I really hope a legitimate player wins the WSOP

[Sly_Grin]

First of all, what is your definition of a "legitimate player" ? Lemme guess, it's someone you've seen on TV. Well guess how most of the field got there ? By winning their way in, often defeating hundreds of even of thousands of other players. There are people playing online who play more hands in a month than top pro players see in a year. With "sit and go's" players get massive experience playing short handed. Everyone has been brainwashed by "Rounders" into thinking poker is 95% tells and that is simply not true.

There are also "pros" who don't even make a good living. They play the tour, putting up literally hundreds of thousands in entry fees, you see them make a WPT final table and assume they are getting rich.

There are also other pros that stick to the cash games so you've never heard of them. TV has the general public thinking Annie Duke is the Queen of poker while someone like Cyndy Violette is miles beyond her as a player (and a fox, too !).

And you are talking about a $10k buy-in tournament !! Do you really think most of the field is fish ? don't be ridiculous.

Lastly, the thought that a professional would NOT want to play in a tournament because too many people make bad calls is about the dumbest thing I've read here.