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Message: [QUOTE="reglardave, post: 576022, member: 15394"] [B]If poker is losing popularity,, where are the flocks of new internet players continuing to come from? Who is populating the EPT, the Asian tour, the new US tour, the WSOP circuit events, the WPT, and the HUGE internet tourneys, which attract bigger fields alla time? The ONLY reasons the field in this years ME is down is the changes brought about by the IGEA. [/B] By forcing the online sites to give out their WSOP packages in equivalent cash rather than direct buyin, the WSOP pretty much assured that this years field would shrink, and truthfully, it needed to. Many players who won sattys into this years ME opted to take the 12k and stay home. OK for them, in their places I'd prolly make the same choice. I think, however, that this is a far cry from a death knell for poker. [/QUOTE]