[sirpupnyc]

Yeah...I wouldn't say Harrah's say-so makes a tournament a world championship...certainly not a "true World Champion"ship.

I suspect they looked at complaints that the Main Event isn't necessarily representative of poker skill and thus not appropriate for crowning the One True World Champion Of Poker, and combined them with complaints that with so many bracelets for Hold'em there was no way to claim greater importance for one over another, and came up with the biggest buy-in=world champion idea.