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Originally Posted by LowKicker
Wsop/cze are making major bags from the players. Seems like replies to my criticisms from several people have "be thankful for it, deal with it" vibes.
I agree with you 100% about the "being thankful" part... but not so much about the "deal with it" part.
You don't have to be thankful. The WSOP is a business. Either partake in its products/services or don't. Customers don't owe the WSOP some sort of reverence just because they buy stuff from them.
However, when it comes to complaints, there is the concept of reasonableness. And sometimes players do need to grow up and "deal with it". It isn't reasonable to repeatedly complain about things entirely, or at least largely out of the control of the WSOP. It isn't reasonable to repeatedly complain about things which are in the control of the WSOP, but would be difficult to fix, causing other potential issues.
When you have to hire nearly a thousand dealers for a short-term gig, you are going to have some bad ones. And when you have some bad dealers, mistakes will be made. Out of the millions of hands dealt at the WSOP, there were some highly publicized major mistakes made. Why is this surprising to anybody? Out of the millions of hands of poker dealt all over the world each year, these same things occur. If dealer quality is that important to one's experience, there are venues in Vegas and elsewhere with better dealers on average. But you aren't likely to have 10MM+ dollar prize pools. It's a trade-off. Complaining about dealer quality at the WSOP is like complaining about the heat in Vegas in the summer. Pretty much pointless.