How Long do you think Poker will remain this popular?

[Kashie]

I am interested in your opinion's of just how long Poker will keep up this new found popularity.
Will they have such things as Weekly Televised tourneys.

Or maybe Team play?

What do you think?

Thanks

[HelloGoodbye]

It will continue to grow for some time, and remain hugely popular for the rest of our lifetimes. I don't believe this is a fad.

[poker327]

It may be like televised wrestling, which hit a peak in popularity, but now has leveled off. Nonetheless, the WWE still continues to be high in cable ratings.

[Kevmath]

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Or maybe Team play?


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Some would say that team play has been around for a long time.

Kevin...

[Russ McGinley]

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It may be like televised wrestling, which hit a peak in popularity, but now has leveled off. Nonetheless, the WWE still continues to be high in cable ratings.

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I was gonna say the exact same thing. WWE is not necessarily high, though. Last I saw, they are drawing around the same ratings now as they were several years ago during the Monday Night Wars. Wrestling had a surge in ratings after becoming more mainstream, much like poker, and that surge lasted for a few years. Poker may experience the same thing.

[FishBurger]

Daytrading was popular during the Internet bubble when technology stocks went up 100% per year. I remember reading many messages from amateur daytraders who were considering quitting their jobs. You don't hear much about people quitting their jobs to daytrade nowadays. (at least not stocks, maybe real estate in its stead).

I imagine Texas HE will go the way of daytrading in a few years -- many people will still play but the easy money that is available today will dry up.

[HelloGoodbye]

I hear quite a few people saying this, I disagree. The difference is that WWE is just a show that had all the cards line-up in the right places for a few years, poker is an addictive game that people play. It won't be come any less addictive.

I guess only time will tell. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[3rdEye]

Given that poker is now so popular among the younger generations, I think that it will continue to be popular for quite some time, although I think that its popularity is due to peak in the next few years.

[ed8383]

The poker fad will end in the coming global depression prophecised by nostradamus and other modern seers. According to the prophecies the American economy will be destroyed by coming earth changes (california sinking in 2006) and attacks on america that will supposedly destroy a mayor city (many say new york). As you know if something happens to California the U.S economy goes down the tube, and if the U.S economy goes so goes the world economy.

The global depression will also be fueled by earth changes not just in the USA that will change the face of the country, but in Europe as well. If modern seers are correct the face of Europe will change drastically as much of northern europe goes underwater in the coming years.

The poker fad will end as the whole world is hit by a depression as seen in the 20's in the U.S (but much worse as this depression will be on a global scale).

[3rdEye]

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The poker fad will end in the coming global depression prophecised by nostradamus and other modern seers. According to the prophecies the American economy will be destroyed by coming earth changes (california sinking in 2006) and attacks on america that will supposedly destroy a mayor city (many say new york). As you know if something happens to California the U.S economy goes down the tube, and if the U.S economy goes so goes the world economy.

The global depression will also be fueled by earth changes not just in the USA that will change the face of the country, but in Europe as well. If modern seers are correct the face of Europe will change drastically as much of northern europe goes underwater in the coming years.

The poker fad will end as the whole world is hit by a depression as seen in the 20's in the U.S (but much worse as this depression will be on a global scale).

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As long as people have poker chips, they will play poker. Ridiculous forecasts of economic catastrophe aside, people would continue to play poker even under the most dire circumstances.

[illini43]

With the younger generation of players coming up, most of them still being minors, I think the poker boom will peak in 3-5 years. Many young players watch the ESPN shows and their age group 16-19 will hit the legal gambling age in a couple of years and these kids will start to make trips to their area casinos and Vegas.

[HAL9000]

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As long as people have poker chips, they will play poker.

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Chip and a chair! Hell yeah baby, shuffle up deal!

[afish]

It will tail off over the next 24 months. Bad players will get sick of losing money.

However, as a result of the television exposure, people will no longer be intimidated by casino cardrooms. Because of this, more tourists will be willing to play when on vacation, and casino cardroom business will never drop down to pre-boom levels. Just my opinion.

[krazyace5]

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It will tail off over the next 24 months. Bad players will get sick of losing money.

However, as a result of the television exposure, people will no longer be intimidated by casino cardrooms. Because of this, more tourists will be willing to play when on vacation, and casino cardroom business will never drop down to pre-boom levels. Just my opinion.

[/ QUOTE ] Bad players will get sick of losing money.

How do you explain slots and such still kicking? People never get sick of losing.

[Scuba Chuck]

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Bad players will get sick of losing money.


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IF this were true, which I whole-heartedly doubt, poker is now a global phenomena. This fad will spread like disease/wildfire/whathaveyou until it hits every rich/poor nation of the world. That will take at least another 5-10 years.

On the economic front. Didn't the '70s reflect a huge resurgence in poker and poker roooms? That was a long, tough economic period.

Anyway, if this fad slows, there is plenty of time, we're still looking up the mountain, not down.

[toots]

I'm thinkin "Gold rush."

Hey, it's a fad. Fads have their lifecycles. Pick any fad of the past you like, and you can find that it hasn't gone away; it's just less in the public eye, and perhaps less popular than it was at its zenith. But I think anyone who seriously looks forward to a global Pax Poker economy is probably going to end up being one of those angry old men playing Razz in the corner.

Or, they'll just jump onto the next big thing.

But yeah, I agree that a downturn in the economy probably won't hurt poker any. When the rest of the economy turns into a short-term negative sum game, then zero sum games like poker start looking pretty good.

What I do fear is what happens to all those people who're ready to put career/education into the toilet, just so they can go play poker for a living. What happens when poker slows down, as it almost certainly will?

Well, I put myself into the tech sector, so I guess going poker pro isn't necessarily any worse than most of the alternatives.