Great post Gordon.
Many of the the top pros (87.6% I think) want the world championship to settled by the $50,000 HORSE event rather than the current $10,000 NLHE.
I think it"s sad that even the HORSE event turns into NLHE for the final table for the purposes of the TV. Are TV watching poker player to stupid to learn a new game? I don"t think so and I"m sure 98.6% of them aren"t.
You really think that most pros think the HORSE event should be the one that determines the "best player"? It"s made up of games that many of them don"t play more than a handful of times a year.
97.6% of pros said their cats prefer NLHE.
He didn"t say "most pros" - he said "most top pros"... Most proffessional poker players probably think that HORSE is just one of the large brown animals that they lose half of their poker winnings on.
OK, we struggled to define "pro", now we"re going to define "top pro".
By "top pros" he meant those that have been around a while (you know; started shaving, don"t know how to set a VCR etc), the ones that were making a living out of poker before the interweb... the top "poker" proffessionals, who know how to play other games than NLHE.
So the top pros in any other sport or game are only the ones who"ve been around for a long time? Nadal isn"t a top tennis pro? That Cesc Fabregas has to wait another 10 years before he"s a "top pro"?
Annette isn"t a top pro then? Interesting...
Also, as an aside to the problem of defining "top pro" I still think you"ll find that most of the "old pros" (which is what I think you"re referring to) don"t believe that the HORSE winner is the "best" player. Most of them don"t play razz regularly, so why should this be part of the tournament that decides the "best" player?
Roger Federer is the best tennis player in the world (pretty much fact). When was the last time he won a men"s doubles tournament, what about mixed doubles?
And just remember what Mark Twain said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Also remember what Hitler said:
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”
And in the words of Forest Gump, "That"s all I have to say about that!"
He also said something about chocolates.