World Series of Poker or World Series of Suckout

Another year of WSOP events have now come and gone. A new "World Champion" has been crowned. Congrats to another young gun winning the main event, Joe Cada and an average joe getting 2nd. There were so many suck outs I thought it was my bar game at the Legion Club. LOL! Thanks to ESPN for more then two hands of heads up play even though 2 1/2 hours of coverage doesn't give the final table still much justice. Now on to my main topic. Is the WSOP Main event truly the world champion. Let's look at a few other sporting events. Baseball World Series - The best team doesn't always win but you must win a high number of 162 games during a season to qualify for the finals. Amateurs are not eligible. Super Bowl - The most watched championship - Amateurs not eligible. US Open Golf - Amateurs must qualify US Open Tennis - Amateurs must qualify US Open Bowling - Anyone that pays fee may enter. An amateur has rarely won. I think you are getting my drift. How can you call the Main Event of the WSOP the world champion. Yes, they have won a tournament with a massive amount of entries and survived many days of poker play. They have won a tremendous 1st prize. As has been shown the past few years that anyone luckily enough to win an online qualifier or have a spare $10,000 can become the World Champion. I don't think it is fair to the thousands of professional poker players out there for this to be a world champion. I do agree that the WSOP is the best venue to crown a true world champion but I think such as in many sports there should be a playoff system type format to a World Championship. I think you need to take the overall WSOP events and use the player of the year at WSOP and name that person World Champion. They have proven themselves over a month of play instead of being able to suck out at the right time to become a World Champion. Call the Main Event winner what it is a win in a major poker event, a great accomplishment not a World Champion..