Debates rage over the criteria that should be used to determine the greatest poker player. Is it tournament success or a winning reputation in the world’s largest cash games? Should it mean more to win live or online? Ivey might be the sole player in the conversation regardless, and though he’s been conspicuously absent in recent years, he still strikes fear in anyone who happens to wind up at the same table. Wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=273.

Runner-up: Daniel Negreanu