[Mr. Orange]

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WPT is simply rolling the dice and hoping that top pros make their final tables - they often don't and the viewership probably hurts.

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not so sure about that one. WPT seems to go out of their way to play up the "underdog at the final table with best players in the world" angle. Every week its a new "moneymaker" story. "This guy qualified online for 0.35 now he's at the final table blah,blah". Often times they have pro's at the final table and don't even announce that they're pros. Dewey Tomko was on once and they called him a retired school teacher with no mention about his poker background at all. There are other's they've done that with as well. Even from reading interviews with Sexton you can tell that WPT really believes its better for game if amateur's win. To a certain extent that's true, but when it happens constantly it gets boring.
Sometimes when I'm watching WPT, I don't even feel like I'm watching a poker event. It feels more like a gameshow where the "amateur(s)" are the contestants and the "pro's" are obstacles in their way to winning.