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Message: [QUOTE="Jack Daniels, post: 1230574, member: 1954"] Poker is a self-supporting event because entrants actually pay entry fees to play unlike sporting events where players are paid outrageous, unjustifiable salaries that then need to be recouped so the franchise can afford their golden children and remain profitable (so they really need TV). Not to mention that there are about 5326234 poker events on TV everyday, so it's not exactly going away or going to be forgotten about anytime soon. So to corrupt the structure of an event solely for the purpose of letting some pros freeroll into it is ridiculous. If the pros and others really believe that it is the truest testament to the "best" player, then they should be willing to put up the money for the event because they believe they fit that description. The advertisement or not of this one event will not kill poker; it won't even scratch the surface. And why just the 50k event? To the best of my knowledge, none of the other HORSE events had a NLHE final table, did they? If they were not pure HORSE to the end then I'll recant my next statement: If all of the other HORSE events were pure to the end, then DN is FOS because his motives become very clear. He wants a FR into the largest HORSE event with a maximized prizepool; only way to accomplish that is to corrupt the event structure at the very end and get it on TV. And notice no one is really talking about the mixed game events. There are two this year (one is new) that includes NLHE in the mix of other games. They didn't make the final tables of those pure NLHE either, did they? Not as far as I know. So again, this comes down to only being about the largest buy-in event and playing it for free. [/QUOTE]

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