2006 Tournament of Champions

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Putting Mike O'Malley, and to a lesser extent Mike Sexton, in this thing is really abusing the concept of sponsor's exemptions. Sponsor's exemptions are there so that the sponsors will be assured that there are interesting or famous personalities in the tournament that will generate a large TV audience, like when sponsors enter Michelle Wie into some minor men's golf tournament. The are not there to allow the sponsors to enter their own employees who have no qualification or interest to the audience.

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The "Golden Rule" of Entertainment:

He who puts up the most gold, makes the rules.

PartyGaming allegedly paid Harrah's "8 figures" to put the PartyPoker.NET logo at the center of EVERY TABLE at the WSOP.

When a sponsor such as PartyGaming is willing to "bone out" that much, the likes of Mike Sexton and Mike O'Malley can play in as many TOC's as they want to.

The TOC is a TV show, not an open competition.