A Four Month Layoff?

In their continuing efforts to bow down to ESPN, the World Series of Poker Main Event will now last 4 months.
The event will start as usual in July and get down to 9 players on July 16th.
ESPN will air the preliminary bracelet events through July and August. In September it will start coverage of the main event and on October 28th we'll see how they got down to 9.
Those 9 players will play in the final table on November 9th and a winner will be crowned on November 10th. Then ESPN will air the final table episode on November 11th.
This seems like a terrible idea. I can't believe the Players Advisory Council agree to this.
What if a final table player gets killed? Couldn't players use this time to unfairly scout their opponents? Or practice more?
But it'll be great for TV viewers like me who won't have to wait months to see what we read about on the internet.

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