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Message: [QUOTE="Jack Daniels, post: 1230799, member: 1954"] Ah, but then the event could be aired without changing the FT to NLHE. So by your argument, the event could be kept pure and aired as is since it is the act of appearing on TV that makes it more prestigious as the winner would in fact be more popular and well known than if it didn't air at all. In the context of my earlier reply, poker is inherently a self-supporting game irrespective of how many people play the game. The fact that the entire prizepool is supplied by the entrants (including the fees and withholdings that are profits to the event host) makes it self-sustaining. In other events such as pro sports, the players don't show up on game day and pay to play. Instead they show up and get paid disproportional salaries to play. Those salaries must come from somewhere as those sports and such are not self-sustaining in terms of money. If an event is $1500 to buy in, then it is $1500 whether 19 people sign up or 3256 sign-up. And the entire money to be paid out will come entirely from the buy-ins. No additional funds must be found somewhere else to make sure the winner gets his money. It's all there. That's the definition of self-sustaining. What you're talking about is marketing/advertising to continue trying to draw in new players. But I think it's a gigantic leap and a bit naive to reach a conclusion of no one would want to play it any more. In fact, in terms of self-sustainment, poker may have already hit its critical mass (in marketing terms). There are things that occassionally become so large that once they hit a certain point there is no reversing it. Sort of like the earth's population. It's gotten to the point now where there are more births than deaths every year, so unless we did something to mess with it the overall population will continue to grow year over year. Poker is in a similar predicament of sorts. Because of the big poker boom and the last several years, there are so many people playing the game around the entire world that I have a very hard time seeing some doomsday scenario about no one wanting to play anymore. Playing poker these days is viral or at least near to it. Kids keep starting younger and more people join every day. There won't be a catastrophic ending or fall-off of new fish coming on board. No average everyday person would ever have any hope of beating a grandmaster in chess. There is no such luck available or involved. In fact, even if they had a world series of chess, it's not like any average every day person would be able to make it into the event. Qualifiers are in place to stop that from happening. Now I do understand where you were trying to go with this, but poker is different than everything else in these terms. With poker you can walk up to any game (except invitationals obv), plop your money down, and play against professionals. Where else can you do that? So they can air the pure event and advertise the hell out of it. Then it is what it was supposed to be and it was aired on TV. Well, if the $50k "[I]HORSE[/I]lol" event is going to fail and die out simply because the FT wasn't aired on TV as NLHE, then as far as I'm concerned let it die because it was a bad idea and structured wrong. There are other HORSE games that remain pure to the end that have survived just fine. [/QUOTE]

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