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Unfortunately the WSOP champion isn't selected for publicity reasons like Miss America and American Idol. It is really not his job to around representing poker like Miss America. Moneymaker, Raymer, and Hachem have done a good job of representing poker, but it is not there responsibility to do so.

Whoever plays the best and gets the luckiest wins, even slightly obnoxious rich Jewish Hollywood agents.

There are plenty of people with bad reputations and/or criminal records who could have won, including won of the earliest champions, Amarillo Slim, wo incidently represented poker quite effectively.