http://www.pokernews.com/news/2013/1...ners-16793.htm

Here is a look at the top 10 videos with the most votes:

1 Gabriela Hill
2 Erica Scott
3 Marguerite Spanuolo
4 Jennifer Robin Robles
5 Sarah Albright
6 Samantha Rea
7 Fiona Fox
8 Eddie Martinez
9 Isabella Enzenhofer
10 LoriAnn Persinger
We would also like to thank all of our readers who took the time to vote for their favorite presenters. Next, we will be spending a few weeks reviewing all of the submissions. From there, we'll be following up with potential presenters individually to go through the next step in the process to possibly joining the PokerNews team. If we think you fit in to the PokerNews mold, then you will be contacted for some additional audition work. Viewers can expect to see Jr. Presenters on live events in early 2014.

*Note: Number of votes is not the sole deciding factor for the hiring process. Votes are merely an additive to the application. Thus, most votes do not guarantee a position.
As expected, PokerNews is frantically backpedaling to prevent fan-favorite Sarah Albright from winning. The last few weeks on radio, Dan Druff has talked about how they curiously made a last-minute decision to extend the voting period for 2 weeks, after a few strong competitors submitted videos right before the deadline.

Clearly their attempt to get preferred candidates more votes failed, when their editor announced last week that the votes will not be the "end-all factor" to the selection process.

Today the polls finally closed, and they claim that Sarah is #5 in their top 10.



There is absolutely zero chance that this is correct, given how few people even watched the other auditions compared to Sarah's. In fact, she most likely has more votes than every other candidate combined. This is either cleverly worded deception on the part of PokerNews, or outright vote rigging.

It doesn't even make sense do this, since they've been forced to concede that the votes don't even matter. This was all a charade to drive traffic to their website. The only reason for rigging the vote is to save face and make this appear to be a legitimate contest. But if you wasted your time voting in this thing, congratulations! You've been rolled.

Though it's clear that PokerNews will never give poor Sarah a chance, her popular video succeeded in exposing this audition process for the farce that it is.