[lorinda]

Still, I do think that online poker is experiencing some healthy growth. Do you?

I just had a hard think about this, as there seems to be lively debate about this on a regular basis:

Yes.

I think that some of the "old school" posters have seen bigger explosions than 10% per month, and that is where the "Sky is falling" attitude seems to come from (from people such as myself)

It's a slowdown in growth rather than going backwards that comes from the fact we saw ridiculous growth at the start of the EPT and are now only experiencing very good growth.
Some of the older (in internet poker terms) have witnessed growth so large that we'll never see it again, and I suspect that messes with our (whoever 'our' might be, but I'm one of them) instincts as to how poker is still exploding.

Also 10% of 1,000,000 is bigger than 100% of 50,000 so, again, it may be a misplaced feeling there too.

Edit: WPT of course [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img], I'm english , forgive me.

Lori