Supposedly some 140,000 ballots came in during the first week of WSOP TOC fan voting. Our eligible pal Tom Schneider\’s not in the Top 50 yet, let alone the all-important Top 20. As Harrah\’s continues its First Annual Worldwide WSOP.com Email Harvest Tournament of Champions All-Star game, many pros are realizing that they may not get in just on the merits of being tied for 39th among all-time bracelet winners (with dozens of others holding two) and having a twitter account.
So DonkeyBomber is making a desperate unique attempt at getting himself on this uber-elite invite list … check it out … this just showed up in my inbox from everyone\’s favorite 2007 Player of the Year:
This year, the World Series of Poker is having a Tournament of Champions. Only 27 players will play and 21 [sic.] of them must be voted in.
Here’s the deal.
You vote for me, Tom Schneider, and ONLY ME, and you will be part of the pool that will split half of what I win. First place pays $500,000. 50% of what I win will be split by people who have voted for me. If I win $500,000, $250,000 will be split by my voters. It’s that simple, and if I get voted in, I will be competing against only 27 players.
The site below is where you vote.
http://www.wsop.com/TOC/TOP50/
They will send you an email with a code in it. That code must be entered when voting.
After you have voted. Send this email to me and the verification email you receive from the WSOP site to tom@bigstackmedia.com and you will be part of the pool. I really would like to play in this tournament and your vote is very important to me. That’s why I’m paying for it.
One more important request. Please email this to any friends or family you have that you think might find it fun to own a piece of someone playing in the WSOP Tournament of Champions.
Please vote and then wish me luck.
Thanks again,
Tom Schneider
2007 WSOP Player of the Year
GL Tom! I will so laugh if you make it to #21 and think you\’re in when you\’re not. I kid, I kid — I haven\’t even voted yet, nor decided how I will. If you win, I\’m concerned about the cost of stamps eating away profits.
Click below for the current Top 50 (in random order):
Sam Farha
Hoyt Corkins
Philip Galfond
Howard Lederer
Prahlad Friedman
Scotty Nguyen
Ted Forrest
Kenny Tran
Tom Mcevoy
Jeffrey Lisandro
Humberto Brenes
Chris Ferguson
Phil Ivey
Dan Harrington
T.J. Cloutier
Vitaly Lunkin
Billy Baxter
Erick Lindgren
Annette Obrestad
Daniel Alaei
Peter Eastgate
Erik Seidel
David Williams
Alexandre Gomes
Jamie Gold
Joe Hachem
Dario Minieri
Jennifer Harman
Huck Seed
J.C. Tran
Greg Raymer
Allen Cunningham
Carlos Mortensen
Antonio Esfandiari
Johnny Chan
David Sklansky
David Benyamine
John Juanda
Barry Greenstein
Men Nguyen
Jason Mercier
Daniel Negreanu
Phil Hellmuth
Daniel Schreiber
Layne Flack
Freddy Deeb
Chris Moneymaker
Eli Elezra
Doyle Brunson
Amarillo Slim Preston