[Alan Goehring]

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Players who play badly postflop would prefer a structure that forces everybody to play more preflop, which reduces the edge that good players have on suckers. Any pro player would not have any interest in that though.

IMO, the FT structure was changed so that there would be less to film and that the "exciting" hands (all-in confrontations, monster bluffs etc) would be seemingly more common and thus entertaining to those who are watching.

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I suspect you are correct regarding the truncating of the the FT structure (i.e. ESPN/internet broadcast related).

I disagree that ALL pros are good/great post flop players, or that all pros are better post-flop players than pre-flop players. In addition, players can have different views and different agendas. For instance some would take a worse structure in return for not having to play a long day. Not everyone thinks like Shaniac, myself and most people on this forum.