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    WSOP Crowns Main Event Champion, Then Tries To Take It Back

    This year the WSOP ran it's summer series on GG Poker. This was billed as the 51st Annual World Series of Poker. They gave out bracelets and everything. Stoyan Madanzhiev won the Main Event.

    He received a bracelet and a signed letter from Daniel Negreanu and the WSOP congratulating him for winning the Main Event of the 51st Annual WSOP.

    Now they're trying to say that he didn't really win the Main Event, because they want to hold another Main Event this December.



    Negreanu and others are doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to deny Stoyan his title, but there's no changing the facts. The WSOP itself announced that he won the Main Event of the official World Series of Poker. Not the "Online WSOP". The 51st Annual World Series of Poker.

    Stoyan Madanzhiev is the 2020 WSOP Champion.

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    I partially agree with this take.

    Some are saying this is a WSOP Main Event, but so is the main event of the WSOP Europe in a normal, yet that is obviously a separate title. Those people are saying that this should be treated like WSOP Europe (since it wasn't available in the US), and the Main in December is the equivalent to the regular one.

    I can understand that reasoning. However, I still think this entire thing is stupid and pointless. Everyone accepted that the WSOP took place online this year, and was okay with chalking up the lack of a live WSOP to an effect of COVID.

    The public wasn't clamoring for this, so I don't understand why it's being held, other than for a money grab.

     
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    The 2019 WSOPE wasn't called the 50th annual WSOP, because it's obviously its own separate festival. It's not a part of the historic Las Vegas summer series.

    The online series on GG poker was officially billed the 51st Annual WSOP, making it the same series as the one that's been played at the Rio every year and Binion's before that. This was just another change of venue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    The public wasn't clamoring for this, so I don't understand why it's being held, other than for a money grab.
    so you DO understand....

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    Here's the official broadcast from GG/WSOP/PokerGo



    At 31:00 they refer to this as the championship event and talk about the historical significance of it.

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    I think I've come to agree with your points here.

    Even Chris Moneymaker has spoken out.

    https://twitter.com/CMONEYMAKER/status/1328168266267828225



    Pretty amazing how the WSOP keeps doing things to hurt the brand. I think they feel like a monopoly at this point, but one of these days it's going to backfire immensely.

    Nobody seems happy about this.

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    the justification I hear is this: the buy in this Summer was only 5k.
    The WSOP main event is 10k event.
    nothing more..simple story.
    $$$$$$ grab.IMO. that is all.

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