I'll weigh in as a forum post@@@@@ and say many of these great players that have made the game something that we strive to achieve, are being cheated (may be a strong word) out of there due payoffs.
So many of the greats here like BiB, Jake, Tess, etc, etc (sorry, list is long) deserves what they should earn..the rest of us know we'll never grab a gift card, trip to an Open, etc, but man WGT...if these great players here have nothing to play for on a monthly basis (i/e racking up credits to get a card) and they only pop in to get tuned up for the big tournies, I for one will feel we (as a WGT community) will have lost geatly.
We NEED the Top Dogs in the daily RG's, striving for credits...why?
Well I'll tell ya, ...bit of background is I have won a few RG's. but one of my biggest thrills was tieing one of the greats here for 2nd place in a tough RG.
If Players like BiB, Jake, etc don't have a daily incentive to play that they can reap some rewards occasionally...the rest of us (at least me) are left with hollow victories.
That's how I see it...I'd like to be here in 3 years talking about these guys in the present tense, not like the oldtimers talking about Tibbets.