I think I'm with Daniel on this one. It's the WPT, they should be able to setup their tournament their way, if poker players have a problem they don't have to play in it, and also there's no need to sue WPT for it.

Here's the article on it.

http://www.pokersourceonline.com/news.asp?poker=404

So glad you posted this cause I had NO idea this was going on even though there are many other threads about it. Thanks for the info. Ever think of being a Private Eye or Investigative Journalist?

Maybe, I always wanted to be a pro poker player like daniel though

What needs to happen is that a majority of the players need to band together and have a 3rd party set up a new Poker Tour, where the players can have a large amount of input into the workings but so they will actually beable to participate in the event.

If a tour got the support of the majority of pros, the public would quickly follow.

isn't that similar to what pro golfers did when they created the PGA TOUR?

Maybe there's a point?:

"Phil Gordon added that people should look at last year’s WPT Championship event. The average chip stack at the final table was only nine big blinds. In his words, “There was no play.” It was all-in or nothing on every hand.

According to the players, it is unfair to them, the ones who put up the money for these tournaments, to have to work so hard to get to the final table, only to have the structure changed so most of the skill is removed from the competition. With hundreds of thousands of dollars being the difference between first and second place in most events, to reduce the competition to almost one hundred percent luck is inexcusable. All in the name of television production."