[shaniac]

Oliver:

My point was that marketting opportunities are available for SOME players, i.e. the markettable ones. Problems with marketting asian males aside, I've heard Tuan Le doesn't want the responsibility of an endorsement deal.

As for Grinder waiting this long to ink a deal, I don't think it was such a bad move considering the size of the deal he eventually secured, which is significant by real-life standards, not just "Hot-girl-signing-on-to-represent-some-unheard-of-online-pokersite" standards.

And while The Takeover hasn't signed onto anything longterm afaik, I'm pretty sure the opportunity is or will be there for him.

I'm just trying to contradict your doom-and-gloom attitude. Of course, there ought to be a natural thinning-out of the ancillary opportunities you love talking about, but it's not like they are dissapearing entirely.

Also, any word on ESPN's schedule for WSOP prelims?