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WEIN
"Also, I'm pretty distressed by her talking about how great her deep run will be for women in poker. A woman won the WSOP Europe and has tons of other results to back it up. Annette is the face of women in poker... Tiffany Michelle just ran well in one tournament and will no have no baring on poker for females for getting 17th in a tournament. "
Wein,
I actually do believe that with the volume of coverage, plus being the actual U.S. main event it is easily as significant as Annette winning the WSOP Europe. Not knocking Annette, I'm a big fan, but you simply can't shrug off her 17th place finish as not being significant, not with all the TV, print and other media coverage....
17th in a 6800 person field is huge, and certainly compares as well to finishing 1st in a 360 person field.
I'm not sure what sort of deal she had with Poker News so I have no firm opinion on that, just my speculative opinion, although I will say Poker News did a fantastic job of reporting all of the action.
I can completely see within the scope of reason that since her sponsor was a news site, and not a playing site, that she could believe or justify that she had the right to seek endorsement from another source, such as a poker site.
Obv. it would have been unkosher for her to accept an endorsement from a competing news outlet, but unless her sponsorship agreement spelled out that she was restricted from accepting other endorsements, I say more power to her.
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