Surreal Poker

[mike l.]

"The wanna-bes make me nauseous sometimes."

me too. but the regulars, the people who played poker long before it boomed, gag me even more so. talk about your bunch of socially inept degenerates.

[mike l.]

"don't be so naive...and don't belittle me"

youre taking this all way way too seriously. ligthen up a little.

[shant]

Hate to say I told you so but I told you so.

[whiskeytown]

poker is so popular it will cease to be poker - much in the same way that alternative music became so popular it ceased to be alternative -

Poker will be like bowling - they'll offer college classes on it - they will be our new rockstars and we shall be their new groupies (just in case Evelyn Ng is reading this...I'll be the first to volunteer) - [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RB

[daryn]

i predict poker will continue to be VERY profitable at least for another 10 years

[Il_Mostro]

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and vegas is going to go bust one of these years too

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In fact you are probably right, but not for the reasons you think.

[MicroBob]

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Poker will be like bowling - they'll offer college classes on it -

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They have college classes on bowling??

Then again, I took a raquetball class in college for 2 credits so I guess it wouldn't surprise me.



To the original topic...all you need to do is see the other article (and the hundreds like it all across the country) on all the teens playing poker.

It's gambling, it's cool, it's on TV....and all these teens playing it will be growing-up and eventually landing jobs with (gasp) actual income.



I know it's not the commonly held opinion...but I am predicting that poker will actually continue to GROW over the next few years and that it hasn't 'peaked' yet.

[benfranklin]

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yeah youre right. and vegas is going to go bust one of these years too. people are getting sick of gambling and losing all their money and sitting around trying to get rich on the turn of a card. all those big hotels are gonna be boarding up the windows any day now.. obviously the whole thing has played itself out.


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There was an article in the Wall Street Journal about the excess capacity of hotel rooms in Vegas, based on current occupancy rates, projected population and incomes, etc. The article concluded that the city was grossly overbuilt, and a major shake-out would be needed so that the remaining properties could be profitable. I forget the exact date of the article, but it was sometime in the late 1950s.

[Boltsfan1992]

Hiya -

I've said this before:

When I see that Party Poker (and its skins) go from 60,000 to their intial population (whatever that number was) and I see that the number of players on the WSOP stops growing and cannot pick up players at the same rate they are now, then I will get concerned.

I don't think we have seen the top amount yet - I think the games will get tougher before we lose players.

FWIW

PB

[Daliman]

Freaked me out for a second there. This is the name of my upcoming poker site, lol.