ok thanks, will flight expenses be paid for? saw timex said something about it

Yeah, it's in the press release.

Pollack ran the WSOP the only year it had to turn players away. The WSOP was also accused of allowing certain celebrity poker players to register while the mass of non-celebrity poker players were told they were too late.

poker deserves better.

My "welcome" email from Annie Duke says, I haven't seen anything about flight expenses and I'd be shocked if those were reimbursed.

"The league says it will provide airfare, hotel and a $100 daily per diem" http://www.usatoday.com/sports/poker...ff99e1646778,0

Airfare from anywhere doesn't seem plausible to me, so I'm presuming that's a misreading of the airport transport mentioned in Annie's email to qualifiers.

JP ruined WSOP, at least this idea is a joke from the beginning and he can't destroy a great francise this time. Bad idea is bad. Failures gonna fail.

Oh and in case anyone didn't know, his half brother is Gary Bettman (Count Chocula), is the man who single handed destroyed the rise of the NHL. NHL started to gain massive momentum from 88-93 and was emerging as a one of the top 4 American sports.
It was becoming marketable as a mainstream sport until he took over as commissioner. He took away everything that everyday people enjoyed about hockey and left it only watched and enjoyed by people who were otherwise hockey fans. Too much to go into, but any hockey fans out there know exactly what I am saying.
Thanks to Bettman the NHL now competes in rating with the WNBA and thanks to Pollack we have the November Nine, the biggest joke and interest deflator in major tournament history.

I guess a question is where is all this funding going to come from now?

and haters gonna hate!