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Originally Posted by BackingDonk
Suggest you put up the millions and make it an invitational. Again, you don't seem to understand that poker players are (mostly) motivated only by money and not prestige or fame. They go where the money is. Also, what exactly do these players "owe" you? Your post seems mostly entitled as to what you feel you deserve and your own definition of "elite".
-BD
I'm just looking at it from a fan's perspective. If you had a choice of watching a major league baseball team play or a minor league team play with some major league players also playing would you not rather watch the former? I am saying last year it seemed like all the highroller regs showed up despite other things running like WCOOP and this year they did not come which is disappointing to me as a fan. I can understand reasons why it didn't happen this year but was just wondering if there were other reasons that I was not aware of since I am not too into following the latest things going on in the poker world (I don't even really know when WCOOP starts or finishes). I guess you are also right that my definition of elite may be wrong and this year's new players may actually be better than the players that didn't show up this year. They are all better than me as I'm just a fan but imo it felt like I was watching a lower skill level this year but who knows, may be the live circuits carve out some next level play too.
Also as a viewer and consumer of the product are you not supposed to be entitled? For example if the UFC puts out a poor fight card then all the viewers will choose not to buy it and spend their money elsewhere. Are the viewers still expected to pay to watch lower tier or less known name fighters fight due to not wanting to feel entitled? True the MMA fighters do actually owe the fans something because they get paid strictly if their fights sell and poker players don't get paid anything and only pokergo makes/loses money but I still won't want to give pokergo my money if the players in the field are not players I want to see.
Last edited by Melvin Y.; 09-26-2018 at 03:03 PM.