Top 20 TOC Winners Revealed; Ivey Top Vote Getter

By Pauly
Las Vegas, NV

The votes are in for the 2010 TOC. Phil Ivey is the man, but you knew that already.

The Top 10 Vote Winners:
1. Phil Ivey - 16,267
2. Daniel Negreanu - 16,239
3. Doyle Brunson - 13,796
4. Phil Hellmuth - 12,673
5. Jesus Ferguson - 11,585
6. Allen Cunningham - 10,486
7. Johnny Chan - 10,434
8. Scotty Nguyen - 9,834
9. Barry Greenstein - 9,806
10. John Juanda - 8,835

The Rest:
11. Erik Seidel
12. Jen Harman
13. Huck Seed
14. Dan Harrington
15. TJ Cloutier
16. Sammy Farha
17. Howard Lederer
18. Greg Raymer
19. Joe Hachem
20. Antonio Esfaniari

Automatic Bids:
2004 TOC Champion: Annie Duke
2005 TOC Champion: Mike Matusow
2006 TOC Champion: Mike Sexton
2009 WSOP Main Event Champ: Joe Cada
2009 WSOP-E Champ: Barry Shulman

Spnosor Exemtpions:
WSOP Acadamey Playoff Winner: ElkY
WSOP.com UK Qualifier: Andrew Barton

Click here to read the press release.

TOC Update: Current Top 50

By Pauly
Los Angeles, CA

Have you voted yet? Are you trying to fix a vote for a pro? If so, have you submitted your 12th crooked vote of the day?

In case you were wondering, only 20 lucky pros will gain their seats into the TOC by public decree. Here's the current Top 50 in votes broken down into Non-PC stereotypes...

Euros: Annette Obrestad, Carlos Mortensen, Dario Minieri, David Benyamine, Peter Smurfit, Peter Traply, Vitaly Lunkin

Latins: Alexandre Gomes, Humberto Brenes

Middle Easterners: Eli Elezra, Freddy Deeb, Sam Farha, Antonio Esfandiari

Asians: J.C. Tran, John Juanda, Johnny Chan, Kenny Tran, Men Nguyen, Scotty Nguyen

Old Guys: Billy Baxter, Dan Harrington, Doyle Brunson, T.J. Cloutier, Hoyt Corkins

Creepy Old Guys: David Sklansky, Amarillo Slim Preston,

Champs: Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Huck Seed, Jamie Gold, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate, Tom McEvoy, Chris Ferguson

Jens: Harman, Tilly

Phils: Galfond, Hellmuth, Ivey

Token Black Guy: David Williams

Goodfellas: Jeffrey Lisandro

Party Time: Layne Flack

Full Tilt: Allen Cunningham, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer

PokerStars: Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier

Han Solo: Ted Forrest

You can submit your TOC vote here.

Check out some of the previous Tao coverage of the TOC...

Fans Vote for TOC WSOP Players; Tao of Poker Picks
Vote Eskimo
TOC Musings: The Real World
TOC Musings, Vol. 2: Rigging Kingfish

Stay tuned for a third volume of TOC Musings.