WSOP Commissioner Defends Delay of Final Table
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Jeffrey Pollack, who is the Commissioner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), is positive that the 117-day delay of 2008 of the final table at the Main event, which was a very controversial decision, benefited the game. That is the main reason that they look to have a similar delay at this year’s event.
“What we learned from last year is that the new format works.” Pollack recently told Casino City after the announcement this week that the Main Event in 2009 will again play down to 9 poker players on the 15th of July and then return to Las Vegas later in November after a 4 month break. Pollack went on to say, “The Penn & Teller Theatre was absolutely electric [for last year's final table in November]. There has never been a larger live crowd for a final table and the viewers tuned in on TV in greater numbers than ever before. You put it all together and I would say that we shifted the paradigm successfully.”
The delay may not have anything to do with the fact that last year’s WSOP was a huge success. Besides records being broken with attendance and TV ratings, for the final table, last year’s WSOP broke records for total prize pool ($180,774,427), number entries (58,720), number of poker players (31,146) and number of represented countries (124).
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