I am finding the two discussions on this topic fascinating.

They're both concentrating on the process which is all well and good but really not the major story here.

Clearly it was wrong to change the rules midstream.

Clearly for business reasons doing the wrong thing was the right thing to do.

Clearly they could have handled it better.

Clearly the amount of screwage the players got is fairly small.

The fact that a major mainstream corporation is ponying up two million dollars to sponsor this thing is most decidedly untrivial.

More corporate sponsorship can only be good for poker and I think the players should look at the greater good and moderate their rants about the screwing they got.

But then, I don't play at that level so what do I know?