The World Series of Poker has opened the 2017 Poker Hall of Fame nomination process, and Lee Davy selects five European dark horses.

It’s that time of year again.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has pressed the trigger on the starting pistol for the Poker Hall of Fame (PHOF) nomination process. All over Europe, poker players are preparing to take the heads off American voters with the precision of a guy from Thailand beheading coconuts with a machete.

And when you consider that 64% of Americans have never taken their Polaroid camera outside of the country and that the greatest players in the world do seem to emanate from the land of Stars and Stripes, I can see how these things happen.