[BostonMetro]

I think it's a sign that the overlay you give to get the top pros to show up to these events doesn't match the money you can make off of airing them. Having one name pro and nine unknowns at a table will fetch just as many viewers as having nine name pros and one unknown - even though the people on this site would rather watch the former ten times as much as the latter.

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but if the WPT would just pay the tourney juice for "name players" it would give them a nice overlay and compensate to some degree for the crappy release and poor late-event structures.