November Niner Max Steinberg Loses Goldfish Award to Ted Lawson by 1 Vote!

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 :)

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFail

The votes:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mllhkyexy7tD2Ww0IlCpPPVwSLJWYg9SW0Qq1H0nH1E/edit?usp=sharing

RANKINGHERO GOLDFISH AWARD FOR FUNNIEST POKER FAIL (Responses) - Google Sheetsdocs.google.com

And the runner-up:

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFail

Hi Ranking Hero Community. Please help me by supporting me in the Goldfish awards by clicking the link chosing my entry and then clicking submitt. You can do this by clicking the writing in blue.

Thanks  in advance heroes 

VOTE FOR MARK "I HAVE A STRAIGHT"

Funniest Poker Fails: The Goldfish Award Finalists

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFail 

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!

Voting is open to the whole poker community and you are all more than welcome to share the form on your personal blogs or websites and on social media!

Though this mission was not a competition, RankingHero likes to reward its active members and this time is no exception! We already have three winners of branded decks of cards - @Simonetta @Jordan Hooper and @Emty head the leaderboard wih most nominations and likes:

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 

Happy voting everyone and please share the form and the good laughs with your poker friends :)

http://goo.gl/forms/jrOypIK6NH

WHICH IS THE FUNNIEST POKER FAIL?goo.gl