The Best Poker Players In The World?

The Boston Examiner asked the question this week.  Who are the best poker players in the world?

Writers Steven Ruddock can't be so sure but he did offer a few of his individual selections in a handful of categories.  

Best all-around players - the late Chip Reese.

He is widely regarded to have been the greatest cash game poker player that ever lived.

Reese collaborated on the seven-card stud section for Doyle Brunson's Super System, the best-selling poker book of all time. In it, Brunson describes Reese as "one of the two finest young ... poker players in the world" and the best seven-card stud player he had ever played.  Reese would later become the card manager at the old Dunes Casino in Vegas. 

As a tribute, from 2008 onwards the H.O.R.S.E. event winner at the World Series of Poker will receive a trophy named the "David 'Chip' Reese Award"

Ruddock also gives honorable mention to Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson. 

Best Tournament Player - Ruddock claims it's Stu Ungar. 

He is the only person to have won World Series of Poker Main Event three times and to win Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker three times, the world's second most prestigious poker title during its time.

Honorable mentions do go out to Phil Hellmuth and Mike "The Grinder" Mizrachi.  Negreanu is also named again. 

"Best cash game players - David Benyamine, Patrik Antonius, Jen Harmon, there are just so many great players you could argue until the cows come home," Ruddock says. 

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Ace King, Gambling911.com