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Originally Posted by littlebu

but didn't the starting blinds double also thus making it the same just better for T.V because of the large denom chips?

Wasn't that sooooooo creative???

They doubled the chips and the blinds....WWWoooowww

My favorite thing like this is there will be a World Poker Tour final table with 50 million chips, some player will reraise 1 million chips (which is almost nothing percentage wise), and Mike Sexton will start screaming "Wow what a bet! ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!!" then the other guy will call and next comes "This is a 3 million dollar pot folks!!!!!!! I'm going to wet my pants AAAAGHGHGH!!!"

I love Sexton and WPT, but it's hard to watch sometimes when less than 10% of the chips are in the pot and Sexton is screaming in my ear how many MILLIONS OF DOLLARS are in the pot.

The logical conclusion of all this nonsense is a $10,000 buy in tournament where you get 100,000,000 in tournament chips in 25s and 100s in a wheelbarrow. But hey, those big stacks sure do look good on TV!