I'm having trouble following some of the points being made in this thread, mostly by jimmym. What's the problem with ome guy challenging some top pros to some high stakes poker? If he was only worth 1 million, would it be ok for him to play $%0/$100 with them and lose $16,000? I don't understand where all the hate comes from just because the stakes were higher.
As for it being televised, I don't get that at all. Yes, these were big stakes so I'm sure a lot of people would like to have watched, but what does this have to do with television? That's like saying it's a shame Zybomb's game wasn't on tv the other night or why isn't the big game always televised? Um....... maybe because they are just a couple of the millions of cash games that go on all the time...?
I understand this story being newsworthy because of the amount of money in play, but I don't understand anyone's objections to the game.
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