Re: Poker fad already fading?
"they confuse "levelling off and not continuing to grow at an exponential pace" with "a fad dying out". "
Yes...I think this is true.
Just because it's not explosive anymore doesn't mean it still isn't pretty popular.
Also consider that there are MANY young people who love the game, are following it on TV, and will be making decent incomes in the years to come (that they will be bringing to teh poker-tables...both online and live).
If it's a mostly grown-up thing that is also cool among the countries youth then it should continue to thrive imo.
That's what makes poker different than...say...magic-the-gathering, or pokemon, or day-trading on the internet.
Pokemon was mostly a 'kids' thing and died in popularity fairly quickly.
day-trading was more of an adult thing and didn't have the appeal to kids (plus....lots of people just got clobbered trying to do it).
Poker is cool among adults AND kids which is not a very common thing.
Walking with a couple people I know...one guy knows I play poker for a living...the other guy does not. The one friend who knows asks me about my recent slump 'at work' and I have to explain to the other guy that I play internet-poker full-time for income.
He's fascinated and acts like it's the freaking coolest thing he's ever heard in his life. He's asking me a zillion Q's about it and can't stop about how cool he thinks that is.
He's about 22 or 23 or so I'm guessing.
His feelings about poker (or about actually knowing someone who makes their income via online-poker) are not uncommon.
I don't think the fad is really 'dying' that much.
If anything, online-poker is more and more 'accepted' and less and less taboo...which is certainly a good thing.
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