Isai Scheinberg and Mike Matusow Highlight a List of 2016 Poker Hall of Fame Snubs

After the World Series of Poker announcement of the Poker Hall of Fame nominees, poker connoisseurs flocked to social media and forums to discuss their great excitement about certain nominees and their disdain for others. Some even went as far to take matters into their own hands to call out who should have received a nomination, but sadly, did not.

Poker professional Daniel Negreanu was one such individual, taking to Full Contact Poker to discuss criteria and rate nominees based on their applicability, naming Carlos Mortensen as his stand-out from this year. He also provided a list of players who he thought better met the criteria than others on the list: Ray Dehkharghani, Isai Scheinberg, Jeff Lisandro and John Hennigan.

With that in mind, we, at PokerNews, also decided it was time to fill you in on who we thought were snubbed in this year’s Poker Hall of Fame (in no particular order).

Isai Scheinberg

Sarah Herring: While he isn’t a poker player, he has clearly had a HUGE impact on the game. As the driving force behind PokerStars, he built a brand and company unrivaled. Isai created a model that understood poker players and put them first, while being simultaneously and incredibly profitable. Additionally, he essentially saved the poker economy by bailing out Full Tilt and paying poker players back millions of dollars. We spoke at length about Isai about halfway through this recent podcast with Tony G.

Mark Scheinberg

Frank Op de Woerd: One of the criteria the Poker Hall of Fame lists is ‘[…]contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting results.’ There’s no one that fits this description better than father and son Scheinberg. They built a company so good for the players, got so many people into the game and hit the nail on just about every other aspect of building poker.

Mike Matusow

Sarah Herring: Of course many people have come to ridicule “the Mouth” for his rambling and history with drug and alcohol addiction, but it is hard to ignore the impact he has had on the game. He helped to build poker during the years of Poker After Dark and other high-stakes TV shows. He is one of the original gangsters of poker, and when he is on point, he has great results.

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Sarah Herring: I’ve interviewed him for several bracelet interviews. Admittedly, I didn’t even know who he was and then went to do the research before the interview and realized he had won five bracelets!! He also has a WPT title. To be honest, he isn’t much of a character and his English is tough to understand, so he is generally …

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