Greenstein and Johnson in Hall of Fame
Earlier this month the short list based on public voting was announced. Now the jury has done its job. It is official that Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson will become the 41st and 42nd individuals to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Neither has a flamboyant media profile, but both are deserving inductees. Annie Duke has missed out. Daniel Negreanu will be more pleased than Annie will be disappointed.
Linda Johnson (in picture) said, “I am extremely proud and humbled to be voted into the Poker Hall of Fame. I feel lucky to have been involved in many facets of poker over the past 35 years.” Linda is known as the First Lady of Poker and is the second female inductee in the Hall of Fame after Barbara Enright. Linda teaches at WPT Boot Camp and is a partner in Card Player Cruises, which conducts poker cruises. In 1993, Linda purchased Card Player magazine and turned it into the best journal of its genre. Her other projects include the World Poker Industry Conference, the World Poker Players Conference, and the Tournament Directors Association. Linda is currently on the Board of Directors for the PPA and the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS). She is a co-founder of Poker Gives. Linda was inducted into the Women’s Poker Hall of Fame in 2008.
Barry Greenstein said, “I’m happy to be inducted into the Hall of Fame alongside my friend Linda Johnson …” Greenstein has amassed more than $7.5 million in worldwide poker tournament winnings and possesses three World Series of Poker bracelets and two WPT titles. Greenstein is the author of the widely-acclaimed poker book Ace on the River. He has a practice of autographing a copy of the book for players in tournaments that eliminate him. Greenstein has donated more than $3 million from his poker winnings, earning him his nickname “The Robin Hood of Poker”.
Greenstein and Johnson will be officially inducted on Tuesday, November 8 in the Penn & Teller Theater of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas just prior to the start of the final table of the 2011 WSOP Main Event.
