Jamie Gold Responds to $12 M WSOP Lawsuit

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To that end, I stated, "If I did a "man on the street" survey and asked, "who is the 2006 WSOP Main Event champion?" I'd be lucky if 1 out of 100 people could give me the answer. Even after the FT airs, I will be lucky to get 1 out 100." After all, they have to know that there is a 2006 ME Champ and who he is to care, yes?

You've not responded to my man-on-the-street question.

So, my final position is: (1) alot of people don't hate Jamie Gold, (2) the general public doesn't know who Jamie Gold is, nor do they care what he may have done with regard to sharing his winnnings, and (3) anyone here at 2p2 who says the general public would care about this is projecting their love and involvement of the game and poker community well beyond its respresentation within the general public.



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Just to support NCAces argument a little bit. According to Nielsen Media Research (Publishers of the Nielsen Ratings). At its peak, Poker Television programming at a 2.4 share of American households that owned televisions. Nielsen estimates that there are approximately 110 million households that own televisions. So, a 2.4 share in indicates that 2.64 million households were engaged in watching poker on TV. Which according to Nielson (through some statistical model used by Nielson) translates into approximately 3.43 million people watching poker at its peak.

According to the US Census Bureau, there are 299.5 million people living in the US.

3.43 million out of 299.5 million people have sat down to watch poker at its peak. That is approximately 1.1%.

One could easily make the arguement that only 1 in 100 people might care enough, or have followed this year's WSOP, to know who won. But I would be willing to bet, that not even half of the people who have watched poker at its peak would even care. The numbers support this argument.