I think it is natural for the magazines to give tournaments more hype. This is because they are easy to cover. The magazines can't cover the Bellagio 30-60 holdem or 75-150 stud very well. The players wouldn't welcome it anyway. But they can easily show a picture of somebody who wins a big tournament and talk about the play that led up to his victory.


I think I will always favor live games instead of tournaments, so I tend to agree that live games should be paramount. Certainly the health of tournaments depends on the health of live poker, but the converse is not equally true. But tournaments have helped poker in some important ways, so I don't want to sound too anti-tournament.