It's official: the absolutely virtual and purely ‘honorary’ RankingHero Goldfish Award goes to @Ted Lawson with a misread at a PLO final table from WSOP 2004! The fact that Lawson actually went on to win the event and the half a million dollar prize only comes to confirm what we all tell ourselves when we make some goldfish move or other at the poker tables - it happens to the best of us!
The hand was nominated by @Mark Duguid and started out with an overwhelming lead on the first days of voting.
The suspense was at its height on Monday afternoon when @Jordan Hooper’s nomination picked up a lot of votes and came dramatically close to the win.
The form was turned off this morning at 9am GMT, two hours after the last vote was cast for the imaginary straight, giving Mark Duguid a RankingHero T-shirt and the honor to bestow the inaugural Goldfish Award for Funniest Poker Fail to Ted Lawson :)
Congrats and many thanks to Jordan Hooper who fought valiantly on social media for his nominee, 2015 November Niner @Max Steinberg with a hand from the 2013 WSOP National Championship. Jordan won a card deck, along with @Simonetta and @Emty, with most points from nominations and likes in the first round of the Goldfish Mission!
And, as promised, here are our two randomly drawn winners - congratulations to @Farcas Paul and @Startling Grope! You each win a RankingHero deck of cards!
We hope you enjoyed and had some good laughs during our quest for funny and instructive poker fails and let’s hope we can put the lessons learned to use at the tables :)
The votes:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mllhkyexy7tD2Ww0IlCpPPVwSLJWYg9SW0Qq1H0nH1E/edit?usp=sharing
Mark Duguid 15 Dec 2015
Annie RKH 15 Dec 2015
@Jordan Hooper @Mark Duguid would be great to see you two at the final table in tonight's freeroll on @Titan Poker :) Starting time: 8:30!
http://www.rankinghero.com/en/rooms/13/TITAN.POKER/activity/2900385.html#activity
Flush77 16 Dec 2015
GG
Over the past weeks we've been looking for and sharing funny poker bluffs, folds, misreads, and calls. By giving 'likes' to the nominated hands, RankingHero members picked four finalists for the virtual Goldfish Award. It is now time to vote for the winner!
@Simonetta | 71 |
@Jordan Hooper | 53 |
@Emty | 52 |
@Advoghado | 36 |
@Annie RKH | 33 |
@Skilful | 24 |
@Farcas Paul | 23 |
@Startling Grope | 22 |
@Socius | 21 |
@Mark Duguid | 16 |
@Queen B | 13 |
Two more decks of cards will be given out to two randomly drawn members out of everyone who participated in the Goldfish mission by nominating, liking, commenting, and sharing - to be announced next week! Finally, one of the 4 mission entrants who nominated the finalists will win a fantastic RankingHero T-shirt!
@Annie RKH (who, believe it or not, does not have a RKH T-shirt and would very much like one :) with the best-liked #GoldfishBluff
@Simonetta - best-liked #GoldfishFold
@Mark Duguid - best-liked #GoldfishMisread
@Jordan Hooper - best-liked #GoldfishCall
Emty 8 Dec 2015
Thank you very much,long time i put eyes on thee card deck
Papa of Poker 9 Dec 2015
no me in this game..but next Imma blow you
Szanto Anna 10 Dec 2015
In our latest community mission, we’re looking for the funniest poker fails and bad plays. You can still give ‘likes’ to the entries under the topics covered so far: bluffs, folds, misreads. In this final round, we invite you to nominate the bad calls that have made you howl, laugh or weep!
Take a look at our picks this week and nominate them or share other funny hands with the hashtags #RKHgoldfish and #GoldfishCall!
Playlist, Goldfish Award: Calls
We’re looking forward to your entries and, as always, thank you in advance for spreading the word on social media :)
Szanto Anna 25 Nov 2015
Dear Heroes,
Our latest community mission is not a competition - it is a joint quest for the funniest fail in poker, which will receive the inaugural Rankinghero Goldfish Award!
This week we will be looking at the worst misreads ever captured by TV and live stream cameras. You can vote for one of the hands proposed by the RKH Team or nominate your own favorites! The best-liked entries under the different topics we cover will be shortlisted for the big Goldfish Award.
To share poker misreads and invite the community to vote for them, post on your page with the hashtags #RKHGoldfish #GoldfishMisread
If you like one of the five RKH Team suggestions, embed or post the video link (see below) on your page with the hashtags #RKHGoldfish #GoldfishMisread!
