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Originally Posted by Tommy_Tomich969
This. Also they seem to only focus on 3/4 of the nine players at the feature table, and as such often leave out more interesting hands not involving these 'featured' players, which is disappointing to me.
That's part of building story arcs, they just aren't as good at it now as they were back then... Also having a smaller field was helpful back in the day.
I also don't understand why they don't have a deal to televise like five final tables out of the ~60 events beyond the Main Event, then cherry pick the entertaining tables and post-produce it. They have the stage set up, they could set up the high quality cameras at the beginning of the WSOP instead of the end and just send the crew in day of to tape it. You'd get more broadcasts with famous/entertaining players and more opportunities to develop storylines around players.