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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1232191, member: 23910"] I'm not at home at the moment so I'll address the rest when I get time. But I had to respond to this one. Harrah's have little if any influence on what ESPN shows - if you read guys like DrPauly, it's actually the opposite that's true. Maybe it's not "absolutely no" influence, but it's pretty close to it and it's certainly not enough to make them forget about the lousy HORSE ratings. The Main Event final table delay (which is back for this year) proves that. ESPN wanted a convoluted and difficult solution to the problem of people knowing who won the Main Event months before they aired it, and they got it because they're ESPN and they've got all the power. That wasn't something they planned in advance either: they shoehorned it in at the last minute, at ESPN's insistence. I'll cover the rest later. But it's pretty obvious, I think, that what ESPN says goes. [/QUOTE]