Wsop main event q

MartinBlank · 07-17-09, 01:43 PM

It is all about ESPN, you can count on that.

ESPN will run that over the holidays between bowl games as filler.

I noticed they gave each of the 9 finalists "9th" place money to tide them over until November---1.26 million per.

UntilTheNDofTimE · 07-17-09, 01:46 PM

Yea i was gonna say if u were a amateur and u took a month off work then had to return to survive that would suck

cspurs · 07-17-09, 04:53 PM

yeah..i would take the 1.26 though that is a loong time to wait and be expected to be on your game.

Bogart45 · 07-18-09, 12:29 AM

It's all about the

. The same reason it takes 10 days to play a 7 game series in baseball and there's 5 days off between the conference finals and finals in BBall.

pokerdog283 · 07-18-09, 10:42 AM

I call it WSOP/ESPN : The search for more sponsors. That timeline gives players and WSOP and ESPN the opportunity to make millions in commercial advertising and especially this year with Ivey in OMG! $$$$ kaChing!.... You know what nevermind Im sure it has nothing to do with money what am I thinking...