Who are your favorite poker players and who do you think are best/worst ambassadors

My favorite poker players are Sammy Farha, Negreanu and Phil Ivey.
Also I have always followed Josh Arieh since his 3rd place finish at wsop main event that Raymer won - thought he was the best player at the final table and throughout ESPN coverage which coincided with me really starting to follow poker on TV. I think Negreanu Doyle Brunson and Arieh are interesting writers on gambling whether it be twitter or blogs and they all seem to "get it" - by that I mean they realize how lucky they are and are positive ambassadors for the game of poker.

Phil Ivey is not a normal human being obv. and I root for him more than any other poker player but I wouldn't cast him as a great ambassador for the game - His willingness to gamble for superhuman stakes may cause an average human to bust their bankroll many times trying to emulate him plus to this point Ivey Poker has been a failure. No one will ever cast Sammy Farha as a poker ambassador but if there was a poker tv show with Farha and Ivey on every day I would never watch anything else - if you are a gambler you have to love watching Sammy.
The worst images out there for poker are Hellmuth and Matusow imo - just horrible behavior so many times people just accept it - also the hundreds of online kids who can't get a haircut or buy a decent shirt for televised final table appearances. Quick shout out to Tony Dunst and Marcel Luske for their sartorial style -- if Bond 18s blog is to believed dressing well plays nicely with the ladies too.....

Hellmuth is my favorite player, by a wide margin.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would like Ivey. He has no discernible personality and never does or says ANYTHING interesting.

-HooDooKoo

Venesa selbst n kitai is my fav Player . why cos they not only champs , but great poker ambassadors cos they always like to help others by giving advice. such down to earth

As for me the best player is Daniel Negreanu, his game very well

Daniel Negreanu, always is a pleasure to watch him how plays the game, makes the game more interesting and is also a good ambassador

I don't really have a favourite poker player. Maybe beardyian, Dakota-xx, Egon Towst or ramdeebam, but not the sort of people that you're talking about. I'm a recreational poker player, so I'm not into the professional poker scene in a big way. I just like nice people and dislike the aggressive and confrontational aspect that seems to be quite prevalent amongst some members of the poker fraternity.

Worst ambassadors for the game to my mind are Hellmuth and Dan Colman.

Best ambassador is probably Jason Somerville.

Greg Raymer, too bad about his problems with hookers....

In online poker favorite player is Acoimbra, already two years I read his blog...

In live poker Antonio Esfandiari...

Dan Colman the best poker player and the worst poker ambassador.....

Negreanu is my favorite and the worst ambassador in my opinion is Ronaldo.
Ronaldo was a great soccer player, but he has very little time to invest in his poker game, so at the moment he is a calling station. Hope he manages to get some classes and improve like Nadal is doing.

HooDooKoo said:

I honestly don't understand why anyone would like Ivey. He has no discernible personality and never does or says ANYTHING interesting.

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This is a huge misconception. If you will go back to the old broadcasts of High Stakes Poker, The Million Dollar Cash game, Poker After Dark or even his WPT win, you'll see him quietly interacting with the other players, especially the recreational players (he knows where his bread is buttered). True, he is not Negreanu, or Phil Laak, but by all appearances he is politely friendly when not in a hand, and all business when in one. Seems pretty solid to me.


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Hello.
The best player - Fill Helmut. It's unpredictable personality and from it you can expect anything. And he's very funny player!

Phil Ivey ^^

My favorite player ever is Negreanu by far, he always know what you have, how to bluff in the exact moment to take you out of the pot, and how to read players. He's amazing.

My favorite poker player is Antonio Esfandiari and Sam Trickett. I also like game of Daniel Colman sometimes.

Daniel Negreanu my favorite player, because He feels the game and knows what to do

My favorite best players is Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen , Hellmuth, and Marcin 'goral' Horecki

Daniel Negreanu. He is my favorite player. I am so happy that he is on hall of fame. His style of game is greate and its hard to other players to read him in game.

№1 Phil Ivey .

my fav tourney player is Phil Hellmuth cuz he says what we all are thinking when we sit at a table with "idiots from northern Europe who probably cant even spell poker"
lol best line ever...

I can say that my favorite player is negreannu daniel , the pro tem but there are also players like daniel stolen a Colombian who always own merit this final table my admiration for him and for his humility outweigh any good play any pro .

worst for poker ...everyone that had something to do with fulltilt

Favorite players: Negreanu, Esfandiari, Seiver