BenB

I don't think limiting the tournament to just the top 100 or 200 professional players is the answer. Poker tournaments have one requirement: you buy in.I think in order to limit the field the buy in should increase significantly, $100,000 or more to play. Don't allow people to qualify through online satellites, require that they pay the buy in themselves or through a backer - someone (not a company) needs to be risking $100,000.I think this will limit the field to the best pros and even the best amateurs. There are certainly amateurs out there that are very good and deserve a chance to prov

Raymer has about 1.2 million according to card player, but the exact count isn't too important - he needs 56,000,000 to win, he's not even close. One big pot against another chip leader and all this "repeat" nonsense is done.

Did she win?

I read Sklansky's advanced hold 'em book and I would say that if you know the odds, how to count outs, etc. you don't need the book. It goes over staring hands and things like that.I think if you know most of the "basic advanced" items like hand selection, counting outs, pot odds, etc you'd be better off reading The Theory of Poker by Sklansky because it has more abstract ideas that will help you out think weaker opponents.

Wow. What a performance under pressure. Simply amazing. It makes my list of 2004 memories.

Congrats to Daniel.And I think it's been said - but this community is awesome and it feels like Daniel did it for himself but for us as well.Now I am looking forward to 2005...Is it too soon to be excited for back to back player of the year performances?

The problem is that it's not like the PGA Tour or Major League Baseball. The tournaments are on tape delay. It's not profitable to give the general public such easy access to tournament reults before the tournament airs on television.Tournaments that are broadcast on TV make money from advertisers. If no one wants to watch because they already know the outcome then the amount of money they make would go down drastically. That is why the WPT web site isn't giving minute by minute updates on their tournaments.I realize that most people at this forum would watch anyway, but most of you take p