Only two days after Harrah’s opened the nomination process for the Poker Hall of Fame, PartyPoker is already encouraging fans and players to vote for the World Poker Tour Host and professional poker player Mike Sexton. Sexton recently re-signed with PartyPoker.com and will serve as the ambassador for the poker site during the WSOP. Besides PartyPoker, several players have already expressed their support to Mike Sexton, including the Norwegian poker sensation Annette Obrestad and Irish poker pro Padraig Parkinson, who is encouraging other poker fans to vote for Sexton.

 

Sexton's record includes 44 cashes at the WSOP, one WSOP bracelet at the 1989 WSOP $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud High-Low tournament, winning the first $10k buy-in championship event at the Foxwoods World Poker finals in 1992, and being the first American player to win the Euro Finals of Poker in 2000. Sexton also won the WSOP Tournament of champions in 2006 and donated $500,000 of his winnings to charity. Sexton has worked side to side with numerous organizations supporting the legalization of poker in the U.S, serving as poker expert and testifying in several poker trials around the U.S. Sexton is also co-host of the WPT television show, a work he has done since the TV Show was launched seven years ago.

 

“We encourage the poker community to vote online for Mike Sexton's induction into poker's hall of fame. Mike is famously said that poker takes five minutes to learn and a lifetime to master - it takes five minutes to vote and mark the lifetime achievement of the master! Mike meets all the criteria and deserves to be top of the list when the process gets to the Hall of Fame committee." said a Party Poker spokesman.