'm putting my own money up I would rather play at a table with 9 idiots.

  Usually I would agree with you, but when you are playing with 9 idiots that call every pre-flop raise with a 3-8 off suit, and then hit 3-8-8 on the flop vs your pocket rockets, what can ya do?
  
  I would much rather play against people that know how to play, meaning correctly fold when you have a shitty hand, or at least attempt a real bluff.

  Those people don't bother me anymore. And I never get AA anyway.
• homefield

  

  2kool4skool wrote: This is based very little on who's the best, mostly based on what I think would be the most entertaining.
  
  Ivey
  Helmuth
  Negreanu
  Matusow
  Durr
  Brunson
  Ferguson
  Laak
  Esfandiari

  What about sammy farha?
• Ender Wiggin

  

  Helen Keller
  Stevie Wonder
  BSU Cowbell Girl
  Steven Hawking
  Ozzy Osbourne
  Papa Smurf
  Doug
  Skeeter
  Roger
• 4cards

  

  ...(9) person table?
  ME, 7 blind people and the local village idiot!
• UANyg

  poker? i hardly know her