Poker Boom at its Zenith?

boondoggle · #1 05-07-2005, 12:34 PM

I am wondering if the poker boom is peaking now? I daresay that the number of new players will level off at some time due to market conditions. Once this happens, the fish pool will dry up I do believe. Yet every month brings new bonuses and new people to the tables but this is not sustainable.

cheers
Boon

Rudbaeck · #2 05-07-2005, 01:15 PM

I think Las Vegas casinos will shut down real soon now. Surely everyone has spent all their leisure money by now?

And I don't think it's peaking just yet. The US peak might be in the near future, but the european market is barely tapped, and the non-western markets are pristine.

AncientPC · #3 05-07-2005, 01:23 PM

People still have money to spend, Vegas has been there for quite a while.

FlFishOn · #4 05-07-2005, 01:27 PM

"I am wondering if the poker boom is peaking now?"

Why? You own a site?

The only thing about online poker that really matter is how much money I'm making. If it dips, I'll let you know.

P.S. A lot of you are curious about my win streaks. After the 66 day streak ended I lost for two days and am now on a 15 day run. Gotta love NL.

Corey · #5 05-07-2005, 01:31 PM

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P.S. A lot of you are curious about my win streaks. After the 66 day streak ended I lost for two days and am now on a 15 day run. Gotta love NL.

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Gotta love fuzzy acounting practices.

Voltron87 · #6 05-07-2005, 01:33 PM

There are so many high schoolers learning how to play and getting addicted, as long as the WSOP keeps getting televised and the media/ESPN/WPT/poker sites and advertisers play their cards right poker will be huge for a long time.

tech · #7 05-07-2005, 01:33 PM

Since I have been reading poker forums on the Internet, there has been one post like this per week, at minimum. Eventually one will be right.

Freudian · #8 05-07-2005, 01:33 PM

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I am wondering if the poker boom is peaking now? I daresay that the number of new players will level off at some time due to market conditions. Once this happens, the fish pool will dry up I do believe. Yet every month brings new bonuses and new people to the tables but this is not sustainable.

cheers
Boon

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If online poker will get big in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and perhaps even more Asia, there will be much growth still.

FlFishOn · #9 05-07-2005, 01:38 PM

"Gotta love fuzzy acounting practices."

I keep cleaner books than Enron, Worldcom or Adelphia!

poker-penguin · #10 05-07-2005, 01:39 PM

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Since I have been reading poker forums on the Internet, there has been one post like this per week, at minimum. Eventually one will be right.

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And a few months later, we'll probably see half of the same people we see here at the XYZ (backgammon, chess, yahoo pool, or whatever people *are* gambling on the Internet) forum.