Does who wins main event even matter "for poker" anymore?

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Who HASN'T heard of poker by now, do you think that who wins the main event is really going to bring that many new players to the game from the US, or get them playing more? Best chance to bring new players is for a foreigner to win, like Yang. Thoughts?

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Of course it matters, whether or not it brings new players to the game.

Do you think there is anyone who hasn't heard of coca-cola? And yet in 2006 the company spent at least 2.5 BILLION dollars on advertising. And more was spent by bottler and affiliates, to the tune, as far as I can tell, of over 5 billion dollars.

We're not going to see another Moneymaker effect, I don't think. But the ability of the WSOP to generate interest, and who wins is part of that, does continue to matter to poker.

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We're not going to see another Moneymaker effect, I don't think. But the ability of the WSOP to generate interest, and who wins is part of that, does continue to matter to poker.

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The WSOP ME winner doesn't matter. Poker needs the next Vince McMahon of poker. Needs the next marketing genius.

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I agree about if a woman wins, it will IMO, do the same thing for Poker as it did in general when Moneymaker won.

Right now Women in the ME only account for 5 percent of the field.

Just imagine if a young and attractive woman won the ME, then IMO, a number of women would would identify with the winner and come flooding into Poker.

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very important FYP.

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What group would that be?

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