bobbartop wrote:
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> I'm asking a legit question out of my own ignorance, because I don't follow the poker tournament scene, but aren't a lot of the WSOP entries from online satellites or something?
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If I got the story right...yes and no. They aren't "official" WSOP satellites, but if you win one of these tournaments, the poker service pays your $10,000 fee for you (presumably under the condition that you wear one of their .net-site hats and T-shirts - they had to switch from the .com stuff when the WSOP organizers, at the "request" of ESPN (which was afraid of being fined, or worse, for advertising online gambling sites), banned anybody wearing any .com poker site merchandise from playing; if I remember correctly, players turned their shirts inside-out and put tape over the .com part of their hats until the poker services sent .net stuff for them to wear). It's no coincidence that the number of players dropped immediately after the ban on credit card companies processing online casino/poker charges took effect.
-- Don
