Each year the WSOP Tournament of Champions players are selected by various means – the 2010 names included popular votes and a few exemptions.
Voting ran from March 15th until June 15th, with 355,081 votes cast, Phil Ivey grabbing the most votes with Daniel Negreanu right behind.
Phil Ivey, 16,267 votes
Daniel Negreanu, 16,239 votes
Doyle Brunson, 13,796 votes
Phil Hellmuth, 12,673 votes
Chris Ferguson, 11,585 votes
Allen Cunningham, 10,486 votes
Johnny Chan, 10,434 votes
Scotty Nguyen, 9,834 votes
Barry Greenstein, 9,806 votes
John Juanda, 8,835 votes
Erik Seidel, 8,802 votes
Jennifer Harman, 8,206 votes
Huck Seed, 8,180 votes
Dan Harrington, 7,342 votes
T.J. Cloutier, 6,281 votes
Sammy Farha, 6,085 votes
Howard Lederer, 5,596 votes
Greg Raymer, 5,404 votes
Joe Hachem, 5,272 votes
Antonio Esfandiari, 5,129 votes
There were some automatic exemptions, players that got their seat because of past performance:
Annie Duke, 2004 TOC Champion
Mike Matusow, 2005 TOC Champion
Mike Sexton, 2006 TOC Champion
Joe Cada, 2009 WSOP main event Champion
Barry Shulman, 2009 WSOPE main event Champion
Two other players were exempted in – the only players not to hold WSOP bracelets, one of the criteria for playing the TOC: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who won the WSOP Academy Playoff, and Andrew Barton, who qualified via WSOP.com.
The 2010 Tournament of Champions starts Sunday, June 27th and ends July 4th.
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