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It appears to me that the sponsors are honoring their commitment to the players while at the same time granting the sponsors exemptions option that I would bet is in the contract (standard practice in just about any sport from bowling through golf). It appears more a communication issue than any real damage to the participants.

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The terms were widely known, with no mention of sponsor exemptions. If there was, there wouldn't be such an uproar. That's been the whole point...golfers, bowlers, etc, go into "exempt" tournaments knowing there may be x sponsor's exemptions.

Here, not only did they say nothing and then let 3 guys in, but they let in 3 of the heaviest hitters in the game. It's not like they went into the Harrah's poker room and grabbed 3 lucky guys playing 4/8 Kill to play in this.

Everyone understands WHY they did it, the problem is HOW they did it. All Harrahs needed is one lawyer at the outset to say "Hey, why don't we say exemptions might by allowed?" and we wouldn't be wasting any keystrokes talking about this.