Pro poker players tapped for Hall of Fame

Professional poker players Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson will become the 41st and 42nd members of the Poker Hall of Fame.

The World Series of Poker announced the selection Thursday. The pair will be inducted at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Rio in the Penn & Teller Theater, before the final playing session of the World Series of Poker's Main Event Championship.

Greenstein and Johnson were nominated by the public and then voted in by a 35-person panel composed of existing Poker Hall of Famers and members of the media.

Johnson becomes just the second female in the Hall of Fame, joining Barbara Enright, who was inducted in 2007.

Greenstein and Johnson were finalists for the honor in 2010.

Greenstein, 56, was won more than $7.5 million in tournament poker and owns three World Series of Poker individual event championship bracelets. He also holds two World Poker Tour titles.

Johnson, 58, earned a World Series of Poker championship bracelet in 1997 and is one of only 15 females to capture an open event at the tournament.

In 1993, Johnson purchased Card Player magazine and over the next eight years, the magazine grew from a 68-page, black and white newsprint publication into a 132-page, full-color, glossy magazine. She has co-written three poker books and is a partner in Card Player Cruises, hosting more than 90 poker cruises to destinations around the world.

She was the original chairwoman for the Poker Players Alliance, a Washington D.C. lobbying group that supports the federal legalization of Internet poker.