[VoraciousReader]

I don't understand why there is not more outrage over this.

1) This is not a freeroll. The way this was structured, it's more like an event with a satellite tournament. Everybody buys in for $X, and the top 20 make the tournament. The fact that there was also prize money awarded does not change this. The TOC was part of the prize for reaching a certain place in the event.

2) If poker is a game of small edges, how much edge do you think Joe Schmo loses if an additional 2 percent are added to the 108 player field? How much more edge do you think he loses if those players are Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, and Phil Hellmuth?

3) How would you feel if you were playing your WSOP super-satellite on Party Poker, and after you beat 100 people to win your place in the WSOP satellite, PP management announces that they're going to add Phil Ivey, Fossilman, and Dan Harrington to the pool of contestants?

4) It is not good for either poker or poker players to allow the management sponsoring an event to change the rules/prizes/terms AFTER everyone has bought in and played the event. In poker, you make your decision, you take your knocks, you learn your lesson, you do it differently next time. This is true for calling an EP raiser with A6o, and it should be true for the event sponsors as well.