[PokerPaul]

i totaly agree and have thought abou tthis too.

to think that the most prestigious poker event in the world, the world championship event so to speak, is open to anyone who can muster up 10K (or $40 for multiple online sattelites winners)has become laughable.

didnt pokerstars alone supply over like 1150 entrants?

the fact that anyone without any kind of prerequisite can play for the world title is counter logical, and yet that very open for anyone strategy used to be one of the events beauty.

Back when 10k was a whole lot more valuable in the 70's, the field consisted of a majority of top poker players, and a few wealthy wannabes thrown in, which at that time actually added to the beauty of it.

Now its a few world class players thrown in with literally thousands of online qualifiers and newcomers, and the romance of it being open to anyone is gone. Its funny, cuz the average skill level of the players in this tourney is probably worse (much worse) than any WPT or PPT event, yet this is the world championship.

I think the only way to truly fix this thing is to raise the entry price to 100k. That way it would be truly limited to 1/10 of the online and sattelite qualifiers they have today, only truly wealthy people could afford to gamble on it, and only the truly best poker players in the world would be able to draw on a BR which could afford this.

And if you think 100k is way too much, its still less in todays dollars than 10k was in early 70's.

I guess though that harrahs would want to make as much $$ off this in entry fees so that would likely have to be about $8000 per head to amke up for the reduced entry field.