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20 years after Chris Moneymaker sparked what was arguably the last poker boom, are we now finally seeing the possibility of another poker boom with the latest news of a WSOP ME that has crushed the prior all time entry record ?

After Black Friday of poker in 2011 seemed like poker was on it's way down, and the downswing continued for years. Sure there were some upticks in interest with things like the launch of GGPoker for non US players, as well as some US states legalizing regulated poker again,  and some memorable WSOP MEs, but the rail heavens of Full Tilt, and poker on TV all the time era seemed gone. And you had the shift from ESPN to paid PokerGo taking poker off millions of TV screens.  Then of course the pandemic which probably hit live poker hard.

But 2023 the WSOP ME is over 10,000 entrants, and 2021 and 2022 saw an increase in poker shows and streams online.  And even Tom Dwan is back playing the Main Event!

So is this the spark , will a new Moneymaker rise to win a historic WSOP ME?

Or is it a flash in the pan.

On another note: Imagine if so much poker content like the WSOP ME wasn't behind paywalls of PokerGo and still on TVs across poker rooms, bars, airports, houses, sporting events once again on ESPN? That would really set the spark.
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