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My question is will games like magic and yu gi still attract players with poker being an alternative for them?

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My hypothesis on this is that kids that get into competetive games like this will eventually want to find other competetive games, maybe playing both, maybe moving on to just poker, or maybe moving onto other newer magic-like games.

When I was a kid, I played competetive games like monopoly and 5 card draw and Gin, I also had a gambling nature even when I was younger making side bets on lots of things with friends, I think that with so many kids into these competetive card shows and card games, they will eventually progress to other competetive games. Maybe they won't all move onto poker, but I bet alot of them move onto something competetive, and I'd bet at least 20% of todays youth that are into games like Yu Gi Oh try their hand at poker when they get of age.