Is Hold'Em Getting More or Less Popular?

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Is Hold'Em getting more or less popular? What about poker in general?

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I think it depends on the area you live. Here where I live last year you barely heard anything on poker but now someone talk about it at work or in at the gym where I worked at.

And when everybody has the bird flu there will be nothing to do but sit inside and play online poker.

Also, the fish may leave for a bit but they will periodically come back. It's like how golfers take the winter off. Speaking of which, is more expensive than hours and hours of entertainment at the penny tables (which is the base of the pyramid where a lot of the money comes from.)

Almost everybody who wants to play poker right now is playing. Others either do not have the right equipment or internet, do not trust the web-sites or have questions about the law.

I don't know a single person who has started the game and has quit it for good. I've heard "I'm gonna take a little break and maybe start on the .5/1 tables next month", but I've never seen a quitter.

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Almost everybody who wants to play poker right now is playing.

I don't know a single person who has started the game and has quit it for good. I've heard "I'm gonna take a little break and maybe start on the .5/1 tables next month", but I've never seen a quitter.

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I think you've done a great job summarizing the situation. The boom years of poker are over, but because of the widespread popularity and acceptance that poker has recieved it will maintain a healthy following for years to come.

[ThaHero]

I often times scratch my head when people say "the games will dry up once all the fish go broke."

I have a whole slew of family members that play slot machines all the time. The majority of them all lose their money. But guess what? They have these things called "jobs" and these "jobs" pay them every week. Can you believe it!

Now take someone that stops playing slots and says, hey, this poker thing is cool!

They may go broke a few weekends. But guess what? They are hooked in. They get paid every week, and take a good portion of that paycheck to the casino.

More people are interested in poker than ever. Only a small percentage have the psychological ability and mental capacity to be a long term winner at poker. Now that they have a new game to play, they will keep playing.

If anyone is seriously scared about games drying up and fish going broke and never returning, they should ask themselves how Vegas is still thriving. Wouldn't all the money be gone by now?

[bdypdx]

"Is Hold'Em Getting More or Less Popular?"

Tedious actually.

One used to be able to find wonderful games that allowed any sort of poker. Now, it's all holdem, all the time...

whatever...

[NLSoldier]

getting more popular but probably not at as fast of rate as a yr ago.