Nearly all of you posting do not understand "Televised poker tours has become a international business" for those that have no conceptional understanding of "profit and loss" it called profit for the owners of the WPT. Stop looking at it from your personal point of view look at as a business. If none of the 7 players played again in any tournament would you notice or care? There is too much energy being put into this lawsuit that will "in my opinion" be won by the WPT, "poker player(s) are independent contractors" they choose where and when they want to spend their money to play in an tourname