16 FTP Pros in 500K today

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FTP Pros may or may not be paying tournament buy-ins with their own money (I've heard different stories on this) Effectively, their buy-ins to the big online tournies are free.

You can't have it both ways. If they're great players, then they're reducing the average player's tournament $EV. If they're lousy players, they're dis-educating the average player.
Who wants to play with shills ?

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They are playing with their own money. If they weren't, I promise you I and everyone else would be playing in every single 1k buyin tournament, SNG, and sitting in the 1k/2k games all day.
While it is true that playing against good players does reduce your EV in a tournament, there is nothing anyone can do about good players playing in tournaments that you also choose to play in. I assure you that there are tons of highly skilled players playing in every tournament you enter that aren't coded in red. Your argument seems to be "I don't like playing against them because they are better than me".
You once again use the word shill incorrectly. I don't know if you are trying to use hyperbole to get your point across or if you just don't know what the word means, but either way you are wrong. The word you are looking for it "prop", but using that would be wrong as well since FTP doesn't tell us when, where, or how long to play.