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The World Tavern Poker HALL OF FAME is the place to find the very best, from the very beginning of the league all the way up to the present day. Some of the most noted and accomplished players are honored here - a few even appear more than once!

 

To qualify for the Hall of Fame, you must be at least one of the following:

 

  • National Points Champion (in a Season)

  • National Cumulative Points Champion (in a Season)

  • National Veterans Points Champion (in a Season)

  • National Champion (won at the OPEN/WLPC)

  • National TOC Champion (won at the OPEN/WLPC)

  • World League Poker Champion (won at the WLPC)

 

Scroll below to see all of our Hall of Fame members!

Click each button to be taken to that year's HOF members!

2024
2025
World Tavern Poker Hall of Fame Members
2023
01-MichaelMatte.jpg
02-OrinWilliams.jpg
03-SheilaManning.jpg
04-ReggieJohnson.jpg
05-GeorgetteHendricksen.jpg
06-ReggieJohnson.jpg
07-DerrickMorton.jpg
08-JacquelinePinnix.jpg
09-MikeWilson.jpg
2022
01-AndrewEckhard.jpg
02-GeorgeLopez.jpg
03-SassyLamrouex.jpg
04-MikeWilson.jpg
05-KeithForadori.jpg
06-MikeWilson-USE.jpg
07-BillLong.jpg
08-ArthurFretwell-USE.jpg
09-BillLong.jpg
2021
01-JimPearce.jpg
02-DaniLogan.jpg
03-OlympiaParks.jpg
04-ZacharyHerion.jpg
05-AdamVogt.jpg
06-ZacharyHerion.jpg
07-MikeHeffner.jpg
08-TammyCryder.jpg
09-MonaLisaThompson.jpg
2020
02-KrissyJones.jpg
03-RodneySams.jpg
04-WayneLodge.jpg
01-JeffHunt.jpg
05-RobertaMack.jpg
06-AdrianAvant.jpg
01-TyroneSmith.jpg
02-FrankArnold.jpg
03-KHendrickson.jpg
2019
04-CoryMuller.jpg
05-FredFleischmann.jpg
06-JackieMcKnight.jpg
07-StevenIvans.jpg
08-ChesterBenjamin.jpg
08-ReggieJohnson.jpg
09-JimMcKnight.jpg
2018
09-Leivers.jpg
10-Benjamin.jpg
10-RodSams.jpg
06-Hooks.jpg
07-Hayes.jpg
11-Hunt.jpg
03-Shumate.jpg
04-McDole.jpg
08-Coon.jpg
05-Parker.jpg
2017
2016

2015

2015
2014
2013
2012

FUN FACT

World Tavern Poker has more registered players (over 200,000 and counting!) than the populations of several big US cities, including Knoxville, Tallahassee, Salt Lake City, Providence (RI), and even Kansas City. If our players were a city, we would rank in the top 125 in terms of population in the United States!

2011

FUN FACT

The World League Poker Championship has grown every year since it began in 2014 (as the World Bar Poker Championship). Did you know that the 2014 WLPC Champion William McGrotty played 2015 WLPC Champion Jacob Miller heads up in a 2015 Regional Championship? Small world!

2010

FUN FACT

The World Tavern Poker version of the "Grand Slam" may be the most difficult thing to achieve for a player - no one has done it yet! To get there, a player would need to win any 4 of the following: a National Championship, National TOC, National Points, National Veterans Points, National Cumulative points, and/or WLPC Main Event Champion. One player - Reggie Johnson - has won 3 of the 4 needed!

2009

FUN FACT

There are 15 US states, Canada, and Great Britain represented in the World Tavern Poker Hall of Fame. At current count, North Carolina has 35 players in the Hall, while Maryland (24), Virginia (20), New Jersey (19), New York (6), Michigan (5), New Mexico (3), and Indiana (3) round out the top 8. Three states have 2 players listed, (PA, TN, TX), and four states plus CAN/GB have 1 player (AK, CA, CT, MO).

2008

FUN FACT

Christi Bowers (MD), Dave Andersen (NC), Joe Motley (MD), Keith Foradori (VA), Mike Wilson (NC), Reggie Johnson (NC), and Steve Vogel (NJ) have earned 3 Hall of Fame bids. Chester Benjamin (MD), Jacqueline Pinnix (MD), Rodney Sams (MD), Russ Raynor (MD), Alan Fakhoury (NC), Bill Long (NC), Jeff Hunt (NC), Joe Griener (NC), John Martin (NC), LaRetta Wager (NC), Zachary Herion (NC), Al Shapiro (NJ), Mike Christy, Jr (NJ), Victor Alvarez (NJ), Bill Brox (NY), Jim McKnight (NY), William McGrotty (NY), Brandon Buschling (TN), and Jeff Coon (VA) have earned 2 Hall bids.

2007
2006
2005
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