Where does TV poker coveage ad money go?

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Ok i really think some of you are not understanding this.

WSOP is a business. They are in the business of running Poker tournaments. WSOP Rents the casino. When you buy in you are paying a fee to the house and you are contributing to the prize pool. We all agree on that.

What happens from there. Well WSOP takes its videos and says who wants to pay me for these, well ESPN currently does. ESPN buys the rights to the WSOP recordings. So now WSOP is done. They made money from the rake to cover the cost of running the tournament, and they made their profit selling their tapes. Don't we agree businesses deserve to make money?

Now ESPN takes their new tapes and puts them on television. They make their money from selling ads. The money from these ads goes to covering the money they spent on the tapes from WSOP, and anything on top is profit.

Where in this line does anyone think money should be put back into the pool?


On a side note, down with unions. Unions destory most businesses.

BTW Greg I am fan.