[Dynasty]

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Times have changed and the WSOP is now just another tournament.Gets good tv exposure and benefits poker for it.But what the WSOP had,has now been lost.Tradition,respect,awe,mystery. Now it is records,number of bracelets,number of participants,prizemoney etc.

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Some of you are being too romantic about the past.

The WSOP was created to bring in players for cash games. The first WSOP title was so irrelevent that the players didn't even play the tournament. They voted Johnny Moss as the champion.

This so called glorious event didn't even manage to attract 100 players interested in winning the Main Event bracelet until twelve years after its inception. It didn't get to 300 players interested enough until ten years ago.

The type of degenerate gambling which is being reported about today was just as prevalent many years ago. So were many of the other "problems".

The problem here is between the reporting of the WSOP and some people's romanticizaion of it.