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#23
11-19-2005, 12:34 AM
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Re: Once the poker boom is gone Poll Time!
The bigger problem is that the "playing curve" will flatten out. That is, the people that are still into the fad will be good players. The poor players will be filtered out.
So, poker may still be popular, but the days of finding marks on a regular basis will nto be. The sites and publishers will be richer, but the players will work much harder. 
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11-19-2005, 12:49 AM
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Re: Once the poker boom is gone Poll Time!
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I just base it off discussion here and my lack of interest for tv poker. [/ QUOTE ] I have absolutely no interest in "reality" TV, or rap "music" and yet these two abominations continue unabated.
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11-19-2005, 03:48 AM
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Re: Once the poker boom is gone Poll Time!
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[ QUOTE ] I just base it off discussion here and my lack of interest for tv poker. [/ QUOTE ] I have absolutely no interest in "reality" TV, or rap "music" and yet these two abominations continue unabated. [/ QUOTE ] I don't feel one way or the other about reality tv, but I think your comment about rap music is idiotic. What do you think of jazz music? blues? scat? at one point, every genre of music enjoyed/made by a large population of African Americans in the US has been demeaned by high society. Rap is rhymthm + poetry. Standard music can just be rhythm. See tribal community around the world.
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11-19-2005, 05:21 AM
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Re: Once the poker boom is gone Poll Time!
I don't even think it has hit it's peak here in the U.S. Three times a year a local indian casino has a weekend of tournaments and last spring and summer and there was nowhere near the 220 capacity they had. The first tournament Thursday had easily 275 trying to get in. Last night was the same way only alot of people knew others that didn't come because they knew they wouldn't even have a chance of registering in time with work etc. That could have easily been over double the tournaments from 4 months ago.
I didn't cash either night (no bad beat stories) but the cash games themselves were so fun. After a few toddies and a few won pots I was just sitting with a smile on my face thinking how nice it was to be in a room of so many fish.
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#28
11-19-2005, 11:35 AM
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Re: Once the poker boom is gone Poll Time!
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Hi Mike: I'm not sure poker is losing its popularity at all. What may be happening is that the "poker pie" is now being split into more and more pieces, thus you see things like decline in TV show ratings and poor turn outs for some tournaments. I do agree that if the decline has not yet started, there will be a decline sometime in the future. Best wishes, Mason [/ QUOTE ] Hi Mason: I completely agree with you. I don't think poker is declining in popularity at all, just that there every new poker venture might not be successful, and some exisiting TV shows/tournaments that have been popping up like crazy might not be able to survive. I think their is one exception to all of this: The WSOP Main Event. This is the one, single, premier event that practically EVERYONE wants to play in. This is the event that I am always going to try to qualify for, every year. If I don't make some other tournaments every year, no big deal, but this is the big one, and will always continue to draw a large crowd (pending some drastic changes to the tournament format or new U.S. regulations).
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11-19-2005, 03:44 PM
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Re: Once the poker boom is gone Poll Time!
I think it will eventually be over 15,000. The difference between poker and say any other fad is there is money to be made. However, I think the play will continue to improve and get tougher throughout the years.
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11-19-2005, 04:30 PM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I just base it off discussion here and my lack of interest for tv poker. [/ QUOTE ] I have absolutely no interest in "reality" TV, or rap "music" and yet these two abominations continue unabated. [/ QUOTE ] I don't feel one way or the other about reality tv, but I think your comment about rap music is idiotic. What do you think of jazz music? blues? scat? at one point, every genre of music enjoyed/made by a large population of African Americans in the US has been demeaned by high society. Rap is rhymthm + poetry. Standard music can just be rhythm. See tribal community around the world. [/ QUOTE ] Scat? I don't like it. Too messy. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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