Our extra-good friends at CardRunners had quite the score this November Nine … patching up a full third of the field in play — chip-positions 4, 5, and 6, fwiw. The top online poker training site stepped in to fill the patch void left by Full Tilt\’s November Nine over-dominance banking some big branding time on last night\’s ESPN final-table broadcast.
Matt Jarvis, Fillipo Candio, and John Racener were CR\’s table reps — though Racener did switch to Full Tilt-branded gear for heads-up play. No surprise that his original primary patch sponsor would want back in as rules permitted, but it is somewhat unusual (perhaps even unprecedented?) to see ESPN production crews relent to online poker patch-interests over matters of television continuity in a single episode.
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But sure enough, with Racener surviving to be the last CardRunner standing, something looked different to TV viewers once they got down to heads-up. Maybe just big money on the table?
Also interesting to note: Full Tilt has produced and/or patched up only one WSOP main event champion — Jerry Yang.
Just a matter of variance?