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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1258590, member: 23910"] OMG long post follows. Cliff notes: - ESPN either gets what it wants, which is a NLHE final table, or it doesn't televise the event - Without television, the event likely curls up and dies within a few years and that would be a massive shame They showed two events that had some LHE content from the 2008 series - the $5K mixed hold 'em and the $50K HORSE. Same in 2007. I don't believe they showed [I]any[/I] LHE in 2006 (even in a mixed game format) so you've gotta go back to 2005 to find the last time they aired a straight LHE event. There's no LHE scheduled for this year, FWIW. As for changing games every round of the button, that's already what they do: [URL]http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/structsheet_7274.asp?tourneyid=7274&groupid=607[/URL] Even if that weren't the case though, I still don't think it would help because in a mixed-game format, to a large extent you don't get a choice in the hands you show. They're forced to show elimination hands, and there's an 80% chance that the game someone gets eliminated in won't be LHE. And as we've discussed, even if by some fluke they managed to only show LHE hands, ESPN obviously feel LHE is too dull for television anyway given their moves over the past few years. Which really brings this back to the main issue here: [B]- ESPN has pretty much all the power here.[/B] No ESPN = no incentive for the fish to play = without some other incentive to keep it going the event probably dies within a few years. [B]- ESPN wants the final table to be NLHE.[/B] ESPN have stated very clearly what the need to be able to televise the event. Quite simply, proposing anything else is pointless. Negreanu isn't doing this because he wants HORSE to become popular. He's doing this because this tournament is supposed to be one of the most prestigious in the WSOP lineup - the professional's championship, now that the Main Event is a crapshoot. Make no mistake, this is about exposure for the highest buy-in tournament the WSOP has and for the players in it. It's [B]not[/B] about making HORSE more popular. And I've said it before, but I don't really think having to pay his own buy-in is what Negreanu is really complaining about here. What he's complaining about is what I mentioned above: without ESPN and without the sponsored fish they bring this event will either die or become irrelevant within a copule of years. The pros (including Negreanu, AFAIK) had to fight hard to get Harrah's to run the event in the first place. On your other point, they do hold lower buy in HORSE tournaments. ESPN is interested in ratings and making money though - they're a business, and they couldn't care less about "educating joe q public" on how to play HORSE. If a $50K buy in event with a multi-million dollar prize pool and a stacked final table won't rate, there's pretty much no chance a $1500 final table full of nobodies playing for a few hundred grand will. [/QUOTE]

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