Originally posted on 10/18/2011:

Quote Originally Posted by SBR Lou View Post
They brought their A games when they had to. Nobody discounts the World Series of Poker Main Event from player of year honors.
Except that the main event is only 2.25 as many points as a tournament with a buy-in of less than a 10th of its size(1 for a tourament with a buy-in of $500, 2.25 for the WSOP main event at $10k buy-in) which has the same size field.

Here we are comparing tournaments with equivalent field size but giving them a fraction of the point value.

Furthermore, the formula for the WSOP only changed this year(2011), in previous years you got the same amount of player of the year points for winning the main event as every other event in in the WSOP. That is when it counted at all. The main even didn't count for player of the year honors between 2006 and 2008(it counted in 2004 and 2005, and has since 2009).