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It’s one of the richest and most prestigious events in the World Series calendar, designed to test the skills and bank balances of the best of the best mixed game players - but there are 3 names curiously absent from the line-up at this year’s Poker Players Championship.
While the likes Daniel Negreanu and Ike Haxton battle it out at the final table for the $1,395,767 first prize, a coveted WSOP bracelet and the Chip Reese trophy, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch all decided to skip the $50K buy-in event, begging the question – why?
Numerous reasons have been put forward for the trio, who were all part of the Full Tilt disaster when Black Friday struck the online poker world in 2011, not turning out for the PPC – some of them making sense and others thinly-veiled digs.
Andy Bloch, the only one of the three who escaped with his reputation mostly intact after Full Tilt was found to have spent almost all of its player funds, came second in the inaugural mixed game event back in 2006 when it was the $50K H.O.R.S.E. – losing out heads-up to Chip Reese, after whom the tournament trophy is named and dedicated.
It’s been a long time since Bloch has played one of the big-buy in events – not even a $10K since 2012 – and as poker isn’t his main source of livelihood any longer he can be excused for not forking out 50 large to find himself up against the world’s best full-time pros.
Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer made his WSOP comeback last year amid some pretty noisy online fanfare on the forums and real-life booing after Daniel Negreanu eased his passage back to Vegas’ summer shindig by carrying Lederer’s apology on his blog.
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This year he even teamed up with ‘partner-in-crime’, as many people see it, Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson for the tag-team event, along with Bloch, who also did stints in the higher buy-in version with Ferguson.
For a man who has shown he can play mixed games to a high level, his 2 bracelets coming in non NLHE events, it’s surprising he’s never cashed in the PPC or its predecessors – perhaps this being the reason he doesn’t fancy shelling out $50K to take a stab at it again.
Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson has incurred more wrath than anyone over the Full Tilt scandal, his unwillingness to speak out about the missing $440million of player funds making him a prime target for those affected by it.
His return last year saw Daniel Negreanu almost losing the plot on Twitter when ‘Jesus’ returned to the World series after a 5-year absence, and perhaps it’s the fact that Dnegs is toting a camera everywhere he goes (and annoying everyone along the way!) for his vlogs that Ferguson doesn’t fancy being pulled up by the Canadian in public – and on record?
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Of course, his absence could be because he’s currently in the running for the Player of the Year award – and having just broken the record for number of cashes in one series (since equalled, only a few days later) he probably sees the smaller buy-in events as a safer way to gain an overall ‘title’ from this year’s WSOP.
But perhaps it’s good for the game in a way that the PPC title won’t be going to anyone involved in one of the worst incidents in poker history – after all, the trophy is named after a legend of the game of whom Gus Hansen spoke on Reese’s passing in 2007:
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“Chip was not only a world class poker player but also a world class individual and I am proud to call him my friend. Chip was the kind of gambler we should all strive to be.”
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And that is something unlikely to be spoken about at least two of our three missing Full Tilt players.