Re: No LA Poker Classic thread?
The WPT final table structure turned 4-handed play into a crapshoot.
The blinds were up to a ridiculous 150K-300K with no player having 5 million or more chips when the 150K-300K level started.
Because there were slightly more than 14 million chips in play, the entire table had less than 50 big blinds total.
When you combine the fast WPT final structure (designed to keep TV production cost low), the continuing decline of WPT viewership in the US, the image rights release issue, and declining sponsorship opportunities for WPT event winners (Playboy covergirl Joanna Krupa will make more money on poker endorsements in 2006 than Michael Gracz, The Grinder, John Phan, and Tuan Le combined), you have to wonder why so many of the newer players are still acting like lemmings and are choosing to play WPT events instead of the televised WSOP Circuit events or the Trump Taj Mahal US Poker Championship on ESPN.
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