When the shortlist for this year’s nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame was revealed earlier this month, PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg’s name was nowhere to be found. For many, Hyman Roth’s impromptu eulogy of Greene in The Godfather Part II echoes Scheinberg’s dilemma: “This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in [Las Vegas].”

Caesars Entertainment controls the Hall of Fame, so it’s no surprise that Scheinberg failed to make the cut. Caesars has a longstanding feud with PokerStars, and while the animosity has thawed somewhat over the past year, Caesars interactive Entertainment CEO Mitch Garber recently told eGaming Review that Stars had “unfairly” grown its business by staying in the US market following the 2006 passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

Unfair or not, Scheinberg’s decision to keep Stars in the US market was the right business move, as Stars is now the unquestioned global market leader, while PartyPoker – which Garber used to oversee – has become a poker afterthought.

The poker world was surprised earlier this year when online affiliate PokerNews.com announced that it wouldn’t be handling live updates from the 2015 World Series of Poker. Word had it that Caesars had balked at PokerNews’ compensation demands but the decision may have had more to do with Caesars discovering that PokerNews had been acquired by Scheinberg.