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No offense, but the superdonks I know who watch this show in my homegame all watch it to see "big names" make "big moves". I agree its retarded that they bumped you, but then again, so is the shows audience so it balances out!

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agreed. To add, i think its pretty dumb if people expect the show to serve "the serious pokerplayer" moreso than trying to reach as many viewers as they can. It's commercial television, it's meant to get as many advertisers as possible for the highest price possible.

The only reason why the cashgame- format was chosen in the first place is because more money, more pokercelebs and more action is involved.
That it just happens to please the pokerplayers is great for them as it gives them material to promote it as 'the real thing' and 'the pokerplayers' pokershow'. Nothing more to it.
In that line of reasoning, it becomes quite obvious why Jman got pushed aside, wether he was playing perfect poker or not. He wasn't donking it up plus he was an unknown anyway to the majority of the viewers.

No one should try to dress those actions up with any kind of moral/ethical justification, as the only justification in this case is that it is a clearcut business decision.

I guess most of the posters reason along the same sentiment as the starwarsfans who whine incontrallably when they have to conclude that lucas hadn't been investing hundreds of millions just to satisfy all of their geeky needs.

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