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Originally Posted by Koko the munkey
What problem are they trying to solve?
I think their motivation is simply to cycle more money through their WSOP tournaments by forcing lammers to be used to buy into upcoming events. If the policy was enforced and the actual winner had to play another WSOP event when they would have preferred to pocket their winnings or enter events elsewhere, then the WSOP essentially gets to rake it (at least) twice, plus slightly larger fields and prize pools than would otherwise have happened.
Thanks for the responses.