Thank you in advance for spreading the word and inviting more people to join in! We’ll be looking forward to your comments and your own funny finds under the weekly topic - MISREADS :)
Playlist, Goldfish Award: Misreads
Laak - https://youtu.be/KsMtExhtgIE?list=PLtVl75NVy3dnFLoRzaorSCAQzTPnLyF-X
Tilly - https://youtu.be/LoZJVT7qTdg?list=PLtVl75NVy3dnFLoRzaorSCAQzTPnLyF-X
Pobal - https://youtu.be/edJp4tGM8sA?list=PLtVl75NVy3dnFLoRzaorSCAQzTPnLyF-X
Ivey - https://youtu.be/wTfcnyHtz88?list=PLtVl75NVy3dnFLoRzaorSCAQzTPnLyF-X
Balkin - https://youtu.be/V8gpFFYb4tg?list=PLtVl75NVy3dnFLoRzaorSCAQzTPnLyF-X
Happy [gold]fishing, everyone :)
RankingHero invites you on a mission to find
Over the coming weeks we’ll announce ‘calls for nominations’ under five different topics and in December we’ll vote for one of the shortlisted nominees. The most popular one will win
Every Monday and Thursday, we’ll announce a new topic. Post your nominations using the right hashtags (see below).
You can propose up to three videos/photos/hand histories from reputed sources (e.g. WSOP updates, PokerNews Live Reporting) under each topic.
At the end of the month the 4 best liked nominations overall will be put up for public voting to select the FUNNIEST POKER FAIL.
Please note: The top nomination under each topic is not automatically shortlisted; at the end of the mission, we’ll vote for the 4 most popular ones across all 5 topics covered!
Each nomination earns you 5 points! (Up to 3 under each topic!)
Each like for your nomination earns you 1 point!
*You will not earn points for nominations after the next topic is announced but ‘likes’ will count throughout the mission!
A RankingHero T-shirt for the member who nominated the ultimate winner of the Goldfish Award for Funniest Poker Fail.
Decks of cards to the three RankingHero members with most points collected throughout the mission!
Decks of cards to two randomly drawn participants out of everyone who nominated, commented, gave ‘likes’, and shared on social media during the mission!
You have until Thursday, 19 November to post your entry under this topic.
You can either embed a video (or post link to it), post a photo and/or a hand history (and remember to provide a link to your source)!
Use the hashtags #RKHgoldfish and #GoldfishFold
Papa of Poker 16 Nov 2015
cool
Fun bluff vs bluff hand from WSOP 2012!
Skilful 14 Nov 2015
"very good eye, very good eye" got to love the needling after he hit his deuce on the river
Arty Mcfly 15 Nov 2015
That's probably my favourite ever hand from the WSOP Main. Just epic on so many levels.
The end of the year approaches, Christmas lights go up, and everyone will be drawing up top 10 and ‘best of’ lists of all kinds. And because in poker, we learn as much from the ‘bad’ as from the ‘good’, this time we’ve decided to look for ‘the best of the worst’. RankingHero invites you on a mission to find
Over the coming weeks we’ll announce ‘calls for nominations’ under five different topics and in December we’ll vote for one of the shortlisted nominees. The most popular one will win
Every Monday and Thursday, we’ll announce a new topic. Post your nominations using the right hashtags (see below).
You can propose up to three videos/photos/hand histories from reputed sources (e.g. WSOP updates, PokerNews Live Reporting) under each topic.
At the end of the month the 4 best liked nominations overall will be put up for public voting to select the FUNNIEST POKER FAIL.
Please note: The top nomination under each topic is not automatically shortlisted; at the end of the mission, we’ll vote for the 4 most popular ones across all 5 topics covered!
Each nomination earns you 5 points! (Up to 3 under each topic!)
Each like for your nomination earns you 1 point!
*You will not earn points for nominations after the next topic is announced but ‘likes’ will count throughout the mission!
A RankingHero T-shirt for the member who nominated the ultimate winner of the Goldfish Award for Funniest Poker Fail.
Decks of cards to the three RankingHero members with most points collected throughout the mission!
Decks of cards to two randomly drawn participants out of everyone who nominated, commented, gave ‘likes’, and shared on social media during the mission!
You have until Monday, 16 November to post your entry under this topic.
You can either embed a video (or post link to it), post a photo and/or a hand history (and remember to provide a link to your source)!
Use the hashtags #RKHgoldfish and #GoldfishBluff