http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker...ory?id=3375032

most ridiculous thing ive ever heard of...the main event is about playing perfect poker for a week straight...all the exhaustion, the excitement, and the stress of a whole week of flawless poker is what the final table is all about...sorry im a poker fanatic, and this just pisses me off...they're playing it off as "it'll make the final table more exciting" but its really about making more money for ESPN and the world series (which is fine and dandy, but IMO it'll end up hurting the excitement of a final table, no ones going to want to wait 4 months for the conclusion of the main event)

 

GAy..... enough said!

 

Well, I like it because it will be live. All these years you had to wait 2 months to see it on tv. And by that time you already know who won.

 

Bah the main event is lame anyhow. I would rather watch 9 real pros sit and play for a cheeze burger then watch 9 lucky hacks play for a couple mil. IMO Chris Moneymaker ruined poker.

 

if it wasnt moneymaker, it wouldve been raymer, hachem, gold, yang...all unknowns as well

 

I hear ya, it was catching on anyhow. But i think you know what i mean too, I would rather watch a field of 200 pro's then watch what is now a circus of 5000+ amateurs. That or i have always thought that the pro's should get a free pass into like the 3rd day or something, I dont know, guess i am just rambling.

 

I like Men the Master and Scottie Nguyen. But yeah, that wait four months **** is ridiculous.

 

Well, Raymer wasnt a pro at the time but he had played in 3 WSOP tourneys before he won. That is at least more than the other guys had played in before they won. And Raymer is still better than the others. But I have quit watching because they take so long to show on ESPN.

 

negranue has suggested that the main event go into a shootout format, so that by the time day 3, 4, etc comes along, the amatuers and pros all have an even stack...therefore even-ing the playing field (as opposed to todays format, where an amatuer can go through table after table accumalating millions of chips along the way before he ever sits down with a pro)...some might say that its unfair for amatuers, but if you think about it, its unfair to pros to have to go through 6000+ amatuers just to make any real money (to them atleast)

 

^ I would like something like that. I guess its not unfair, but i hate to see a good pro, or a favorite pro get knocked out day 1 to some schmuck playing dumb, just because he is in a hand with a big name pro and just trying to knock him out.