The World Poker Tour has maintained for a while that it has a very standard production release, but anybody who’s worked in TV knows that it’s not a standard release. The WPT [release] is in perpetuity, throughout the universe and any media known and unknown. So they could just put streaming video of you on a slot machine, for example, and not pay you or tell you what’s going to happen.

From November 2005 until May 2006 I spent a lot of my money with my lawyer trying to get them to be fair about the release. They basically refused, so I called up some friends who were unhappy with it and said that at some point we have to do something, otherwise it’s never going to change.

I think it’s a shame [the WPT] is not taking the attitude of working with the players and making it a fair system for everybody.

I’ve also heard some people say it doesn’t affect them because they’re not famous.