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Anyone who thinks this is a true freeroll is daft.

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Freeroll definition: A qualification of some sort is often required but normally no or a minimal (minimal to the point of being nearly zero) entry fee is required.

please enlighten us all as to how this is not a freeroll? You may not use the fact that they had to play in some other specified events to qualify since all three of the extra participants did as well.

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It's no different than playing in a satelite situation.

Forget who the players are here, and think about this.

How would YOU like it, if you knew you were getting LESS money, because 3 people who'd been knocked out of the satelites that everyone was told they'd have to win in, in order to qualify for the biggie, were suddenly allowed to play in the big event?

These men, while they are wonderful poker players, and such, are still MEN. They are NOT Gods, and IMO, they shouldn't be treated as such either.

If you would get ticked off if an average Joe/Jane was allowed in under these conditions, then it should honk you off just as much even though it's 3 famous players being allowed to be given exceptions after the fact (that is after everyone had played, and the original rules of how to get into the biggie event, were told to all).