why WSOP main event only 10K?

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Try doing a bit of research.

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That's about twice the typical SportsCenter rating, and it's better than the average rating ESPN gets for regular-season games of such "major" sports as college football, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the Professional Golfer's Association.

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http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/09/comm...biz/sportsbiz/

Is it beating the main networks like ABC, NBC, CBS? probably not, but then they don't televise much poker...only one has attempted it thus far so there really is no comparing at this point.

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You have now proven that you are, in fact, a moran.

You tell me to do a bit of research when the one article that you point to actually contradicts your point. Maybe you thought I wouldn't read the entire article you linked to, but it seems to me that you forgot to quote the parts that say:

"Of course, there are risks for all those betting on the continued growth of the sport on television."

"If that's true, there's probably a limit on how big an audience it will be able to reach. Even with the growth if Internet gambling and legalized casinos popping up around the country, there are only so many gamblers out there."

"The sports that build the large, sustainable audiences are the ones which draw participants and non-participants alike, like football and Nascar."

"Another risk is that the market will soon become flooded with poker on television. Even the industry's poker advocates foresee a time -- perhaps soon -- when there is just too much."

"Frankly, as ironic as it sounds, the inability of viewers to bet on the games they're watching is an issue, too. (Football and basketball would have a fraction of their current audiences if there weren't viewers out there with money on the games.)"

"Since poker tournaments take longer to play than can be watched easily, live events will stay the exception not the rule. And taped events take away the ability to bet on the games, unless you're lucky enough to find a particularly dumb bettor."


In other words, while there is current popularity in poker and TV coverage, don't count on it growing to the level of mainstream, prestigious "real sports."


I love it when someone tells me to do the research when they have failed to do so themselves. A quick google shows at least the following:

Average college football game: about a 5 - 7 share.
Average NFL football game: about a 9 - 11 share.
The article you quoted says 1.9 share.

And, we are just talking TV ratings. Let's not even get into the numbers of people actually attending the respective events.

My point, that you seem unable to grasp, isn't that Poker isn't popular. Of course, it is popular ... for a small group of very devoted fans and players. But, the idea that the WSOP will become a prestigious event that is attended and viewed by mainstream audiences just isn't going to happen.

I rest my case.

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