Re: National Poker Fixation On The Way Out?
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but it could perhaps be argued that magazines are a bell-weather of an item/comodity/national fixation.
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Poker for most players is a hobby and with most hobbies perhaps magazines would be a good barometer. But with poker you have the added twist of lots of high school and college age wannabes who would like to become pros. Every year you get a new influx. So what is/are the appropriate barometer(s) for poker? Not this site and its readers, because a base of winning players depends upon a larger base of losing ones who most likely don't read these forums regularly. But I think there are four accurate indicators: poker book sales, tournament TV ratings, site traffic on the major online sites, and the amount of space allocated in B&M casinos to poker. In fact in regards to the last one, since casinos have historically looked down upon poker and its comparatitvely small earnings compared to a bank of slots, then that is a very good indicator. And all 4 of those indicators still are positive.
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