A slightly different take from Pauly. I intellectually don\’t agree with his boisterously pessimistic outlook, yet he seems to have a read on many in the poker world\’s gut … from Tao of Poker:
God bless Ty Stewart for saving the WSOP. I mean, this guy should get Salesman of the Century Award for finding someone stupid enough to shell out millions of dollars to sponsor a stagnant product in an industry with a murky future.
Pope Benedict should make Ty a saint for providing the WSOP a secure financial future and also giving me and the rest of the derelicts in the poker media an endless amount of material to work with this year. As one of my Canadian colleagues noted, \”Premium meat snacks at this year\’s WSOP. The jokes, they write themselves.\”
I haven\’t seen a deal that bad since the Ruskies signed away Alaska in 1867 to Secretary of State William Seward for $7.2 million. If that Seward\’s deal never happened, Sarah Palin would be speaking Russian.
