[MicroBob]

first off - for me live is NOT more fun than playing online.
The hands come slow, it's kinda loud, i can't watch the game on TV at the same time...and when I play live there is a very high likelihood that I will have very little leg-room (even though I'm only 5'6") and/or be stuck next to some guy who is sweaty and/or smelly.


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In SS2 he says that in the future people will play on webcams so ou can pick up tells.
Thats is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

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If someone had told you 10-15 years ago that in 2004-2005 there would thousands and thousands of people all over the world playing poker on their computer for REAL money that they entrust to some offshore company you would have said THAT was the dumbest thing you ever heard.


You would have said the same thing just 3-4 years ago if someone told you that some guy who paid $39 online would win the WSOP, become a house-hold name from the non-stop replays of it shown on ESPN, and that this event would spark a poker popularity-boom never seen before that would include teenage boys cheering for their favorite players and seeking their autographs like they were baseball stars.

If I then told you that this poker-boom would be so huge that 2005 would see almost 6k players in the WSOP main-event all getting in for $10k apiece (whether through satellite or direct buy-in) you would have said that that would not even be possible.


My point??
The web-cam thing sounds pretty far-fetched to me too.
But working one's way backwards through history one can see that far-fetched impossibilities that nobody could have ever DREAMED of tend to happen ALL the time.