Digital Cowboy

You have my word that I had never seen this column on ESPN.com until about 10 minutes ago.

The fact that many of the top pros they interviewed not only agree with me, but even used some of the same language and phrases to describe the change in the WSOP main event, simply shows where my destiny lies.

“You enter it, but it’s a bit of a lottery,” English pro David “Devil Fish” Ulliott said. “You don’t even expect to win. You’ve got to get so much luck to win it now. I think if I get knocked out now I won’t be that disappointed.”

I recall talking with Annie Duke and Dan Harrington at the Bellagio last October. Duke flat-out said a pro will never win the event again with these fields. Her thinking is there are so many land mines in the wild styles of the amateurs, the pros don’t stand much of a chance — plain and simple.

One more:

Lederer believes it was good for poker that the land mine known as Raymer followed the land mine known as Moneymaker followed the land mine known as Robert Varkonyi in a hat trick of amateurs copping poker’s biggest booty. It created pokerpalooza in this country with the cry “Anybody can win,” because for the last three years, “anybody” has.

I’m just saying…