Vote whoring

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Just put in my top 20 picks for the WSOP TOC tournament. After the voting, it shows you the top 50 (top 20 get in) in no particular order:

Allen Cunningham
Freddy Deeb
Dan Harrington
Howard Lederer
Amarillo Slim Preston
Jason Mercier
Ted Forrest
Phil Ivey
Prahlad Friedman
Peter Eastgate
Doyle Brunson
Annette Obrestad
Sam Farha
Huck Seed
Greg Raymer
Philip Galfond
Men Nguyen
David Benyamine
Carlos Mortensen
Antonio Esfandiari
Layne Flack
Alexandre Gomes
Barry Greenstein
Jeffrey Lisandro
J. C. Tran
David Sklansky
Johnny Chan
Erick Lindgren
T.J. Cloutier
Hoyt Corkins
Chris Moneymaker
Jamie Gold
Daniel Negreanu
Dario Minieri
John Juanda
Phil Hellmuth
Jeff Madsen
Eli Elezra
Daniel Alaei
Chris Ferguson
Jennifer Harman
Kenny Tran
Tom Mcevoy
Bobby Baldwin
Joe Hachem
Scotty Nguyen
Erik Seidel
Rob Hollink
David Williams
Humberto Brenes

More than a few surprises there. Obviously the VH going on by Annette and Prahlad (those are the two campaigns I'm aware of). Men the Scumbag? Really? Rob Hollink and Alexandre Gomes surprise as well. Amarillo Slim is just... weird. Will be interesting to see the top 20, but I think a popularity contest is not the way to run this thing.