Two words sum up why poker in 2005 may be a victim of its own recent success:

Spoiler Alert.

With the main event climaxing this weekend, there is no way the new legion of poker fans don’t find out who the new champ is by Monday morning.

You could try to avoid it, to be able to maintain some suspense when the 2005 edition of the WSOP TV series starts up on ESPN soon…

…But that’s not going to happen when every media outlet has a poker columnist and a new cottage industry of poker blogging has emerged.

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