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Originally Posted by TheFly
No matter how you slice it, this is putting lipstick on a pig.
In other words, I believe this is not a good direction for poker. This clearly is a confirmation of less, much less, sponsorship money (and I don't mean patches on punter's shirts) going into poker coverage. It's why the title sponsor of WSOP was a beef jerky company for crying out loud. This is basically ESPN saying that major television advertisers aren't interested in spending big dollars on poker television, so it's being relegated, in part, to Poker Central and out of the ESPN ecosystem, one step at a time.
Cliffs: This is about money (advertisers/sponsors) exiting the poker economy, not money entering the poker economy.
Why do you post without reading the OP?
The ESPN deal has been extended. ESPN will now be showing coverage from day 1 again, which it hasn't done for 4 years or so.
Instead of steaming the side events themselves, they've farmed it out to someone else and by the sounds of things, it won't just be final tables.