Matt Hilger's WSOP proposal

[AceHigh]

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I, for one, am quite sick of hearing pros whine about inferior players in the tourneys. Because if they can't adapt, then they should die.

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They are. Hence the whining (not winning). Pro's whine when they are losing.

[Fallen Hero]

If there is a different tournament crowning the world champion then obviously the main event will lose popularity...because it won't be the main event anymore.

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Easy:

I think the idea has merit except that $100,000 in my opinion is too high. I don't believe that many of the better known pros are this well financed. Perhaps $25,000 is a better figure.

Best wishes,
Mason

[MarkL444]

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Hi Easy:

I think the idea has merit except that $100,000 in my opinion is too high. I don't believe that many of the better known pros are this well financed. Perhaps $25,000 is a better figure.

Best wishes,
Mason

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wouldnt this just greatly reduce the entrants into the 10k main event and have everyone trying to qualify for this? there would still be way too many people. i like a plan of just increasing the buy-in for the main event to maybe 30-50k.

[Rianna]

If it ain't broken, please don't try and fix it.

It's a truly awesome event IMHO, I think regardless of it's current size, it's rivetting and obviously attractive and, bottom line, good for poker.

Some of us have waited a long time for this incredable event. Please don't wreck it.

just my opinion

[lozen]

I just finished watching the final two episodes.
Change it no way I loved it Lots of charachters.

WHY FIX WHAT AINT BROKE

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Hi Easy:

I think the idea has merit except that $100,000 in my opinion is too high. I don't believe that many of the better known pros are this well financed. Perhaps $25,000 is a better figure.

Best wishes,
Mason

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Mason, don't you think they'd be able to find backers? Hell, I'd take a piece of some of the bigger names.

Instead of raising the money, maybe they could create an invitation-only tournament of a few hundred pros. I'd worry that a $100K price tag might overshadow the ME, which I think should remain the crown jewel. This would require the establishment of a selection committee, but would also keep the field exclusively professional, as opposed to littered with rich fish.

[ggbman]

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I think this would be great. Many pros would play. And many online sites could do things like have $1k-10k buyin satellites (and smaller supersatellites), which a certain select group of players (which is a relatively sizeable group) would definitely play.

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IMO, this would be an intregal part of the the potential sucess that a tourney like this might have.

[CD56]

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The top players would be happy, as they now would have a prestigious tournament to play that would crown their champion.

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Are there really that many top pro's complaining about the ME? Also what would prevent the average player from forking over the cash...

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probably the fact that it is now 100K rather than 10K

satellites would be much longer too...

[tonypaladino]

I really don't see why raising the main even to something like $20k or $25k is a big deal. It's been $10,000 since the 70's and $10k in 1970 dollars is like $50k in 2005 dollars.