As has been stated many times, the clickbait headline – plus the "perhaps that's misleading" buy-back in the lede – is the only really objectionable part of this article. Normally, I would never blame the writer for the headline, as those two are usually handled by different people. In this case, it's clearly the same person.
Yes, Stern's per-hand loss has been higher than Hansen's over a much smaller sample of hands. But to say Ansky has lost "bigger" would be as ridiculous as a MLB headline reading "Aaron Judge hit more home runs than Babe Ruth," only to learn that it meant Judge's PA-to-HR ratio has been higher in his first 58 games (13.3) than during Ruth's 2,503-game career (14.88). Very hackish.
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As a public information officer, I work in the opposite side of journalism. However, if poker reporters want to refer to themselves as "journalists," they better learn to write like journalist. Thus, indulge me for a moment as I don my editorial hat.
For starters, lose the exclamation points. Those who know me might find that odd, given that I tend to use such punctuation quite freely in personal correspondence. Furthermore, the Associated Press Stylebook and Chicago Manual of Style do allow for occasional usage, but overall, I take a Jake Jarmel stance on exclamation points.
After that...
Headline/lede graf: see above.
Second graf: PokerStars needs an apostrophe after the "s" because it appears to possess "high stakes tables."
Second graf: "high-stakes" should be hyphenated as a compound modifier of the noun "tables."
Third graf: "It's fair to say that it has all gone wrong for supernova9 over the last year or so." This is simply poor writing, especially since the pronoun "it" shows up twice within the span of six words yet references two different things. Rewrite to "It's fair to say that the last year or so has all gone wrong for supernova9."
Third graf: typo on "March." Add a comma after "2016" while you're at it.
Fourth graf: you have already gone to Stern's last name as a second reference, so no need to write out Stern's full name in this situation.
Fourth graf: no apostrophe on "2000s." English classes might suggest otherwise, but our writer wants to call himself a "journalist," and the AP, Chicago Manual and Oxford style guides all dictate to omit the apostrophe.
Fourth graf: the words in the TV show title should be capitalized as "Two Months. Two Million." Sure, the numerals get tricky because the secondary title was "2M2MM," but the full name had written-out numbers with the period. Whether you use quotes or italics depends on the style guide used. AP says quotes, CMOS says italics.
Fourth graf: the parenthetical sentence should start with "it failed" rather than "they failed" because the subject of the sentence was the singular "team."
Fifth graf: Change "given the way his bankroll is going to be looking" to "given the way his bankroll will look."
Sixth graf: "none-too-impressive" should hyphenated as a compound modifier preceding the noun "selection."
Seventh graf: A question mark always ends a sentence. It should not precede a comma or an en dash (which should be an em dash). Thus, that monstrosity of a final sentence should be rewritten into three separate sentences: "Perhaps he can't get action elsewhere? Or perhaps he just loves the action a la Isildur1? One thing's for sure, if he doesn't execute a pretty rapid turnaround in his results, his bankroll isn't going to look too pretty." (Note the comma after "results.")
Eighth graf: remove it altogether, as it is unnecessary for reportage. If this piece was an op-ed piece, I suppose it would be acceptable, but this reads more like a fanboy's reply in the comment section. Everything else in this story has been factual or fact-backed until this last sentence.
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