Fans submitting nominations will be able to not only select their poker favorites, but will be able to add short descriptions (up to 250 words each) of why a given player or poker figure should be elected. The top ten nominees will be publicly announced during the Main Event in July. Those ten nominees will be submitted to the Hall of Fame Committee in August, where any possible additional nominees will be considered. From there an additional “Finalist Ballot” will be submitted to the 16 living members of the Poker Hall of Fame for voting, and another group of selected media will help rank the finalists. Any poker player or industry figure receiving 75% of the votes will be selected as a 2009 Poker Hall of Fame inductee.